More Than One Lesson

In this episode, Tyler is joined by Jason Eaken to discuss Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige.

“Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”  -Mark 10:15

Last week, I splurged on buying a few Blu-Rays from Amazon.com. One of these was Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I had been postponing buying this particular Blu-Ray for a while, but, in anticipation of J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 being released in a few weeks, I thought this would be a perfect time to revisit the film and add it to my collection.

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Travis Fishburn was born and raised in the Marengo, Ohio. As a boy in a home with no cable and a family collection of over 1,000 VHS tapes, he started to become enamored with movies. The films that captured his imagination the most growing up were the adventure films of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. He graduated with a degree in Film Production from Bowling Green State University in 2008, where he acquired a fascination with the films of Fritz Lang, Akira Kurosawa, and John Ford. His faith as a Christian has become an important part of his love for film and storytelling. He enjoys reading, watching movies, working out, and making people laugh.

Jim was born and raised a “Christian” in suburban New Jersey but didn’t lose the air quotes until he spent 4 years at Messiah College and was truly able to explore his faith.  It was there that his illusions of being the next Stephen King were shattered, but like a phoenix rising from the ashes, he then discovered a new passion: film.  Ever since then, Jim has fallen in love with Groundhog Day, the horror genre and the films of Martin Scorsese and is happy to know that there are some Christians out there who have actually watched The Last Temptation of Christ.

This sermon meant a lot to me.  Pastor Rankin Wilbourne of Pacific Crossroads Church preached it the day after I wrote my “When It Rains, It Pours” blog.  It is both convicting and hopeful.

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It’s Sunday, May 15th.  4:32 am.

It just started raining outside.  I’m alone.  My wife is currently out of town.  She gets back tomorrow.

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Did you guys hear that they killed Osama Bin Laden?  It’s kind of a big deal.  Like most Americans, I heard of what will undoubtedly go down as the story of the year on the Sunday night when it happened and subsequently spent the following Monday trying to derive the details from everything I could when I was supposed to be working.  But unlike most Americans, I wasn’t really sure how I should react to the death of another human being.

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Tyler was recently a guest on Paul Gilmartin’s podcast “The Mental Illness Happy Hour,” discussing his struggles with depression.

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