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This Week In Jesus: Divine Finale Edition

April 18 . 2008 – 12.12 am

What shall it profit a man if he gain the corner office and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36, New International Eli Stone Edition)

 If ABC’s Eli Stone isn’t the best examination of faith ever on television, then I will sell my Tivo. The season finale was this week, and it played like a modern Hebrews 11. Over the last few months on my new favorite show: by faith, former cutthroat, high-powered lawyer Eli Stone found a reason to live, and a meaning for life. He wrestled with the dirty side of faith - the side that you don’t learn about in Sunday School but if you’re lucky, you learn about in life. The side whereby God occasionally knocks you on your ass.

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Eli Stone finale promises to be Divine

April 14 . 2008 – 1.01 am

There are lots of reasons to watch a TV show. If you like to laugh without having to think (ever), you probably loved Friends, and now you’ve got How I Met Your Mother. If you like your entertainment to stretch your brain, you were probably really into X-Files, and you probably tune into Lost. Maybe you like to be inspired? You might have liked Touched By an Angel, except if you did, you were probably over the age of 40. Maybe now you like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. But after a while, the repetitive nature of EM:HE probably makes tuning each week redundant (or maybe blubbering like a little schoolgirl every week gets old…ehem). And if you’re anything like me, many moons have passed since you’ve grown tired of the cockamamie second-rate drivel that often gets passed off as “Christian” entertainment.

Jonny Lee MillerBut there’s never really been a show like Eli Stone.

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Faith or Folly: Eleven year old girl dies because parents relied on prayer

March 27 . 2008 – 5.30 pm

Madeline Neumann from Weston, Wisconsin died Sunday from diabetic ketoacidosis, a treatable condition that is a form of diabetes, according to a report today by The Associated Press. The report states that she had probably been ill for about a month, and that common symptoms are nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst and weakness. According to family members, the girl’s parents knew there was something wrong with their daughter, but they chose to rely on their faith through prayer, rather than taking their daughter to a hospital.

Leilani Neumann, the girl’s mother claims that until recently, her daughter had been in good health saying,

“We just noticed a tiredness within the past two weeks. And then just the day before and that day (she died), it suddenly just went to a more serious situation. We stayed fast in prayer then. We believed that she would recover.

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Belief Without Healing

March 15 . 2008 – 1.44 pm

I got to be in an awesome, awesome church service recently. Twice, actually, as after the first service I couldn’t wait to get back into the second one to hear it all over again. The message that I got was from Luke 5:12-14. It’s the story of a man with leprosy who came to Jesus one day. Luke says, “While He was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and implored Him, saying, ‘Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.’ And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, ‘I am willing; be clean.’ And immediately the leprosy left him.”

You know what struck me about this? So many times in my life I’ve been reminded that I’m unclean. Unwhole.

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