Battle Cries from the Cross: Blood!
“You’ve bled with Wallace…Now bleed with me” – Robert the Bruce, Braveheart Our culture has an obsession with blood. Watch any Quentin Tarantino film, any of the recent graphic novel flicks, or glance at any of the horror/torture movie trailers that come out every five seconds, and you’ll see a pattern…Lots of blood. Another cultural phenomenon: blood lust and UFC fighting. Some men obsess over Ultimate Fighting because they love violence and the sight of someone bleeding. Something is up, the human heart is simultaneously repulsed and drawn to...
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Braveheart The is THE battle speech of all battle speeches. “Fight and you may die. Run and you’ll live, at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now…would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!” I remember in high school, you weren’t cool at all unless you had memorized the whole thing. I mean, if someone tells you today that they haven’t seen Braveheart,...
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300 Before an audience of attentive Spartans, Dilios declares that the 120,000-strong Persian army that narrowly defeated 300 Spartans now faces 10,000 Spartans commanding 30,000 Greeks. Praising Leonidas’s sacrifice, Dilios leads the assembled Greek army into a fierce charge against the Persian army, to victory in the Battle of Plataea. Some of the most memorable and inspiring moments in film history are the speeches given by men leading soldiers into battle. Something in the heart of man cries out, with a thirst for identity and purpose, a yearning for glory and honor, a...
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