God is sending us invitations to understand his character better, but not one human alive likes the packaging of his invites because it reveals our raw interiors, so we keep turning them down…

In the tragic play Antigone, Sophocles nodded his head to a near-universal human truth: “No man delights in the bearer of bad news.”

Mourning is never easy, but some cultural practices give us greater avenues to avoid painful feelings; however, God made us to experience and go through this stage of life. 

Although most people don’t realize it, there is a vast difference between being nice and being kind, and one is far more biblical than the other. 

Niceness is what initially lures Mark Studdock into the fold of National Institute for Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.). He’s flattered and made to feel like a vital part of the propaganda machine within the organization despite his repeated poor performance.

The recent film Northman is a surreal saga of one man’s revenge quest amid Norse myth and relentless brutality. The main character witnesses his father and then half of his hometown be murdered by his uncle and uncle’s followers. He barely escapes, only to witness his mother being carried off by the traitors. He swears to avenge his father and rescue his mother.