Christmas is this week, are you fully prepared?...Make sure that GOOD NEWS is the biggest present that's shared...
It's time to get started with a holiday theme, we hope you've enjoyed our attempt at a meme...
Merry
Christmas!!! Welcome to the final installment of our trilogy of tunes
from TV Christmas specials! (appropriate noisemaker sounds here...).
To recap, we've looked at Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Linus And Lucy" and Tuesday's Musical Notes - "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
so far. Today we finish with a whirl and gizzap...our salute to the
Grinch will begin in a snap...gather 'round the folks including mam and
pap...it's time for the video, no more of a gap...sorry, I don't know
what comes over me...
Alex,
I'd like Christmas TV Theme Songs for $1000 please...the answer is
horror movie royalty, children's author royalty and Tony The
Tiger...Question is...What is "How The Grinch Stole Christmas!"?...
You read that correctly! For the animated adaptation of Dr. Suess' (children's author royalty), How The Grinch Stole Christmas!,
Boris Karloff (horror movie royalty) was chosen to narrate. Not
credited in the original special is the vocalist who performed the
iconic song, Thurl Ravenscroft (Tony the Tiger's voice for over 5
decades). "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch, written by Theodore Giesel (Dr. Suess) and Albert
Hague, was included as a part of the soundtrack released in conjunction
with the television Christmas special originally aired in December of
1966. Covers of the song abound by a myriad of artists from Mannheim
Steamroller to Darius Rucker. You are bound to hear one of these covers
or see the animated classic beginning just after Thanksgiving. One of the most recent covers comes from another television show, NBC's The Sing Off. Here is acapella group Urban Method with their rendition of the Grinchiest of all holiday songs...
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
is another example of Christmas animated stories that resonate with
people of all ages. We can see ourselves having a similar attitudes as
the Grinch. Our disdain may not be for Christmas, but if we are
completely honest, there is something in our lives in which we are
equally "grinchy" about. Or maybe, when the Grinch's heart grows 3
sizes, we see the innate need in our own hearts to put away the foul and
repulsive and embrace what love for others can be like.
The
story of the Grinch is reflective of the lives of everyone prior to
their encounter with Jesus. Regardless of the life that is being lived,
it is never good enough when placed in the light of a perfect God. That
is why Jesus was sent to earth. That is why we celebrate His birth.
When we encounter Jesus as a savior our redemption is secured. At that
moment of redemption a change occurs...the darkness is turned away with
a bright shining light. The book of Isaiah puts it this way,
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18 KJV
Let's
be very clear. Christmas for millennia has been the celebration of God
coming to us in a form we could understand. Jesus came as a baby,
through birth by a virgin. I confess I don't understand the nuances of
how this happened, but I believe this narrative just as I believe that
God through the Holy Spirit breathed life into clay and it became Adam.
Jesus lived a sinless life. He experienced what we experience, yet never sinned. Again, another thing that I don't understand, yet believe. He received the worst form of capital punishment known to mankind because He was who He said He was...and just as she swaddled Him as a baby, Mary swaddled Jesus at the foot of the cross in what would become the clothes that He would shed at His resurrection. The story begins with Christmas, and unfortunately, far too many people leave the story there. There hearts never grow 3 sizes any day because of their unbelief.
The story continues with Jesus perfect life and ultimately His resurrection from a physical death. But that is not the end of the story...the Christmas manger is empty, the Good Friday cross is empty, the Easter tomb is empty, but one day a Rapture sky will be filled...at that moment every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is who He said He was. How can we be best prepared for that day? The apostle Paul had some advice for a young man that he was mentoring.
"Run away from infantile indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands."
2 Timothy 2:22-26 The Message
So,
if you look in the mirror and the reflection you see, includes green
fur, yellow eyes, lumpy knees, or if you examine your heart and it seems
2 sizes too small, grab Max and The Word, don't wait, please don't
stall. Read the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. When you are
done with those, continue read on. You'll find very soon an encounter
you crave, with Jesus the Savior, your soul He will save...then
Christmas this year full of meaning for you, will become a bright light all shiny and new...
"Welcome, Christmas, bring your cheer. Cheer to all Whos far and near.
Christmas Day is in our grasp, so long as we have hands to clasp.
Christmas Day will always be just as long as we have we. Welcome
Christmas while we stand, heart to heart, and hand in hand"
'Til Tuesday
Serving HIM by serving you,
Randy
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