Exploring movies, books, and current events through the lens of the kingdom of God.
Yes, Hollywood puts too much sex and profanity in movies, and yes much of Hollywood pushes an anti-God agenda, laden with gender dysphoria paraded as progressiveness. Still, there is something more pervasive and potentially more destructive in movies in Hollywood that’s wrong and no one is talking about – ambiguous movie endings. I watched the […]
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A Lesson from the Life of Michelangelo: For the last two decades of his long life-he lived to be 89-Michelangelo was the chief architect for the Vatican. As suc, he was responsible for the construction of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which would become the largest and most famous church in the world. The thing
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Most of my dreams are an extension of my daily thoughts, twisted by my subconscious, or the martini I had too close to bedtime, into a bizarre concoction of disjointed images. When I awaken my first thought is, “That was weird.” On occasion I will have the coherent dream, which I quickly recognize as an
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The Apostle Paul gave instructions to Christians on how to do their jobs. His instructions to servants in Colossians in 3:23 and Ephesians 6:7 apply not just to servants but to all types of work and both include the instruction to do one’s job for the Lord and not for men. It is, of course,
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If you have been following this blog for any time at all, you know I am no fan of Donald Trump. There is not much anyone could say to him that would make me feel compelled to call them out That is, until Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon earlier this week at the National Cathedral in
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I was in my first year of law school, and all the first year students were required to participate in the moot court competition. Moot court is where you are given a fake case to argue against a real law student in front of a panel of fake judges made up of real attorneys .
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Book Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Trueman starts with the premise that man identifies himself in the context of what is most important to him. Therefore, western man’s journey over the past two millennia is described as a transformation from political man (Greeks) to religious man (Middle Ages) to economic man
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What the Bible Says about New Year’s Day: The Lord gave Moses very specific instructions about what the people were to do on what would become New Year’s Day of the Jewish civil calendar (the first day of the seventh month of the Jewish religious calendar): “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the
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As those who want to see the kingdom of God continue to expand on the earth, we must be able to answer the question presented in the title of this post. As with most lofty matters, one must always start with the Bible. If one starts with reason, untethered to the Word of God, one
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Well, the people have spoken, and we now know who our president will be come January. We will have to wait to find out whether Donald Trump’s election to a second term is God’s sovereign blessing, judgment, or something else. There are, however, a couple of things that are clear. While the Democrats and Republicans
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