The Rock Church Worship Service

Paul (You are holy) Jon Genesis 21:1-7 Key – 6 Made her laughter something redemptive Gen 12 bless nations of the world Messiah will fix it all God gives a promise, but not a deadline Life keeps ticking away Abe hits 100 Gen 17:17 – God reassures him and Abe is incredulous Scoffing laughter, sarcasm Sarah hears, Gen 18:12, and is sarchastic Lost belief in supernatural God As we get older, faith gets harder Intellectually skeptical Afraid to hope – males us vulnerable…don’t want to get hurt… We love control, we hate disappointment Afraid of boredom…don’t want to wait Start to close our hearts…get jaded Laughter of addiction and fixation Gen 21:8-10 Celebrations full of laughter Cast out Hagar and son, they can’t laugh Ishmael laughing AT Isaac? Laughter turns to anger Something wrong with this laughter…displaces God from the throne of our hearts, fromour center If anything disappoints us, … Continue reading →

Houseboating on Lake Shasta

Last Sunday through Thursday I went house boating with Laura and her extended maternal family. Saturday night I crashed at Laura’s house in Redondo Beach so we could take one car from Redondo (25 miles closer to Shasta). Sunday morning we were up at 6am and left the house by 7 to start. We chose the 101 over the 5 because it’s prettier and so we could stop in Paso Robles and visit the A&W Restaurant with carhop service. We got to Paso Robles around 1pm and slowly cruised down “main street” looking for the restaurant. Unable to find it, we scoured the web with my iPhone and found that they tore it down to build a bank. Boo! So we stopped at a Tastee Freeze for burgers and ice cream. Then we headed back on the road. As we approached Gilroy and highway 152 (which we used to get … Continue reading →

Jedi Vs. Sith Application on Facebook RULES!

You can play a trivia game to boost your Jedi/Sith knowledge stats. Some of the questions are really poorly written, but sometimes they just get downright haughty. And this one REALLY pisses me off. A parsec is actually a measure of what? Answers: distance. – relativistic adjustment. – time. – weight. It has that nasty air of superiority that tries to highlight Lucas’ supposed gaff over the line “made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs”….there’s a cannon answer to why Han makes that claim. “The [Millennium] Falcon is often connected to the Kessel Run, a pathway from Kessel past the Maw Black Hole Cluster used by smugglers to transport precious Glitterstim spice.[3] Solo in A New Hope brags that the Falcon made the Kessel Run in “less than twelve parsecs“, referring to his ability to move the ship closer to the Maw’s black holes and therefore cut the … Continue reading →

Evan Almighty

I got sick of the trailer for this movie way before it came out (I think because I kept going to movies and kept seeing the trailer and all those movie posters with Steve Carrel in the Marilyn Monroe pose ala Noah). I didn’t really have a problem with the concept at that point because I had enjoyed the positive Christian message in Bruce Almighty and expected the same from this one, but as the trailer/posters/etc. kept intruding in my life, I think I became so sick of it I tried to translate my annoyance at the promotions into genuine dislike for the movie based on the fact God saying He wouldn’t flood the Earth ever again. Through this transference of dislike I became convinced that this movie was just horribly wrong and that I would hate it. Well I’m glad to say that I enjoyed this movie very much. … Continue reading →

“Music and Lyrics” Addendum and The Marvelous Wonderettes

On her MySpace music blog, Hayley Bennett (played music star Cora) explains to her fans that the character she played in the movie was just a character. I almost want to message her and go: no we don’t assume that you have no morals because you play a strange character in a movie, we’re just generally untrustworthy of anyone in the movie/recording industry. But whatever. The soundtrack to the movie is really awesome. Unfortunately, I’ve got the song Buddha’s Delight nailed into my head. You know all those times I’ve hummed It’s A Small World and got it drilled into your head? That how I remember this song…drilled into my head. It’s excruciatingly annoying. One of the commercials before the movie was for Windows Vista and made me laugh hard. I mean it’s actually a really good commercial: a bunch of people doing normal things when suddenly they see something … Continue reading →

San Diego Wild Animal Park

At Least I Got To See Them At The Zoo (ALIGTSTATZ) Pictures The day started out kind of weird. I let myself stay up later than I should have (the previous night I hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep…lots of tossing and turning for unknown reason…I think it was temperature based) but slept really well and slept-in an hour (instead of up at 7, ready to leave at 8, up at 8, ready to leave at 9). I got up, got everything ready and took everything down to the car (Mom and Sis staying at condo, so I can just leave my key and leave the resort without consequences). I start driving down the 5 to highway S12 (shortcut to Wild Animal Park) when I suddenly can’t mentally picture where my ticket to the park is. So I pull off the freeway and into a gas station and begin a … Continue reading →

Details of Irwin’s Death, The Hobbit On Film, and Lindsey Lohan Get Political

Tape ‘shows Irwin’s death’ “Videotape of the moment Steve Irwin was hit by a stingray’s tail shows the Australian naturalist pulling the barb from his chest, his manager has said. ‘The tail came up, and spiked him here [in the chest], and he pulled it out and the next minute, he’s gone,’ Mr Irwin’s manager, John Stainton, said.” Just goes to show you can’t keep a good man slow… Crazy coincidence that the crocodile hunter would be the one in a million shot to get stabbed in the heart by a stingray…. Rest in peace buddy! (imagines Irwin riding crocodiles in heaven)… Penny Arcade! – Prinny Please Commandment No. 11.5 – Thou shalt not keep demon penguins… Optimus: Clearer And Upper Closer!! Cool….. AICN-DOWNUNDER: THE HOBBIT, AVATAR, ANT BULLY, AND LADY IN THE WATER!! Wow…I guess Peter Jackson ran out of things to do between producing Halo and a Dam … Continue reading →

French Protest DOESN’T End In Bloodshed, Podcasts Aren’t That Popular and Ex-Vice President Gore Likes To Scare People

Apple – Trailers – An Inconvenient Truth – Trailer Al Gore tries to scare the world. This is hilarious. I can’t believe people just beg to be scared out of there wits by things beyond control. I hate liberals for trying to run our lives. If you think we miniscule humans are causing global warming, you need to step back from all the hype and take a look around. We might be accelerating it, but if we’re moving into a geological period of global warming…there’s nothing we can do. “Bad things happen and there’s nothing we can do about it, right? Right. Wrong! When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world” (Timon/Simba, The Lion King). Column by PC Magazine: The Disc Format Wars Dvorak weighs in on the issue and roots for HD while admitting that PS3 could tip the balance. Me personally? … Continue reading →

The Pope Demands That Muslims Respect His Wishes…”He’s A Da Freaking Pope!”

BBC NEWS | Health | Larks hit hardest by clock change I didn’t know people could be categorized like this…amazing! I think I’m an owl, because I stay up later more easier than I get up earlier…just wish I could find a job that supported that philosophy Health News Article | Reuters.com – US scientists make pigs with heart-healthy fats Healthy bacon…something about that just sounds wrong…but science encourages it. Have boffins found the missing link? This is very interesting…if they found the missing link, I’d have to renounce my theory that man was created in one day by God as being literal…doesn’t really affect me…and what’s a boffin? 7 Killed in Shooting Spree at Seattle Party – Los Angeles Times He was jazzed on something and thought they were really zombies. I don’t know…messed up tragedy. SPACE.com — Comets Posing as Asteroids Might be Source of Earth’s Water Asteroids … Continue reading →