A Parable

Picture this:  It’s 9/12. The morning after the terrorist attacks in New York City. Experts believe that there are people, possibly hundreds of people, buried alive under the rubble that was only a day ago the World Trade towers. Rescue workers have been called in to dig through the rubble to search for people who…

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Frail Heroes

Saw the new Mission Impossible movie last month. I’ve seen all the old ones, and so something really struck me about this newest installment. There are several scenes in this movie where the hero is … scared. We see Tom Cruise’s character about to jump off a building into a dumpster, but he is reticent.…

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Contagion 3: Spread the Disease

The last two days I’ve been thinking with you about the movie Contagion. And why doesn’t the Jesus virus spread throughout the world as it did during New Testament times? And how can we see that happen again? I haven’t gotten this all figured out, but I’m pretty sure the answer is love. What we…

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Contagion 2: The R Naught

In a scene in the movie Contagion, the character played by Kate Winslet writes on a dry erase board:                 R–O                                                                        – reproductive rate of the virus Flu   –   1 Smallpox  –  3 Polio  –  4-6 Winslet explains, “What we need to determine is this: For every person who gets sick, how many…

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Contagion: The Epidemic

I rented Contagion recently. It’s a movie about the rapid spread of a virus that’s taking the lives of people all over the world. I started reading the Bible twenty-two years ago and I read in the New Testament about the rapid spread of a “virus” that gave life to people all over the world.…

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