And How America's Favorite Actor Had A Wonderful Life
On Saturday I debuted a new script as John the Revelator, interrupting Pastor Jim Warren's sermon on Revelation 20:7-10:
The prevailing theology of our founders assumed that we would reign with Christ for a thousand years, so they lived like it, throwing off a tyrannical king and using the Bible as the primary textbook in their schools. Let’s stop wishing Christ would return at any second and live for Him in such a time as this!
Here's the rest of the sermon:
That's a part of Westchester Chapel's series on The Revelation.
In other news, I served as a theatre captain when Beyond the Mask came out in theaters in 2015. I got behind the film because I played the good doctor in it, and because it was excellent on so many levels!
That same team has just produced a film about Jimmy Stewart, and it’s coming to a theater near you on November 6.
They asked me to step back into service and get the word out. I haven’t seen it yet, but it looks great, and I trust this team.
The director, Aaron Burns — I’ve taught with him at the Lamplighter Guild and Content19 Film Festival and Media Summit — said:
Before creating JIMMY, I had no idea that Jimmy Stewart was a man of deep Christian faith, and a patriotic American who served as a bomber pilot and squadron commander in WWII. He came home from the war broken by PTSD…and eventually found his spiritual healing through prayer on the set of It’s A Wonderful Life.
That film is one of my favorites, and I’ve long known how Stewart initially turned down the role of George Bailey because he felt so broken, and that much of his passion in the film comes from the emotional wounding he experienced in war. I’m really looking forward to seeing more of the details. They brought Stewart’s daughter Kelly on as an executive producer, so I know they’re committed to telling the true story.
Here’s a synopsis:
From winning the Academy Award® for The Philadelphia Story to enlisting and becoming a combat pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, Jimmy flew 20 missions over Europe and rose to the rank of colonel. He returned home forever changed, until It’s a Wonderful Life helped him find his way home.
Get this: Karolyn Grimes, who has a cameo in the film, appeared as Zuzu Bailey at the age of six in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), starring the real Jimmy Stewart.
Rated PG-13 for some war violence/bloody images, thematic elements and smoking.
Today is the 243rd Anniversary of
General George Washington saying goodbye to the Continental Army
near Princeton, NJ.
Here's Thomas Jefferson telling how General Washington had
the Declaration of Independence read to his troops on July 9, 1776:
