Outline:
Resources we can use to hear what God is saying to us (compared with the Bible):
- Art & Music
- Literature
- Genre doesn't matter
- Sometimes easier to see in books like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings
- Film
- Movies
- Television
- History
- Where and how do we see God acting
How to be aware of God's voice:
- Train our ears to hear
- Don't forget to have Wonder- enjoy life
- Don't need to change what media we like or take in
Type of Stories to Look For:
- Faith Journey
- Virtue
- How to Act
- Captain America
- Trying to protect others from harm
- Refusing to fight his brain-washed friend
- How not to Act
- Repentance
- C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew
- Wanda in Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Black Widow in Avengers
- Cobra Kai
- Field of Dreams
- General Path of the Journey- Ups and Downs
- Chariots of Fire
- John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (Children's Version: Dangerous Journey)
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- Lewis' The Horse and His Boy
- Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist
- Issue with embrace of concept of "True Self" vs. Resurrected Self
- Forgiveness
- Ted Lasso
- Field of Dreams
- Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War
- Worship Examples
- Baptism
- Black Panther
- Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- O Brother, Where Art Thou
- Christ-figure
- Any time a character makes a sacrifice to save others
- See in Superheroes from Superman to Captain America
- See in Charles Dikens' A Tale of Two Cities
- See in Veronica Roth's Divergent series