What can Christians learn from ‘Game of Thrones’?
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 21 May 2019
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR MAY 21, 2019
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| 0:00.0 | What Can Christians Learn from Game of Thrones? |
| 0:05.3 | This is Dr. Jim Dinnisans, the Daily article podcast for Tuesday, May 21st, 2019. |
| 0:11.3 | Game of Thrones ended Sunday night after eight seasons. |
| 0:14.3 | It was broadcast in 207 countries and territories and was one of the most popular series on television. |
| 0:20.2 | Because of its pornographic sexual content and extreme violence, I did not watch the show, |
| 0:24.9 | but I believe culture-changing Christians can learn something important from it. |
| 0:28.4 | Game of Thrones filmed in 10 countries. |
| 0:30.6 | The series used 12,986 extras and 2,000 crew members in Northern Ireland alone. |
| 0:37.1 | It included 3,000 pyrotechnic effects, |
| 0:39.6 | 50 miles of fabric for costumes, and more than 24,000 pounds of silicone for prosthetics. |
| 0:45.3 | Whigs for one of the lead characters required two months of testing and seven prototypes. |
| 0:50.3 | Over its first seven seasons, the series received 174 award nominations and won 63 times. |
| 0:56.0 | The series is just one example of the fact that our culture's moral compass is broken. |
| 1:01.0 | A generation ago, a movie as violent and pornographic as Game of Thrones would have been X-rated. |
| 1:06.0 | But while Christians should reject the show's immoral worldview, we should ask ourselves. |
| 1:10.0 | If such a television series can be produced with professional excellence, |
| 1:14.0 | how much more does our father deserve excellence from us? |
| 1:17.8 | Yesterday we focused on the urgency of reliance on God. |
| 1:21.2 | Jesus taught us that if we would be truly blessed and used by our Lord, |
| 1:24.3 | we must be poor in spirit, utterly dependent on our father. |
| 1:28.7 | The Lord of the universe can do so much more with us than we can do for him. Today, let's consider the other |
| 1:33.4 | side of the equation. No one in Christian history was more spirit-led and spirit-dependent than the |
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