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9/11 Ten Years Later
Warning: This video contains violent imagery and may not be appropriate for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
I remember the day it happened, wondering if the world would ever be the same again. Ten years later we know that no, it won't be. We all remember where we were that morning. Sujo John was in the north tower, his wife was...
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6:06
Cigarette
Wouldn't it be nice if love was like in a Hollywood romantic comedy? All it would take to fix a dysfunctional or broken relationship would be a crazy scheme. But real life doesn't work out that way. The love we invest into what we intuitively desire the most often does not return to us like we expect and hope.
After watching this short film, consider:...
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4:11
Cup of Coffee
If what you believed was wrong, would you want to know? How you answer that question divulges a lot about who you are as a person. Do you value truth most highly? Or is happiness most important to you?
In his autobiography Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis describes the distinction between happiness and joy. Happiness is a temporary and fickle emotional...
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6:43
Missing
Ever felt like you merely drift from one environment to the next, putting up the appropriate mask and ticking the boxes? Who are you anyway? It is frightful to wonder - does any one really know who we are behind the externals?
A person can live their entire life allowing themselves to be defined by external circumstances or peer pressure. Who...
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9:13
My Last Day
Warning: This video contains violent imagery and may not be appropriate for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
What would you do in your last moments on Earth? Likely we will never truly know, because we don't know when that moment of reckoning is coming. In this video, the event of Jesus' crucifixion is told, but this time the story focuses...
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6:55
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
C. S. Lewis once said "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." Lewis was not unacquainted with suffering in his own life. His book A Grief Observed Lewis pours out his heart after the death of his wife, Joy Gresham.
Another man who is acquainted with grief...
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5:01
Rain
Forgiveness. It's a word that can bring to mind comfort or anxiety (or both) depending which side of the forgiving you're on. When life throws you unexpected obstacles and you take a wrong turn, the desire to be forgiven is natural and appropriate.
The guilt that a person naturally (and, usually, rightly) feels when they do something wrong is...
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