Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace. - Martin Luther


Thursday, March 10, 2011

I've Seen That Movie, Too

In my sermon last night I mentioned a new blog all about movies being written by a couple of colleagues, called I've Seen That Movie, Too.

Here's how Steve and Bill describe their new undertaking:
We started this blog because we love movies. We love that moment when you mention a movie that you feel strongly about and you hear the reply, “I’ve seen that movie” and the conversation takes flight from there. We’ve enjoyed many of those conversations together and decided to share the experience with others.
The title of the blog reflects that sense of shared experience. You may recognize it also as the title of an Elton John song. The song isn’t really about movies. It is about a relationship and that is appropriate for our blog.
What makes a movie great? Certainly directing and acting are important, as is cinematography and (sometimes) special effects, but what truly makes a movie great is its ability to tell a story and relationships are at the heart of every good story. We’ll discuss all aspects of the movie experience, but the heart of the discussion will focus on relationships. We are both pastors in Montana, so we’ll ponder not simply the human relationships, but also what the movies reveal about our relationship with God.
Along the way, we’ll offer both Recommendations and Reflections. The Recommendations will offer our encouragement for you to see a movie that you may not have seen and will therefore not include any spoilers. The Reflections will be a fuller discussion for those who have already seen a movie and will thus include many spoilers, so take that into account before reading a Reflection if you haven’t yet seen a movie and don’t want any surprises ruined for you.
As often as possible we will both offer our reflections on a movie, so that our give and take can fuel the conversation, but there are times when our tastes in movies don’t coincide, so, in those cases only one of us will offer the reflection. We then invite you to join in the conversation.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lindean, thanks for the shout out for our blog. There are lots of places to read about movies, but we hope our blog will offer a helpful perspective.
Steve

Pastor Lindean said...

You are welcome, Steve! I look forward to more reviews and recommendations from you and Bill!