Ever year since it came out, on my birthday I watch my favourite movie, the first Matrix. (It’s also the inspiration for this blog’s banner graphic.) Highlights from this year:

Whenever the impure spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” – Mark 3:11

Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? – Galatians 3:3

“The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.” – John 6:63

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. – Luke 24:45

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. – Romans 6:4