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January 1st, 2009

The Challenge of Benjamin Button
This year’s Academy Award nominations will most certainly include several for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, and after seeing it, I would also nominate it for best film of the year. It is powerfully thought provoking and there are many observations that I would like to share with you from a Christian worldview. So, if you don’t want the plot to be spoiled for you, stop reading right now. If, on the other hand, you’d like to be prepared to watch the film in a more thoughtful way, continue on…

The Upside
The film is wonderfully crafted and well acted; the performances are compelling and engaging, and the characters are realistic and endearing. The film transports you back in time and place, and the journey through Louisiana from 1920 to the present is wonderful. Perhaps the best thing about the movie, however, is the founding premise: Benjamin is born very old and then grows younger as he ‘ages’. Along the way, he meets Daisy who is on the opposite path from childhood toward old age, and approximately 40 years into the narrative, they become a couple, just as each is approaching ‘midlife’. That premise alone is worth the price of admission and the novelty of the narrative is worth your time.

The Downside
But sadly, the premise seems tragically wasted as the film exposes the cultural and secular dilemma we find ourselves in as a nation. Remember that every film teaches something, whether directly or indirectly. Every movie we watch either openly promotes a value or tacitly encourages it by choosing to highlight one belief or aspect of life over another. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a movie that teaches and promotes three values or cultural truths that are slowly eating away at the fabric of our nation…(read more)


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for the Week of January 4th, 2009

How Can I Be A Holy Rebel in 2009?
What’s the Most Rebellious thing you have ever done? I know what mine is! When I was 16 years old, just as I was learning to drive, I actually moved out of my house and lived in a Volkswagen camper van for 6 months! I felt like my environment at home was controlling and I wanted change. I disagreed with what my home stood for and I wanted to take a stand. I was rebellious. But I have to tell you that my rebellion didn’t last long, do you know why? It was short-lived because I WAS WRONG about what I believed! And when you find yourself rebelling against what is RIGHT, that rebellion won’t last very long! Where do you think rebellion begins? Some would say it begins with ANGER! You feel like rebelling when you become angry about some condition around you. So what are you angry about? Most of the stuff we get angry about is pretty inconsequential. The whole world can be decaying around us, falling into chaos, and most of the time we are simply angry about some little thing that is affecting our personal lives. We are so self focused! God doesn’t have a problem with anger, just the way that we apply it… (Read More)

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