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For the last two times we have been discussing the movie Signs by M. Night Shymalan. I hope you have thought about what I asked you last time:  If you were God and you wanted to speak to Graham (who lost his faith because the circumstances surrounding his wife’s death were so unlikely), what might…

Last time we began with the movie Signs, by M. Night Shymalan. In this story, aliens arrive on earth . . . for real. There are spaceships in the night sky all across the world, but they have also been secretively scouting the surface on foot. It seems the people of earth are getting ready…

We’ve been talking for some time about God’s love, that it is the principal essence of the universe. Without it, there would be nothing, for it is the reason God chose to create in the first place.  For those of us who have come to know the Father through His Son, that love has become…

One of the most powerful, meaningful, and significant words in the Bible is the Hebrew word checed, pronounced kheh’-sed. We have been talking about God’s love, that it is the essence of our lives. God didn’t create a physical universe because he was bored. He created because He wanted to have an intimate and loving…

Last time we looked at two stories, the song Pretty Fair Maid in the Garden, and the movie Cast Away. In both stories, a woman is in love with a man who has gone away and not returned — one to war and one on a plane that went down in the middle of the…

Last time I gave you an assignment. I asked if you would listen to the song Pretty Fair Maid In The Garden, by Tim O’Brien. It can be found on the album Fiddler’s Green. Hopefully you have a music streaming service, but if not, you can still find the lyrics online if you search the…

I believe it’s time again to pause and find a specific story we can use as an example. My thesis from the beginning has been that there is only one story of humanity, God’s Story, but it has never been easy to see. For humanity’s story began a very long time ago and none of…

Last time we finished with The Jesus Storybook Bible and mentioned how the author, Susan Lloyd-Jones, summarizes this book and the whole Bible itself, with the phrase: You see, no matter what, in spite of everything, God would love his children – with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love. 1…

Were you surprised that most stories conform to just seven basic plots, but even more, all seven are different aspects of the very same, overarching story – “in the end darkness is overcome, and light wins the day?” All seven plots are different aspects of the same, universal struggle between good and evil. This struggle…

After thirty years of research, Christopher Booker discovered there are only seven basic plots in most of the stories ever written. Even more, they are all aspects of one universal plot — “In the end darkness is overcome, and light wins the day.” Mr. Booker believed this incredible fact could be explained by the theories…