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Judges 4:1-9

1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died. 2 So the Lord sold them into the hand of King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-ha-goiim. 3 Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly twenty years.

4 At that time Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel. 5 She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the Israelites came up to her for judgment. 6 She sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “The Lord, the God of Israel, commands you, ‘Go, take position at Mount Tabor, bringing ten thousand from the tribe of Naphtali and the tribe of Zebulun. 7 I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the Wadi Kishon with his chariots and his troops; and I will give him into your hand.’” 8 Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.” 9 And she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Judges 5:24-27

24 “Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed. 25 He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl. 26 She put her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera a blow, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple. 27 He sank, he fell, he lay still at her feet; at her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell dead.

Faith & Film VI: Wonder Woman

• Film Clip #1 - Trailer

• Film Clip # - The Story of Ares

• Film Clip # - No Man's Land

• Film Clip # - Goodbye, Brother

I have said that movies are the great literature of our era. But there's another type of literature, also born in the early twentieth century, also looked-down upon and rarely even considered "literature" that may come in a close second. I'm talking about comic books. Before you dismiss that idea, consider that five of the top ten highest grossing movies of 2017 were based on comic books. Together, these films represent almost 2 billion dollars in ticket sales, which is more than any other single genre of films--including drama, romance, comedy, action. Whether you love them, hate them, or ignore them, the stories we are most interested in as a society are stories about comic-book superheroes.

And the highest grossing super hero movie this year--