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The Watchlist: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Ghostbuster: Frozen Empire
'I ain't afraid of no ghosts' The litmus test for devoted Ghostbuster fans would have to know what to say after hearing the lyric, “If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call?” The Ghostbusters have been part of the fabric of society for forty years, and this unlikely bunch continues to find new life for their franchise.
Russ Matthews from Reel Dialogue and Laura Bennett from Hope 103.2 talk Ghostbusters and the newest instalment Frozen Empire. Two generations of Ghostbusters must work together, young and old teaming up to face their greatest threat yet.
[video: https://youtu.be/Fp1eMe-12Kc?si=HVvwnSxe3g45OK21]
We've got a lot of ground to cover!
So many shows, so little time. At least it feels like it. Between all the different streaming platforms and the blockbuster movies coming to cinema trying to get audiences back in a post-COVID world, we are spoilt for choice on screen – and yet, still “have nothing to watch”.
Deciphering all the voices in entertainment and how to think about the themes raised in movies, TV, and streaming is tough: enter our new podcast The Watchlist.
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The KGB Agent
Recently, I heard a story about a man who lived in communist Russia. His job for the KGB was to discover, monitor, and when called upon, break up Christian meetings with extreme force.
So he went from house church to house church inflicting terror and suffering on Russian Christians.
One time, he kept discovering and breaking up the same house church and amidst this group, he kept seeing a young, attractive woman, Natasha, who accepted the beatings for her faith. But one time, he stopped his troops beating her up
because he noticed something different about her, and wondered why she would constantly risk her life.
Well, perhaps it was because she had found the truth and nothing would stop her from following Jesus.
And ultimately her courage, faith and loyalty to God made the KGB agent wonder whether Christianity was true.
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Best Of...
I recently moved interstate. No longer do i know where to go to get the best coffee, or the best meal, or the best whatever it is I'm after — which is why I love those 'best of' lists.
Someone else has done all the hard work and come up with the places I should go.
Now, imagine if someone had done a 'best of' list for all of life; the one place to go for life forever.
Well thankfully, someone has.
In one of the biographies of Jesus, one of His followers says this about Him:
"Where else have we to go when You alone have the words of eternal life?"
If you want life forever, there's only one place to go on the 'best of' list: Jesus!
He tops the list of where to go for life forever — He's the only one on the list!
Now, if only figuring out where to get my coffee was that easy... -
Ep 8, The wedding photographer
Well even with mobile phone cameras, we still all know the pressure of getting the perfect shot to capture that special moment before it passes. Now imagine that moment is at a wedding and people are spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars to make sure you don't miss those once in a lifetime moments. Well that's the kind of pressure Farrah Allen deals with on a weekly basis, shooting weddings across the city of Melbourne. But it's not as though it's all smooth sailing once that job is done. She's the mother of three young children, which means daily life is filled with all sorts of surprising moments. So how does her Christian faith help her navigate these different roles? And who's harder to manage? Is it the toddler or the stressed out couple leading up to their wedding day? We're gonna talk about all that and more
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What is the Value of Community?
I was watching Trolls Band Together and an unexpected thing stood out to me — the value of community.
I know it might be hard to believe I could get that from a Trolls movie, but it did show that
the only way that most of us can survive in life is through the care and support of the community around us.
Did you know that throughout the Bible, there are key figures who have been championed in our culture, but all of them are only able to achieve their goals by relying on the community around them,
Moses, David, Gideon, and even Jesus are great in their own way, but even they saw the value of the community around them to do their work.
"No man is an island" is a proverb that is supported by the Word of God.
How about you? Do you see the value of your community today? -
New Year, Same God
The other day, I overheard a lacy on the train say to her friend, "In the new year, I want to start exercising more often, drink more water and stop making excuses."
New Year's resolutions are a great opportunity to take stock of your current lifestyle and make changes to improve.
What would you like to start? What habits would you like to stop? What would you like to investigate?
But there are so many factors which determine how well these new changes stick and become part of your everyday life.
In the year ahead, there are likely to be things that you predicted and some that you haven't. Every year brings its own surprises, and sometimes even tragedies.
Thank God we can entrust our lives to the author of life itself — the God who sees the future and promises to keep us safe in Jesus.
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