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In the last two newsletters we have been discussing the movie A Beautiful Mind. It is based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel prize mathematician who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia. Before jumping back into the story, I want to remind you again of the basic premise here, of the reason I write this…

Last time we began with the movie A Beautiful Mind. It falls into a category of story we are calling: The working of God’s redemptive grace from one person to another. There are many stories that focus on the relationship between two people, and by the conclusion, God’s redemptive grace has transformed them both. To…

I promised a new story this time and it’s an excellent example of a particular type of story — those in which God works in our lives through the words and actions of other people. Let’s call this category: The working of God’s redemptive grace from one person to another. The relationship between these two…

For the last several newsletters we discussed the movie Signs by M. Night Shymalan and demonstrated that although a storyteller can claim to not believe in the God of the Bible, he can still write a very touching story about the loss of faith in the midst of inexplicable tragedy, and then know the perfect…

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…