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“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

“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