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“He said, ‘Seriously, I’m telling you that unless you turn and become a child, you will not come into the Realm of Heaven’” (Matthew 18.3). “Where a kid could be a kid,” was the slogan, once upon a time, of… Read morePopcorn Summer: Kids being kids

“Shall we say, then, let’s keep on sinning so grace might increase?” (Romans 6.1) For this week’s movie, we need to take a trip back in time for context. Let’s set the dials for the mid-Seventies. The scandal of Watergate… Read morePopcorn Summer: The only way to keep something…

“These things have been written down so that you can believe Jesus is the Anointed One, the son of God. And through that belief you can have life in his name” (John 20.31). On 19 June 1976, Viking 1 entered… Read morePopcorn Summer: Yes, And?

“So then, don’t be anxious about tomorrow. Tomorrow has anxieties all its own. There’s plenty of misfortune for today” (Matthew 6.34). Special Report: Journey to Mars is a made-for-TV movie that aired on CBS 25 March 1996. It’s an “as-it-happens”… Read morePopcorn Summer: As It (Might) Happen

“Hearing this, Jesus said to him, ‘There’s one thing that you lack. Go, sell everything you have, give it to the poor. Then you will have a storehouse in Heaven. And come with me” (Luke 18.22). Mars Express is a… Read morePopcorn Summer: Insufficient Memory

“Turn and go back, daughters. I’m grown too old for a husband. Even if there was any hope of one, and it happened tonight and bore sons what are you going to do, wait for them till they were ripe… Read moreWaiting and Tending

“There were so many other things that Jesus did that if all of them were to be written down, I think not even the whole of the universe could hold all the books that could be composed. Amen” (John 21.25)…. Read moreSo Many Books

“He said to him a third time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love me?’ It made Peter’s heart ache that he said to him for the third time do you love me. And he said in response, ‘Lord, you… Read moreQ & A

“Jesus said to them, ‘Come on and eat breakfast.’ Every one of the disciples was too chicken to say, ‘Who are you?’ They recognized their Lord.” (John 21:12). Let’s back up. So anywhere from a half-hour to, maybe, a couple… Read moreWho are you?

“Then the disciple Jesus loved said, ‘It’s the Master.’ Simon Peter, hearing that it was the Master put on his clothes (he’d been working naked), and threw himself into the sea” (John 21.7). The last thing you want to do… Read moreDiving In