One of our family's favorite animated Christmas movies is Arthur Christmas. It tells the funny tale of an inter-generational Santa Claus show down. There's a great scene that illustrates the gospel. See if you can spot it in the clip below. "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become…...
Read MoreHere's Your Weekend Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST). ⊕ Was C.S. Lewis the Grinch? ⊕ The…...
Read MoreCharles Dickens is an author who needs no introduction. Those who may not know him well likely still know of his more popular works, particularly A Christmas Carol. Even my children know him indirectly through the Disney character Scrooge McDuck. And something even those more familiar with Dickens might not realize is that he penned a version of the Gospel…...
Read More"If there were less good will,” C. S. Lewis often said in December correspondence, “then we might have more peace on earth.” Lewis found no pleasure in the giving of generic winter cards, gift guilting, and the overall hurried pace of the Christmas season. Lewis went from saying “I hope I am not a Scrooge” in a letter in 1952…...
Read MoreHere's Your Weekend Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST). ⊕ Hanukkah is Not the Jewish Version…...
Read MoreYou've probably heard it said of someone acting like a Grinch or Scrooge that they don't have a soul. There are few harsher criticisms. To not have a soul is to be something less than human. It used to be much more common for persons to be referred to as souls, like in tragic accidents where the death toll would…...
Read MoreYesterday I had the opportunity to do an interview with a local Fox News station on the topic of Hanukkah. To be honest, I had to brush up on the history a bit. To exacerbate my lack of expertise on Jewish customs, my interviewer, a very nice young man, was, himself, Jewish. He was kind. The backstory to Hanukkah is…...
Read MoreThanksgiving is a blockbuster holiday. Producers aim to release around or on this important day of feasting. One of the highlights of this year's installment was the reboot of Ghostbusters. As a bona fide child of the eighties, I couldn't wait. I took my boys to a matinee this last weekend. It didn't disappoint, as far as I'm concerned. While…...
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