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Arthur H. Kolsti
... fades into the wind. The great music endures with its power to enlarge our horizons beyond the present. The Shawshank Redemption, a film based on a story by Stephen King, featured Tim Robbins as Andy Duffresne, a man wrongly convicted of murdering his wife. Morgan Freeman played the role of Red Redding, a prisoner who as a youth forty years before had been convicted of murder. In prison the two became friends. Andy manages after years of letter writing to secure state funds to furnish a prison library. One ...
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Eric Ritz
... movies I have seen was Shawshank Redemption. I even purchased the video. I watch it two or three times a year. I learn something new every time I see it. The last time I viewed it I was gripped by the line that Andy Dufresne tells Red, played by Morgan Freeman: "You can get busy living--or you can get busy dying." It makes a world of difference which of these options prevail in your life. There is a story about a man whose epitaph read, "Died at forty--buried at eighty." Something had gone out of this man ...
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Eric Ritz
... on 60 Minutes about a high school principal in Patterson, New Jersey by the name of Joe Clark. It was eventually made into a movie titled Lean on Me. There is a memorable scene in the movie where Eastside High School Principal Joe Clark, played by Morgan Freeman, takes a teenager to the roof of the school and challenges him to jump off. "Go ahead, kill yourself," Clark rants. "You use drugs, don't you, boy? They're killing you. Why [fool] around and kill yourself slowly? Jump and get it over with." The ...
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Leonard Sweet
... wave and wind in our life, but to calm us in the waves and winds, it's now. The Jim Carrey film "Bruce Almighty" has knocked even the almighty "Matrix Reloaded" out of first place. People are flocking to this movie about an encounter with God (Morgan Freeman). And the reaction of the Christian community? I was interviewed on a live Christian radio call-in show where the direction of the conversation became how awful and unbiblical the movie was in its portrayal of God and prayer and of the life of faith ...
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J. Howard Olds
... it, Jim Carrey goes ballistic when he is denied the anchor slot of a Buffalo TV station. His reaction costs Bruce his job and his girlfriend. So Bruce appeals his case to the highest of courts. He calls God to accountability. God, in the person of Morgan Freeman, responds by putting Bruce in charge of the world. For a while Bruce loves it. He uses his power to embarrass his colleagues. He turns his stunning abilities into personal fame. But the thrill is thin-lived. Bruce soon discovers that being God is no ...
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David O. Bales
... and death, People: and setting us free to live for him. Leader: The Lord has risen. People: He has risen indeed! In the movie, Shawshank Redemption, the character, Red, is being released from prison after decades behind bars. The actor portraying Red, Morgan Freeman, shows various emotions as he walks out of prison toward the uncertainty of freedom. Although guards haven't been the best characters in this movie, here at the first gate, four guards are clearly glad that Red's getting out and they obviously ...
7. Just a Crazy Story
Philippians 2:1-11
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Larry Lange
... planet that had just been smacked by an asteroid into a wobbly orbit. "That's very perceptive of you to realize you can't pull the wool over my eyes, Zachary," said God. After he rubbed the sleepers out of his eyes, Zack found himself looking at the same Morgan Freeman guy who was in the movie. He had the mop and the bucket on wheels and everything. "And I was impressed that you were so quick to hope that I was with you when you heard my voice. I like that. Hope is important. And finally, Zachary, you have ...
8. Help From Habakkuk?
Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4
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R. Kevin Mohr
... the faith Jesus calls us to, and the sort of faith that endures and leads to life — real life, a life worth living — is one that will make us more Christ-like in sacrificial living, giving, loving, and forgiving. In one scene in the movie Evan Almighty, Morgan Freeman, who plays God, is incognito as a waiter in a restaurant. He has a conversation with the wife of the lead character, Evan Baxter, a first-year US Congressman, who believes God has told him to build an ark. In some lines of great wisdom and ...
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Charley Reeb
... for him and watch your life transform. You will be so busy and so alive you won’t care anymore about getting everything you want. You will have found the secret to contentment. One of my favorite movies is The Shawshank Redemption. It stars Morgan Freeman as “Red” and Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne. They are both prisoners and become good friends in prison. Andy is sentenced to two consecutive life terms for a double murder he did not commit. He experiences the brutality of prison life and works for ...
10. Rock Stars at the Top
Luke 9:28-36 (37-43a)
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Derl G. Keefer
... and an angelic face, clothes that have a razzle dazzle appearance and a glowing Christ. Peter, James, and John are trembling as suddenly Elijah and Moses disappear, a cloud covering them and a voice would come out of the cloud sounding like Morgan Freeman. If not careful, we are hooked on the supernatural…the spiritual ecstasy of religiosity. We are, as Bruce Larsen observed, “…programmed to expect the big, the unusual, and the spectacular, and we miss the glory of the ordinary.” Focusing on the ...
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