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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
4/23-4/26 Devo One
This is the first devotional for the week of April 23-26. We're going to look at a couple of testimonies this week on how God has influenced a person's life. This video is short look at Tim Allen's life and faith in God. From a rough past, he believes there is a Builder over his life. What do you
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I find it interesting that Tim Allen refers to God as the Builder. In one sense I like the image that that presents. Thinking of God in that way is pretty cool. He did create or "build" each of us uniquely, and not by accident. I really like hearing Tim Allen say that he was created for a purpose. His life has been too amazing to be an accident. I believe he can see God's hand orchestrating things in his life for a purpose. I too have seen God at work in my life. I usually do not see it until after the fact. It is usually when I look or think back to circumstances that have already occurred and then I can see God at work. Occasionally I am aware of His work in the moment, but not always.
ReplyDeleteIn another way it kind of bothers me that Tim Allen refers to God as the Builder. The pessimistic side of me thinks this is a way for a famous person to acknowledge a greater power but avoiding giving the credit to God Himself. Even the interviewer avoids saying God. She refers to Tim as being spiritual or religious instead of referring to Tim as a Christian believer in Christ. That kind of annoys me. I understand why Tim Allen may choose to do this, but I find it very interesting. It seems that those famous people who do identify themselves openly as Christians have been somewhat shunned from main stream publicity and job opportunities. It must be extremely difficult to be a follower of Christ in Hollywood.
I LOVED watching Tim Allen on his first sitcom. I didn’t know he was a Christian but between the movies and sitcoms and their overall wholesome message, I’m not surprised. I do think that Hollywood treats openly Christian actors with prejudice. It makes me sad. My sister lives in LA and she says that God is bashed on a regular basis and Christians are ridiculed on Facebook all the time. Even her ex regularly mocked my family’s faith. 😔
ReplyDeleteI will now have an expanded image of Tim Allen. This info piece I felt was not specifically targeted to a Christian audience but it was good to see his faith shown in a positive light and the interview was respectful and even inquisitive to expanding on the choices, and mistakes he made through the lens of his faith shaping him into the entertainer, father, actor, stand up comic that he is today. Surprised that he spent a two year jail term but does not dwell on that too much or capitalize on it too much.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of Tim Allen as religious. It was nice to see that he believes in a higher power, though not specifically as a Christian. I was impressed with that fact that even through hardship, he carried on and worked toward his dream.
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