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1 week 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 week 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
Three years ago, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a mere three weeks old when a performance of Bach’s St Matthew’s Passion took on new dimensions of pathos for me.
I wrote then that the parallel of the false accusations, lies and unjustified suffering inflicted on Jesus with the unjust suffering of millions of innocent Ukrainians would not be lost on attentive audiences.
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4 weeks ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
As a society, we are still obsessed with defining what beauty is, making it glamorous for some and, in the eyes of others, unattainable. Written and directed by Emilie Blichfeldt, The Ugly Stepsister jumps feet first into this obsession. The filmmaker uses the backdrop of the fairytale world of Cinderella as a launching point to shed a harsh, unflattering light on the truth about chasing beauty and the lengths some are willing to go to appear attractive in the eyes of others.
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1 month ago | 
protestantedigital.com | Jeff Fountain
Algunos procedían de sociedades balcánicas donde los recuerdos de la guerra aún están frescos. Otros estudiaban en Bucha (Ucrania), donde hace sólo tres años los invasores rusos masacraron a más de 500 civiles y prisioneros de guerra.
Estos estudiantes, en su mayoría de Europa Central y Oriental, asistieron esta semana a una conferencia celebrada en un monasterio holandés sobre cómo el Evangelio contribuyó a hacer de Europa, ‘Europa’.
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1 month ago | 
evangelicalfocus.com | Jeff Fountain
Some came from Balkan societies where war memories are still fresh. Others were studying in Bucha, Ukraine, where just three years ago over 500 civilians and prisoners of war were butchered by Russian invaders.
They were among the mainly eastern and central Europe students attending a conference held in a Dutch monastery this week on how the Gospel helped make Europe ‘Europe’.
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1 month ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
This article has spoilers for Reacher Season 3, Episode 8, “Unfinished Business”The challenges of doing a season finale are different for every show, depending on early renewal, story, and, unfortunately, the show’s cancellation. Reacher is unique in that each season is a self-contained story taken from the book series by Lee Child. There are some crossover characters, but each season takes place in a new place with different characters and storylines.
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1 month ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
When you reach the last episode before a show’s season finale, it’s usually more of a connect-the-dots kind of script to get us ready to wrap the season up rather than a lot of big revelations. Reacher Season 3, Episode 7, “L.A. Story” is just that kind of episode, giving us a little more than expected but also some cringe-worthy scenes and moments that just don’t work. However, it still made for an entertaining and chaotic fifty minutes of TV.
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2 months ago | 
horrorgeeklife.com | Jeff Fountain
With an action-fueled TV show, you know what you are getting into. Reacher is no exception, with many big characters (size and characteristics) and depicting all the different ways to injure, maim, or kill. However, “Smoke on the Water” is an excellent example of how a show can take that formula, throw in some great humor and interesting plot points (even if a few need to be taken with a grain of salt), and make a great hour of television.
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2 months ago | 
protestantedigital.com | Jeff Fountain
En veinticuatro años escribiendo Weekly Word, la columna de esta semana es para mí la más triste. Los acontecimientos de los últimos días y semanas nos obligan a enfrentarnos a nuevas realidades.
Los Estados Unidos con los que han crecido todas las generaciones de la posguerra,simbolizados por la Estatua de la Libertad dando la bienvenida a las “masas cansadas, pobres, sin hogar y amontonadas que anhelan respirar libres” del mundo, se han ido.
