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Digging in Deeper: Ecclesiastes 1:9

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“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

I remember when the modern superhero movie genre first exploded into existence. Superhero movies had been around for a long time, of course. Most of them weren’t any good. The original set of Superman movies were okay, and Christopher Reeves was certainly iconic in the role, but to go back and watch them now, they were campy and had horrible special effects. Technology has improved since then and the writing mostly has too. The first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire, though, was the start of the modern age of superhero films. I was a freshman in college, a first-rate nerd, absolutely loved it, and haven’t looked back. There may be a handful I haven’t seen since then, but not more than that. Still, it has been hard to keep up of late because there have been just so many. But as the total has continued to rise, the quality has tended to decline. As much as I hate to say it, one of the most recent superhero movies to release – and an MCU film no less – is a great example. I finally got to watch the Captain Marvel series, The Marvels, the other day. Let’s talk for a few minutes about it.

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Digging in Deeper: 2 Timothy 3:13

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“Evil people and imposters will become worse, deceiving and being deceived.” (CSB – Read the chapter)

What if the people around you weren’t who you thought they were? Maybe you’ve had that experience. You thought you knew someone really well, and then seemingly out of nowhere they did something so profoundly out of character as far as you had understood it that you were struck with a powerful sense that maybe you didn’t actually know them at all. Depending on how close you are to the person with whom you had this experience, this could be a pretty painful discovery. I know of a woman who discovered after more than two decades of marriage that her husband had a completely separate family including a woman he called his wife and kids. Learning people aren’t who we thought they were can be intensely disorienting for us. But what if we learned they weren’t simply not who we thought they were, but were in fact aliens who could assume the identity of anyone around them. Then we’d be living in a comic book world. It is this very comic book world that was the focus of Marvel’s latest streaming release, Secret Invasion. Let’s talk about what worked, what didn’t, and the Gospel implications of a series with enormous potential, but which couldn’t quite stick the landing. By the way, if you haven’t watched the series yet, proceed at your own risk. This is going to be full of spoilers.

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