Posts from — December 2004

Video rental status (for those keeping up)

The Terminal – check. was pretty good. entertaining for sure. The lady made the wrong decision. There was no redemption for her. Some people aren’t redeemed.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Disappointing. Still was okay, but I was expecting it to be better. I’m surprised anyone can follow the story without having read the book.

SpiderMan 2 – Really liked this one. Not only is Spider-Man my favorite boyhood super-hero, but I think there were good christian themes of self-denial and self-sacrifice that spit in the face of the ‘please myself at all costs, and do it now‘ modern attitude)

The Bourne Supremacy – I love this kind of movie, with the winding, twisting plot. Plus, cool cinematography and action scenes.

Napoleon Dynamite – 12/21
The Village – 01/11

And I’m thinking about adding Collateral to the list.

For our family advent worship I’ve been weaving together bits and pieces from various sources. The prepared prayers that I’ve used have been from an advent booklet Jeff Meyers put together for last year’s advent season, and prayers from the Book of Common Prayer. Common language in most all the prayers has been petitions for God to stir us up in anticipation of His arrival, and the closing ‘one God now and forever, Amen’, or something similar.

So, the other evening when Geneva settled down in her chair, stated to all that she was going to pray, and said “Stir up O God, Now and Forever, Amen” Megan and I both about had a cuteattack.

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Last year the session of Christ Church wrote a position paper on slavery. Do any of you happen to have a copy of that?

Secular archaeologists say that the Biblical account of Jericho is untrue, unfactual, fictional. That it didn’t happen, and there is no evidence that it happened. They say that at the time Joshua and the Israelites supposedly came to Jericho, it was already destroyed, and had been desserted for a hundred-fifty years or more.

But, and this is pretty cool, if you go back in time, guess what you find? You find that Jericho was invaded. That the walls had crumbled down (except in one spot, where house were built right up against the wall). That the city had been burned to the ground. That most houses had large containers full of grain, indicating that whoever took the city did not plunder it, and also that it was near harvest time, since grain was plenty every where. Hmm……

You also find that Canaan became inhabited by new people at that time. Nomadic people, that lived in tents. And had artifacts of Egyptian culture mingled into their own. Hmm…

See, it all has to do with the dating of these things. The secular archaeologists have their dates wrong, and so that screws up their entire chronology, and so they say that the biblical accounts never occurred.

But, according to Dr. David Down and Dr. Bryant Wood – two bible-believing archaeologists, there is an easy explanation for why these secular dates are wrong. Dating of this region is aligned with the history of Egypt. If you get the history of Egypt wrong, you will get this Canaan history wrong. And guess what? They get Egyptian history wrong. See, Egyptian history is written in dynasties. And when we westerners discovered this, we lined them up end to end. But that is not how it worked. Different regions in Egypt had different Pharoahs, and thus dynasties could be coexistant. The third and fourth might overlap by fifty or a hundred years. Or whatever. You get the picture. Thus, Egypts history has been stretched out by the secular scientists’ assumption about the dynasties. Which means the Exodus would have occurred earlier than they think. A hundred fifty or more years earlier, even.

If one wanted to get in touch with Dr. Grant, how would one go about that?

I have a burning historical question that I would like to ask him. Or, if you know of any near omniscient history gurus, like Dr. Grant, let me know how to get in touch with them.

So long as they wear a bowtie, that is.

Okay, so I succumbed to the free iPod monster. But, hey, free iPods. Who can argue with that? And I got kristen one step closer to her free iPod.

Here’s how it works… you register, and then take part in one of their many different services. Some have free trials, that won’t cost you a dime, like signing up with peoplepc. Then you refer five other people to do the same thing. And that’s that. Or, so the story goes. I know people that know people that got the free ipod. So we’ll see. I figure with all the people on the internet, someone would want to do this, and help me get my free iPod.

I know it’s well after the election and all, but I’m going to share this anyhow..

The other night, Megan and I were going around doing some shopping, and we pulled up behind a truck at a stoplight. On the back windshield was written, “A vote for Bush is a vote for God”.

I was shocked and appalled.

Wow. I wish wish wish I could go…

Midtown Fellowship Presents
Andrew Peterson – A Christmas Concert
Sunday Dec 12th 8:00 PM

With special guests:
Pierce Pettis
Julie Miller
Phil Keaggy
Phil Madeira
Jill Phillips
Derek Webb
Sandra McCracken
Randall Goodgame
Andrew Osenga
Ben Shive
Jonathan & Amanda Noel
Marcus Myers
Laura Story
Garett Buell
Steve Hindalong
Chris Weigel
Gabe Scott
Kyle Reeder
Mark Evits
Andy Gullahorn
Matt Slocum

The Ryman
116 Fifth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219
Tickets are $18.50 and 22.50 Group Tickets are 16.50
For Tickets Call (615) 889-3060
Or online at www.ryman.com
All guest artists subject to change
Proceeds benefit African Leadership

Today’s Merriam-Webster word-of-the-day is pretty cool…

The Word of the Day for December 7 is:

epenthesis \ih-PEN-thuh-siss\ noun
: the insertion or development of a sound or letter in the
body of a word

Example sentence:
Professor Seeles explained that epenthesis is the process
of adding an extra sound or syllable to a word, as when a child
adds a “b” to “family” and says “FAM-blee.”

Did you know?
If you say “athlete” as “ath-a-lete,” you’ve committed
epenthesis. Some people consider the pronunciation to be
unacceptable, but there’s a perfectly good reason why it occurs;
epenthesis is simply a natural way to break up an awkward
cluster of consonants. It’s easier for some people to
say “athlete” as three syllables instead of two, just as it’s
easier for some to insert a “b” sound into “cummerbund,”
pronouncing that word as “cum-ber-bund.” Epenthesis has even
contributed to the evolution of recognized spelling variants,
giving us such options as “cumberbund” and “sherbert”
(for “sherbet”). The word “epenthesis” came to us by way of Late
Latin from the Greek verb “epentithenai,” which means “to insert
a letter.”

Remy is blogging again!