The quickest time machine to retrieve the past is the imagination. A fictitious radio station, WJER-Jerusalem, provides the vehicle to recapture and view some great Biblical events. Television, newspaper, video tape and audio tape, all being unavailable 2,000 years ago, causes us to use the medium of radio to “record” and re-create some great moments surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ. The accounts are biblically oriented with dramatization provided. Other than a radio station’s report of events being the obvious embellishment, no historical biblical facts are altered. For verification, some scriptural references are provided. Complete biblical citations are not included, as many themes are familiar. Although many scholars… The post Traffic in Bethlehem first appeared on Trinity Methodist Church.
2020 was a rotten great year. We are nearly through it. In church life, we are officially turning the page. How do we process the beginning of the church year starting with a text about the end? We Christians live with the paradox that the end is the beginning.