GENRE: FANTASY/ACTION/ADVENTURE RATING: PG STUDIO: FOX THEATRICAL RELEASE: FEBRUARY 12, 2010 DVD RELEASE: JUNE 2010 RATING: 4.5 OUT OF 5 I loved this movie. From the opening scene where a giant Poseidon traipses out of the ocean to the closing training sequence between the film’s main protagonists, I was in love. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is the heir apparent to the Harry Potter throne. We should be frank about this, though. Percy Jackson is just like Harry Potter. Only, instead of witches and wizards, we’ve got demigods—the offspring of gods and mortals. In this case, the gods happen to be from the Greek pantheon. You know, …

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Why are we subjected to things that torment us? Sometimes I wonder why would God put us in these situations. Why don’t we notice the idols in our lives until after they’re broken? I believe it’s through these things that we grow as believers and mature to the point that we are prepared for the next battle. The passage below occurs just after God allowed Job to be tested and his property and children taken from him. Job 1:20-21 (ESV) “Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, …

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Romans 8:1-4 says, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” Many Christians have this very negative view of the law. They …

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