Sermon for January 29th, 2017
Contents
Proverbs 12:10
The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
Luke 11:33-36
33 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar,[a] but on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. 34 Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness. 35 Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness. 36 If then your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
16 So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. 17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure, 18 because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
Faith & Film V: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNnv_g9h4k
Film Clip #1: Welcome to New York
Three Minute Film Summary
In 1926, a young, British wizard by the name of Newt Scamander arrives in New York City with a magical briefcase that is filled with magical creatures. Newt is a magizoologist who studies, finds, and rescues fantastic beasts. The briefcase which contains them is rather larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. Newt has come to bring a majestic Thunderbird named Frank back to his home in the deserts of Arizona. However, one thing leads to another, and his magical briefcase gets switched with the ordinary briefcase of ordinary New Yorker Jacob Kowalski. Several of the fantastic beasts escape--some harmless, and some deadly.
Eventually, Newt runs into two New York natives, sisters Tina and Queenie Goldstien, who also happen to be witches. Tina works for the Magical Congress of the United States, the secret organization of witches and wizards that guards and regulates the use of magic in North America. Queenie is a mind reader.
Together, Newt, Tina, Queenie, and the lone non-magical person, Jacob Kowalski, go off in search of Newts fantastic beasts, bonding with each other along the way.
Meanwhile,
The Wizarding World of JK Rowling
All Creatures of Our God and King
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ze8WQlMtJWE Bowtruckle
Belief Obscured
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bATM-Z2wILw Not one of Grindelwald's Fanatics
