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By Pastor Adam Fox
First BLOGtist Church
By Pastor Adam Fox
I am a comic nerd and very comfortable with that designation. While I may not have the discretionary resources to visit my two favorite comic shops, Amazing Fantasy and Graham Cracker Comics - I still like to sit down and leaf through a new comic or re-read some older issues.
The Fox family has a president that they gravitate to normally. While there have been many men who range from good to below average - one is the favorite, Illinois' favorite son - Abraham Lincoln.
I am a proud member of the Millennial age group because I was born in the 1980s meaning that I was old enough to experience and enjoy the 1990s. One of the better parts of the Greatest Decade, trust me, was the TGIF television lineup on Friday nights
Would not be the first time in which I have been accused of being extra eager - like a kid on Christmas morning. Each week during the months of November and December, Andrea and I have had appointment television for a new show on Disney +, The Mandalorian.
There are some television shows that you can watch over and over again and not loose interest in them: I love Lucy, Seinfeld, the Office and even Gravity Falls.
Andrea and I are considered "cord-cutters" since we do not pay for cable television - we mainly use streaming applications like HULU. As modern television viewers, we watch shows on our time and rarely with commercials. But lately,
Every summer, Andrea and I try to get away for a little trip - a nerd-cation. Chicago has a yearly comic convention every August, Wizard World.
Cinema has produced quite a few characters that invoke fear in us. From the terrifying likes of Jason or Freddy Kruger, to the dark lord of the Sith in Darth Vader. Then there are those that take fear and use them like Batman or Voldemort for good or evil purpose. Of all these types of fear based characters - Daredevil is the one who stood out to me.
If I would make a short list of artist and bands who I have loved and still do, it would include the OC Supertones, DC Talk and of course the Beach Boys. But I would be lying if I did not have Al Yankovic on that list.
To some of you this is no shock, but I am a pretty big fan of Spider-man. I have quite a few collectibles and two or three dozen shirts sporting the wall-crawling web slinger. So of course
As a society, it seems we enjoy talking, looking, reading, singing and watching about Heaven - even though not all of us as a society believe in it. If you think about it, Hollywood in all its forms of media loves using Heaven in its books, songs, television shows and movies.