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What is a Christian?
Church of the Third Revelation
This clip is from the movie There Will Be Blood, which jumped up into my top five favorite movies shortly after seeing it. I like it for many reasons, one of which is the question that one must inevitably ask, “What is a Christian?” In this scene Eli Sunday, preacher of the Church of the Third Revelation, performs an exorcism. Throughout the movie he uses key words associated with Christianity like Church, revelation, Lord, Jesus. Even the act of exorcising a demon is biblical. Yet we are left with a profound sense of unease when we watch this. Why is that? Read more »
Christians, Creativity, and One-Line Answers
Has anyone else asked a serious question to a Christian only to receive some cheesy, one line, pop-Christian answer? You’ve problem heard them far too frequently. Christians often seem more interested in knowing that they have an answer than they do in knowing that the answer is right, let alone the “why” behind it. Here are a few examples of what I’m talking about:
“Its alright, you can do all things through Christ…” Read more »
God’s Story: An Artistic Representation (Panel 2)
Here is the section concerning the second panel of the painting, titled “Loss” (The Fall). Is anyone else just amazed with the symbolism in this painting? Incredible…. This is a shorter panel, but the next couple will rock your world.
God’s Story: An Artistic Representation (Panel 1)
You may have seen the header for this site change once again, this time showing a four stage depiction of a tree. This is the digital print of a massive painting done by David Arms, an artist from Franklin, TN. The painting was commissioned by Pastor Scotty Smith of Christ Community Church, as a fulfillment of seeing a dream of his come true. That dream was to have a single painting depicting the whole of “God’s Story, as it progressively unfolds in the Bible, history and in broken hearts.” We have thumb-nailed the picture (above) to be displayed on a new page because it is too large to fit here without losing important details.
This next multi-part series will divide Scotty Smith’s explanation of this incredible work of art. The full explanation and article can be found here, but for the sake of introducing this work of art to commentary and discussion, I will divide it up into 4 parts. Each part will be dedicated to a separate panel in the painting.
