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And How My Dress-Up Darling Proves Christians Can (and Should) Like Anime I'll take 'Things I Never Expected My Pastor To Talk About" for 500, Alex. Look, okay, I know how this looks. I try to keep my embarrassing guilty pleasures to myself. I am a sucker for the anime romance genre. Between confessing to my love for dating sims two weeks ago to defaming King Solomon at the beginning of this seaso...

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Looking at Ranking of Kings - I couldn’t help but keep putting off watching this show. I thought it was going to be some kind of childlike fantasy story that wouldn’t keep me hooked. What I got instead was Studio Ghibli presents’ Game of Thrones. This story is packed to brim with betrayal, political intrigue, and some horribly complex characters. And I love it.  But above everything about thi...

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If you’re anything like me, then you’ve logged way too many hours already into the world of Pokémon Legends Arceus. I may or may not have spent like thirty hours in the game before beating the second frenzied lord. I’m not even gonna deny it - I’m obsessed. But there’s something different about this Pokémon game. Game Freak has always been pretty good about hiding bits and pieces of Poké-lore into...

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I gotta be real with you folks - I really didn’t want to like this show. And I’m still not totally sure that I do. But for some Mushoku Tensei was the #1 anime of 2021. And so I had to watch it to find out why. I’m not convinced that it’s the best anime of 2021 yet, but it does tell an interesting enough story and present some pretty fascinating themes that aren’t super typical for the Isekai genr...

What better way to kick off the new season than with everyone’s favorite web-slinger Spider-man? Spider-Man: No Way Home hit theaters at the end of 2021 and is still holding strong in the cultural zeitgeist today. Except we apparently all just agreed that the spoiler warning thing didn’t exist, I guess? I’ve seen more exposé articles from reputable news sources than I would have expected.  Bu...

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Wow, so 2021 happened, huh? We're wrapping up our second season of Nerdy Sermons with a reflection on where we've been, some of your favorites of the year, and what the future has in store for us.  See you all back here January 16th. 😄 PLAY OUR DEBUT VIDEO GAME: https://ludogood.itch.io/ Follow Us Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/CheckpointChurch Join the convo on our Discord: https://discord.g...

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If you’re plugged into our community on Twitch or Discord, you know my thoughts on Hawkeye are less than great. So I’m going to take all of my hot takes and put them away. If you want to know how I really feel - keep watching till the very end.  But for this video we are going to look at the story being told in the latest Disney+ Avengers series Hawkeye, where we explore the relationship betw...

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It’s not mystery than I’m not the biggest fan of League of Legends and given articles like this - I’m not alone in that sentiment. But the virality of Riot Games first serialized television series Arcane does ask some important questions - why are we so drawn to this show?  Probably the thing that draws most people to League in the first place - the characters. And the characters in this show...

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When was the last time you moved homes? Packed all of your things up and took them to a totally new place and then started unpacking. You unpacked memories, keepsakes, heartbreaks. And odds are, you finished unpacking and said, “I never want to do that again.” But the zen-game Unpacking made me retract that statement - what can we learn from Unpacking the life of someone else? Can taking things ou...

EDITOR'S NOTE:  This video mentions a tragedy in Ohio, but the event in fact occurred in Michigan. Adjustments and edits have been made as possible. Apologies for any affected by this error. Join the convo on our Discord: https://discord.gg/zUg5sj7 Respond to this blog here: https://www.checkpointchurch.com/post/tragedy-beyond-four-walls Subscribe to the Newsletter: https://checkpointchurch.c...

Yeah, you read that title right. We’re straight up talking about Pikmin and Jesus today and that is hilarious to me. Words cannot describe how much I love this church. If you aren’t on the bandwagon for Pikmin Bloom, I’m not too surprised. It’s a pretty obvious cash grab to re-vision the phenomenon that was Pokemon Go (which will never happen again).  But there’s a distinct difference between...

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It seems like more and more of the games, movies, and cartoons that we grew up with are being rebooted, remastered or re-released. Sometimes it makes people mad when this happens. But maybe we can learn something from the way that we react to these releases.  What could the wisdom of King Solomon in the Bible have to offer us through games like Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl? &nb...

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