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“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…

“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