This is the Salaback Church Podcast.

Today is such a great day to be here in church.

We're gonna kick off a brand new message series called At the Movies.

Now, you might be asking yourself, why do a message series on movies?

That's a great question. Well, movies are the

story of our day. You know, Jesus himself was a master storyteller, constantly telling stories.

And he would integrate those stories into his teaching and then use them to point us back to God,

back to God's unchanging character and His Eternal Word.

And that's what we'll be doing with this series.

So we'll explore four well-known movies, and we'll do it through the lens of the Bible.

And then as we do that, we'll apply some of the movie's lessons to our own lives.

Today we'll start with the Top Gun Movie Maverick, which became famous for their actors doing

real stunts and real fighter jets rather than relying on green screens or computer-generated

images. Now Maverick is a follow-up to the original 1986 Top Gun movie, where we met 20-something-year-old Pete Maverick Mitchell, a Navy pilot who's now in his

late 50s. As his name implies, Maverick loves to push the limits. He's an incredible pilot,

but he's seen as a loose cannon and very unpredictable. So as the movie opens, we see him working with a team on a

secret test flight with the goal of reaching Mach 10, which is 10 times the speed of sound. But when he

learns that the Navy wants to shut down the program for another one, Maverick is determined to save

what he thinks is the future of the Navy

and also to prove that he still got it.

Despite disobeying orders and failing his test flight,

Maverick ends up getting called back to the Top Gun training program to teach younger pilots.

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