A weekly gaming devotional. Where gaming meets the Gospel. Every Sunday, Gary Smith takes a video game and finds the scripture hiding inside it.
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #9: Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Strength That Comes From Weakness
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #8: Harvest Moon 64 and the God Who Invented Seasons
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #7: Hades and What Happens When You Don’t Stay Down
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #6: The Last of Us Giraffe Scene, and the God Who Gives Beautiful Things to Broken People
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 Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #5: The Last of Us Ellie’s Survivor Guilt and Psalm 22
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #4: The Last of Us Joel Ending Explained Through Romans 5
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #3: Red Dead Redemption – Abigail Marston and the Woman Who Kept No Record
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #2: Who Is the Strange Man in Red Dead Redemption?
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. Continue reading The Sunday Sermon #1: Red Dead Redemption and the Parable of the Prodigal Son
