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==John 15:12-17 (NT p. 109)==
12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

==Faith & Film XI - Top Gun: Maverick==
*[Film Clip #1 - Trailer]

====Three Minute Film Summary====
Top Gun Maverick takes place a little over thirty years after the events of the original Top Gun Film. Pete Mitchell, known by his call sign "Maverick" is now a test pilot whose military career seems to have stalled. Although he has a long list of achievements, he also has a long pattern of defying orders, getting in trouble, and then getting bailed out by his long-time friend and former rival, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky (now Admiral Kazansky).

When this pattern repeats itself at the beginning of the film, Iceman recalls Maverick to to the Top Gun school where they first met. This time, his task is to train a group of young pilots (all recent graduates of the Top Gun program) for a dangerous mission over enemy territory. Among the young pilots is Bradley Bradshaw (call-sign Rooster) who is the son of Maverick's best friend and co-pilot Goose, who tragically died in the first film.

The heart of the film centers on the strained father-son-type relationship between Maverick and Rooster, the grueling challenges faced by the pilots as they train, and Maverick's struggle to let go of the past and face an ever-changing future with courage, humility, and grace. Well...that and some pretty harrowing flight maneuvers, lots of explosions, things going really fast, beach football, great one-liners, and...sunglasses.

====Love of God, Love of Country====

====This is Your Savior Speaking====

====No Greater Love====

====Faith & Film: Epilogue====

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	And then, just a few months after their first anniversary, Mark was hit by a runaway car while he was pruning a tree in his front yard, and he died. A few weeks after that, Emily discovered that she was pregnant. My niece, Katie, never got to meet her father, and my youngest son, Jonah, never got to meet his uncle Mark. Katie and Jonah, for what it's worth, are peas in a pod, BFF cousins, and major trouble whenever they are together.		And then, just a few months after their first anniversary, Mark was hit by a runaway car while he was pruning a tree in his front yard, and he died. A few weeks after that, Emily discovered that she was pregnant. My niece, Katie, never got to meet her father, and my youngest son, Jonah, never got to meet his uncle Mark. Katie and Jonah, for what it's worth, are peas in a pod, BFF cousins, and major trouble whenever they are together.

−	So this Christmas, we sat them down with all the family, and they watched the original Top Gun movie, both for the first time. Then we went to the theater and watched ~~this movie~~. ~~And~~ I got to say to my niece, "yeah--that's what your dad did. That's what your mom does.	+	So this Christmas, we sat the two of them down with all the family, and they watched the original Top Gun movie, both for the first time. Then we went to the theater and watched Top Gun Maverick. I got to watch them watching these movies in wide-eyed delight. I got to say to my niece, "yeah--that's what your dad did. That's what your mom does. Yeah, it IS super cool. And you should be so proud of both of them, just like I am.
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		+	It all started with a movie. A movie that captured a moment, and a mood, and a profession, and probably got a few things wrong, but certainly got a lot of things right. That story inspired an entire generation, now two generations, with an ideal of service and sacrifice, of competition and camaraderie.
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		+	Those ideals, those virtues don't originate from the movies themselves. They come from the God who created all good things. But the very best films are the ones that remind us of those virtues, that remind us who we are and what we aspire to be; the stories we keep coming back to over and over again, even though we can't always explain why.
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		+	The apostle Paul put it this way in his letter to the Philippians. He said: Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
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		+	And maybe look for them on the big screen, too!

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 The heart of the film centers on the strained father-son-type relationship between Maverick and Rooster, the grueling challenges faced by the pilots as they train, and Maverick's struggle to let go of the past and face an ever-changing future with courage, humility, and grace.  Well...that and some pretty harrowing flight maneuvers, lots of explosions, things going really fast, beach football, great one-liners, and...sunglasses.
-====Love of God, Love of Country====
+====Love of Country, Love of God====
 ====This is Your Savior Speaking====
 ====No Greater Love====
 ====Faith & Film: Epilogue====