The Dark Knight... the hopelessness...

Just saw The Dark Knight last night. A good movie from a movie standpoint, but hopelessness from a message stand point. The Joker seems to be most vulnerable (no armor, no guns, no vehicles, etc) yet everything goes his way...not even a scratch. Yes yes, his makeup does seem to run from time to time, but not a scratch, no blood, not even pain. Take this one scene, Batman gives him a royal beating, slams his head into a table, breaks a glass window with him, yet no visible signs of anything, but a little fatigue.  Where all the other characters in the movie all have scars, cuts, pain, etc. the joker on the other hand has a joyfully happy time. There is some insight to the Jokers past and why he is who he is, but it is so overshadowed by the carnage around him, that his past is quickly forgotten.  Evil just seems to triumph over good. Yes there are a few redeeming moments, where the people of Gothom show mercy to each other, but the darkness of the movie left me with a sad cloud the following morning. Maybe, that is the whole idea of this batman series.

In the end, I am thankful we do not exist in a universe where things are left to random chance, a flip of a coin. In stead all things are by the order of a living holy God, willed with mercy and long suffering to all who worship Him.

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Depravity T-shirt design
I love it when people start a internet based company that could not work in anyother format. Here is what I mean... I found this company on the web called Threadless. They are nothing more than a t-shirt printing company. What is cool, is that they encourage anyone to submit a T-shirt design for printing. Then they put that design up for a vote to the web community. If the design receives enough votes they print the shirt. That vote tells them that people will buy that shirt before they even print it. Is that awesome. Anyhow, so if you like my shirt please go to the site and vote for it.
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Why should I do good?

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This morning I was reading from the book of Titius. This book reminds me to continue doing good works for all of those around me.

This caused me to think. What is the motivation to go out and do good works? It is very different for the Christian. If a friend were to give me $50 out of the blue, I would feel indebted to them. I might return the favor by baking them a cake or cutting their grass out of thankfulness. In the process of baking or cutting I would expect nothing in return because these acts were out of thankfulness. When a christian comes to a greater understanding of what God has done for them in salvation, we would feel most indebted to God and want to do all the good works we could get our hands on out of thankfulness to Him. Doing good things for others or giving of our money should spring from a heart of indebtedness, not out of some hope of a future blessing that we might gain.