Here's a cool Christmas video from the friends at "The Reiser movie Company".  The True Meaning of Christmas (youtube.com)

      In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, us Christians often forget the real meaning behind it all, the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are celebrating his birth, which radically changed the whole of human history. we read in the Gospel of Luke: Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”     Jesus Christ loves us so much that he came to earth in the form of a man, to live the  perfect  life, and to ultimately die  for every sin you and I have ever committed. and it all started in a manger in Bethlehem. We need to give Jesus the praise He deserves this holiday season.  

  I was attending a conference at a Reformed Baptist Church, and as I was wandering around looking at different parts of the building (which, by the way, was a very nice place), and they had a tract rack which contained a number of small booklets they were offering for free, which contained the writings of puritans, reformers, and early church fathers. I looked up the website, and it turned out that there is a Ministery which offers small books by Christian heroes of the faith for free, up to twenty dollars. I immediately snatched up some Spurgeon, Whitefield, and Luther's "Bondage of the Will", along with others.     I would encourage you to read the works of Christian Heroes of the past. The Puritains especially have some of the richest theological writings in the history of the Church. Too often today modern Christians get all of their theology from extremely liberal, extremely unbiblical Authors like Joel Osteen, Beth Moore, and Joyce Meyer (who are all going 100 mile

 Where to begin with this awesome series? It is based on Benaiah from the Bible, In 2 Samuel 23:20 where it says this:     " Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, performed great exploits. He struck down Moab's two mightiest warriors. he also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion."  This and other scenes from second Samuel appear in this book. It also envisions Benaiah's life with his family, his training in warfare by his father, Jehoiada, and his emotions when taking down the lion in the pit.  I don't want to give the plot away, so I'll leave my brief review as is, but I greatly encourage you to read these books. A friend of mine let me borrow it, and I read it on a long drive one day (don't worry- not while driving!), and I couldn't put it down!      The First, "Priest", and the Second, "Warrior", are currently available on Amazon. The third and final installment, "General", is not cur