Story of LOVE: 93-year-old toymaker makes hundreds of wooden trucks by hand to donate to children for Christmas
Pastor Dewey Moede
GREATEST GENERATION EVER IN AMERICA STILL SERVING! What a great Christmas Story of love 93-Year-Old Toymaker
More reading for the season from Dr. Jim Denison:
Rescuing abandoned babies
The birth of Christ highlights the difference between Christianity and the world religions.
The latter offer us various ways to climb up to God, or the gods, or whatever they believe to be our ultimate destiny. Buddhists strive to follow the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path; Muslims observe the Five Pillars of Islam; Hindus seek to advance through multiple reincarnations by practicing ascetic rituals and good deeds; observant Jews work to keep their 613 laws.
At Christmas, by contrast, God climbed down to us. Jesus’ birth to lowly peasants in a lowly stable prefigured his ministry to come: touching lepers (Matthew 8:1–4), going to demoniacs (Matthew 8:28–32), initiating relationships with Samaritans (cf. John 4) and Gentiles (Matthew 15:21–28), and choosing to die for our sins (cf. John 10:18).
Early Christians followed his lead, rescuing abandoned babies from trash heaps and ransoming slaves and prostitutes. Medieval Christians preserved literacy, founded universities, and built hospitals. Christians in recent centuries worked to abolish slavery, championed civil rights, and took the compassion of Christ to some of the darkest corners of the world.
Why C. S. Lewis wrote Mere Christianity
I believe God wants us to see the problems of our day as our responsibility. Since we are the only salt and light in a decaying, dark world (Matthew 5:13–16), it is our job to take the transforming light of Christ to those who need it most.
Effective ministry can be summarized in seven words: meet felt needs to meet spiritual needs. Help hurting people to show them God’s love in our compassion. See their problems as spiritual opportunities.
And remember that the darker the room, the more powerful the light.
In explaining his desire to defend “mere” Christianity rather than engage in matters of academic dispute, C. S. Lewis stated: “That part of the line where I thought I could serve best was also the part that seemed to be thinnest. And to it I naturally went.”