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“I don’t understand what I do. I don’t do the things I desire, I do what I despise” (Romans 7.15). Released in August 1958, It! The Terror from Beyond Space tells the story of a rescue mission that finds a… Read morePopcorn Summer: The things we do

“Looking up, he said, ‘I see people, but they look like walking trees’” (Matthew 8.24). This movie marks our fourth, this summer, first trip to Mars (I’m not counting Capricorn One since no one actually went there). It goes about… Read morePopcorn Summer: The view through the porthole

“Look at the crows, they don’t plant anything or harvest anything, they don’t even keep storehouses. Yet, God gives them food. Are you much different from birds” (Luke 12:24). In class once the Professor had us break up into groups…. Read morePopcorn Summer – Dilemmas and Crows

“Put your sword back in its place. Everyone who takes up a sword is destroyed by it” (Matthew 25.52). Albert Einstein, as best I can verify, once stated that while he had no idea the weapons that would be used… Read morePopcorn Summer: Swords, Sticks, and Stones

“Not long after, this pronouncement came to pass. Nebuchadnezzar was chased from the company of humanity to eat grass like cattle and be soaked by the morning dew. His hair grew out, covering him like an eagle’s feathers, and his… Read morePopcorn Summer: Chased

“This I have said to you so you might have peace. In this world, you will have trials, but take courage for I have conquered the world” (John 16:33). Conquest of Space (1955), was directed by Byron Haskin and produced… Read morePopcorn Summer: Conquest

“I am as a night-bird in the wilderness, an little owl in the waste. I lie awake alone, like a bird on the ridgeline” (Psalm 102:6-7). Michael Collins, Command Module pilot on Apollo 11, was described by the press at… Read morePopcorn Summer: Lonely as Adam

“The earth belongs to the Holy One, from end to end. It and all that live upon it” (Psalm 24.1). There’s this odd game movie studios play with one another. One studio begins making a big summer blockbuster film based… Read morePopcorn Summer: Messed-up World

“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…