Funny

This is a real tag on a real chics car. I can't come up with any positive reason to get that as a tag. Can you?

Hammer vs. Ankle

This is my ankle vs. the hammer. The hammer looks just fine. Its been 4 days I can walk on it ok just not stand for long. I am always surprised at how well the human body takes abuse and continues to repair its self and continue working.

What's up

I just got back from watching POTC 3. I thought it was good, clearly not as good as the original nothing ever is but differing with most I did think it was better than the second and I didn't think it was too long or dull, my son and myself were entertained and never realized that much time had gone by. I didn't care too much for what happened to Will at the end but other than that it was good. I even thought Keith Richards did a good job though small. Just thought I would mention it since I didn't think Spiderman 3 sucked either.

I just downloaded the new White Stripes album today, so far it is nice, I was disapointed with the last one so I was leary but this one seems to be worth the risk. This is the first whole album I have gotten from itunes, I figured that since they just sit in the rack never to be touched again once I rip them, then should I really bother buying the cd? So, I gave it a shot.

I did end up downloading a single that I already have, is there anyway to delete the song and get my 99 cents back? Its not even a song that I like.

So, since we are loved and forgiven by Jesus because of His grace, we are allowed to be as bad as we want to be and so is everyone else? We are never allowed to tell anyone that something is bad because we are bad? I miss the old days when the Bible said it so we would try to do it and with the help of the Holy Spirit we could accomplish it, and sometimes we did, more and more often accually, and we were allowed to say, "God says" or "The Bible says" with confidence in the authority behind that statement. I'm really having a problem with, it's clearly wrong but i'm not allowed to say that it is wrong because

Vacation is over

It is Saturday, vacation is over, I just spent an hour or so checking email and hitting some blogs. I havn't touched the computer all week, or my Ipod. Catching up on Podcasts is gonna take forever. I spent the week as summer camp with my son and a bunch of bad bad 8 year olds. Now is when I need the vacation. It was fun. Oh, I almost forgot, last weekend before the summer camp thing, we went camping with the cub scouts at Fort Wilderness at Disney World. Well it happened to be the same day as our first tropical storm so that was fun. We just stayed on the air matress in the middle of the tent and most of the water ran to the corners. It got to be only 2 inches deep or so.

The big surprise was when we went to the park. Does anyone know what weekend this was as the Magic Kingdom, I bet you do. It was quite fun, some of those red t shirts were quite entertaining. I couldn't help but think about Mini Me missing out on the parade I could have gotten a few choice shots with the folks in red. The boys didn't seem to notice anything, but we adults sure had fun with it. Some of my favorites...

"I'm not gay but my boyfriend is"

"I 'heart' booty"

this one had a little pirate on it.

There were two little old ladies wearing white T's with red marker writen on them that said,

"Red Shirt"

So, cute.

We rode space mountain, Pirates of the Carabean and then went over to MGM, It was also StarWars weekend, they had very few red shirts there. We got to see Chewy, Princess Leia, Luke, he had a bad wig, an Ewok; not Wiket, Anakin, He looked like the real one, a few of the alien type Jedi's, some clone's, and even the guy who was inside the original R2D2. We missed all the Sithe, since they were in a separate area of the park and I didn't know it till they all went away for the evening.

I have spent the rest of my time trying to watch the FireFly series, I got through the first two DVD's. A few nights I was just too tired. I also got to see Corpse Bride last night and Borne Identity monday, that is one of those that as a "christian" I wouldn't allow myself to watch when it came out but i'm over that now, so i'm catching up.

Got a lot of yard work to do, a trip or 2 to the dump, and then back to work monday, then I can finally rest.

Godzilla 2000

Guesse what i'm watching today? Godzilla 2000. I'm on vacation next week so I got a bunch of stuff to watch. It ought to be fun, i've been listening to Watch the Directors, so my need to see list keeps growing, I don't know if i'll be able to catch up. I also got the book by Tim Lahaye "the rapture" it is the 3rd prequel book to the original Left Behind series. I bring that up because I have heard comments on SBE and on etcetera about those books and the people who read them and they wern't possitive comments. I was wondering what it is that is wrong with them? I have read all of the Left Behind books and now these, I have a problem stopping when there are other books left to read, the same reason I watched Matrix 3 even though it sucked so so so bad. These books havn't sucked though, I have enjoyed them, though it does seem to be an excessive # of books to tell the story. Oh, I have seen the 3 movies too. I admit that when I started I was one of those who would only read christian books, watch christian movies and listen to christian music, and no video games at all. I'm not like that anymore but I still like some of them. The difference is now I also like to read Koontz, and watch Tarantino and all that "bad, bad" stuff. Does music get any better than Nine Inch Nails, well besides Michael Card?? I have an xbox now too, I love Halo...

I found this sight about 2001, it is pretty entertaining and give an explanation of the movie. Apparently there is no official explanation, they just want us to each figure out what it means to us. http://www.kubrick2001.com/ I still don't know what a starchild is though...

2001

I just re-watched 2001 today, I saw it back when I was in high school, it came up in a few podcasts about great scifi movies and stuff, so I thought I would re watch it. I still don't understand any of it. The part in the middle about the trip to Jupiter and HAL going bonkers and trying to kill everyone and Dave shutting him down to survive, that part made since. The big black box makes no since, all that suff at the end is just nuts. What am I missing? I understand that it was made in 68 and the fx and all would have been stunning back then but other than that where is the greatness? Unless that is the greatness of it.

Lego Creation

My son wanted to put this on the internet, I said, sure! Cool huh?

I don't know much

I'm thinking I must not know much about movies. No one seems to like Spiderman 3 yet I did, I admit that I didn't like all the time spent on PP and MaryJane and I totally didn't like the crybaby stuff, but I just shook my head and watched the rest of the movie. I liked having lots of villains it gave more to watch. Adding to this thought I watched Shawshank Redemption this weekend because I have always heard that it was good and I had never seen more than a few minutes of it. It was good, I totally enjoyed the movie and thought all of the actors did a great job and I totally liked the story. On the bonus DVD I found out that it was a Steven King Novella that was cool too, they mentioned that the movie has been voted as the best or near the best movie ever on the imdb along with The Godfather and Citizen Kane and a few others like that. I looked it up, it is right there at #2 after The Godfather. Now it has been a while since I have seen the Godfather but from what I remember it was a good movie but I don't' think it would make my top20 list. Star wars was on the list but way down closer to 10, what's with that? Signs was not anywhere on the list, The Princess Bride was down in the 100s. So what I draw from this is that apparently I don't know much about movies. THX1138 is another one that I saw in the last week, that movie was outstanding, I loved the vision that George Lucas had and he was trying to portray his current day, he thought it was bad then? Some people tell me it is just because my tastes are different, but why? Shouldn't I be able to tell a good movie from a bad one? I think Shawn of the dead sucked, but 28 days later was excellent. I am just a little weirded out to find that I am so out of the norm on something that I have such an interest in as movies. I don't have film or art training but I thought my opinions would at least line up a little with the rest of the world. With all of that said, I saw a Hallmark Entertainment version of Frankenstein, with William Hurt and Donald Southerland, yesterday, I loved it, totally different than any other depiction of Frankenstein that I have ever seen, the monster was really Victor and the creature wasn't a big dumb brute he was well read and quoted great works and only wanted to not be alone, buy the end I was glad to see Victor die and even then the creature cared for his body and carried it away with the love and respect of a son to a father even though the father never showed it to him. I want to read to book now because if it is like this version I believe I would thoroughly enjoy it.

Commandments

I am having a problem the last day or two with somethings I have read vs. what i am hearing. In the gospel of John i keep reading things like 15:14 "Your are My friends if you do what I command you." 14:23 "if anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him" 15:10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." Then today i read 1st John 2:3-6 "By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, I have come to know HIm, and does not keep His commandments , is a liar and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked." 3:6 "No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him" 3:10 "By this the children of God and the dhildren of the devil are obvious; anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nore the one who does not love his brother." 3:22 "whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight."
That is not all of it, I am just trying to resolve the issue somehow that God loves us regardless but against these and other scriptures it seems to say that we have to keep "His commandments" which by the way are what? all i could find immediatly surrounding this was John 15:12-17 "This is My commandment that you love one another, just as I have loved you." so is this instead of the old commandments or on top of them or inclusive of them. My real point though is that I don't keep the old commandments or the new ones, does this according to these words from Jesus mean that I am not accepted, Loved or whatever you want to call it. I know i don't live righteously and i don't "love my brother" I trust Jesus and His sacrifice to pay the penalty for my sins but is that not enough? Is He not pleased with me since i don't live up to the commands that He has given, this seems to be teaching the opposite of what i hear from Steve Brown and Marc Driscoll and Greg Dumas and most bible teachers i have heard. i am lost and confused and wondering if i have any chance. i was just thinking.....

What do you do when you feel that you are called by God to be a pastor yet you don't want to do that? He makes you go to school and even after you turn from Him for a few years He still drags you back and gives you the same call. I know now that I am even less worthy and capable of such a duty than I was before but it still seems to be there, even when I hear Mark Driscoll's discription of what "ministry" is like, I still feel like that is what He wants, and I still don't want to do it. When I listen to pastors I think, I just plain don't know all that stuff, and I am not that good at comunicating anything. These guys are great, I listen to them daily and am dumbfounded. I read there books and think, "no way". But I can't not do what God tells me to do right? Steve Brown today was saying once again how much of a sinner he is and I feel the same way, only I know I am way more evil than Steve Brown. At one time I finally accepted the call and went to work to get prepared. I started theological school, I was doing youth ministry, I was teaching, I was learning, I even got to preach at my church twice when the pastor was on vacation, I was in tune with God. What was I thinking? I didn't know what I was doing, and now i'm just worse than that. So, what to do, I feel as though I could enter any profession but never be satisfied or fullfilled, until I am doing what God wants. Just a thought.....

Spiderman 3

I got in to see Spiderman 3 on opening day right before it was sold out for the night. That was 3 in the afternoon. I thought the movie was great, it was more than i expected. I liked that they spent less time introducing the villians than usual, a little time on sandman and no time on harry and really no time on Venom. The whole crybaby Parker thing bothered me, but i think he is supposed to be some sort of sissy wimp anyway and in this case they may have been trying to make an extreme differentiation between his sensitivity and caring before Venom and after. I still didn't like seeing him crying that much, or at all. Also i totally dug the "bad" Peter way cooler than the normal one, he actually kicked some tail and showed mary jane a thing or two as well. I never read any of the comic books so i'm not sure if they did the original justice or not, but i liked it.

Movie Review "Munich"

I really enjoyed this movie, I was an infant when it happened yet never heard of these events until I saw the movie. Very powerful, it was an inside look at the turmoil involved in the lives of the men chosen to retaliate to terrorism and the difficulty of engaging in similar tactics in fighting them. I was surprised to see that the events that surround us today are not really different from the world then, yet everyone seems to think this is something new. Apparently the facts of these events are not known only speculated based on a few factual bits of information so the movie is based on true events but purely speculation when it comes to the specifics of the men and there mission. Very well done, I thought I would watch the movie and like it, I didn't expect to be so moved by it. Great job Mr. Speilburg. Violence, blood, sex and nudity.

Movie Review "Kingdom of Heaven"

I was surprised at how much I loved this movie. I didn't even know who was in it before I saw them on the screen. It was very well done, I loved the story, the action, the scenic images. As far as I could tell from the DVD featurettes it was historically accurate at least the real historical characters that were portrayed. I had no idea of such events happening during the crusades. I also appreciated that it did not take the typical stand against the "evil crusading christians" that we allways here of nor did it portray the Muslims as evil. It portrayed honor among the knighthood, and the muslim warriors as well as the evil and treachery that existed in that world and this one. I am sure the subject of the movie is what kept people from seeing it in the theater but it was well worth the viewing, I learned a lot and was entertained in the process. Lots of blood and violence there may have been some nudity as well.

Emerging Church

I recently read a blog regarding John MacArthers new book and the Emerging Church. I know little about this Emerging Church thing, I am curious to find out what it is all about. I have been out of the Church world for a few years and am just getting back in and finding that some things have changed in the mean time. My new church seems to be very accuarate and applicable. It is hard for me to imagine that people would call something God's church without holding up His Word as truth, but it happens.

I'm figuring some of this out

I Got some links up, I noticed that i have no other posts so no one is reading this but me. oh, well.

I don't really know how all this works yet, but i'm sure I will figure it out eventually.