A new cd by derek webb, due out November 9th.

Here’s the track listing:
1. I Want A Broken Heart
2. Better Than Wine
3. The Strong, The Tempted, & The Weak
4. Reputation
5. I Repent
6. Medication
7. We Come To You
8. T-Shirts
9. Ballad In Plain Red
10. Nothing Is Ever Enough
11. Lover Part 2
12. What Is Not Love

He said Wilco was a huge influence in the sound of this record. Should be pretty good.

I continue reading Wise Words, by Peter Leithart, to the girls. And I continue loving it. The girls don’t really follow the stories yet. They like it when I do strange voices or sound effects, and Geneva can occasionally recall an incident from a story, but that’s about it.

But Megan and I… we are just loving it. There’s a proverb quoted at the end of each story, which is supposed to be the moral of the story. But there is so much more going on. They each could have dozens of “the moral of the story”s.

It’s only $9.50 at the NSA bookstore.

burning fossil fuels.

Regular readers may remember this post, where I sought and discovered (hahaha) a good credit card reward program.

Now I see the payback. It took a little while to process everything (but I was earning all the while), but I now have nearly $30 dollars cashback. I can double the reward at certain participating retailers, if I choose. But most of those things have some catch that makes it unworthy of my attention. Like you have to spend over $100 to save $40.

However, I can get 10 free rentals from Hollywood Video for $20. If I were to rent those movies, it’d be 35 dollars (they say it’s a $40 value… but it isn’t. Rentals are about $3.50 there).

Hey, speaking of Hollywood Video, I went there last week for a movie we could watch while Megan recovered, and I saw a previously viewed copy of Levity for just $5.99. So I bought it. I rented Sliding Doors. It was an interesting movie. It shows two different paths a woman’s life would take were she to catch or miss a train home.

As someone that firmly believes that God has sovereignly and unalterably ordained whatsoever comes to pass, I particularly enjoyed it. I often think how the world would be different if I didn’t put my socks on straight one day. Of course, the film makes no reference to God, or even a mindless Fate, ordering things. It’s just chance and decisions. However, anyone with half a functioning brain would wonder how such unprobable chances occur.

Which leads me to share a bit from Hollywood Worldviews, which I’ve been reading lately. Some filmmakers want to deny God’s role in our lives, or the substitute god, Fate. They want to say that everything is up to chance and decision. Nothing is guiding us. However, everything in the film has been preordained by the creator to communicate this. It really isn’t up to chance at all, now is it?

So… there’s a rambling post for you.