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Real Live Preacher > The Christmas Story Returns
Posted by Mike Boyink
The Christmas Story Returns
In December of 2003, I spent a month writing a 10,000 word dramatization of the Christmas story. I posted it in eight parts between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I left it online during the Christmas season, then removed it from my story archives.
I’m putting it back online now for those who have asked and for new friends who might be interested. Below you will find links to all eight parts. I’ll leave these online until the end of the year.
This will be the last you will hear of me until January. I’ll see you in 2005.
enjoy!
rlp
http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/2004/12/21.html#a435
Why did Jesus come?
Posted by boyd berends
A couple of weeks ago pastor Dave spoke on “Why Jesus Came”. Now I am sure there are more than 6 reasons, but if a couple of the reasons where to ransom us and to give us eternal life, (death) then why did He have to suffer so? After all death is death and does not have to be so painfull.
Or is according to Isaiah 53, there a reason for the suffering Jesus went through? Watch the movie the “Passion” and ask yourself if the suffering was necessarily required as part of Jesus’ death?
Interesting thought isn’t it? If the suffering was not required,( and according to the Word only death was required to redeem us) then why did He have to suffer as He did?
Manna Dates To Remember
Posted by Ed and Lois
Manna will be holding a Christmas Eve service (December 24) at 5:00 PM @ the Park Theatre. It should last one hour.
We will also be having a New Years Eve party at the Park Theatre. We’re planning from 8:00 PM to Midnight. It’s our chance to hold a Matthew Party. Everyone is welcome. Details are forthcoming.
Growing: Movement Is A New Form of Evangelism by Tony Campolo
Posted by Ed and Lois
As we enter the 21st century, a vital new expression of Christianity is growing in the United States and worldwide. This movement even has a name. It is called “the Emergent Church.”
This movement expresses what I call “progressive evangelicalism,” because it emphasizes traditional evangelical beliefs - affirming the doctrines of the Apostle’s Creed, a high view of Scripture and the importance of a personal transforming relationship with a resurrected Christ - yet rejects the structures and styles of institutionalized Christianity.
The Emergent Church turns away from spending money on buildings. Instead, most congregations meet as “house churches” or gather in makeshift storefronts and warehouses.
This new expression of Christianity is growing faster than most sociologists could have predicted. It is thriving, in part, because so many people are fed up with the arguing and pettiness that they claim are all too evident in the rest of Christendom.
Cover Story by George Sim Johnston
Posted by Ed and Lois
The newsweeklies discovered long ago that Jesus Christ sells magazines. So it is not surprising to find him on the covers of Time and Newsweek a few weeks before Christmas. The Time cover promises the “secrets” of the Nativity, thereby beckoning “Da Vinci Code”-hunters; but fortunately the article itself, an earnest attempt to sort out what happened in Palestine 2,000 years ago, is not quite so silly as Dan Brown’s best-selling novel.
What are we to make of the Gospel accounts of the Nativity? For a Christian, of course, they are true, an article of faith. But faith does not preclude looking at them as historical and literary documents. If God is the author of Scripture, he nonetheless makes full use of the habits of mind and expression of the men writing these accounts. Luke, for example, was a highly educated Gentile, and he used some Roman literary models to tell his story. But that does not mean he made it up.
Full Post: http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006008