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    Featured: Stop teaching spiritual gifts, watch Encanto instead
    Checkpoint Church
    • Jan 24
    • 1 min

    Featured: Stop teaching spiritual gifts, watch Encanto instead

    Nerd Pastor Nate is a featured writer for Rethink Church writing on gaming, anime, and other pop culture topics. In this post, he...
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    Did Peter Parker make the right decision at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home?
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Jan 23
    • 10 min

    Did Peter Parker make the right decision at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home?

    What better way to kick off the new season than with everyone’s favorite web-slinger Spider-man? Spider-Man: No Way Home hit theaters at...
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    Downloading... This May Take A While
    Checkpoint Church
    • Jan 19
    • 2 min

    Downloading... This May Take A While

    Have you ever gone for a file download or installed a new program and gotten that message? I grew up in the dial-up era and this message...
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    Goals Met, Friends Made, Moving On
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Jan 12
    • 2 min

    Goals Met, Friends Made, Moving On

    I want to start this one with a humongous THANK YOU for making our first ever 24-hour charity stream a huge success. It's important to...
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    Setting A New Standard
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Jan 5
    • 2 min

    Setting A New Standard

    When it comes to the work of digital ministry, the most exciting part is that every new thing you try is unprecedented. We are now...
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    Featured: "The truth about violence in video games" from Rethink Church
    Checkpoint Church
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 1 min

    Featured: "The truth about violence in video games" from Rethink Church

    Nerd Pastor Nate is a featured writer for Rethink Church writing on gaming, anime, and other pop culture topics. In this post, he...
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    And Then There Were None
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 29, 2021
    • 2 min

    And Then There Were None

    Well, this is it - our final To The Point newsletter of 2021. I want to first thank you - whether this is your first, your thirtieth,...
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    Nerdy Devotional Season 2 Finale
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 26, 2021
    • 0 min

    Nerdy Devotional Season 2 Finale

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    The Nerd At Christmas
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Nerd At Christmas

    It seems that the season of Christmas isn't dissimilar from a Pokémon. It evolves. Since my childhood, I've always known the 'true reason...
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    How Hawkeye (Disney +) is Exploring Repressed Trauma
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 19, 2021
    • 8 min

    How Hawkeye (Disney +) is Exploring Repressed Trauma

    If you’re plugged into our community on Twitch or Discord, you know my thoughts on Hawkeye are less than great. So I’m going to take all...
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    A Game Dev's Reflection
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    A Game Dev's Reflection

    Wow, that title is wild to see. As I write this, I've just finished playing the final complete collection of our first ever video game...
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    The True Evil in League of Legend's ARCANE Series
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 9 min

    The True Evil in League of Legend's ARCANE Series

    It’s not mystery than I’m not the biggest fan of League of Legends and given articles like this - I’m not alone in that sentiment. But...
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    Bestivus for the Rest of Us
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    Bestivus for the Rest of Us

    Planting a church like Checkpoint is a fairly inexplicable thing. I can't begin to describe the surprises that have been waiting on me...
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    The Zen of Unpacking & How It Gives Us Hope
    Checkpoint Church
    • Dec 5, 2021
    • 9 min

    The Zen of Unpacking & How It Gives Us Hope

    When was the last time you moved homes? Packed all of your things up and took them to a totally new place and then started unpacking. You...
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    Tragedy Beyond Four Walls
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Tragedy Beyond Four Walls

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This video mentions a tragedy in Ohio, but the event in fact occurred in Michigan. Adjustments and edits have been made as...
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    How Pikmin Bloom is Echoing Christian Servanthood
    Checkpoint Church
    • Nov 28, 2021
    • 9 min

    How Pikmin Bloom is Echoing Christian Servanthood

    Yeah, you read that title right. We’re straight up talking about Pikmin and Jesus today and that is hilarious to me. Words cannot...
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    Putting the Good in Ludology
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Nov 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Putting the Good in Ludology

    Checkpoint Church has been secretly developing a video game just in time for Advent. If you missed the news, then... well, first off I...
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    Why Are There So Many Game Remakes?
    Checkpoint Church
    • Nov 21, 2021
    • 9 min

    Why Are There So Many Game Remakes?

    Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl dropped this past Friday and I guarantee that I am playing them as this video is dropping. I...
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    Reflection Via Competition
    Nerd Pastor Nate
    • Nov 17, 2021
    • 2 min

    Reflection Via Competition

    Enter the competition here! One of the hallmarks of the gaming year has been the relatively recent tradition of Geoff Keighley's The Game...
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    Can Christians Learn Anything From Dune?
    Checkpoint Church
    • Nov 14, 2021
    • 8 min

    Can Christians Learn Anything From Dune?

    We can’t just NOT talk about Dune, right? It’s too jam-packed with imagery and themes and all that mess to possibly get away with...
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