Jake Johnson's Self Reliance is now streaming on Hulu ... Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse) to talk about making his directorial debut with this excellent new film. In our conversation ...

Another popular teaching often attributed to the Bible is, “God helps those who help themselves.” While this sentiment might inspire self-reliance and hard work, it’s not a biblical verse.

Nine score years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his American-spirited essay “Self-Reliance ... Russell lived his life according to a Bible verse he found highlighted in his grandmother ...

There's John 3:16, memory verse par excellence, and Ephesians 2:8-9 ... which is when the gospel is unleashed in our lives and challenges our self-reliance. This is when things get really exciting.

Self Reliance is a comedy thriller film written ... and they said that this felt like a smaller version of that, and they passed, and then I got my feelings hurt and just didn’t do anything ...