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Light and life are inextricably interwoven. You cannot have life without light. When God brought life out of chaos in Creation, He said, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3), and the seas began to swarm with life. The seeds of earth began to bud and blossom. Light — photosynthesis — causes plants to produce food. Life itself is built on ...
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Oh, life is like that. Sometimes, at the height of our revelries, when our joy is at its zenith, when all is most right with the world, the most unthinkable disasters occur. – A Christmas Story (1983, dir. Bob Clark) “OK, folks, the granddady of ’em all, the big one, the queen mother of all Christmas movies – and a veritable cornucopia of yuletide ...
The writer is paramount. Taken from over 25 years of Christmas Eve broadcasts, the (mostly) fictionalized reminiscences of talk radio pioneer Jean Shepherd and (highly) fanciful accounts of his Depression-era upbringing in Northern Indiana continue to resonate anytime one mentions “leg lamp”, “Flick’s tongue”, or “Little Orphan Annie secret decoder...
Dreams are often better left unrealized. Close viewers of the next 90 minutes will note the dreamy expression on little Ralphie Parker’s face, brilliantly expressed by child actor Peter Billingsley. There are only two moments in this film where this blissful state isn’t almost immediately followed by crushing despair, and this is the first. The moc...
In the eternal struggle between kids and parents, kids are always on the losing end. Ralphie’s glum digestion of sad oatmeal evokes one of the cruel truths of childhood: a kid will never win. A kid can plot, cajole, plead, or scheme, but in the end a kid’s best efforts are wasted by a fundamental lack of control over his or her destiny. Furthermore...
…especially when the opponent is your mother. Though my own mother passed away almost 25 years ago, her airtight, inarguable logic will continue to haunt my own poor attempts at decision-making until I myself am no more. Like life itself, it simply is not fair that the bonds of motherhood are anchored in an irrefutable, unyielding rectitude. (It do...
Children inevitably become their parents. And more specifically: the weaker, usually male parent. To this day, speaking of myself, a steady stream of profanity will pour forth unbidden from quivering lips at the mildest provocation: lost keys, wrong directions, stubbed toe, whathaveyou. (A literal curse, moreover, that can apparently be traced alon...
If a kid won’t eat, it’s really not worth resorting to trickery. Bringing back vivid memories of my own younger brother, dressed dolefully in his Cub Scouts uniform, refusing to eat a bowl of chili into the late hours of the evening, I’m really glad in retrospect that my parents did not use some cheap ruse to get him to eat. Zach may have missed hi...
Life’s victories are not only small but absurd. On air or in the pages of Playboy, Shep’s Old Man’s misplaced enthusiasm over winning the famed Leg Lamp was heralded as “the birth of pop art”, but in A Christmas Storyis correctly contextualized as a brilliantly-lit blight on Cleveland Street. Shining brightly forth in its unutterable folly, the “so...
Disasters occur well beyond one’s ability to adequately cope with them. An eternal klutz myself, as is my own Old Man, it is tempting in all such situations to shift blame to fate, the elements, inadequate lighting, the clumsiness of others, or whathaveyou. Otherwise, though, and despite the dire consequences for a child of 9, it is often easier to...
Punishment rarely fits the crime. Though I had been familiar with this arcane treatment from a very young age, “washing your dirty mouth out with soap” was frequently threatened but never implemented as a child whose word choice was often more suited to the backroom of bars than a suburban household. If it had, however, cruel and unusual though the...
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Dec 6, 2011 · One Sabbath day Jesus, who was the Christmas Light, healed a physically blind man. Instead of rejoicing at this clear display of God's power, those who were spiritually blind—some of the ...
Dec 15, 2023 · The joy of Christmas is not only that Jesus came, but that God’s light has come to earth. This same Jesus — wondrously born in Bethlehem, gloriously raised from the dead, and the “bright Morning Star” mentioned in Revelation 22:16 — is coming again.
Dec 24, 2013 · Today on the “Ask Pastor John” podcast, we find someone who knows what Christmas is all about: an angel whose priceless words are recorded for us in the Bible in Luke 1:26–38. On Christmas day in 2005 at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, John Piper preached a sermon on this text.
Dec 19, 2020 · Despite that, though, we have a God who comes in light and in hope in the middle of the darkness. And the word of God tells us, especially in this advent season, that the darkness does not...
