”To my mind, there are only two truly great Christmas movies: “Scrooge,” the 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” starring Alastair Sim, and Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” starring James Stewart.”
Libertas hits the Christmas nail on the head. Read his understanding of how the Kingdom of God breaks into these two favorite Christmas classics here.
”And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
Matthew 24:14
Thanks to Between Two Worlds
After thirty years as a Christian freelancewriter Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum:Looking for the 1st Century Church in 21st Century America has 100 important insights for all Christians, regardless of the length of their membership in the Kingdom of God or of their theologican training.
He begins
1. Love God. Love people. It’s that simple.
2. Anytime we interact with another person, we should ask the Lord, In what ways can I help this person grow closer to You?
3. Christians who take time to observe the world around them see God and gain wisdom.
4. The most worthy lessons of the Kingdom take the entirety of one’s life to fully learn.
5. You are never more alone than in an unfriendly church.
Read the rest here.
Copy and send this poster to friends reading books by Dawkins or Hitchens, courtesy of C. Michael Patton at Parchment and Pen:
Kevin Stilley at Encyclopedia Kevinannica, has nominated five blogs for the Blogger Reflection Award, an honor I didn’t know existed. I happened to be one of them.
That question arose at a Princeton University Karl Barth Conference, as reported by Joel Garver at Sacra Doctrina.
Ingmar Bergman documented his struggle against the Kingdom of God on film. His lifelong struggle began in childhood against his father, a Lutheran minister. He was never able to separate an understanding of God the Father from his first-hand experience of his human father as god.
Over at Pyromaniacs Phil Johnson has produced a series of “original motivational posters based on the jargon of Emerging Christianity.” They “hope these have helped unpack some of the jargon of post-evangelicalism for some who are groping for ways to explain it succinctly.”
Can humor clarify the Emerging Church’s relationship with Post-Modernism?
