More Than One Lesson

In this sermon, pastor Tim Keller discusses the idea of Hell. There’s some pretty deep stuff going on in this one. I highly recommend it.

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In this episode, Tyler is joined by Josh Long to discuss Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

00:01:00- Intro, Josh Long, “Inclusion doesn’t entail endorsement.”
00:08:25- Shutter Island
00:42:30- Memento
00:52:56- Human nature, guilt, forgiveness
01:24:25- Episode wrap-up

In this sermon, pastor Tim Chaddick discusses the difference between essential convictions and personal convictions. It’s an important message that all Christians should hear.

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In this episode, Tyler is joined by musician Will Gray to discuss his documentary Broke*.

WILL GRAY is a hip hop/folk musician. His album, “Introducing Will Gray,” is available on his website and iTunes. He has recently directed a documentary about the music industry entitled Broke*.

Barney’s Version, based on a book I haven’t read, isn’t a very good movie. It’s a kind of legitimization of self-hatred and an apotheosis of The Curmudgeon As Suitable Suitor. The mid-movie revelation of the main character’s looming Alzheimers and the last minute litany of good things bestowed upon mankind by him all seem tacked on to make sure we get the point, which is this: there’s nobody in the world so ensnared by their loathing of themselves and others that they can’t be redeemed by a swelling orchestral cloud over their backlit headstone.

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In this sermon, pastor Rankin Wilbourne of Pacific Crossroads Church in Los Angeles discusses the seemingly impractical act of observing the Sabbath.

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For the first of these sermon recommendations, we have “The Man the King Delights to Honor” by Timothy Keller, the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City.

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Mike Leigh’s new film, Another Year, is nominally a reflection on the ways in which we cultivate the relationships around us, but more so it’s a dissection of the prickly dynamic between the emotionally strong and weak. Fortunately the film overcomes the prosaic symbolism of a garden, managed over the span of a year, by burrowing into the disparity between those who wish to give others help and those who clearly cannot be helped until they first help themselves. It’s a set up of character conflict that promises drama, but Leigh doesn’t seem as interested in anything as fabricated as drama, in the sense of any “movie” drama we’re trained to expect. Instead, the four pieces of his story – each corresponding to a season of the year – demonstrate the filmmaker’s gift for recording simple life moments, some triumphant, some humiliating, all of it true and awkward and real.

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In this episode, Tyler is joined by actor Barlow Jacobs to discuss David Fincher’s The Social Network.