"The Incredibles": Staying Saved

The Incredibles follows the life of Mr. Incredible, a superhero dedicated to saving the world from evil. At the beginning of the movie, he vents his frustration ...

Demons Are Attracted to the Garbage in Our Lives

As significant as demonic influence may be, it is never the primary issue in someone's life. It may be a deadly, destructive consequence or fruit, ...

Maximilian Kolbe Dies for Another

In February 1941, Father Maximilian Kolbe was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz. He was a Polish Monk who founded a Franciscan order near ...

Mel Gibson Believes in Spiritual Warfare

At the January pastors' screening of The Passion of the Christ at Willow Creek Church in Illinois, Gibson explained why he used a veiled female figure ...

"The Two Towers": Good Worth Fighting For

The film, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, is about the future of peace on Middle-Earth. This peace is dependent upon the destruction of a ring, entrusted ...

Lacking Full Armor, British Warships Sunk

British admiral Lord David Beatty commanded a flotilla at the Battle of Jutland during World War I. As the battle began, British and German ships engaged ...

No Middle Ground in Middle Earth

Behind The Lord of the Rings epic trilogy is The Silmarillion, another of Tolkien's works, which explains the formation of Middle Earth and depicts ...

Blaming God but Doing Nothing

On my door there's a cartoon of two turtles. One says, "Sometimes I'd like to ask why he allows poverty, famine, and injustice when he could ...

A Muslim in Need of a Savior

Author and pastor John MacArthur recalls this story:

I was flying down to El Paso to do a men's conference. I was working on some thoughts and had ...

"The Lord of the Rings": Struggling to Surrender Sin

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, author J. R. R. Tolkien portrays the classic conflict between good and evil set in a mythical land ...