How Can We Avoid Materialism This Christmas Season?

Christian Saints Podcast

How Can We Avoid Materialism This Christmas Season?
Reference materials for this episode:
https://orthodoxtao.com/notes/notes-on-lessons-11-20/ - specifically #11
Scripture citations for this episode:
Genesis 1-3 - made to be different, devolve to be more like animals
Exodus 32 - worshipping an animal, behaving like animals
Isaiah 1 - born between an ox & and a donkey
Habakkuk 3 - in the Greek, is known “between two living creatures”
Matthew 4 - Jesus rejects temptation without deliberation
Luke 2 - Nativity narrative has no reference to these animals but they are in all our icons
- St Symeon can behold the uncreated glory of God in Jesus body because he has experienced it before
John 2 - cleansing the temple isn’t Jesus throwing a temper tantrum, He is dispassionate
John 11 - Jesus weeps at the cost to Mary, Martha & Lazarus despite knowing He will raise him
Revelation 4, 21, 22 - The elders participate in & perceive the glory of God as true human persons
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