“Are you overwhelmed by the weight of the world?   Let’s face it — we live in a complex world.”  –from the back-cover of Donald Whitney’s Simplify Your Spiritual Life

TWO CHAPTERS FROM SIMPLIFY YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE

• Avoid Spiritual Anesthesia
• Kill Your Sins

“Television is the most powerful cultural influence on the planet…Television frequently contradicts God, almost as directly as the serpent in the Garden Of Eden.  It saturates the mind of the viewer with the world’s way of thinking.”  –from the chapter AVOID SPIRITUAL ANESTHESIA

“In April 1983, Robert Vierling of Winchester, Missouri, was found on his bed, crushed to death by his sixteen-foot, one-hundred-pound, pet Burmese python.  Vierling’s wife said he had complete trust in the snake and often played with it on the bed.  Each of us lives with many unseen snakes, all more deadly than a Burmese python.  These snakes, which are constantly with us, are called “sins” in the Bible….Pythons of sin will attack and fight against us all our lives…Get deadly serious with your sins.”  –from the chapter KILL YOUR SINS

1980 … The Department Of Education is created by the federal government.

1981-1982 … Spielberg becomes king of Hollywood, and he immediately shows us what to do with the television while paying homage to an Alfred Hitchcock classic from the early 1960’s.

BEFORE 1980.

• America wins a world war (1917-1918).
• America survives a world-wide deadly flu epidemic in 1918.
• America survives a world-wide economic depression (1930’s).
• America wins a 2^nd world war (1941-1945).
• America sends men to the moon and back (1969-1972).
• America fights two additional wars and spends over 30 years fighting a cold war.
• America builds most of a vast network of interstates for more than two decades.
• America’s national debt in 1980 is at less than $1 trillion.
• America’s national debt is less than $1 trillion without The Department Of Education, all the while winning two world wars, overcoming a deadly flu epidemic and a severe depression before sending men to the moon and back…and more.

AFTER 1982 (& 1986).

Hollywood tries to attack God with failed sequels in 1986 to hit movies from Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg that point to an obvious and needed solution that is key to solving many of our country’s problems.  Despite this evidence of God’s divine power and revelation about His will, Christians ignore the mandate and continue to empower television’s dominion over America.

• America’s national debt rises from $1 trillion In 1981 to over $35 trillion today. An increase of over $34 trillion since the creation of The Department Of Education.
• America’s national debt rises from just over $1 trillion in 1982 to over $35 trillion today. An increase of over $33 trillion since 1982.
• America’s national debt rises from $2 trillion in 1986 to over $35 trillion today. An increase of $33 trillion since the evidence of God’s divine power and revelation about His will towards television.
• Many Americans in recent years can’t even define what a woman is. Millions of other Americans vote for a felon in the primaries as the only alternative to the demented & psychotic left.  And not just a felon, but one who is likely guilty of 75+ felonies.

These facts don’t look good for stubborn TV owners and The Department Of Education.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2001:  The filming of a new movie begins.

• Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriter at the time.
• A major Hollywood actor turned Oscar-winning director (when Oscars were worth more.)   And his idea for a movie that would depict the central point of a major worldview.

“Is it possible that there are no coincidences?” –words written by Hollywood’s highest-paid screenwriter, spoken by an Oscar-winning director with a movie idea about “the central point of what Christians believe”

September 12, 2001: The filming of a new movie scheduled to begin.  (It’s almost a sure bet no movie began its first day of filming on September 12th of 2001.  Almost a sure bet.)

September 12, 2001:  FRONT-PAGE HEADLINES.  (Can you imagine if the media outlets in American and throughout the world had such a radical pro-Islam agenda that they decided to not mention anything about the World Trade Center towers getting destroyed nor the Pentagon getting attacked nor anything about the four airline jets getting hijacked on September 12th of 2001?  Can you imagine how insane that would have been?)

THOUSANDS OF MOVIES MADE SINCE 9/11.

“What are we doing?  What are we doing?”  –Tom Cruise, speaking to his Hollywood peers at the 2002 Oscars.

• 12,000+ movies that would begin filming after 9/11.  The very first of those 12,000+ movies to begin filming.
• January 2000 thru December 2009…the very first ten years of the new century and the new millennium.  Topping the box-office charts beyond the 4th weekend.  Taking a closer look at Labor Day weekend of 2002 and Easter weekend of 2004.

THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS STORY SINCE 9/11.

I’m sure many have an opinion about what’s been the most important news story since 9/11.  And no doubt that a felon (having likely committed over 75 felony acts) running for the highest office in the most powerful country in the world and winning the Republican nomination in 2024 is very much near being the most important news story since 9/11, showing how insane our society has become.  But I believe there are receipts to make a compelling case that there’s an even more important news story of the past 23 years, that people on the left are even more insane than those radicals on the right.

(The paragraph above was written before the election in November.  Now that America has elected a felon 91 times over to run the country, that now is the most important news story since 9/11.  What happened in San Francisco to Riley Gaines in April of 2023 and the facts of how the media and big tech have suppressed that story…is what I now consider to be the second most important news story since 9/11.  Both of those stories, the two most important stories since 9/11, show how insane our society has become.)

• Does common sense speak to the inmates running the asylum as if they have any common sense?
• Does common sense run up the national debt after decades of deficit spending and a year of COVID-19 spending?
• Does common sense silence free speech outside of churches from those who know the right things about who they worship?
• Does common sense not know what a woman is?
• Does common sense not know what a woman is considering that it’s 50% of the reason for why our current vice-president was chosen?
• Does common sense support terrorism in the middle east after October 7th?
• Does common sense butcher the unborn?
• Does common sense work to deprive children of their innocence?
• Does common sense try to confuse children about what gender they are?
• Does common sense mutilate children?
• Does common sense discriminate on the basis of skin color?
• Does common sense demand diversity & inclusion that doesn’t include diversity of thought?
• Does common sense ignore the lessons of the past 100 years about the tragic results of communism?
• Does common sense try to kill a young lady for defending Title IX?
• Does common sense kidnap a young lady for defending Title IX?
• Does common sense dedicate an entire month to celebrate the people mentioned in Romans 1:29-31 and Galatians 5:19-21?
• Does common sense attend protests without knowing what’s being protested?
• Does common sense label anti-Christian ideas as progress?

“To you, I’m an atheist.  To God, I’m the loyal opposition.”  –Woody Allen in 1980

GOD vs THE LOYAL OPPOSITION

SUBJECT MATTER OF THE BEST PICTURE WINNERS FOLLOWING ANNIE HALL

(I’m not always amused by people imitating Christopher Walken.) / Chicago. August 19-22, 2024

AUGUST 2024…THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF AUGUST 1999

“I see people.  …They only see what they want to see….They’re everywhere.”

VOTING EVERYDAY vs VOTING IN NOVEMBER ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS

Kind of interesting how Christians have become aware of the need to ditch their TV’s since 2009, but have all but ignored that need…and how rational conservatives haven’t had anyone to vote for in November in the Presidential Elections since after 2012.  Not to mention the devastating legacies of the last three American presidents.  (Joel 1:4)

“We need more voices.” –Riley Gaines, after her adventure at SFSU

To Christian TV owners trying to get their voices heard on television outside of any one news channel echo chamber about the most important issues:  how’s that working out for you so far?

TICKETS SOLD FOR SPIELBERG’S FILMS:  (1974-1999)  vs  (2000-2024)

• Did Spielberg have any insight into the mockery of The Last Supper when he agreed to promote the opening Olympic ceremonies in Paris?
• Did Spielberg ever show Christians what to do with their TV’s during the era of time when he was giving movie-goers huge Oscar-winning blockbusters?
• Did Spielberg ever show Christians what to do with their TV’s soon after he became Hollywood’s financial king?

FAILED SEQUELS (1986 – 1992) THAT ATTACKED GOD

“What does God need with a starship?” –from the failed 1989 sequel Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Did God answer the question? 

• And if so, which filmmaker or filmmakers would He have used in response? 
• NICHOLAS MEYER vs GEORGE LUCAS
• STEVEN SPIELBERG & ALFRED HITCHCOCK