Author: David Thomas

Good News of Great Joy

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With December just days away, here are two helpful ways you could prepare for the most significant birth in history.

John Piper has released a new revised version of his daily readings for advent, Good News of Great Joy which can be downloaded in a multitude of ebook formats for free.  You can even can purchase a paperback version from amazon.co.uk for a small price, should you require.

Alternatively you can download Doug Wilson’s God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas is the Foundation of Everything from amazon for slightly less than it would cost you to watch Netflix for the month.  And you know which one is more likely to help fill your heart with joy at the Word made flesh.

The Bible – Channel 5

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A new TV mini series produced originally for the History Channel in the US is due to start running here in the UK on Saturday 30th November on Channel 5 at 9:00pm.

There’s a whole website promoting the series over here.

Due to it’s US release earlier this year, a lot has already been written on the pros and cons of such an endeavour and David Nilsen has a good article here on the production’s merits and weaknesses.

With the possibility of some of our non Christian friends and family tuning in to watch this, it would no doubt be helpful to keep an eye on how it develops over the next few weeks.