God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.
Astronaut James Irwin
- 8th man on the moon
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TO FIND OUT WHAT ‘SELFIE' THAT IS!!!
50 years ago today, humans on board Apollo 8 saw earth ‘rise' for the first time from space!
That mission paved the way for the first landing on the moon a short while later.
It’s also 50 years since the broadcast of the first book read to earth from space by one of the astronauts on that Apollo 8 mission….and it was read from the Bible - Genesis 1!
But greater than man rocketing into space or walking on the moon, is the awesome and humbling fact that God became Man and came to dwell on this earth, in order to save his rebellious, wayward, shameful, sinful people from their sins and offer them reconciliation and eternity with God.
He came, not with pomp and fanfare, but to a simple poor family, born to the sound of mooing cows, braying donkeys and baaing sheep. Instead of others making space for him as someone of importance, no room could even be found for him in the inn. The world paid no attention to the immensity of what was happening, and God announced it not to kings but to lowly shepherds. But lowly shepherds weren’t too proud to go into the animal ‘kraal’ area to visit this new baby, and welcome Immanuel.
Our world pays little attention to the true meaning of Christmas and doesn’t understand the importance of Immanuel. But maybe you can use this 50 year anniversary of a momentous ’space’ event, to point people to the good news of how and why God entered ‘our space’ so that we could once more, go far beyond moon-space or even outerspace, all the way back into God’s ‘space’ for all eternity!
Extra Info from Wikipedia:
Apollo 8, the second manned spaceflight mission flown in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit, reach the Moon, orbit it, and return. The three-astronaut crew—Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders—were the first humans to witness and photograph an Earthrise and to escape the gravity of a celestial body...
Apollo 8 took 68 hours (almost three days) to travel the distance to the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times over the course of twenty hours, during which they made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which they read the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis. At the time, the broadcast was the most watched TV program ever. Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. president John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. The Apollo 8 astronauts returned to Earth on December 27, 1968, when their spacecraft splashed down in the northern Pacific Ocean. The crew members were named Time magazine's "Men of the Year" for 1968 upon their return.
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