Sports & Entertainment: Some Christians Are Still BOLD In Their Belief… Here Are Two Examples
Cancel culture and corporate activism have not quenched the fire in folks like these
Nobody told these two that film and sports have been completely hijacked by the woke cancel culture crowd that the only way NOT to join them is to cower in silence. They’re BOLD.
Remember that ‘mostly peaceful summer of love’ where LGBT flags showed up everywhere, George Floyd was a newly-minted ‘saint’, while news media, politicians, business, sports and entertainment all tripped overthemselves to show who among them was the staunchest supporter of the now-discredited BLM movement?
Back then, it was the person who refused to participate that became a news story. The pressure was immense. Practically the entire culture had been conquered by the movement. And yet…
Elijah had that same feeling of despair in his day, and what was the Lord’s answer? ‘I have reserved 7000 men in Israel, all whose knees have not bent to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.’
Even in dark days, really dark ones when it looks like the entire country is on the ropes, the LORD reminds us who is really in charge of the world.
What does that intervention look like in the culture the secular left is trying so hard to colonize?
Let’s look a two examples — one from sports and another from film.
First up, we’ve got some elite NCAA wrestling champs who are unashamed of who they are.
College wrestlers Aaron Brooks and David Carr wore headbands at the NCAA Championships over the weekend to show their support for Jesus Christ.
Brooks, of Penn State, and Carr, from Iowa State, each had white bands over their heads with a message: “100% Jesus.”
Brooks, along with his Nittany Lions teammate Carter Starocci, became four-time NCAA champions on Saturday night. They joined an exclusive club of four-time winners, which also included their coach Cael Sanderson. Brooks beat longtime rival Trent Hidlay, of N.C. State.
Carr also won a national championship at 165 pounds. He needed a valiant effort to stymie Penn State’s Mitchell Mesenbrink’s comeback attempt – and he did just that. —FoxNews
So much for that old ‘Ned Flanders’ stereotype people like to throw around.
How about acting? Can anyone survive that toxic environment with their faith intact? The answer to that question, it turns out, is ‘yes’… and then some.
Meet Ryan Phillippe, who moviegoers might remember from ‘Cruel Intentions’ or ‘Crash’, or more recently from the 2022 film ‘Prey’.
It was during the filming of Prey that he had a spiritual wake-up call.
Actor Ryan Phillippe recently shared that his role as a Christian missionary in the film “Prey” reignited his spiritual journey. The movie, directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil, depicts Phillippe and Mena Suvari as a couple fleeing from a dangerous extremist group in the Kalahari Desert. Their plane crashes in an animal preserve, leading to a struggle for survival against wild animals.
Phillippe reflected on the film’s themes, noting a “theological thread” of questioning God amid adversity. He explained,
“There is a slight theological thread through this, of questioning God,” Phillippe said of the film in an interview with the Boston Herald. “Wondering why things happen to certain people. They’re just good people trying to do a good thing in Africa in these villages and help others. Then something like this befalls them. It makes them question. ‘What’s going on here? Is it worth being good? Who’s looking out for me?’ These aspects — Man’s search for meaning or search for God — really appealed to me,” he said.
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“I got back into reading the Bible and various other religious tomes, but I found myself drawn to this notion of spirituality,” said the star of The Lincoln Lawyer. “You get to a point in life, a certain age, and the things that you thought would bring you pleasure or make you feel satisfied – these would be success or money – and it doesn’t.”
“I wanted to have a relationship and understanding with God, and I was craving that,” he said.
Since I started that journey, I have been at peace, Phillippe said, adding that his former depression “is gone.”
“I shedded addictions so I’m a big proponent for people going inward and trying to understand those aspects of life,” he said.
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“I spent a lot of time in prayer and studying things of that nature I find very fulfilling,” Phillippe said. “I feel like it’s the most important thing that you could spend your time thinking about or learning about or trying to understand.” —FoxNews
Even a place seemingly as God-Forsaken as Hollyweird is never entirely beyond the Hand of God.
And, as we enter the time of year we commemorate Christ’s death and Resurrection, the same is true of you and your loved ones, wherever it may be that they find themselves today.
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