Bishop David Roller embarked on an adventure during his sabbatical this year. He wanted to film bible stories told in interesting places around the world at they visited.
This is the Christmas Story, called Just in Time Delivery and it’s filmed in Moscow:
I never tire of telling the real Christmas story. The unpredictability of it is what intrigues me. Who would have guessed that this would be the way to fix the brokenness? Who knew that inserting a baby into a barn could begin the healing of it all?
As we progressively move our way through Advent I thought we’d also do the same with It’s Friday.
This week we have a beautiful rendition of a classic carol written around 1850 using words that are much older. The original words were penned by a monk somewhere in Europe around 800 AD.
“Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’” Matthew 1:23