‘Seven Days in Utopia’ Movie Review

Filed under Apologetics, Christian Worldview, Culture, Family & Children, Movieology, Movies, Video / Audio by on September 29, 2011 at 12:40 pm {no comments}
Movieology: Seven Days in Utopia

‘Seven Days in Utopia’ is played to be a golfer’s journey into the heart and soul of the game. Golfing can be fun (so they say) and this film wants to show us how it reflects the game of life. Utopia is not an imaginary place, but a part of our world that few people — let alone sports enthusiasts — ever get to experience. Robert Duvall plays an astute retired golfer that can teach the young and misled golfer wannabe a thing or two about life. So does this work? Or are we left wishing we had instead gone to see ‘The Lion King’ in 3D? Find out now on Movieology!

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“Water for Elephants” Movie Review – Movieology

Filed under American History, Culture, History, Movieology, Movies, Video / Audio by on April 26, 2011 at 1:59 pm {2 comments}
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Water for Elephants tells the story of a young man, played by Robert Pattinson, who joins a traveling circus as their veterinarian to escape the bleakness of his life after the death of his parents. Once in the circus, Jacob finds himself in a hidden, twisted subculture where morality is dictated by the tyrannical, larger-than-life [...]

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Movie Review of “The Adjustment Bureau” – Movieology

Filed under Movieology, Movies, Theology, Video / Audio by on March 8, 2011 at 12:29 pm {4 comments}
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How would you feel about a mysterious agency orchestrating your future? Would you fight their plan for your life or would you go along with it even if it didn’t seem like the best plan? Matt Damon stars as a guy who chooses to fight “The Adjustment Bureau”. Watch this episode of Movieology before the [...]

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The National Reform Association

Filed under Articles, History by on September 16, 2009 at 11:17 am {no comments}

In 1861, a small Presbyterian denomination known as the Covenanters, founded in 1809 in Western Pennsylvania, created a petition that pointed out that the Constitution made no reference to Jesus Christ and the law of God.  “The petition received initial support from Senator Charles Sumner, and in 1862 two Covenanter ministers presented the document to [...]

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The Tenth Amendment and Interposition

Filed under Articles, Ethics, Government, Law by on July 15, 2009 at 12:00 am {2 comments}

The doctrine of interposition is based on the biblical truth that the powers that be, the rulers of civil government, are ordained by God and are His ministers (see Romans 13:1-10 for this and the discussion which follows). As God’s ministers they are to serve Him – not anyone else. They are to serve Him by protecting and giving praise to those who do good, and by punishing, and therefore restraining, those who do evil. As God’s ministers they must follow, obey, and apply His definitions or standards of what is good and what is evil: not their own, nor anyone else’s definitions or standards of good and evil.

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The Trap of Neutrality

Filed under Articles, Ethics, Government, Law by on July 14, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

According to a radio editorial some years ago, “a man’s religion and the strength of his conviction are his own personal matter” and therefore “religion should not interfere with politics.”[1] Of course, this too is an expression of humanist neutrality designed to silence Christians but allow for every other conceivable worldview to find expression in the public and political arena.

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The Disney World of Modern Apologetics

Filed under Apologetics, Articles, Theology by on June 26, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

Once upon a visit to Disney World and Epcot Center in Orlando, my best friend and I tried to concoct a photograph of him standing with arms upheld and the great Epcot “Spaceship Earth” (the big silver ball) in the background in such a way as it appeared that he was carrying the massive ball by his own strength. We never quite got the angle right, but the idea entertained us enough to try several times.

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Why Common Sense Died

Filed under Articles, Ethics, Government, Law by on June 24, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

Recently Glenn Beck has rightly been lamenting the death of “common sense” in American government and law – a phenomenon which must be evident to many Americans over forty and manifest to every Bible-believing Christian. Philip K. Howard had complained against massive, hyper-detailed laws generated by regulatory bureaucracies to tell us what we must do in every situation – and leaving nothing to the common sense of the individual – in The Death of Common Sense; How Law Is Suffocating America (1995). Glenn’s guest Lori Borgman lamented the death of “Common Sense” in a great, now much-circulated satirical obituary in the March 15, 1998 Indianapolis Star.

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Sonia Sotomayor: Measured by the Word of God and Found Wanting

Filed under Articles, Ethics by on June 15, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

On May 11, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated court of appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. In support of this nomination, the President assured the American people that Judge Sotomayor was a deserving and worthy nominee. Not only would she be an able justice, the President intoned, she would be impartial, and she would have “empathy.” Thus, the President proclaimed that, with the nomination of Judge Sotoamayor, he had fulfilled one of his campaign promises, the one that he made to Planned Parenthood in 2007, that his judicial appointees would have “the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a teen age mom; the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old.”

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Let Your ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ Speak Truth

Filed under Articles, Culture, Ethics by on June 11, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

Jesus’ statement in His Sermon on the Mount to let your yes be yes and your no be no (Matthew 5:33-37) is picked up by two other New Testament authors. In 2 Corinthians, Paul writes: "But as God is faithful, our word to you is not yes and no" (2 Cor. 1:18). And in his short epistle, James writes: "But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you may not fall under judgment" (James 5:12). With the brief background supplied by previous articles (here and here), we can now begin to get a better sense of what Jesus, Paul, and James are saying about "yes and no."

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