#givethanks - Friday, November 25, 2022, and Saturday, November 26, 2022 – A Twofer      I’m Thankful for Jesus Christ

 

I messed up and didn’t get a post out yesterday, Friday 25, 2022, so I’m doing a twofer on Saturday 11/26.  I hope they make sense; I hope they are interesting to you, dear Reader.  I appreciate any feedback you would care to give.

Pat and I went to see the next installment of “The Chosen”, a series about Jesus’s Ministry and the role the apostles played.  The theater showed the first two episodes of the 3^rd season.  The episodes were great!  There is no other way to put it.  The director, Dallas Jenkins, has done a remarkable job of steering the series to his vision of how it should be done.  The man who plays Jesus is mesmerizing.  The men who play the apostles are no less captivating.  The two episodes were over before we realized how much time had passed.  I am thankful to the director for his marvelous talent and for his view of the story of Jesus and His apostle’s stories. 

I am thankful for my testimony of Jesus the Christ, which is this:  Jesus Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of all mankind.  To be this, He was born to a mortal woman and was the son of God the Father.  The angels heralded His birth; the shepherds bear witness to their joyful sounds on the night of His birth.  The ancient prophets of the Old Testament predicted His coming and testified of His mission.  Today, people of all lands throughout the world attest to His successful sojourn on this world and worship Him as the Living Son of God, for His teachings, for the life He lived, and for His great sacrifice and victory over the grave.  I have studied Jesus Christ and I bear witness that the accounts we read in the New Testament are true.  He really did live on this earth.  He really did preach profound principles that changed the world and continue to change men’s hearts for the good.  I also testify that if each member of the human race wants to better their lives, they should study His life through the New Testament and through teachings of Christian teachers of the past and present, and especially by praying earnestly for a testimony of His perfect life.  I bear this witness in His name, even the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.