How Johnny Hart Pointed to the Cross and Empty Tomb in the Funny Papers
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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How the creator of the Wizard of Id and B.C. taught millions about the resurrection of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a mom or dad like me, your dearest hope is that your children will grow up to know and love God. |
| 0:08.8 | To be followers of Jesus Christ, live out his call on their lives in a way that brings God glory. |
| 0:14.3 | But you also know that your kids live in a world that can, to put it mildly, make it challenging |
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| 0:47.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint, Daily Look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of |
| 0:53.8 | unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
| 0:58.8 | On Holy Saturday 2007, cartoonist Johnny Hart died of a stroke while working at his drawing table. |
| 1:05.0 | Hart was the award-winning creator of the popular comic strips, The Wizard of Id and BC, |
| 1:10.0 | and at one time reached 100 million readers every day worldwide. |
| 1:15.0 | And in 1999, Breakpoint Commentary Chuck Colson identified Hart as, |
| 1:19.0 | quote, the most widely read Christian of our time, |
| 1:22.0 | with more readers than CS Lewis, Frank Peretti, and Billy Graham. widely read when a born-again father-son team installed a satellite dish in his home. |
| 1:35.0 | And his faith became more evident in his comic strips not long after that. |
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