The difference between ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ and ‘1917’: Experiencing the reality of Christmas
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 27 2019
The contrast between Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and 1917 is profoundly significant. Today's podcast discusses this contrast and focuses on the reality and relevance of Christmas for our broken world and souls every day of the year.
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Today, it’s challenging not to think about what 2020 may hold, but I know one fact will remain true: “God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne” (Psalm 47:8). Because he is in control, we can confidently yet compassionately seek to change the culture for his glory and our culture’s good. When you join our movement of building culture-changing Christians by giving today to the Denison Forum, your donation will be DOUBLED (up to $175,000) by a generous matching grant. So, please join the movement today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | These days, it's challenging not to think about what 2020 may hold, but I know one fact will |
| 0:25.3 | remain true. God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne, Psalm 47-8. Because he is |
| 0:33.6 | in control, we can confidently, yet compassionately, seek to change the culture for his |
| 0:39.1 | glory and our culture's good. When you join our movement of building culture-changing Christians |
| 0:44.6 | by giving today to the Denison Forum, your donation will be doubled up to $150,000 by a generous |
| 0:51.8 | matching grant. Join our movement today at daily article.org. |
| 0:59.3 | My wife and I saw Star Wars the rise of Skywalker on Monday and the movie 1917 yesterday. |
| 1:06.9 | The first is the last of nine films in the Space Myth franchise. |
| 1:15.6 | The second is a deeply moving encounter with the horrors of World War I. No one but those who made the films has been to the real world of Star Wars, |
| 1:20.6 | but that fact has not kept millions of fans from seeing the movies, |
| 1:24.6 | reading the novels, buying the merchandise, and visiting the theme parks. |
| 1:30.1 | By contrast, my grandfather served in World War I and witnessed tragedies so gruesome that he |
| 1:36.6 | refused to speak of them after the war ended. This Christmas week, we are asking what Christmas |
| 1:42.2 | can teach our post-Christian culture about Christ. |
| 1:45.9 | We have focused on the power, humility, grace, and hope of Christmas. |
| 1:50.0 | Today, we'll consider the reality and relevance of Christmas for our world all year long. |
| 1:58.6 | A mother and two children died after falling from a parking garage in Boston on Christmas Day. |
| 2:04.9 | Investigators now believe that the mother threw her children from the building, then jumped to her own death. |
| 2:11.1 | ESPN college football reporter Ed Ashoff was a rising star on television and set to be married in April. Then he contracted |
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