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Jesus, Our Stunt Double
Actor Kevin Bacon recounted when his 6-year-old son saw Footloose for the first time:
He said, "Hey, Dad, you know that thing in the movie where you ...
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A Demonstration of Christ's Love
Ron Rand writes in For Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven: "Michael usually takes his family out each week to see a movie or sports event. When they ...
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Example or Sacrifice?
If Christ is an example, nobody needs him; but if he's a sacrifice, everyone does.
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Christ's Blood, Not Ours
When I was 5 years old, before factory-installed seat belts and automobile air bags, my family was driving home at night on a two-lane country road. I ...
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A Sacrifice at Auschwitz
In A Book of Saints, Anne Gordon tells the story of Father Maximilian Kolbe, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz in August 1941. A prisoner escaped from the ...
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God in the Line of Fire
In the 1993 hit film In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood played Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan. Horrigan had protected the life of the President ...
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How Splendid the Cross
How splendid the cross of Christ!
It brings life, not death;
light, not darkness;
Paradise, not its loss.
It is the wood on which
the Lord, like a great warrior,
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Vicarious Death
In his book Written in Blood, Robert Coleman tells the story of a little boy whose sister needed a blood transfusion. The doctor had explained that she ...
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The Divine Mystery
This is a mystery, that Christ can be the obedient, glorious love of God and the full measure of our disobedience, both at once.
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Don't Call It Dull
"And the third day he rose again." What are we to make of this? One thing is certain: if [Jesus] were God and nothing else, his immortality ...
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