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6 days ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
We hear a lot of claims these days about ‘making things great’.
But what is true greatness? How do we recognise greatness? How will we know when those who promise to ‘restore greatness’ have delivered the goods? What should we be looking for?
Jesus had a problem with his disciples’ expectations of greatness. In Matthew 20, as he tries to prepare them for his coming death, they can’t hear what he’s saying. It doesn’t fit their idea of a ‘successful’ messiah.
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1 week ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
Heavy spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again Season 1, now on Disney+In 2015, fans were treated to a hard-hitting Daredevil series on Netflix. Although it only lasted until 2018, those 39 episodes were among the best comic book television shows ever put on the small screen. Flash forward ten years to 2025, and Daredevil has returned, this time on Disney+, with a series titled Daredevil: Born Again.
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1 week ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
I was already a fan of science fiction at an early age (thanks, Dad), cutting my teeth on Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, and wild B-movie adventures. While I had no idea what Star Wars would become, the first film, Episode IV – A New Hope, grabbed my attention, and I soaked in its sci-fi wonder.
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1 week ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
As democracy, freedom of speech, human dignity and rights come under increasing threat even in the heart of the western nations, we are being forced to realise we cannot take these elements of our western civilisation for granted anymore.
While essential for our lifestyles in free nations, none of these facets are self-evident or self-perpetuating. They have been bequeathed to us by those who often paid a heavy price.
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2 weeks ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
Nestled in the valley between the European Union institutions in Brussels is the Chapel for Europe, a reconstructed former convent chapel resurrected as a worship space for EU politicians and staff.
The chapel stands as a reminder of the spiritual values the founding fathers of Europe believed were essential for lasting peace in Europe. The banner outside reminds a largely secular community that ‘Europe has a soul’.
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3 weeks ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
As the years have gone by, The Shining has reached that envious position where it finds itself in most people’s top ten horror films of all time. With legendary director Stanley Kubrick at the helm and an original story by the master of macabre, Stephen King, it seemed destined to reach lofty heights in the world of cinema. However, it was a rocky road full of Kubrick’s infamous retakes, an unsatisfied King, and not-so-enthralled critics at the time of release.
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3 weeks ago | 
protestantedigital.com | Jeff Fountain
Los titulares de todo el mundo anunciaban el pasado viernes el nuevo Papa, León XIV.
Hace 75 años, el 10 de mayo de 1950, los titulares anunciaban un nuevo y audaz plan de paz: “Francia sorprende a todos”. “Decisión sensacional”. “Bomba Schuman”.
Se trataba de un plan inspirado en las enseñanzas del Papa León XIII, célebre por su encíclica de 1891 Rerum Novarum, que articulaba la doctrina social católica moderna y abordaba los retos de los cambios sociales de la Revolución Industrial.
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3 weeks ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
Headlines the world over last Friday announced the new pope, Leo XIV.
Headlines 75 years ago on May 10, 1950, announced a new audacious plan for peace: ‘France takes the nations by surprise’. ‘Sensational decision’. ‘Schuman bomb’.
It was a plan inspired by the teachings of Pope Leo XIII, renowned for his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, articulating modern Catholic social teaching and addressing the challenges of the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
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1 month ago | 
protestantedigital.com | Jeff Fountain
¿Es ahora cuando vas a hacer grande a Israel de nuevo?
En algún momento entre la resurrección y la ascensión, los discípulos le preguntaron esto a Jesús en una de las varias ocasiones en que se les apareció durante cuarenta días.
Lucas recoge esta pregunta en el capítulo I del libro de los Hechos, después de que Jesús les dijera que esperaran en Jerusalén hasta que recibieran el Espíritu Santo.
No tenían la menor idea de lo que eso significaba.
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1 month ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
‘Is this the time you are going to make Israel great again?’
Sometime between the Resurrection and the Ascension, the disciples ask Jesus this question on one of the several occasions when he appeared to them over a period of forty days.
Luke records this question in Acts chapter one after Jesus has just told them to wait in Jerusalem until they would receive the Holy Spirit.
What that would mean, they didn’t have the foggiest idea.
