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TeacherAide The First Epic SESSION 15 ILLUSTRATING
THE POINT
“Pearl Harbor”: Trusting the Father’s Orders The movie Pearl Harbor tells of the events leading up to and immediately following the Japanese attack on the U.S. on December 7, 1941. The film follows the fictional lives of two fighter pilots, Raph and Danny, who have been inseparable friends since childhood and are stationed at the same base in Hawaii. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Raph (Ben Affleck) and Danny (Josh Hartnett) are called into Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's office. They have succeeded in downing seven Japanese planes. Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) stands behind his desk and addresses the cocky pilots somberly. "You've both been awarded the silver star. You're just about the only pilots with combat experience. I need you for a mission I've been ordered to put together." Raph and Danny look nervously pleased. Doolittle looks them over carefully. "Do you know what 'top secret' is?" he asks. Raph responds with a wry smile. "Yes, sir! It's the kind of mission when you get medals, but they send them to your relatives." Ignoring the remark, Doolittle continues, "Top secret means you train for something never done before in aviation history and you go without knowing where you're going. You do it on that basis or not at all." Honored to be asked, yet unsure of what they are committing to, both men agree to go. In many ways, God recruits us to follow him in the same way that Doolittle recruited these pilots for this mission. God trains us in ways unique to us to fulfill unique purposes, and we know little or nothing about where we are going. We go on that basis, or we don't go at all. [The mission, called Doolittle's Raid, was to attack Japan by air. It was successful and affected the course of the war. In the movie, the two pilots live through the attack, but both are forced to crash-land their planes in China. At this point, Danny is ambushed and killed by Japanese soldiers who have invaded that part of China. Raph survives.] Elapsed time: Measured from the beginning of the opening credit, this scene begins at 2:19:35 and last approximately 45 seconds. Content: Pearl Harbor is rated PG-13 for profanity, violence, and sexuality. Pearl Harbor (Touchstone, 2001), rated PG-13, written by Randall Wallace, directed by Michael Bay;
THE MORE YOU KNOW
THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SAY
“Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don’t feel like I need a piece of paper that says I own her and she owns me. I think signing a piece of paper doesn’t mean anything in the eyes of God or in the eyes of people. The thing is, if you are together and you love each other and are good to each other, make babies and all that, for all intents and purposes you are married.”- Actor Johnny Depp “Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”- Erma Bombeck “Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience must become the essential characteristic of our lives.”- Andrew Murray “Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the ones who loves that one.”- Oswald Chambers “It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.”-Thomas Carlyle “There’s nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.”- Malcolm Muggeridge
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