- How Great is Our God? (Louie Giglio). A friend lent this to me at our last movie night, and I watched it with my father-in-law this past Sabbath. We skipped church. Louie puts us in our place. At least he tries to communicate the size of our universe, and our little place in it. Then he turns a corner and emphasizes that the star-breathing God of the universe sees us in our struggles and is present to give us strength in the middle of them. Powerful message.
- I am Legend & Evan Almighty. Two high school Korean boys stayed with us for home leave, and they chose these two movies.
Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond). These three factors enabled Europeans to colonize the world. But why did Europeans have these three weapons first? Jared argues it was geography--crops and animals. I've wanted to read this book for a few years, but now I don't need to because I've seen the three-part documentary. Okay, I still should read it. This is the second time I've been reminded of the power of geography in the past couple of months. Jeffrey Sachs also teaches the impact of nature on economics in The End of Poverty. The three-part series was compelling. Watch it. Now I want to read Collapse.
Also, I don't think I ever wrote about Everything is Spiritual, a presentation by Rob Bell. I really appreciated it. He used the numbers of the creation poem, the weirdness of the bigness, the weirdness of the smallness, the boundaries of flatland, and the gift of the Sabbath to reach the conclusion that everything is spiritual. I guess you'll have to watch it to understand.
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