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Pop Culture Devotionals with Chaplain Dave Remboldt finds biblical truth in the movies, music, and stories we love. Each short episode takes a familiar piece of pop culture and uncovers the deeper longing, hope, and meaning pointing back to God.
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I'm Going To Go Back There Someday (opens the original)
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Nobody knows what Gonzo is, including Gonzo. So it means something that in The Muppet Movie , the character with no origin is the one who sings about being homesick for a place he has never seen. Chaplain Dave takes that one word, back , and follows it through C.S. Lewis, Ecclesiastes, and Revelation 21, where the city comes down and God moves in. A devotional about the ache that nothing here satisfies. Contact: Chaplain Dave Remboldt
Goonies Never Say Die (opens the original)
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The Goonies were not the kids who got picked first in gym, and they found the treasure anyway. Chaplain Dave on 1 Corinthians 1, your scars as qualifications, and why you can stop disqualifying yourself.
When You Feel Forgotten (opens the original)
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Chaplain Dave turns fifty this week, and a few years back his family forgot his birthday entirely. That reminded him of Sixteen Candles , where Samantha Baker's family forgets her sweet sixteen and her whole day comes apart. This episode is about the fear of being unseen, and why this need is too heavy to put on other people. But there's good news in Isaiah 49 about a Creator who has your name engraved on his hands. Includes three things to do when you feel invisible.
You're Killing Me, Smalls (opens the original)
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Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez didn't make Scotty Smalls try out. There was a spot, the kid showed up, and that was the whole qualification. Chaplain Dave grew up as the awkward kid on the edge of the lot, and he thinks The Sandlot is a better picture of discipleship than most of the churchy systems we build. This episode connects that vacant lot to Romans 12, and to the night Jesus told a tax collector and a zealot that the love between them would be the proof.
Patton (or How I Learned To Love America and Be Okay With Losing) (opens the original)
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Americans are raised to win. General Patton said it out loud in front of a giant flag, and he wasn't wrong about us. This Fourth of July, Chaplain Dave looks at what that winning reflex does to our faith, and holds it up against Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, who trusted the Father and walked straight into what looked like losing. A devotional about Peter's sword and a kind of losing that turns out to be the only real way to winning.
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