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39. Star Wars

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Star Wars
The Force Awakens this Friday, December 18th.  Star Wars will likely dominate many families’ Christmas gatherings.  With this in mind, Andy sought advice from Robert Mrosko, head pastor at Brookfield Lutheran Church, who has been a Star Wars fan since seeing Episode 4 in 1977 when he was six years old.

Pastor Rob shares why he thinks the Star Wars franchise has been so popular before sharing ways that the series connects with Biblical themes that Christians can use in conversations to share the Gospel.

Pastor Rob also addresses two approaches Christians often times take when approaching secular films like Star Wars: approaching it just as entertainment with no discernment or avoiding it all together due to certain elements that oppose Scriptural truths.

Andy also asks if the Star Wars series has a Christ-like figure and who the hero actually is since it appears that the Dark Side has a popularity in toy and clothing marketing and products.

Finally, Pastor Rob gives some pastoral advice for Christians to consider when entering into this new trilogy.

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Brookfield Lutheran Church Sermons

John Williams Conducts Star Wars Theme Video

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Pastor Rob, dressed as a Storm Trooper for Star Trip – Our Faith Awakens.

Star Trip

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38. Christmas Time Evangelism and Starbucks

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Reconnect Episode 38

George and Andy apply the Reconnect theme of sharing and defending the Gospel and apply it to the Christmas season.

Together they answer the following three questions:

1.  Do you have any ideas for sharing the Gospel during the Christmas season?

2.  Any particular Christmas movies that you think do a good job of sharing the Gospel message?

3.  What’s your response to this year’s Starbucks red cup and the “movement” that was attempted by Joshua Feuerstein?

Show Links

Linus Explains the Meaning of Christmas

Bad Religion’s Christmas Songs

Merry Christmas Starbucks in the News

Fishing for Leviathan (This episode’s commercial break)

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37. What Denomination Are You Quiz

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Denominations

Andy, Wes, and Jesse take an online quiz to find out what Christian denomination they should be.  This is all the more fun because Jesse doesn’t have a denomination! 

Take the quiz for yourself here: http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=christiandenom

And take this one and see if the result varies: http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=DenomSelect

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“There is a Plurality of Gods – So Says Joseph Smith”

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Flood Narratives Around the World

This post is really just for me for future reference:

I have been searching a bit this morning on the flood stories that are found around the world from ancient days, and I found the following page that contained numerous of these stories: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html  I have only focused on the Chinese ones so far.  One of them mentions a rainbow!

The following site is really neat, and it certainly appears to be from a  Christian source: http://www.nwcreation.net/noahlegends.html  It mentions the Chinese flood story that I was trying to find that I had heard once before that has a strong parallel to the Noah flood of the Bible, but the Talk Origins site I cited earlier claims that it’s not from China, but America: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CG/CG202_2.html  I wonder if it’s an example of Christians making connections to prove Christianity that are not actually there, in the similar way that atheists take Horus and other pagan gods and try to make them fit the Christian narrative in an attempt to disprove Christianity.

The rabbit trails certainly can run deep on all the many topics we can find in God’s Word.  I am certain we will never be able to plumb the depths of what God has revealed to us in this life time, but for those of us who are in Christ, we will get to look forward to trying to do so in the eternity we will get to share with Him.

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