The Culture of Oscar

SERMON TITLE: The Culture of Oscar

DESCRIPTION:
Today, as we turn to Acts 15 and witness a New Testament Church problem and the corresponding decision by the Jerusalem Council, we find some very interesting applications to how we do Church.

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Set Apart

TITLE: Set Apart

DESCRIPTION:
We turn to Acts 11 and find a key shift that transformed our world. At the heart of the issue is people following the leading of Jesus no matter how absurd and illogical it seems, as well as a nation's understanding of holiness.

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I think I'm done with posting a video until I buy a video camera. I've been using a camera to record the video and a digital recorder to record the audio. Then I had to match them together using quicktime. It's too much. Does anybody even watch the videos anyways? Yes, that is a question? No, that was not a rhetorical question.

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MOTHER'S DAY: DIE

SERMON TITLE: MOTHER'S DAY: Die

SERMON DESCRIPTION:
Today we look at Mark 3:20-25 and witness a moment where Mary had to realize that the relationship she has always had with her son has to die in order for her to continue to have a healthy relationship with him. As we look at this passage, we'll realize that that this principle isn't isolated only with the relationship of Mothers and children, but it is within the fabric of creation. Why? Listen and find out.

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GOD IN THE MOVIES: No Country For Old Men

SERIES TITLE: God in the Movies

SERIES DESCRIPTION:
We love movies. We rent them, we go to movie theaters, or we stop clicking through channels when an interesting one catches our eye. Movies grip up. They are a powerful art form that stirs within us an array of emotions. We pay a lot of money to experience different worlds.

What is it about movies? Is there something more to movies than sheer Entertainment? What if I told you there are eternal truths embedded in every movie? What if I told you that within the stories that flash across your screen is a deeper story. Would it be hard to believe that these movies speak and testify to our God and His eternal Truths?

SERMON TITLE: No Country For Old Men


SERMON DESCRIPTION:
No Country For Old Men becomes a parable for Luke 10 when Jesus sends out his 72 disciples.

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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN SYNOPSIS:
the film takes place in a small Texas border town in 1980. Sheriff Bell (a never-been-better Tommy Lee Jones) has ruled the land for years without the use of a gun, but a new brand of reckless lawlessness has taken over his town. Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is an innocent Everyman with a devoted wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), but when he stumbles across a drug deal gone deadly and finds two million dollars, he's determined to keep it for himself. There's only one problem. He's being pursued by one of the most amoral, evil psychopaths that the big screen has ever seen. Wearing an absurd haircut and brandishing a pressurized weapon that's used to murder cattle, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) creeps forward on his mission to track Moss down and return the money to its rightful owners to save his own skin. As the tension mounts, the body count begins to rise, confirming Sheriff Bell's inability to battle this new wave of modern brutality.

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GOD IN THE MOVIES: The Bourne Ultimatum

SERIES TITLE: God in the Movies

SERIES DESCRIPTION:
We love movies. We rent them, we go to movie theaters, or we stop clicking through channels when an interesting one catches our eye. Movies grip up. They are a powerful art form that stirs within us an array of emotions. We pay a lot of money to experience different worlds.

What is it about movies? Is there something more to movies than sheer Entertainment? What if I told you there are eternal truths embedded in every movie? What if I told you that within the stories that flash across your screen is a deeper story. Would it be hard to believe that these movies speak and testify to our God and His eternal Truths?

SERMON TITLE: Bourne Ultimatum

SERMON DESCRIPTION:
The Bourne Ultimatum becomes a parable for 2nd Kings 22-23 and teaches us the importances of our choices.

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BOURNE ULTIMATUM SYNOPSIS:
All he wanted was to disappear; instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what he is--legendary assassin. Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers. Bourne has only one objective: to go back to the beginning and find out who he was. Now, in the new chapter of this espionage series, Bourne will hunt down his past in order to find a future. He must travel from Moscow, Paris and London to Tangier and New York City as he continues his quest to find the real Jason Bourne--all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of cops, federal officers and Interpol agents with him in their crosshairs.

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GOD IN THE MOVIES: 3:10 to Yuma

SERIES TITLE: God in the Movies

SERIES DESCRIPTION:
We love movies. We rent them, we go to movie theaters, or we stop clicking through channels when an interesting one catches our eye. Movies grip up. They are a powerful art form that stirs within us an array of emotions. We pay a lot of money to experience different worlds.

What is it about movies? Is there something more to movies than sheer Entertainment? What if I told you there are eternal truths embedded in every movie? What if I told you that within the stories that flash across your screen is a deeper story. Would it be hard to believe that these movies speak and testify to our God and His eternal Truths?

SERMON TITLE: 3:10 To Yuma

SERMON DESCRIPTION:
Today, 3:10 to Yuma becomes a parable that explains two passages of scripture: Psalms 1 and 2nd Timothy 3:10-4:8

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3:10 To YUMA SYNOPSIS: Taken from Internet Movie Database (INMb)
The legendary outlaw, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his gang have just robbed an armed stage coach carrying the Southern Pacific Railroads payroll. They kill everyone onboard except Pinkerton guard, Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda) whom Wade shoots in the belly. A poor rancher Dan Evans (Christian Bale) and his two sons find McElroy and take him to Bisbee, Arizona to find a doctor. Ben Wade is in town without his gang and the sheriff immediately surrounds the hotel. Dan distracts Ben Wade, who is captured without a shot being fired. Railroad representative Grayson Butterfield (Dallas Roberts) asks for paid volunteers to join McElroy's posse to take Wade to the train station in the town of Contention three days away. The train is due at 3:10, and they must put Wade on the train's prison car bound for Yuma. Once Wade arrives in Yuma, he will receive a quick trial in Federal Court and be hanged. Dan Evans, desperately needing money to save his farm, agrees to help transport Wade to Contention but he must be paid $200. The other paid volunteers who join the posse are Tucker (Kevin Durand) and Doc Potter (Alan Tudyk), the town's veterinarian. Unfortunately for the posse, Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), Wade's right hand man, sees what has happened to Wade, and he goes after the rest of the gang to help liberate Wade.

Despite a deception to fool the gang, the odds move in their favour, and in the end it's Dan's desire to impress his sons that means getting him on the train becomes a personal battle of wills.

In a hotel in Contention City, where the remains of the posse hide out, Wade continues to bargain for his freedom. Despite very tempting offers, Evans ignores his pleas. Wade's gang rides into town, and, after locating their boss, recruit as many of the townspeople as possible with an offer of $200 for the successful killing of any member of Evans' posse. The sherriff and his men, previously offering help to Evans, decide to surrender. They are gunned down, and Butterfield, terrified, offers Evans the $200 to just walk away. Evans, realizing the parallels between his current situation and the one in which the government paid for his leg lost in the Civil War, says, "It's funny, if you think about it - which I have been lately - is...they weren't paying me to walk away. They were paying me so they could walk away." Butterfield promises to see Evans' son home, but Evans want Butterfield to promise more than that. Butterfield is convinced to pay off Evans' debts, make sure his water flows, and that he will give $1000 dollars to his wife on Butterfield's return. Butterfield agrees, and he and William hold up in a room down the hall.

When the time for action, Evans brings Wade outside and they run for the station. Wade's gang pursues them relentlessly, and they barely make it to the station in one piece. At the very moment that the protagonist Dan Evans is putting Ben Wade onto the prison train, Wade's gang shoots the rancher to death. Ben Wade takes his gun from his right-hand man Charlie Prince and, in an act of vengeance for the rancher who had earned his respect, murders every man of his gang. Ben Wade boards the prison train as a final act of symbolic tribute to the rancher who died getting him there, and whistles for his horse as the train drives into the distance.

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Mess In The Middle (Guest Speaker)

SERMON TITLE: Mess In The Middle

SERMON DESCRIPTION:
Today we have a guest speaker, Jason Salamun, who is launching a Church here in Rapid City, SD. I asked Jason to come and to share his heart, hoping that his heart would spread through our our church like chicken pox among school kids. Because of audio problems (I forgot to push a button), we were only able to record the first 43 mins of his message. Thankfully, Jason has posted his notes on his blog site so you can read what wasn't recorded.

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NOTE:
Next week we continue our sermon series "God in the Movies" with the movie 3:10 to Yuma