Meaningful Conversations With Delicious Beverages
This week, AJ and Brandon build out from the idea of ought into obligations. So often, we think of obligations as limitations and restrictions. Is it possible, though, that our obligations could actually serve to make us more free?
In this week's episode, Brandon approaches AJ about his idea that our messaging on Christ is the source of a lot of people's confusions about Him. Specifically, that people overemphasizing Christ's humanity or divinity are a big part of the problem.
This week's look at Christian themes in film involves AJ and Brandon celebrating their nerdiness by going back to the original Star Wars movie, Episode IV:A New Hope. It's right in the title, we have hope, we have destiny, and we have a shared frustration about people trying to equate God and the force.
As they continue looking at Christian themes in movies, AJ and Brandon take a suggestion from Instagram and discuss Signs. Signs does a really good job of bringing the ideas of providence and grief to the forefront, especially in the context of family life.
This week, AJ and Brandon take a look at the Denzel Washington action movie, Man on Fire, to examine how Christian themes appear in the movie and how Christians can encounter questions about faith and morality in the film.
This week, AJ and Brandon discuss the sin of gluttony. It's important to remember that the things in this world will never be able to fully satisfy us, they are means an end, and if we lose sight of that, we'll just chase those temporary tastes of joy and never get the real thing.
Brandon told me when we were talking about fasting on this week's podcast that I HAD to expand on how we reorder our desires, so here we go! Here are the two steps blown out as per his request: 1) Identifying what we're running to. 2) Replace it with a healthy dependence on God.