Strikes my fancy

With a little more than a week left in 2008, I have finished* Grant & Darin's 2007 movie lists! For those of you that know either of them, this is a list that they agonize over (ok, maybe that's too strong of a word). Darin gives his star rankings, Grant just lists them. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and decided to combine the lists and watch all of them. *The following appeared on at least one of the lists and I I did not watch for the following reasons: The Kite Runner (I'm going to read the book first) No End in Sight (one of my best friends is in Iraq finishing his 3rd tour, I didn't think I could emotionally handle the movie while continuing to be encouraging to him) This is England (Grant told me it was too violent for me to watch...he knows me well) Killer of Sheep (this was on Grant's "want to see" list...and he decided it was boring) Here is the combined list - the + means I liked it, the - means I didn't (I'm pretty simple l...

I read this article last week (but had to wait for the on-line version to appear this week): www.christianstandard.com/articledisplay.asp?id=1101. (sorry, you have to cut and paste because I tried for 15 minutes to embed this!) I found the article interesting. I to wonder what causes some Christian leaders to drink. Now, I know, I'm in a pretty decent church community. For the most part they don't care if the leader does or doesn't drink. But I think that examining your motive for downing a brew isn't bad. Thinking about your example to others isn't bad. Determining if your drinking a drink will cause someone to be closed to talking to a "Christian" isn't bad. I guess I agree with the author in that you just need to think about cultural relevance & motive.

Us kids. Man, we blog like once a month. haha. I am officially done with my Christmas shopping! Woohoo! I am not done with Grant & Darin's movie lists. Well, I'm done with their lists, but I have 3 movies I'm watching that they might have missed on their lists. So I'm waiting until I finish those to post my opinions. The bro came to visit this last weekend and my legs still hurt from all the walking. True to previou s visits, we walked alot and ate :-) We saw Cirque du Soleil's Wintuk. Pretty cool. We ate Mac & Cheese (yes, that's a slab of bacon at the bottom of the picture) And PB&J sandwiches (ok, one was cherry preserves & cocount - the other was cream cheese & chocolate chips) And we took our picture in front of this building because everyone else was taking pictures. We figured it must be something Extremely important! ;-) We also saw a pretty cool drum line competition...from the back. And a prett...