{"id":6610,"date":"2016-08-24T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2016-08-23T20:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:16:20","slug":"filmevent-the-insanity-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6610","title":{"rendered":"FILM\/EVENT: The Insanity of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/index.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6611\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Insanity-of-God.jpg\" alt=\"Insanity of God\" width=\"674\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Insanity-of-God.jpg 674w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Insanity-of-God-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a>The film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Insanity of God<\/a>, based on the book of the same name, is showing in theaters around the US in a special one-night event on Tuesday, August 30. Live in the US? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/theaters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find a showing near you<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: LifeWay Films<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/index.php\">The Insanity of God<\/a> is the true story of missionaries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikripken.com\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.nikripken.com\">Nik and Ruth Ripken<\/a> [who served in the Horn of Africa and beyond]. After the death of their son, this ordinary couple journeys into the depths of the persecuted church, asking the question: Is Jesus worth it?<\/p>\n<p>How does faith survive, let alone flourish in the places of the world that are overcome with the darkness of sin, despair, and hopelessness? Join the Ripkens as they tell the story of being taught by believers in persecution \u201chow to follow Jesus, how to love Jesus, and how to walk with him day by day even when it doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film is based on the best-selling book <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.com\/B00AQ4C23I\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/amzn.com\/B00AQ4C23I\">The Insanity of God<\/a> and is released in association with the [Southern Baptist] International Mission Board. The movie will be the first theatrical release from LifeWay Films when it opens in theaters across the United States on August 30 as a one-night event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.insanityofgodmovie.com\/index.php\">Learn more or buy tickets<\/a>. You might also want to check out the book and its sequel as well as a related six-session small group study. At this writing, the Kindle edition of <em>The Insanity of God<\/em> is just US$.99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film The Insanity of God, based on the book of the same name, is showing in theaters around the US in a special one-night event on Tuesday, August 30. Live in the US? Find a showing near you. Source: LifeWay Films The Insanity of God is the true story of missionaries Nik and Ruth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FILM\/EVENT: The Insanity of God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}