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We have been discussing the movie The Natural for the last five newsletters. It is hard to believe it has been that long, I have enjoyed it so much. I hope you had a chance to read my piece on this movie, which is a chapter from an unpublished manuscript. I also hope our discussion…

We have been discussing the movie The Natural for some time now, a baseball movie set in the 1930’s. What on the surface is a movie about baseball and the love between two people that goes all the way back to their childhood, is one of the most beautiful redemptive stories I have ever heard.…

We’ve been discussing the movie The Natural in the last several newsletters. If you haven’t already read my piece on this movie from an unpublished manuscript, you can download it with the link below. I hope you will find the time to read it. I believe you will be surprised by just how clearly God’s…

We have been talking about the movie The Natural recently, but now I’m going to dive in more deeply. Again, I hope you’ve had a chance to download and read my piece from an unpublished manuscript that discusses this movie. If not, you can download it below. In the New Testament, God talks of His…

I hope you have had a chance to download and read “The Natural”, a chapter from an unpublished manuscript that discusses a movie with the same name. If not, I hope you will read it when you can. You can download it below. I hope it strikes you the same way it did me; that…

For many years before I started writing short stories, I worked on a nonfiction manuscript that spoke of the same gospel truths, that told God’s story in four basic chapters, and revealed how much His story has always “showed up” in other stories. The manuscript also included my story, how I came to faith, and…

We laid out the plot of the movie Interstellar last time. A plight of dust has struck the earth and by all accounts will be fatal. What could be more important than doing everything necessary to find another habitable world and getting as many people as possible there, before the earth dies? The answer is…

We finished last time with the movie A Beautiful Mind, which strikingly made the point that love conquers all, not wisdom. Before long I hope to speak more of our greatest dilemmas, what the Fall did to us and exactly what we suffer from. But I’ve been having far too good of a time citing…

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…