This from J Warner Wallace:
why-is-the-biblical-eyewitness-testimony-so-important 

​This movie should be excellent.
​And I think logically uncontroversial. 
https://www.thestoryofeverything.film/home#trailer 

The Compass is me.
North is God. I’m made for him, to point to him. We’re to glorify him through all the earth. God gently pulls us towards Himself, the true fulfiller of all our desires.  
Sin is what happens when something else becomes magnetic to us. We desire it instead, as a shortcut to fulfilling our desires. But the shortcuts cannot fulfil, they only ensnare us in an addictive spiral of diminishing returns. 
Pride — Desire for significance pulled toward self-glory. x
Greed — Desire for security pulled toward money/things. x
Lust — Desire for acceptance pulled toward consumption. x
Envy — Desire for flourishing pulled toward comparison. x
Gluttony — Desire for enjoyment pulled toward excess/addiction. x
Wrath — Desire for justice pulled toward revenge. x
Sloth — Desire for rest pulled toward avoidance. x

The desire isn’t evil. The object of desire may not be either. But being pulled away from God is evil. 
The magnets are misplaced worship. Sin is not the desire, it’s desire pulled away from its true fulfilment. 
​For every “no,” God is removing a magnet, so I can receive His greater “yes,” so my heart can turn to Him again. 
Here’s a list of "No to the magnet → Yes to the desire fulfilled in Christ":
No to pride’s self-glory → Yes to significance humbly under Christ
No to greed for things → Yes to security by blessings from the Father
No to lust to have → Yes to deep acceptance as one betrothed to Jesus 
No to envy’s comparing → Yes to flourishing in gratitude for God’s gifts 
No to gluttony’s addiction → Yes to the pleasure of being mastered by Jesus 
No to wrath’s revenge → Yes to trusting the justice of Christ 
No to sloth’s avoidance → Yes to the rest that Jesus gives to His servants

Holiness is not shrinking my life. 
​It expands it by realigning it, submitting my life back to The Creator’s intent.

​Philippians 2, The Cross shows the properly functioning compass.
. Power under control
. Desire submitted
. Glory through surrender
. Jesus had every legitimate desire — and never misaligned them.
He is not just the example, He is the magnetic reset.
When the heart is brought near Him, the needle steadies north.

The problem isn’t that my heart desires. It’s that it desires the fulfilment from the wrong place.
Holiness is not the removal of desire — it is the true alignment of desire.
Back to Jesus - the true, gentle, life-giving Fulfilment of that desire. 

For muslim friends - a 60 day series of readings with the Prophets. 

Also, a thought about reactions to the Ayatollah’s death. 
Many who celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, are now openly mourning the death of the Ayatollah as leader of their religion. Some commentators are defending this grief in the name of religious freedom, but they are equating violent Islam with all religions. What values does such mourning and commentary mirror? To ourselves and to our governing authorities. 

Nuance check - 
- Yes, we may mourn that a human being has died. 
- Yes, people can be forgiven for irrationality in grief. 
- Plus, I also mourn that it has come to this: that some so misguidedly agree with the views and violence of the IRGC and their terrorist proxies, that they must be so forcefully resisted. 
- And such sword-bearing is not the authority of private citizens. But it is within the avenging authority of governments (Romans 12:17-13:4). 

Equivocation check - 
For discerning governing authorities, mourning the death of the Ayatollah as a leader of your religion is NOT equivalent to mourning the death of the Pope as a leader of my religion. 
- Is your religion the Ayatollah’s religion? It explicitly incites violence against unbelievers and the imposition of his republic by force. This is a worldview from which unbelievers of goodwill must be protected. 
- Is your religion the Pope’s religion? It explicitly calls for peace even with unbelievers, and conversion by informed and free conscience. This is a worldview that unbelievers of goodwill must protect. 
(Note: even if Popes of the past did try to impose their religion on others by force, Christians themselves opposed this as NOT true Christian religion.) 
- The religion of muslims who support Australian values for all (not just for muslims) would NOT be equivalent to the Ayatollah’s religion. So they ought not mourn him as leader of their religion, lest they equivocate peaceful Islam with violent Islam. 
- Muslims who do mourn the Ayatollah as leader of their religion are aligning themselves with his Islam, one violently opposed to Australian-Citizenship-values. 

​To equivocating governments and commentators, I say, under legislation about incitement to violence, Australian citizens who violently oppose Australian citizenship values are forfeiting their Australian citizenship rights, by arrest or deportation. 

What does your reaction reflect to our government about your worldview and citizenship?