Batman Begins

Finally, a good movie. It seems like a long time since I watched Batman Begins. So good. I love the line delivered by Thomas Wayne, Bruce's father, and later by Alfred, the butler, "Why do we fall, (Master) Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up." This reminds me of when Jesus is walking on the water and Peter asks to walk out with him. He says come, Peter walks on the water, but then, looking around at the wind and the waves, begins to sink. Jesus grabs his hand and pulls him up, "Oh, ye, of little faith. Why did you doubt?" I've heard this passage preached noting that Jesus said, why did you doubt, not why did you doubt me. Jesus let Peter walk on the water, because he knew he could. Jesus won't put us in a situation you can't handle. Sometimes we wish God wouldn't trust us as much as he does. Next Week: The Dark Knight (to finish off my Batman movies)

Batman Returns

Alright, this movie was made by the same people as the waste of film called Batman, but it's quite a bit better. Not great, just better. Better than awful. In this one The Penguin surfaces, saying that he wants to find out about his parents... yeah, the plot sucks. However, at one point in the movie the Penguin is trying to make himself look like a hero, by framing Batman. This made me think of how we can act sometimes, when we act in such a way to give God a bad name. We're representing Him 24/7, so we need to make Him look like the caring, loving savior He is. Next Week: Batman Begins

Batman

1989. A terrible mistake was made. It was the movie Batman starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson. This is a poorly made movie with a thrown together plot, two things I have little patience for, so I'm scrounging up this lesson from it:

No matter how many stupid things you do, God will still love you.

Wow.

Another one next week, Batman Returns... same Batman, same Director, same bottle of Aspirin.

Aladdin

So, I just got Aladdin, and since that's already been passed in the alphabet, I'm gonna blog about it now.

The main theme I took away from Aladdin was to be true to who you are. When Jasmine met Aladdin in the city streets she fell for him because he was being himself. Then, when he tried to impress her as Ali Ababua, she was put off, because he was putting on someone he wasn't. This reminds us that we cannot live double lives. The Bible says we cannot serve two masters. Either he will love the one and hate the other, or he will hate the one and love the other. Either way, our loyalties are going to naturally be pulled toward one or the other. God doesn't want to share us. He's incredibly jealous. He doesn't want us on Weekends, or on Weekdays, or on Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, days that have an N in them. He wants us all the time, every day, every hour, regardless of where we are, what we're doing, or who we're with. This is a lesson I forgot time and time again.

Hoping you had a Good Friday, wishing you all a good Easter

Back to the Future, Parts 1, 2 and 3

my childhood. That's what these movies remind me of. Watching them in marathons on tv all the time when I was a kid with my dad. The main point of these movies is best summed up in the final film when Doc Brown responds to what Jennifer asks him. While in the 2015, Jennifer took a fax that Marty got from work saying "YOU'RE FIRED!" with her, but then, when Marty refused to race against Needles, the words on the fax disappeared. She asked the Doc what that means, and he says, "It means your future hasn't been written yet! None of ours have! Our futures are what we make of them, so make yours a good one!" This line would've been much more moving if it were whispered in a close proximity get together instead of being yelled down from a locomotive, but whatever. This movie series reminds us that the choices we make affect the people around us and our very lives. We need to remember that we're not the only people who will feel the ripples of what we do. Live intentionally better than you should.

Next Week: Batman, the first Michael Keaton one

Baby Mama

Sorry, this is late, and I'm sorta not in the posting mood, but i need to do it quick... twss...

Corporate Woman Kate wants to have a baby, but she wants to be in control of when and how. Being highly unlikely to conceive herself, she goes to the office of Chaffey Bicknell to employee Angie to be her surrogate mother, a woman who will carry one of Kate's fertilized eggs until the baby is born.

This movie teaches us not to judge people before we get to know them. and other things too, but not right now

Alrighty... Next time, not for two weeks, is Back to the Future

Austin Powers in Goldmember

In the third and final film in the Austin Powers saga, we learn a shocking revelation: Dr. Evil's name is Doug! Also, he's Austin's brother. After this is revealed, Dr. Evil becomes an entirely new person. This reminded me of how our lives can change when we realize our identity in Christ.

We are all children of God, and he made us all for specific purposes. With the knowledge that God created you for His holy purposes ought to fill us with such joy and faith that we can't hold it in.