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For many of you this may be the first post you read here at EngagingCulture.com. I have been very honored and privileged to be called to minister as the youth pastor here in the First Baptist Church of Williston Florida. This is my home. And I look forward to many years of fruitful ministry here. [...]

• Best Bets: WALL-E is Wanted

We haven’t had a real summer family movie for a few weeks since Kung Fu Panda. The Incredible Hulk was marketed to little kids, with a slew of toys released in tandem with the film, but the violence and several disturbing images made it not suitable for little ones like mine. So I’m happy to [...]

• Why Kids Should Wear Cowbells

Since I know you are going to look at the pictures first I should just show them first. Click to see them bigger.

So, Benjamin wanted to try his hand at hair styling I guess. They were supposed to be taking a nap. But instead, they snuck out of their room and massacred the hair of [...]

• Review: Kung Fu Panda

Starring: Jack Black (Po), Dustin Hoffman (Shifu), Angelina Jolie (Tigress), Ian McShane (Tai Lung), Jackie Chan (Monkey), Seth Rogen (Mantis), Lucy Liu (Viper), David Cross (Crane), and more.
Directed: Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
Links: Website, IMDB, Trailer
- 8.5 Stars
Well, after seeing Kung Fu Panda, I’m pleasantly surprised. When I first heard about it last winter [...]

• Best Bets: Don’t Mess With the Kung Fu Panda

Well, last week Sex and the City did extremely well at the box office raking in nearly 57 million, easily overtaking the geriatric Dr. Jones who had a weak showing of only 46 million. The big winner of the weekend was the summer horror flick, The Strangers, it surprised most by having a 21 million [...]

• Red Band Trailers

I try to keep this site clean and family friendly. To me, that means avoiding profanity and sexual content, and trying to keep violence to a minimum. I do this as a service for my readers, knowing that many of them object to such content, or are offended by it. However, personally I don’t mind [...]

• Lots of New Pictures

I updated the gallery to include our recent pictures from the trip to the zoo, but I also found a bunch of other pictures I never uploaded. Check them out by clicking on the gallery link in the navigational bar at the top of the page. If you just want to randomly browse the new [...]

• Best Bet: Prince Caspian

Well, here it is Friday and I haven’t given you my Best Bet for the week. I know that many of you are languishing without this advice, you are poised on Fandango ready to buy tickets if only I would tell you what to see. Okay, maybe not. It seems that the studios have made [...]

• Happy 100th Mothers Day

Well, I just got off the phone with my mom to wish her a happy mothers day, and no I didn’t call collect (I used my cell phone which has free nights and weekends!). It was in 1908 when single and childless Anna Jarvin began this holiday to celebrate the memory of her mother, soon [...]

• A Dad Shaped Hole?

At sixty-one years old, Sylvester Stallone shouted and shot a fifty-caliber cannon, halting the progress of any who wish to mutilate and murder the missionaries and mercenaries trying to bring light to a lifeless land. After the bloodbath, Stallone sighs, looking like a leathery god as actress Julie Benz gapes upward in awe. There is [...]

• UPS Philosophy: Test Drive

As most of you know, aside from blogging for a living (haha), I work at UPS here in Louisville. Well I am amazed at some of the discussions that we share while out on the ramp loading planes full of packages. Some of them are just crude and not fit to publish, however others are [...]

• New Family Pictures

Check the gallery for new family portrait photos.

• Easter Should Disturb Us

Dr. Moore comments on the trend among some publisher of Sunday school curricula to water down the presentation of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus to preschoolers saying that it is too scary. He says:
This Easter, preach the Gospel… to the senior citizens, to the middle-aged, to the young adults, to the teenagers, to [...]

• A Theology of Consumption

Television has been called the electronic babysitter. Parents worry about too much sex and violence being transmitted to kids. Yet half a century of rhetoric about television’s harmful influence hasn’t changed the fact that most viewers simply don’t care. They don’t consider television a classroom dedicated to the development of youth. While legislators grabbed headlines [...]

• Happy 2008

I thought I would ring in the new year by cleaning the slate. If I have offended or slighted anyone in 2007 I sincerely apologize for my actions. I probably don’t even realize what I have done. I am genuinely dense when it comes to most people’s feelings. Also, I need to work on my [...]

• Tornadoes

I love how the weather changes. We’ve had hot and dry conditions until last week when we snapped into the 40’s. Now we have a cold front moving through with severe wind sheer. There is a great chance for tornadoes. One storm cell has already past us and according to radar went right over our [...]

• Jesus, Thank You

I normally just post on my MySpace Blog, but after Logan’s persistent nagging to use his blog since he is otherwise occupied, I thought I would double post my latest thoughts here.
I’m sitting at the computer tonight with my head full of thoughts about various things in my life. How Logan begins work for UPS [...]

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