“Instead of teaching children to follow their hearts, parents should teach them to guard their hearts and follow the truth.” -Dr. Frank Turek
Dr. Frank Turek is passionate about helping the world know that Jesus is the one true superhero, and He can be seen in a lot of superhero movies today! He is a dynamic speaker and award-winning author and coauthor of many books, including Hollywood Heroes How Your Favorite Movies Reveal God, Stealing from God: Why Atheists Need God to make their Case, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, Correct, Not Politically Correct, and Legislating Morality. A former aviator in the US Navy, Frank has a master’s degree from George Washington University and a doctorate from Southern Evangelical Seminary. As the President of CrossExamined.org, Frank presents powerful and entertaining evidence for Christianity at churches, high schools, and secular college campuses that often begin hostile to his message.
Frank elaborates on the following points:
- How superhero movies today can be derived from the story of Jesus.
- How superhero stories are inspiring because every superhero has to sacrifice to save others, and how this relates to the one true superhero, Jesus, who sacrifices for us every day.
- Sometimes events or incidents in our lives can be perceived as evil, but we must trust God because he can bring good from anything, even if we can’t see it.
- The most unique characteristic of Captain America is that he doesn’t need any moral development; he always chooses to do good and be good, just like Jesus.
- Tony Stark, who plays the superhero, Iron Man, starts off as a superhero with powers that he uses for himself; but, over time, with moral development, he becomes good, which relates to us as human beings.
- Proverbs 4:23 encompasses the life-changing biblical principle to guard our hearts and follow the truth; if we follow our hearts and establish success and power, we are missing identity and purpose.
- How culture says to follow your heart, but the bible says to guard your heart instead.
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