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You know there’s an awesome Christian analogy to the Pirates of the Carribbean trilogy. It’s because of this we agreed to my child’s suggestion of Captain Jack Sparrow as a baby name for our 5th kid.

My sis & I are constantly looking for Christian analogies in movies. Pirates has been the most fun, by far!

p.s. The kid isn’t named “Captain” or “Sparrow” but we did agree to calling him “Jack.”

I was attending a Christian university when Braveheart was at its peak of popularity. During that period there were several guys who liked to yell “Freeeeeedom” during worship services. I think they borrowed the phase with sincere intentions,but I still couldn’t help snickering.

OK. So this one made me literally laugh out loud. I love it. Gives me an idea. I’ll set up a romantic movie night with my wife, we’ll watch Braveheart, and maybe I’ll score……….A SWORD! That would be totally cool! Of course, I’d have to get each of my 3 boys some “junior” sized swords to make it totally fair.
Keep it up, brother. This is a riot.

Every time we go to the mall my husband has to stop at the sword store (yes, our mall has one) so he can stare longingly at/caress the sword he wants. I ask why he needs such a thing and he looks at me incredulously and says, “To defeat the British, of course!”

Star Wars is SO much better for Christian analogies.

Fact: Braveheart is the best movie of all time.

Fact: When I was on the creative arts team, we were responsible for adding elements to the service to “enhance the experience and the message.”

Fact: I tried to fit in a scene from Braveheart just about every week.

Fact: Mel’s okay, but William the Bruce is a total hotty! I love that whole broody, convicted, torn between loyalties thing he had going on.

Fact: I am going to find my Braveheart DVD.

there was a guy in my bible college who would often wear his kilt and carry his flag….
on occassion (foramls and such) there would be war paint….
loved it!!!
but cannot imagine dropping my scared freshamn son off (not that i have one…but if i did) @ school and see William Wallace greeting him as his RA!!!!!
yes a fearless leader of a dorm (revoltion) as it were.

he was all man
and @ times it was a little attractive
(i pray he never reads this)

I feel like there should have been a “Bless his heart” directed at Eldridge in there somewhere.

Oh I’ve alway wanted a sword! I’m not alone! This is great!

Sigh. Guess I’ll stick to fencing with the Bible for now, but some day look out!!!

Along with the topic of Christian analogies…
I have probably seen the Indiana Jones “Leap of Faith” scene about 3 different times used as an illustration before a sermon.
Ah yes, and the Matrix.
And at one point, we watched The Lion King at church. It can be stretched to be an analogy.

Fact: Christianity is a powerful mythology that you relate to much in the way you relate to a movie that is really powerful and deeply affecting and really, really wish it were real. I think the copius movie analogies kind of prove that point.

A couple years ago, my campus fellowship had a retreat and we flew in this guy and his wife to speak. We broke up into gender specific groups. The guy started talking about being a man, then he lowered the projection screen, showed us clips of William Wallace, then proceeded to rip-off ideas from John Eldredge about being a man.

I think he forgot that Braveheart was not the book in the Bible in between Malachi and Matthew and that most of us had already read Wild At Heart.

I think that he also neglected, like many men's ministries often do, that I am a complex man. I love Braveheart and yet at the same time I love the sweet melodies of Ben Folds on piano, the movie Serendipity, and fields of white flowers.

I can still be a man and pursue my woman with valor, honor, and courage…but I don't have to beat her over the head with a club and drag her back to my cave or rescue her from her tower and whisk her away via horseback. Sometimes my sword is a comforting cup of coffee to open up conversation and my horse is my Grandpa's old mini-van.

Us men come in all sorts of varieties. I pray that ministries start opening up to that idea

I've seen "The Incredibles" used at a kids Bible camp, and Braveheart at a church I used to go to. The pastors wife was speaking that week instead of him (he was away) and she threw in "and oh, I think Mel is just yummy!" Kind of detracted from the experience for me…

Dr Who and the little mermaid!
okay, has anyone seen the last episode of Dr.Who (new version- David Tennant)third series (with Martha) where theres the evil time lord who makes the Dr really old and then the DR tells Martha to travel the earth and 'spread the word' and she does and she comes back to confront the evil dude and says something like "I didn't need a weapon, I only used faith and hope" or something and then the Dr gets revived by everyone "knowing his name" (before which the evil guy scoffs and says "you're going to save the world with prayer!" or something) and then the Dr says "I only have one thing to say to you- I forgive you" and then evil guy runs. Oh and he also tempts Marthas mum to kill him but the Dr tells her not to.. and he says after his revived "the only thing you couldn't stop them from doing was thinking for themselves" or something…. and MAYBE its a stretch but it really seemed like they were alluding to something.
I also had a friend go on a rant to me about how the little mermaid had similar metaphors but I wont go into that since I've yabbered for too long…

Love this post! I know my husband would too. Last year for our anniversary I wanted to do something really special for my husband and make him feel all manly and stuff so I got him the biggest, coolest, heaviest sword I could find =0) He loved it! It was especially cool because it had all sorts of Robin Hood detailing and my husband and I first met when he was playing Robin Hood in a play in college (which is where I fell totally head over heels for him because unlike everyone else who looked like they had no idea what they were doing with their swords and quarterstaffs, he was a black belt and was doing actual flips and rolls and it was AWESOME!!!)