Disney and Marvel certainly know how to make money. They own most of the entertainment content that has been profitable on TV and at the movies in recent years. Their latest release is a new branch in the expanding Marvel universe, simply entitled, Eternals. The one sentence description reads, “The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.” That sounds pretty significant, doesn’t it? These beings by their actions have made key differences throughout the history of our world. This is a fantasy that calls to the core of our lives, the desire for our lives to matter, to make a difference.
Category Archives: Gospel
A Call to Action, Not Activism
Our world is filled with calls to action. Many people seem to have the perfect idea of how to solve all the world’s problems. We are called to change for social and racial injustice. We are called to change to prevent a climate catastrophe. What many of these calls have in common is they seek to generalize the problem in order to bring the problem into the lives of everyone. These problems are something we should all care about.
Be What You Are
In spite of our imperfection, in spite of our sin, God loves us and our testimony to the world is of confident adopted children who should never doubt the continuing, never finishing love of our Heavenly Father. We live as those who are loved by the one who understands who we are at a deeper level than any human ever can.
The Sanctity of Human Life and the Limits of Human Compassion
We are “salt and light” and that doesn’t happen with our votes or with our likes, it happens with our hands, our feet and our voices.
Distracted, Divided, Dependent
Someone wants you distracted. Someone wants you divided. Someone wants you dependent. You have a choice.
The Church – a Hospital for Sinners?
The Church is God’s Place for the healing of the broken hearted, not a weekend performance.
What Happened to Lazarus?
What happened to Lazarus? He is the center figure (other than Jesus), in one of the most significant, well-known stories in the Bible. But what happened after he was brought back to life?
The Danger of Distance
Why do I think I can solve the world’s problems when I won’t even try to solve the problems in my community.
Steal Away Home – Book Review
Steal Away Home tells the remarkable story of a slave, Thomas Johnson, who first heard of Charles Spurgeon when he was forced by his master to throw Mr. Spurgeon’s anti-slavery writings into a raging bonfire, created entirely of Spurgeon’s writings.
No Community
This is not a post primarily about Covid, lockdowns and political decisions. It is a post about the impact of those decisions and others on a society. One definition of a society is “The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals.” There are a couple of key words in that definition,Continue reading “No Community”
Seeing God 