Watch this. Three minutes. Then three questions below it.
Kyle was the most lethal sniper in American military history and nearly lost his marriage because he could not protect his home from the enemy he brought back inside himself.
Home security is not primarily about locks and emergency plans. It is about a man who is awake, spiritually covering his household, and engaged with the people inside it.
The most dangerous thing that can happen in your home is not a break-in. It is a man who is physically inside the walls and spiritually outside them.
American Sniper is the film at the center of this study. The scene is chosen because it captures something true about the specific challenge this study addresses. The filmmakers may not have intended a theological reading, but the truth they captured is there regardless of intention.
Psalm 127:1 sits inside a larger argument Paul or one of the other biblical authors is making about how the renewed life looks in practice. The verse is not a standalone principle. It is part of a sustained argument about what it looks like when a man actually believes what he says he believes on Sunday morning.
The connection between this film and this Scripture is the same one that runs through every study in this series: what a man sees in the mirror when he watches that clip is exactly the gap this Scripture addresses. The film names the problem. The Scripture names the source and the solution.