threatening resurrection

I've been watching the Rockford Files on Netflix.  It's a TV series from the 70's starring James Garner (on whom I had a reasonably ridiculous teenage crush).  Rockford is a private detective who fast talks himself out of most situations and resorts to a gun only under real duress.  I get a kick out of the shows.  My daughter thinks they're lame.  (But then, she was never in love with James Garner!)


I've noticed a couple of things from watching this 30 year old show.  They really liked car chases.  Every episode has at least 2 - with squealing tires and fancy driving.  There is rarely any violence beyond a well placed punch or two.  There is very little shooting; very little bleeding.

I think the lack of violence makes the show all the more appealing to me.  I am worn out by the 'realistic' TV we now get to watch: shows with sexual predators and serial killers.  We have shows with multiple dead and bleeding victims before the first commercial break.  We have the criminally insane and terrorists plotting our demise as a nation.  All that violence just wears me out, makes me fearful, and I think that, in the long run, I doubt that it is particularly good for the psyche or the soul.

Everywhere we turn someone is threatening something:  bodily harm, a legal battle, a take down on 'reality' TV, even a smearing on social media.  We attack, attack, attack.

Jesus, on the other hand, is out there threatening resurrection.

Pulls the rug right out from under the power brokers and dealers in death.
Do your worst, Jesus says.  I've got resurrection in my arsenal.

Now what do you say about that?