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Good tidings of great joy

Good Tidings of Great Joy

December 24, 2022December 24, 2022 Phill Lytle 1 Comment Bible, Scripture, Christmas, Joy, God, Sin, Love, Jesus, Salvation, Romans, Christ, Sacrifice, Peace, Death, Story, Thankful, Luke, Good, Time, Christian, Sinner, Debt, Pay, Hebrews, Philippians, Redemption, Greg Koukl, The Story of Reality

What does the phrase, “good tidings of great joy” mean to you?

Christmas movies

The Top Twelve Christmas Movies of All Time

December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 Staff 10 Comments Christmas, Joy, God, Art, Television, Winter, Christ, Family, Giving, Humor, Film, Story, Elf, It's a Wonderful Life, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Christmas Movies, Funny, Movie, Forgiveness, Adaptation, Emotion, Wonder, Jimmy Stewart, Light, O Holy Night, Charles Dickens, Grinch, Drama

We proudly present the Rambling Ever On Top Twelve Christmas Movies of all time!

Rings of Power

The Verdict is In! “The Rings of Power” Review

October 28, 2022October 28, 2022 Staff 2 Comments Love, Art, Television, Family, Spirituality, Hope, Faith, Belief, Story, Elf, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christian, Culture, Providence, darkness, Friendship, Emotion, Men, The Hobbit, Peter Jackson, Characters, WOKE, Middle Earth, Mordor, Light, Sauron, Elves, Dwarves, Tolkien, Storyline, The Rings of Power, Amazon, Galadriel, Worldview

Rambling Ever On reviews “The Rings of Power” Season One.

whole story

Tell Your Whole Story: Why Confession Matters

September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 Phill Lytle 2 Comments God, Sin, Love, Andrew Peterson, marriage, grace, Family, Christianity, Christian Living, Finances, Faith, Failure, Story, Thankful, Faithful, Trust, Forgiveness, The Wingfeather Saga, The Hobbit, Accountability, North! or Be Eaten, Proverbs, The Chronicles of Narnia, Honest

Telling your whole story is good for the soul.

Literature Music

90s Country And The Art Of The 4-Minute Story

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 Gowdy Cannon 10 Comments Bible, music, Theology, Story, Joe Diffie, Country Music, Alan Jackson, Third Rock from the Sun, Sawyer Brown, Johnny Cash, Reba McEntire, Worldview, Cat's In the Cradle, Harry Chapin, A Boy Named Sue, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Charlie Daniels, The Gambler, Kenny Rogers, She's In Love With The Boy, Trisha Yearwood, Postmarked Birmingham, Blackhawk, Fancy, Bobbie Gentry, Don't Take the Girl, Tim McGraw, I Don't Even Know Your Name, Bubba Shot the Jukebox, Mark Chesnutt, Good-bye Earl, She Thinks His Name Was John, Walkaway Joe, Whiskey Lullaby, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley, Little Rock, Colin Raye, The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, Vicki Lawrence, The Ride, David Allen Coe, The Thunder Rolls, That Summer, Garth Brooks, Somebody, Upstairs Downtown, Toby Keith, Lucky Moon, Oak Ridge Boys, Outskirts of Town, The Car, Jeff Carson

90s Country Music gave us numerous songs that showed us the power of the art of the four-minute story.

TV deaths

The Five Most Devastating TV Deaths

May 13, 2022May 20, 2022 Phill Lytle 8 Comments Television, Grief, Death, Story, TV, Sadness, Characters, Lost, Storyline, Drama, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey

Five TV Deaths that almost killed me.

Londonderry Aire

My Love Affair with Music – Londonderry Aire

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 Steve Lytle 1 Comment music, Poetry, Story, English, Lyrics, Classical Music, ballad, folk song, Scottish, Irish, Barbara Allen, Loch Lomond, The Fields of Athenry, Londonderry Aire, Danny Boy, Northern Ireland, Commonwealth Games, Kentucky, Dottie Rambo, Tears Will Never Stain the Streets of That City, If That Isn't Love, I Go to the Rock, We Shall Behold Him, Sandy Patty, He Looked Beyond My Fault, I Cannot Tell Why the Angels Worship, William Young Fullerton, Charles Spurgeon

My 70-year love affair with music intrigues and fascinates me. I’ve asked myself many times how to explain my fascination with music and lyrics. I only know that that ballads resonate with me and always have.

The Arts Theology

The Pursuit of Perfect Fiction

April 29, 2019July 25, 2019 D.A. Speer 6 Comments Truth, Story, Beauty

Is looking for the perfect story a hopeless pursuit?

Literature The Arts Film Theology

On Stories, Questions, and the Power of the One True Myth

October 23, 2016September 3, 2020 Phill Lytle 7 Comments Scripture, Harry Potter, Christianity, Reading, Books, Hope, Faith, Truth, Story, Sovereignty, True Myth, Doubts, J.K. Rowling, The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Literature, Fantasy

Is God powerful enough to take our wounds and our brokenness and turn them into something beautiful? Can He redeem our suffering and give us our own happily ever after?