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  • "Man on Fire" starring Denzel Washington – God's Justice
    The most dominant theme in this movie is justice, in particular God's justice.
  • 'I Am Legend,' starring Will Smith -- Spiritual Themes
    I Am Legend does a particularly good job of demonstrating the spiritual implications of such a biological disaster. There are hints throughout the movie that keep God in forefront of the plot.
  • The Futility of Evil
    Evil would like to take everything hostage for itself, but this would destroy everything.
  • The Ridiculousness of Christ's Resurrection
    Christ gives His people beautiful hope. His victorious divinity is devastatingly powerful.
  • Gasoline Resembles Sin
    Humanity’s craving for sin is not logical because the fruits of sin are misery and death. For similar reasons it is illogical for us to continue using gasoline.
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman was so inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia that he decided to make his own imitation of C.S. Lewis' fantasy series.
  • Spiritual Giftings (and Fruitings)
    Christ equips the different members of His church for different purposes.
  • Elijah-Quality Faith
    Obeying Christ is the method God prescribes to get to know Him better.
  • Obey God In the Basic Things First
    God designed us to mature gradually. His incremental design applies to both our physical and spiritual lives so we cannot escape its built-in humbling effect.
  • Spiritual Themes in Transformers the Movie
    The origin of life must be supernatural. There must be something to spark life into lifeless dirt or metal. Life, especially consciousness, is an inexplicable mystery.
  • Simple Obedience: Obey God Wherever You Are
    As water runs down to the next lowest place, so obedience and the direction of our faith-walks should be similarly uncomplicated for us. We should obey the Lord wherever we are, however the free-flowing gravity of the Holy Spirit compels us.
  • The Acts 1:8 Principle: Be Faithful Wherever You Are
    Jesus describes an expanding circle of influence for His followers. If an expanding circle was an appropriate model for the early church, it must also be appropriate for us today.
  • Missions Can Be a False Spiritual Security Blanket
    Up until recently, my plans to become a worldwide missionary were my spiritual security blanket. I comforted myself with the presumption that I had a guaranteed position as “spiritual superstar” anywhere else in the world (as long as it was someplace where people didn’t know me).
  • Spirit Led Obedience Here and Now
    Ambitious churchgoers tend to assume too much about their own spirituality as they plan for their far off, unknown destinations.
  • What's Is God's "Cutting Edge?"
    If you seek Christ then be encouraged by the simplicity of your calling. Christ's followers obey Him wherever they are, however they can.
  • Getting to Know God His Way, by Faith
    We'll be on our way to becoming a spiritual people when we can joyfully accept those characteristics of God that are designed to remain out of our intellectual reach for the rest of our earth-bound lives.
  • The Secret Power of Ron Paul’s Campaign
    Although Ron Paul is unimpressive by measurable standards, he represents ideas and philosophies that are greater than himself or any other man.
  • American Religion and the American Way
    We Americans love our religion because it allows us to pick and choose God's goals for us. The substance of our religion is an infatuation with control, which is also the case for all lovers of religion.
  • Religiously American
    Religion reigns in the U.S., both inside and outside of the church. American citizens are religiously American whether they love, hate or don't even care about America.
  • Waiting for God First, the American Way Second
    It would be very American of us to take God's kingdom into our own hands.
  • God versus Americans
    God can save any people, no matter how far fallen they may seem. He continues even these days to show up to unsuspecting people in unexpected ways.
  • Redeeming the Time
    The more we surrender our time to God, the less time will seem like an oppressive, systematic partitioning of days, hours and minutes.
  • Time Management in Christ
    Let’s not dwell on what kind of people we might be someday, but rather, let’s live for Christ, in Christ today.
  • Freedom From a Needlessly Busy Lifestyle In Christ
    Letting go of the false security of busyness is a tremendous thing. It is just as difficult to let go of busyness as it is to let go of any other dearly-loved delusion.
  • Christ-Centered Time Management
    God so drastically reduces everything that we once considered gain so we come to count all our old things, even our life, as loss in comparison with the greatness of knowing Jesus Christ.
  • Christ our Rabbi
    Our relationship with Christ lives and grows like our relationships with other people. At the same time it is divinely unique, overflowing eternal significance.
  • Is Being American Beneficial from a Heavenly Standpoint?
    Have you noticed the straightforward reality of God's Presence lately? This is one of the most overlooked miracles in the world.
  • Our Current Circumstances Are Ideal For God's Kingdom
    ... or so we ought to think. We will learn a God-glorifying outlook on our current situation when when Christ teaches it to us.
  • God’s Difficult Answers
    The lagging spiritual fruit of our religious efforts are glaringly evident. We seek God religiously more than we seek Him by His Spirit.
  • Flesh Versus Spirit
    The Spirit and the flesh do not go together easily. To the person whose heart is affected by this world, God's heavenly answers seem too inconvenient to accept without at least a little tweaking.
  • God Answers Prayer on His Terms
    We cannot help but approach God on His terms. We breathe His air, live by whatever life He provides, and we speak to Him through this thing called "prayer," which He invented.
  • Unheard-of Freedom to Fellowship
    Behold the divine brilliance of God's new Christ-centered standard. He sent His Son to be the Open Door to previously unheard-of freedom to surrender.
  • Christ Is God's Answer to Our Prayers
    As we mature into Christ, we will find out more and more what a pleasing, filling, comforting, encouraging, humbling and empowering thing it is to know Him.
  • God Makes Our Prayers Effective
    As we become familiar with God's mind for us we become increasingly aware of spiritual realities.
  • Reconciled in Christ, Down to the Last Drop
    Christ is pointing us toward a spiritual goal that hits much closer to home than we might expect. He is guiding all willing followers toward a heavenly quality of reconciliation.
  • Christ Wants the Whole Package
    God invests in people whose hope is no longer in worldly riches, but rather only in Christ. Such people are righteous in God's sight.
  • Seek Christ by Continually Praying
    If you are just beginning to seek out Christ, then keep on seeking and praying faithfully. This is, in itself, vital obedience.
  • How to Pray
    Seeking Christ in any way possible, especially through prayerfully spending time with Him, is the most basic obedience I can imagine.
  • Christ Our Motivation and Agent for Change
    There is no better invested life than one that is consumed in the Master's plans. Christ will redeem our tainted, material possessions by using them to accomplish His spiritual objectives.
  • Less Stuff = More Time and Energy for God's Kingdom
    We can get by with less stuff. This will help us to spend more time and energy on God's kingdom goals.
  • Are Spiritual and Monetary Riches Compatible?
    Jesus says that worldly wealth makes it nearly impossible for a man to keep his mind set on God but, with God anything is possible.
  • Working for and Hearing From God
    Christ commands His saints to pray, so that is exactly the work we should be doing, though the nature of this work is different from the common, worldly understanding of work.
  • Possessions, Progress and Godly Success
    Can a healthy relationship exist between material goods and God's kingdom? What does plastic, metal and glass have to do with accomplishing God’s goals? Is it possible to possess things and yet not be drunk with love for them?
  • Healthy Money
    If we have money, let’s surrender it to God for His kingdom use. Our place is to trust Him, that He will use us however He sees fit.
  • Good Money, Bad Money
    If money is an issue in western Christendom, then it is a heart issue. It would be best for us to seek Christ, learn His will for us in this area, obey, and move on.
  • Strategic Financial Freedom
    If we are Christ's people, then we are driven by a pure as well as purifying thirst to know Him more. We are in the business of establishing God's kingdom on earth, the one cause which, the world over, we can pursue with clear consciences, because God's Spirit cleanses us and our consciences as we go.
  • God's Money (Part Two)
    Christ will make it possible for His people to downsize their weekly time and energy expenditures if needs be. It shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for us to work less and still make enough for a basic living.
  • God's Money (Part One)
    Even if we’re just paying the bills we should do so to the glory of God. While we’re at it, let’s use our brains, time and energy and whatever other resources we can muster in order to advance the kingdom of heaven.
  • Freedom in Christ-Consumption
    Christ will teach us how to honor God in Spirit, in truth and in wholehearted dedication as He causes us to leave our old selves behind.
  • That Christ Would Use Us
    God is determined to accomplish His otherworldly goals. He has always and will always prevail over mankind’s mortal restraints.
  • Everyday Faith
    What good are all the riches in the world to a wife when her husband’s heart is still far from her? All the shiny anniversary gifts in the world from a cold, unloving husband are less than worthless to that man’s wife.
  • It’s Not How We Rehearse, But How We Live That Counts
    God, in His wisdom, requires a soul-deep quality of character from us rather than anything we can manufacture on our own. This is reflected in His simple command for us, which is to work diligently with whatever grace He sees fit to give us. As we work with the grace He allots us right now, we will demonstrate our belief that He knows what He is doing. This is authentic, God-honoring faith.
  • Loving the Holy One
    Worshipping God and loving God are similar in that neither one can be excessively premeditated. And we love and worship best when we do not claim to have the Object of our admiration all figured out.
  • All-You-Can-Eat Insecurities
    Coerced joy is as disappointing as an all-you-can-eat buffet.
  • Christ or Cake?
    Jesus Christ embodies such an infinitude of variety that it becomes difficult for His followers to do anything by rote or just to go through the motions. God's people in general should feel ill-at-ease with anything too contrived.
  • Freed Worship
    To follow Christ is to embrace a childlike appreciation for the divine. People who dare to dive into the straightforward Truth are rewarded with a new appreciation for bottomless mystery.
  • Unexpected Joy Is Pure Joy
    Expected joys can be just as real as unexpected ones but, even still, they are only expected to a limited extent. If we remember a taste too well, then that is a sure sign that we are about to get tired of it. But we adore certain flavors for their consistently hidden zest, which never fails to sneak up on our unsuspecting palates. Our most treasured joys surprise us again and again for their exceedingly pure quality.
  • Joy and God's Other Unexpected Gifts
    There is every desirable, heavenly asset in Christ, such as freedom, joy, grace, mercy, contentment, salvation, Godliness and love. Every heavenly gift takes root and is best expressed in Christ Himself.
  • Joy Is Like a Train
    One major way Christ shows Himself to be God is by surprising us with joy. The joy that sneaks up and surprises us is the truest kind of joy.
  • God’s Ways Are Above Men's Ways (or so the saying goes)
    God’s W With liberality we churchgoers throw around the phrase, “God’s ways are higher than men’s ways.” Because this saying is so uncomplicated and, especially after we have repeated it so many times, it seems unbelievable that we still fail to understand it. One indication that we do not understand this saying, “God's ways are higher than men’s ways,” is our inability to live it as everyday, relevant truth. ays Are Above Men's Ways (or so the saying goes)
  • Ancient Sin
    The masses are comfortable in their wandering, lost by preference, delightfully trapped in their skin. They accept every new idea so long as it leads them back to their familiar, hopeless ends.
  • About Man-Made Religion
    Could it have been God who inspired this drunken stupor called “religion?” No, God would not encourage men toward something that makes them to forget Him.
  • On Spiritual Progress
    We churchgoers have our certain ways of doing things, which we love for their familiar ease. Our love for familiarity even leads us to lift up tradition as profound or meaningful in itself. However there is nothing inherently meaningful about tradition (all by itself).
  • God Provides
    Biblical as well as modern-day examples demonstrate this general cycle: First, God provides for His people all by Himself. Then His people remember that they can depend on Him. Then they forget. Then God provides for His people all by Himself again so that His people are reminded to depend on Him… and on and on.
  • The Secret to Knowing Jesus Christ
    The secret to knowing Christ is to let Him reveal Himself however He desires. And the secret to knowing any eternal mystery grounded in Christ is to surrender to Him so He can teach us whenever and however He knows is best. When in doubt, the secret to knowing God is to give up our right to know anything about anything.
  • The Sufficiency of Christ
    Christ Himself is the overarching First Rule. He envelops our lives in the workplace, marriage, familiar relations and (especially) in the way we do church. The Son of man is the singular Focus of our lives, working Himself out day after day as He patiently teaches us how to deal with every secondary concern.
  • The Secret to Success: Embracing Your Current Circumstances with Joy
    Now that I am in Christ, I have run out of excuses to be anything less than joyful and content, regardless of my circumstances. If I embrace the unconditional joy of Christ, I can desire better things and yet exist joyfully in the mean time.
  • The Kingdom of God Experiment
    A true scientist does not assume anything prior to his experimentation, but rather he lets the results teach him. In this way let us who seek Christ seek Him experimentally.
  • What Is Success? What is Expertise?
    Success apart from the Spirit of Christ must be impossible for me, or else I am not a Christ-follower.

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