I do feel a bit sorry for Bush though. He gets made fun of by everybody!
HT: Sam Middlebrook
Cars
I took the boys to see “Cars” on Friday afternoon. They loved the action and pretty colors and goofy voices. I loved the story. It spoke to me more than any movie has in a while.
June 12, 2006 By 6 Comments
Miami Nice
My sister read a comment on a previous post about Miami Vice and sent me this pic. It’s about as close to Miami Vice as I ever got. This would have been in the spring of 1987 just before my 8th grade banquet in Rockport, Texas. There was going to be (ahem) DANCING at this particular banquet. It caused quite a stir in the little conservative “church of Christ” where we worshiped because I, along with a couple of others from the youth group, were going to it, with dates no less. I seem to remember falling in love while the DJ played Bon Jovi’s “Never Say Goodbye.” I also remember falling out of love two weeks later. The Sunday after the banquet the preacher actually preached an anti-dancing sermon. At least that’s what my parents told me afterward. I hadn’t been paying attention.
This could be the second post to my blog that I later decide to delete!
June 9, 2006 By 16 Comments
Reflections from Brian McLaren
Here are some interesting reflections from Brian McLaren.
One highlight:
Too often, though, this decision-focused approach produces a series of raised and dashed expectations, as people “make a decision” but nothing really changes. And in settings that are in some ways more pre-Christian or post-Christian than typical of Christendom, calling people to immediate commitment without understanding makes no sense at all.
As an alternative, many of us wisely want to emphasize process ? the process of coming to faith in Christ, the process of becoming and growing as disciples, the process of opening one?s life to more and more fullness of the Holy Spirit, and so on. Again, I think this emphasis is sensible, and the problems it seeks to avoid are real.
But it would be a shame if we lose the very real insight that some people are ready to make a decision or commitment and need to do so. They may be like the rich young ruler in the gospel story, or like the Philippian jailor in Acts: they want to take the next step, but they don?t know how, or even if there is a next step. My hunch is that baptism ? which marks a key milestone in a process, and is both an ending and a beginning ? should become a bigger focus in many of our churches. Perhaps some kinds of membership processes, or induction into a team of leaders or monastic community, can also help us explore new ways of calling people in process to decision and commitment in a healthy way. We need to be careful we don?t respond to an overemphasis on simplistic decisions and high-pressure events by accepting a low-intensity process without events or milestones or commitments, when what we need is an approach that looks for processes that include decisive events of commitment.
June 8, 2006 By 8 Comments
Way Behind
We’re already way behind on summer movie watching.
Haven’t seen DVC or X-Men yet. Did see MI3, which could have also been titled, “Watch Tom Cruise Run A Whole Bunch”
Two movies I’m really looking forward to: Superman and Miami Vice.
June 4, 2006 By 6 Comments
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