A weekly gaming devotional. Where gaming meets the Gospel. Every Sunday, Gary Smith takes a video game and finds the scripture hiding inside it.
Kratos spent four big games being consumed by rage. God of War 2018 is about what happens when that man tries to raise a son. The Sunday Sermon looks at it through Ezekiel 18:20.
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The Red Dead Redemption 2 epilogue has John Marston building a ranch we know he won't get to keep. The Sunday Sermon looks at what Matthew 25 and the parable of the talents says about what he was really doing.
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Dutch van der Linde wasn't evil. He was sincere. The Sunday Sermon looks at what 1 John 5:21 says about a man who made his own vision into a god and couldn't see it from the inside.
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Arthur Morgan got tuberculosis doing the worst version of himself. What came after is one of gaming's greatest stories. The Sunday Sermon looks at it through 2 Corinthians 12:9.
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A Tips and Tricks magazine guide in 2000 introduced me to Harvest Moon 64 and I never fully recovered. The Sunday Sermon looks at what Ecclesiastes 3 has to say about a game built entirely on seasons.
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Hades is a game about dying over and over. The Sunday Sermon looks at what Zagreus's story says about Romans 5:3-4 and what happens when you refuse to stay down.
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The Last of Us giraffe scene stopped me cold the first time I played it in 2013. Twelve years and a dozen playthroughs later it still does. The Sunday Sermon looks at why through Ecclesiastes 3:11.
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Ellie has been waiting to die since the night Riley turned. The Sunday Sermon looks at The Last of Us Ellie survivor guilt and what Psalm 22 says about the unanswerable question
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Joel killed everyone in that hospital and lied about it. The Sunday Sermon looks at what he did, why he did it, and what Romans 5 has to say about a man who chose love over the world.
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Three weeks on Red Dead Redemption ends with the character who holds the whole story together. Abigail Marston and 1 Corinthians 13 on love that keeps no record of wrongs.
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The Strange Man in Red Dead Redemption knows things he shouldn't. Week 2 of the Sunday Sermon looks at what he represents and what Hebrews 9:27 has to say about it.
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Every Sunday, the Sunday Sermon takes a video game and finds the scripture inside it. First up: Red Dead Redemption and the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
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