What Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender Gets Right About Guilt and Grace

Avatar Aang's Tagah and Aang wrestle with guilt, shame, and unforgiveness in very different ways. Here's what Scripture says about the difference.

Yellow and white podcast thumbnail reading "Your Identity Not Your Sin" for the Good Morning Devotional Podcast

Stop Seeing People As Their Problems

Jesus was on his way to do one miracle when a woman pushed through a crowd to reach him — a woman the community had reduced to her condition. When he turned and saw her, he didn't address her issue. He called her daughter. Dallas unpacks what that one word has to say about identity and healing.

Karl Urban as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2 lowering his sunglasses, with the text Perspective Matters overlaid on the thumbnail.

How to deal with that feeling of “What am I even doing here?” | Mortal Kombat 2

Johnny Cage had a lot of success at one point in time, but now feels like he's nothing. If you've ever hit that wall where you're asking "what am I even doing here," Dallas looks at Johnny's arc in Mortal Kombat 2 alongside Ephesians 2:10 to talk about what it means to find your purpose when you feel completely out of place.

Muppets From Space characters including Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie, and Animal in front of a full moon with the text Yes You Do Belong for Geek Devotions Season 10 Episode 41.

Does God Actually Play Favorites? What Muppets From Space Gets Right

Gonzo has spent his whole life being called a "whatever" because nobody knows what he is or where he comes from. But Kermit and the Muppets don't care about any of that. They care about who he is. And in Acts 10, God was saying something very similar to the early church about the Gentiles. No partiality. Equal footing at the cross. You belong here.