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About a year or so ago, I had the opportunity to hear Ravi Zacharias, a renown Christian apologist, speak at an event located right outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the event was to discuss the power and influence today’s media has on popular culture. During his 30-40 minute presentation, he made this one incredible statement; one that will remain with me for quite a while:

“…without TRUTH, education is moved to the skeptical, spirituality is moved to the mystical, and art is moved to the sensual.”

Now more than ever before, we are living in an age where matters of faith and morality differ from person to person. What has long been considered true is now (in the eyes of many) debatable, while those things that we have always believed to be false or in contrast to our faith, are now being adopted and accepted as cultural norms.

This reversal of truth unfortunately exists within today’s Body of Christ as well.

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I’ll never forget when my oldest daughter (Kayla) asked me late one afternoon to read the brand new Dr. Seuss book her grandmother had just sent to her in the mail. Being a big fan of Dr. Seuss ever since I was a kid, and even a bigger fan of the sparkle in my daughter’s eye whenever she would ask me to read to her, I quickly obliged.

So I sat my daughter next to me on the couch, opened the new book, and began to read. But just before I was about to turn over the first page of the book, it happened.

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It is very rare to encounter anyone my age or older that was not a huge fan of the Rocky movie series growing up. The popular boxing saga starring Sylvester Stallone, consisted of six films over the span of thirty years. Although many would agree that the last few installments weren’t exactly fan favorites, the first three films were truly awe inspiring.

My favorite of all the films by far was Rocky III. Now just in case there may be someone reading this that has lived on the planet Mars for most of their life, and did not see that movie, here’s a brief summary:

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