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• Inspirational McCain

I try not to write about politics. I think the whole election process in this country is a farce. It’s an overblown popularity contest. Such a small percentage of the population really knows what their candidate believes. Most base their votes on purely aesthetic or stereotypical guidelines. They find someone that looks the most like [...]

• Failing Seminary for the Glory of God

GoingtoSeminary.com has some good advice for those entrenched in Seminary or theological college. Seminary isn’t the most important thing! Some of their tips: Give the wrong answer, Ignore your GPA, Put your family first, and Love the Church. Here’s an excerpt.
The seminary has become a place of information and not transformation. The focus has been [...]

• Spiritual Cookies

The Irish Calvinist, Erik Raymond, gives an inspiring analogy between our online habits and our spiritual habits in Spiritual Cookies.

• Ratatouille (2007)

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A rat named Remy (Patton Oswalt), living in Paris, longs for the food from the kitchens and tables instead of the garbage like the rest of his family, so he befriends a chef with little talent, Linguini (Lou Romano), and [...]

• Shaq’s Big Challenge

In case you didn’t know, last night was the premiere of an ABC special series called “Shaq’s Big Challenge.” We all know Shaq is big, but what is so big about the challenge?
Childhood obesity is a fast-growing epidemic in the U.S. And Shaquille O’Neal is trying to take 6 Florida kids from fat to [...]

• The Fountain (2006)

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An odyssey of one man and his eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. The primary focus is on modern-day scientist Tommy Creo (Hugh Jackman), who is desperate to find a cure for the cancer killing his beloved wife, [...]

• Unstrung Heroes (1995)

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Overview: Diane Keaton directs this story of 12-year-old Steven Lidz (Nathan Watt) who spends part of the summer of 1962 with his two oddball uncles while his father Sidney (John Turturro), an inventor, looks after his mother Selma (Andie MacDowell) [...]

• Catch and Release (2006)

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“Catch and Release” was one of those movies that I totally missed while it was in theaters. I had never even heard of it until I saw a commercial for the DVD. Even then I did put it in my [...]

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

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This critically acclaimed film, based on the wonderful play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, is a beautiful story of Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) the passionate, sexually-frustrated, wife whose advances and lustful sensuality are thwarted by the unloving temperament of [...]

• Who Is Your Anna Nicole Smith?

Timmy Brister of “Provocations and Pantings” posted the following excellent commentary which I did not have the tact to post myself.

“Go and sin no some more.”
Those were the words that continued to ring through my head as I listened over and over again to all the news reports on the life and death of [...]

• What Christmas Is All About

“The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity—hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory—because at the Father’s will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” - J. I. Packer
What are some of your [...]

• 150 Things

I’m sure this will raise all sorts of questions and concerns, and if you prod hard enough I just might tell stories.
Legend:
Bold Black = Done it!
Green = Haven’t but want to
Red = Haven’t and don’t want to
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (albeit a small [...]

• The Longing for Beauty in “The Voyage of The Dawn Treader“

I’m currently reading an excellent book by Jonathan Rogers, author of The Wilderking Trilogy, called The World According to Narnia. The book is an up close look at The Chronicles of Narnia exploring their Christian meaning. These were some of my favorite books growing up and it is amazing when I share the books with [...]

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