Professor, "His (slave owner) methods were very simple and were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body. Take the mind. I and every other professor on this campus are here to help you -- to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind. Because obviously, you have lost it! That's all you need to know about me Mr. Lowe. Class dismissed."
Education: Training to Live Our Identity in Christ -- Overcomer Movie [VIDEO]
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Overcomer movie breaks through the old lack-luster, corny Christian films of the past and provides a better taste of quality movie production capturing Christian truths — especially the abiding truth of living in Christ. It is incredibly difficult to produce a movie, let alone a good movie, and more so a Christian movie, and Overcomer movie has done just that. Overcomer movie digs deep into historical Christianity and deep, inspirational truths from the Bible’s New Testament book of Ephesians. To see Ephesians 1 on the “big screen” and captured in the right contextual meaning is incredible.
Overcomer brings the audience into a undeniably real life scenarios involving all various aspects of this broken and sinful world:
Grand-parenting (raising grandchildren without their parents)
Parents
Families
Children
Teenagers/Adolescence/Young adults
Neighborhoods
Orphans (parentless, single parents)
Christian school (administration, teachers, coaches, parents, guardians, students, classes)
Sports (basketball, football, cross country running, coaching)
Small town
Anger
Hate
Confusion
Loneliness
Theft
Selfishness
Division
Disease
Disabilities
Weird people
Funny people
Mean people
Christian people
Life decisions
Life changes
Learning to understand
Learning to forgive
Church
Pastors
Hospital visitation
Hospitality
Bible
Faith in Christ
Child of God
The movie captures an incredible amount of width of issues as well as narrowing on the single, residing, and resounding answer of God and the gospel. Here are a few statements shared at the end of the film:
I was a mistake.
No place in this world.
Unwanted.
I felt unloved.
So many mixed messages from the world around me, I lived in confusion.
My parents did not want me
It doesn’t come from the culture around me …
The Creator gets to define his creation.
I still have good and bad days.
I still have struggles.
The one who loves me and died for me and overcame everything for me … Sin, suffering, and death … I walk with him everyday … I trust him everyday.
Since my identity is found in him, and I know exactly who I am.
If one interprets the movie or Christianity as a self-discovery help with tips and tricks, then they’ve missed God, Christianity, church history, and the Bible. This is turning from ourselves and the world to God — entrusting the entirety of our real life to him.
Mid movie, there’s a scene with the coach talking with the man in the hospital with critical health issues. The one on the hospital bed challenges the “Christian” school coach and his identity in Christ to reveal God is greater and more important than life itself.
The movie ends with 1 John 5:5:
“Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”
This is a great movie revealing how we are to be trained to live our identity in Christ, a Christian, in this real world. Every person has a telos-centered heart. The question is, what is your telos? Or, who is your telos? Is it you? This world? Something you miss? Don’t have? Want? Or God himself?
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Education: Greater Movie About the True Story of Brandon Burlsworth [VIDEO]
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Greater movie captures the true life story of Brandon Burlsworth, and the film provided a tremendous lens into his life, especially the foundational core and it’s effects — God. His epitaph’s last line reads, “Loss is great, but God is greater.” The film shows not just his work ethic and character but also the reason for it as well as its relationship to life, people, and family. The film just may make you laugh, cringe, and even cry, but the core principle stands true that no matter what happens in life, we trust God.
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Amazon: ”GREATER follows the true story of Brandon Burlsworth who is perhaps the greatest walk-on in the history of college football. Brandon dreamed of playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks but was told he wasn’t good enough to play Division I ball. Undeterred, Brandon took a risk and walked on in 1994. Written off by fellow teammates and coaches, Brandon displayed dogged determination in the face of staggering odds. The awkward kid who once was an embarrassment to his teammates and an annoyance to his coaches ended up becoming the most respected player in the history of the program, changing the lives of all he touched.”
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Education: Seven Days in Utopia Movie
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Seven Days in Utopia provides a helpful look into a wide variety of life’s aspects like family issues, sports, jobs, mentoring, failures, etc.More importantly, the movie captures the importance of God and his word for life. The movie leads to an evangelistic training resource entitled “Did he make the putt?” per the ending, and explains more about the background, book, production, scenes, and purpose. The overall purpose is to guide people away from glorifying (or damaging) themselves or this life in order to put one’s trust fully in God and the gospel.
The symbolism used in the movie of burying one’s sins can be a helpful teaching aid to understand how sin really is put to death through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection described throughout the Bible and teachings of Christianity. Symbolism always comes with caution in order for people to rightly teach or learn from it, as some mistakenly use symbolism as a consistent way of living in an attempt to “treat” their sins vs. “trust” they truly are dealt with by God through the gospel. Overall the movie kept interest for the viewers with humor as well as intensity and drama accurately describing real life. The former is when someone is always looking for aspects in life to “help” them vs. the latter truly “heals,” transforms, and matures them to follow God in real life.
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SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future. Based on David L. Cook's best-selling book Golf's Sacred Journey: Seven Days at the Links of Utopia, SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA also stars Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Jerry Ferrera, Joseph Lyle Taylor, KJ Choi and Kathy Baker. The film is directed by Matthew Dean Russell from a script by Cook, Rob Levine, Russell and Sandra Thrift. The film was produced by Mark G. Mathis (Brick, Precious) and Jason M. Berman (The Dry Land).
Premiering in Theaters September 2nd 2011
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Matt Dean Russell
Cast
Robert Duvall, Lucas Black, Melissa Leo, Deborah Ann Woll, Brian Geraghty, Kathy Baker, KJ Choi, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Madison Burge
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