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Tag Archives: hope
Faithspotting “Hillbilly Elegy”
Link to Hillbilly Elegy Faithspotting episode https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faithspotting/id1524339974#episodeGuid=212d7fed-1fa4-4f21-9092-db389757e603 Kenny and Mike discuss the NETFLIX film Hillbilly Elegy and examine faith elements spotted in the latest film from Director Ron Howard. Set in Middletown Ohio in 2011, with flashbacks to 1997, Hillbilly … Continue reading
Posted in Faith Shots, Film Shots
Tagged Amy Adams, community, Easter People, faith and film, Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy, hope, Owen Asztalos, Ron Howard
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Darkest Hour: A Different Kind of Christmas Movie
Christmas is one of the most important seasons for the film industry. With schools out and adults taking days off, people go to movies. Christmas is the movie season for big-budget titles, possible Oscar contenders, as well as Christmas themed films. … Continue reading
Film Review: Collateral Beauty
One can describe Collateral Beauty as a film that is powerful cubed. It has powerful performances of a powerful subject that can have a powerful impact on viewers. Collateral Beauty is a film about profound loss, pain, and the restorative … Continue reading
Film Review: Gleason
In the game of football months, sometimes years of training go into preparing for the seconds that occur after the ball is snapped. Although the tactics, strategies and plays can be very complicated, at its core, football is a simple … Continue reading
Posted in Faith Shots, Film Shots, Scattershooting
Tagged ALS, Apostle Paul, Clay Tweel, faith, Gleason, Hebrews, hope, Lou Gehrig, Michel Varisco Gleason, Philippians, purpose, Steve Gleason
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Cross + Roads Faith and Film Festival Overview
After King David coveted and took Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, a loyal soldier fighting the King’s battles, David tried and failed to cover up his offense. When that planned failed he had Uriah killed in a last gasp attempt … Continue reading
Film Review: “McFarland, USA”
As February is traditionally one of the worst times of the year for movie releases, my expectations were rather low when I attended a screening of “McFarland, USA,” a biopic about a California cross country track coach starring Kevin Costner. … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, community, Cross Country, faith and film, hope, Jim White, Kevin Costner, McFarland California, McFarland Cross Country, McFarland USA, ministry, the Gospel of John, The Word, The Word Became flesh, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Clergy
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Review: “12 Years A Slave”
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Tagged 12 Years A Slave, faith, faith and film, hope, scripture, slavery
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Sermon: The Empire Strikes Back/A New Hope
This is the sermon that was for the 3rd Sunday in Advent, the Sunday following the Newtown CT school shooting. The Scripture was Matthew 2:7-23, the story of Joseph being directed to take Jesus to Exile in Egypt before the … Continue reading
Posted in Faith Shots, Film Shots, Sermons
Tagged a new hope, Advent, Advent sermon, Christmas, faith, faith and film, film, george lucas, God why?, hope, incarnation, jesus, joy, loss, massacre of innocents, moses, newtown, Newtown Connecticut, Preaching, preaching on pain, school shooting, sermons, star wars, theodicy, Why God
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Rebirth
A touching post of determination, grace, love, survival, and rebirth from a cancer fighter whose new life comes through a bone marrow transplant. I invite you to read and remember on nn/16th. Rebirth.
Posted in Scattershooting
Tagged bone marrow transplant, cancer, cancer recovery, hope, rebirth, surviving
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9/11/2011 Sermon “Amidst the Void”
This is the sermon I preached on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The text is the Psalm 46 and the subject is God as our true refuge. God is our refuge and hope even in the midst of the void … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, 9/11 sermon, god, grief, healing, hope, jesus, psalm 46, Sermon
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