Category Archives: Pop Culture

Creating gods

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God is omnipotent. God is omniscient. God is loving. God is wise. God is good.

Sometimes it’s good to just focus on who God is.

Wayne Grudem points out in his video series, Christian Beliefs, that God’s omniscience means that God knows everything about everything right down to knowing the history and future of every single atom in the universe he created. But that isn’t all. God also knows everything about everything that he could have created but did not put into this universe including its history and its future.

As a comic book and fantasy fiction tragic, my immediate response to this is the realisation that God knows what a universe where Batman, Superman, Spiderman and the X-men are real and what that world would have looked like and how it would have played out.

The not so little and not so trapped boy inside of me would love for a world like this to be real. However, even though I think a world where super powered heroes roam rooftops would be awesome, because I know that God is loving, wise and good I know that it is not the best thing for us.

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Discerning what is helpful for others and their walk with God

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In James’ post, “Judging Pop Culture Consistently”, he addresses some very pertinent points for Christians living.

For the record I thought the way James addressed this potentially alienating topic was very balanced and insightful… well done brother!

As blogs will hopefully do for our readers, it got me thinking about my convictions and thoughts on the matter. A passage which came to mind was 1_Cor 10:23-33.

Here Paul talks about all things being lawful, but not all things are helpful, or not all things build us up in our faith. He goes on to say that we are not to seek our own good but the good of our neighbours in the hope of helping them to see the gospel at work in us and be saved by Christ. Continue reading

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Judging Pop Culture Consistently

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Which of these three statements would trouble you the most if you heard another Christian say it?

  1. ‘I love the Beatles!’
  2. ‘I love Star Wars!’
  3. ‘I Love Vampires!’

Based on my experience in Church and being around Christians I believe that ‘3. I love vampires’ would win in a landslide.

My question is…..why?

Consider the following. Which music supergroup was responsible for promoting a romantic worldview that led people away from marriage, brought Continue reading

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