Element Christian Church of Santa Maria

The Cinema. Today's modern day pulpit... telling today's story through the digital story form. We'll watch these popular movies and follow up with an expository exploration of the narrative themes and spiritual parallels of these movies.

John Piper wrote that there were Six Reasons for Jesus’ Coming:

1. to ransom many,

2. to call sinners,

3. to give sight to the morally blind,

4. to divide households,

5. to save from divine condemnation

6. to give eternal life.

Jesus constantly addressed our tendency to be over-impressed with how hard we are trying…that even in our servant-hood we would get prideful. When we truly learn to walk in grace, to understand God better, we will learn to live the call that places others above ourselves.

The Cinema. Today's modern day pulpit... telling today's story through the digital story form. We'll watch these popular movies and follow up with an expository exploration of the narrative themes and spiritual parallels of these movies.

Dallas Willard “Whatever our position in life, if our lives and works are to be of the kingdom of God, we must not have human approval as a primary or even major aim. We must lovingly allow people to think whatever they will.”

Joseph lived a life trusting and submitting to God, and when God called him and told to that he was to take care of Mary and raise Jesus he dropped everything, got his priorities in order, and simply submitted to God.

As a father (or would be father one day) our main priorities are:

1) Jesus

2) Wife (or husband)

3) Children

4) Providing (work)

5) Everything else (Hobbies, friends, extended family, sports tv…the etceteras).

This is mission in action.

The Cinema. Today's modern day pulpit... telling today's story through the digital story form. We'll watch these popular movies and follow up with an expository exploration of the narrative themes and spiritual parallels of these movies.

Predestination is the love of God in action.

The builders of the Tower of Babel unite to dishonor God by rejecting the truth of who He is and attempting to replace Him through Pagan idolatry.

In the end of the flood narrative, Noah dies, it doesn’t sound like a note of hope

• But our hope doesn’t come from this father – but from our Father in Heaven.

• Our hope doesn’t come from Noah’s son, Ham – but from the Son of God, JESUS.

Until Jesus came and died and rose our sin was only covered, like Noah’s sin was

covered, like Adam’s sin was covered; but Jesus takes away our sin.