Noel Dávila

Nov 17, 2024 | geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck

Dallas Jenkins has built an empire in the Christian filmmaking world in just a few short years. From his early years in ministry at Harvest Bible Chapel, to faith-based films like Hometown Legend and The Resurrection of Gavin Stone, to launching the largest faith-based television project in history, he’s accomplished much in the past decade. Considering his father Jerry Jenkins was already world-renowned as the author of the Left Behind books, he’s done a remarkable job making a name for himself.

Nov 14, 2024 | geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck

This year brought one of the strangest surprises of recent memory, the most critically acclaimed Transformersfilm in the history of the venerable franchise. But that success was undermined by it becoming one of the year’s biggest box office failures.

Nov 14, 2024 | geeksundergrace.com | Tyler Hummel |Stephen Hall |Noel Dávila |Andrew Borck

I’ve recently been mulling over the idea of film as a liturgy. I don’t mean this in the literal sense, suggesting film is sacred in and of itself. It just struck me that films have a way of becoming annual traditions. Watching It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown every Halloween, A Christmas Story on Christmas Eve, Groundhog Day on Groundhog Day, or 1776 on Independence Day are things I choose to do every year because they bring structure.

Nov 13, 2024 | geeksundergrace.com | Noel Dávila |Tyler Hummel |Andrew Borck |Spencer Patterson

Images have a very complicated place in Christianity. Older traditions like the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church adamantly defend the belief that the incarnation of Christ created a need to worship Christ and honor saints through images. With the onset of the Reformation, the Reformed and Calvinist traditions began to consider image veneration a form of idolatry and a violation of the Second Commandment.