My Junior Prom This past weekend a number of our group’s high school students attended prom. In spite of my nerdiness, I actually went to prom my junior and senior years of high school and even had a date both years. The themes for prom are always something mildly romantic like “A Night in Paris”Read more
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My adventure in the world of Harry Potter continued this past week. I’ve been tempted to get ahead of my reading plan but I have abstained. As things start to pick up at Hogwarts, though, I may find I lack the self-control necessary. Below are some reflections from the chapters 6-9 of The Chamber ofRead more
The trailers and commercials have piqued my interest for Prometheus. It looks like a great science fiction movie filled with suspense and mystery. My interest in Prometheus, which takes place in the Alien franchise universe, has also piqued my interest in those movies. That raised interest, though, is competing with my great fear of theRead more
Every spring we do a big competition series for our youth group. We pick a theme and plan all of our games, teams, images and talks around that theme. This year it was a no-brainer for us to use The Hunger Games as our theme. It had been fun to create a lot of artworkRead more
Years ago my good friend Vince and I would hear about Christians acting very much unlike Jesus and we would just say, “Christians make me look bad.” We weren’t attempting to elevate ourselves through that statement but were simply acknowledging that sometimes Christians do things in the name of Jesus that reflect poorly on theRead more
Like a seemingly large portion of the American public, I saw The Hunger Games this past weekend. I had finished the book earlier in the week so I was primed to see how Katniss Everdeen’s fight for survival translated to the silver screen. I enjoyed the movie. I thought that it was well directed, theRead more