Religion & Spirituality
SHOW NOTES FOR EPISODE 107: A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY PT. 1 Welcome to Episode 107 of the “Awakening with Nathanael Wolf” podcast and radio broadcast. Is there a great mystery encoded in Christmas? Don’t let this holiday season pass you by without finding out. Listen now and discover the mystery of the incarnation. Notable series quotes: “In The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard reminds us that where “transformation is actually carried out is in our real life, where we dwell with God and our neighbors. . . . First, we must accept the circumstances we constantly find ourselves in as the place of God’s kingdom and blessing. God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are.” The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today. Alfred Hitchcock said movies are “life with the dull bits cut out.” Car chases and first kisses, interesting plot lines and good conversations. We don’t want to watch our lead character going on a walk, stuck in traffic, or brushing his teeth—at least not for long, and not without a good soundtrack. We tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out. Yet God made us to spend our days in rest, work, and play, taking care of our bodies, our families, our neighborhoods, our homes. What if all these boring parts matter to God? What if days passed in ways that feel small and insignificant to us are weighty with meaning and part of the abundant life that God has for us? Christ’s ordinary years are part of our redemption story. Because of the incarnation and those long, unrecorded years of Jesus’ life, our small, normal lives matter. If Christ was a carpenter, all of us who are in Christ find that our work is sanctified and made holy. If Christ spent time in obscurity, then there is infinite worth found in obscurity. If Christ spent most of his life in quotidian ways, then all of life is brought under his lordship. There is no task too small or too routine to reflect God’s glory and worth.” -Tish Harrison Warren in Liturgy of the Ordinary Download the Sent Ones Unlimited app: The Sent Ones Unlimited app is the best way to listen to the podcast. Please download the Sent Ones Unlimited app at the Apple App Store or on Google Play (search using the words Sent Ones Unlimited) for the latest episodes as well as our blog posts, ministry schedule, and much more--all right on your smartphone. Plus, our app has a Bible with fourteen English translations (including the Amplified Bible and The Message) and an audio Bible in the English Standard Version. Another advantage of listening on the Sent Ones Unlimited app is that you don’t have to load iTunes on your computer, subscribe, and then manually sync to your phone. The app does all the work for you and downloads each new episode. We post each weekly broadcast to the website and the app on Monday mornings. If you have the app, you will automatically get every episode for free. You may also get every episode for free by subscribing to the podcast. You can subscribe to this podcast at: iTunes Google Play RSS Feed Link: http://awakeningwithnathanaelwolf.libsyn.com/rss If you are not going to listen using the Sent Ones Unlimited app, iTunes, or Google Play then we would suggest that you could use a podcast application on your iPhone or Android phone such as Instacast. Another popular application for listening to podcasts is Downcast. Applications like these make it easy to discover, subscribe, and listen to podcasts. You simply copy and paste the link to the RSS feed (also shown above) into the search bar of the app and it will find our podcast. They also automatically update your podcasts every time a new episode is released. Share the love: If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. If you are listening on another platform that allows ratings and reviews please do the same. That would help tremendously in getting the word out by raising the visibility of the show. We hope you enjoyed this podcast. God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited. Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner. More about us: If you’d like to learn more about Nathanael Wolf, the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited, read Nathanael’s blog posts, see other resources, or view Nathanael’s upcoming schedule please visit www.sentonesunlimited.org. Connect with Nathanael or Sent Ones Unlimited: Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Periscope Contact Us: info@sentonesunlimited.org We hope you enjoyed this podcast. God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited. Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner.