Released Spring 2015

Synopsis:

A dozen different souls—all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ … even if they don’t believe it. Yet.

When a local pastor is shaken to the core by the visible faith of an old street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a faith-fueled journey that powerfully impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.

This stirring new film from the creators of God’s Not Dead is in theaters now. More than a movie, it’s a question we all must answer in our lifetimes: DO YOU BELIEVE?

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Honestly, it doesn’t seem to fit, but what Paul knew was that if you understand the love of God then everything else fits very nicely, thank you. It’s God’s love that brings all the theology of this book into sharp focus and makes faith possible in the midst of questions we can’t answer. If we could understand the love of God, even a little, it would buffer the pains and arrows of life. It’s that important. In fact, it’s the most important thing.

The atheist will argue with you contending that if God is all powerful and all good we have a problem. From those two parts of God’s nature they try to refute God’s existence, but they are focused on the wrong things. The key thing they must address…the key thing we each must address is the love of God. Does he love us? If so, if there is evidence for God’s love and his resolution of our problem, then I can endure the pains and woes of the difficult days because I know I have a wonderful God who is madly in love with me. It is the most important thing.

So, Paul concludes three amazing chapters with this prayer, “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

To know that God loves you is the most important thing….and he does….he proved it at the cross.

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In those two small words tragedy turns to triumph, problems are explained, sadness has hope, and we are not left without answers. God is involved in our world, in our lives. God is the great problem solver, course changer, sorrow solution. When an answer is needed, when grief seems beyond bearing, when questions overwhelm us then comes these words from scripture, “but God” and suddenly everything changes. Here are a few of those moments from the bible,

“But God remembered Noah…”

“but God meant it for good…” -Joseph

“But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol…”

“My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

“But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.”

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

“But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us…”

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,”

In the middle of this list of God’s intervention into history is the most important, the one event that changed everything, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” In the midst of a fallen world without hope or peace God has stepped in to demonstrate his love in a way we cannot miss. The ultimate ” but God” event is the cross of Christ. When all seemed lost God sent Jesus to demonstrate his love for us.

I’m glad for those “but God” moments. He is there and he is not silent…and for that I am most grateful.

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