Bible reading is like watching the film in real-time. Study is like going through a clip frame by frame. Meditation, then, along with Scripture memory is for lingering over particular frames and pressing the significance to our hearts, and into our lives.
"Unbroken" is one of the top books I have read in the past few years - by far. With the release of the movie I thought this article was particularly good as it emphasizes how critical the end of Louie Zamperini's story is - an ending that is not shown in the movie. Yet, Zamperini's son gives an alternative perspective here that says when people hear his dad's story they will want to find out how he could have forgiven his captors and will therefore delve deeper and encounter the true ending.
"Our end goal is not a Christian America of the made-up past or the hoped-for future. Our end goal is the kingdom of Christ, made up of every tribe, tongue, nation, and language. We are, in Christ, the heirs of this kingdom."
Douglas Todd of the Vancouver Sun has some interesting cultural insights into how Chinese people (on the West Coast and in China) view Christmas.
