First knitting project ever.
Started at Pub Knitting on January 14th or 21st.
20 stitches wide
Knit 2, Purl 2 pattern
Grey section 14 rows, Blue section 28 rows
7 Grey sections, 6 Blue sections
Bright Blue/Silver Grey Striped Scarf
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
The Rock Church Worship Service
Paul
Your Grace Is Enough (lindy)
I've Found A Love
Lead Me To Your Heart
He Loves Us (waltz)
Jon
It’s that time of year, grab a heart an pray for a kid
1 Samuel 15:10-23
Self-deception
Destroy the Amalekites utterly, saith the Lord
Saul begins to make decisions outside of the boundaries of God’s command
Decisions that formed subtle patterns of behavior that led to a bitter ending
Consumed by jealousy and envy
Under the power of self-deception, we can end badly
Saul returned with the best of the livestock and the king – 95% of what God commanded
Samuel loved Saul, prayed for him
Saul asks Samuel to speak at the party
Self-deception: a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it. The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious
We’re great at collecting data that supports OUR view of things
Three techniques
1) blame shift
1 Samuel 15:15
See the writing on the wall and face it or run from it
Adam and Eve – the women made me eat the apple
2) Lord I’m doing this for you
Sacrifices for You Lord
1 Samuel 15:22-23
Does God delight in our donations? In our studying His words? Yes, but obedience is far better that mere acts
John 14:23
Abide in my teachings
We’re great at doing things
We need to discern His voice
He sends Samuel’s into our lives to pierce our hearts
Do we have friends like
3) it’s just a little problem, it’s not that big a deal! Cut me some slack
1 Samuel 15:20
God reveals things to us in private before dragging us in front of the community
What triggers self-deception in our lives?
What’s going on underneath?
v 17, 12
Saul put himself in bigger shoes that weren’t his…made himself bigger than God
There is a voice constantly telling us that we are small and we keep fighting it and trying to be bigger
v 23 idolatry
I’ve got to be the best parent, cool, accepted
Things we feel we need in addition to God
Matt 25:31
Luke17:33
Matt 5:5
Meek doesn’t mean weak or mild
Once associated prominently with horses. A horse as meek when it would take tithe bit. When this happened the horse and the rider would become one. The two of them reached the highest level of symmetry.
Are the sings words or do they sink into us
We take Samuel’s as signs of rejections, when really he loves us
We wouldn’t run to idols if we deeply knew how much He loves us
Romans 8:31-39 from the message
Nothing can get between us and God’s love for us
Paul
I ReceiveBig Bad Voodoo Daddy + Kid & Nic Show
Ain’t nothing Romantic about la
Start it up, start it up
Honking and a-screaming (with karl hunter)
There’s a villain in every fairy tale
Calloway Boogie
Hey Now Hey Now
Mr. Pinstripe Suit
??? Modern song
(Moondance riff solo by Dirk)
1931 Cotton Club Intro
Reefer Man
Minnie the Moocher
??? (Calloway song)
Zig-Zaggity-Woop-Woop
You Know You Wrong
Big time operator
Jumpin’ Jack
I wanna be like you
Go daddy-O
Dirty old man of the mountain
Popeye hour
Betty boop clip, dirty old man chasing betty, unknown song
Band director recognized whistled tune
Cab Calloway’s old man of the mountain
So long, farewell, goodbye
Smells like teen spirit tag
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Slow start, then it starts building to a fever pitch…
The deluxe edition of the version that I read included the author’s original epilogue, an article she wrote several years later about the house that inspired this novel, and a note from the author that planted a theory in my head. See, the author started writing the book and got two chapters done…but then she put it away for a few months or something and then started writing it again when she felt she “had a better grip on the story”. My theory is that this leads to a kind of disjointedness in the first part of the book that made it very difficult to read…took me almost 6 months to finish it! But I’m definitely glad I read the book…it is a timeless romance/horror and I can’t wait to check out the Hitchcock adaptation (although I suspect it may be a little looser than I can appreciate, I’m sure it won’t be another Dreamcatcher*).
*It’s a Stephen King novel that I really liked and the movie disappointed me.
The Producers – MTW
A+ for the cast, D- for the technical
Maybe it was that day’s performance…maybe the economy forced their hand…or maybe they shelled out way too much money for the cast (most of whom did the show on Broadway, in Las Vegas, or both) and had to hire a deficient tech crew that hobbled together a set out of spit and bailing wire (MacGyver they ain’t)* and forgot half their cues…I don’t know!
The most disappointing thing about this production is Ulla’s “tidy up” gag. Near the end of Act 1, Max and Leo hire a hot Swedish girl as their secretary/receptionist. They instruct her to tidy up the office. When everyone comes back for Act 2, the entire office and furnishings are painted white, and when asked when she did all this, Ulla says intermission. At least that’s what happened on Broadway, in the movie adaptation and every national tour…not here…Ulla hung new curtains and flowers…and that’s it!!!!! It’s like they didn’t even put any effort into it!!! And it was so disappointing after such a fantastic Act 1!
Also: weird jump cut during Heil Myself; the Keep It Gay scene was just a little too long for Laura’s and mine pace sensibilities; the cat sound FX in Never Say Good Luck On Opening Nifht was NOT Mel Brooks; the tilted-mirror-schwastika in Springtime for Hitler was an epic failure;
The Rock Church Worship Service
Paul
???
Revelation Song
Blessed Assurance
Always Forever
Till I See You
Announcements
Praise report
The Youth Group is getting together once a month for worship at lots of different churches
March 13 – 250 hunior and high school kids here
Jon
Gospels talk about a radical rabbi named Jesus
One of only two rabbis to choose disciples (tradition was that wannabe disciples would coke and request)
“Be Like Mike” – I believe you have what it takes
Everyone here tonight has the potential to be like Jesus
As we’re following Jesus, what happens when we encounter pain and sufferring
John 11:1-6, 30-45
Last miracle
Points us to a resurrection
Jesus wept – not a Jesus separated from us
See how He loved him – He knits his heart to people
Wisdom of Jesus’ heart
Christianity does not protect us from pain
John 9
Not sin based, but so that God may be glorified
Good people do not just experience good things…
God desires to show forth Jis glory
What if you can’t see the ???
Can’t put up our wisdom against God’s
We get mad at helplessness
Reveals that we’re not in charge
You can let the incident spur you into action
Neighbor, eveyone bears a burden?
Potential to be amazing
Not God’s job
God likes to show up dressed like people
Mary and Martha respond by praying and waiting (defining)
All sorts of promises in the bible
If it doesn’t come through we just rotate to the next verse
Not going to judge our hopelessness
Because M & M waited there is a resurrection
There is going to be resurrection.
Because we have what we take from,
We have what it takes to be a resurrected
Paul
Jon
Remember God’s focus is to be reflected through your life
I want to be a great heart, a redemptive prescense
Taken
Phenomenal!
Liam Neeson stars as Brian, a former spy, whose daughter gets kidnapped on a trip to Europe (I mean she’s not too incredibly dumb, but her slutty friend is an absolute idiot).
As I was watching the film and considering what fictional characters I had seen similar to Brian, Laura pointed out that he’s basically a film noir anti-hero…someone whose methods you don’t fully support but whom you still root for…that allowed me to connect Brian with Jack Bauer (24) and John Clark (Tom Clancy)…but it wasn’t until after the movie that I started connecting the role with Jason Statham (Transporter, Crank)…and it just intrigued me because it must have been the large amount of dramatic elements to the story that made me lose sight of Statham’s movies…maybe because I believed Neeson’s drama more than Statham’s…
There are several incredible moments in this high octane drama that just had me giggling with glee for some of the things Brian was about to do…what can I say, I’m sick an twisted 
He’s Just Not That Into You
A delightful (if fractured) romantic comedy. I found myself frequently dwelling on romantic comedies I’ve seen recently (primarily the DVD’s of Zach Braff in The Last Kiss and Ryan Reynolds in Definitely Maybe). I call the movie fractured because while the movie did a fairly decent job of making me care about the characters, there were almost too many relationship threads to keep track of. On top of that, there were these almost random “chapter” breaks were the screen went black, they displayed some white text and them had some “real people tell a somewhat amusing anecdode about the text…it was kind of funny, but it disjointed the movie.
There was a part in the movie (one of the “chapters”) where these two women were talking about break-up lines an it suddenly occurrd to me that I had actually heard some of those lines when being broken up with (although in retrospect, it was really my fault)…is that sad? Yeah, I think that’s sad…
The Rock Church Worship Service
Paul
How Wonderful
Holy Moment
Omnipotent
Our Great God
Jon
Web browser checkup
Lots of bad news
Past week has been tough for him personally
Jeff Goodrich is here tonight and his cancer is in stage 3
Psalm 23
Abast yourself in God
Just want to sing and praise
Take our mind off of our troubles
Paul
He Knows My Name
God Above It All
Mighty To Save
Jon
John in his 80′s
1 John 3:1-3
See the love he has lavished on us
We’re not evil retch’s
He is so generous
Walk with Jesus this week
Paul
Hallelujah
We’re gonna keep singing until everyone leaves…
Here I Am To Worship
Blessed Assurance
Coraline
Absolutely beautiful!!! A scintillating and supple combination of traditional stop motion and digital animation.
Adapted AND directed by Henry Selick (the visionary director of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas) from acclaimed British author Neil Gaiman’s novella.
Dakota Fanning stars as our hero Coraline (not Caroline) who with her new friend Wybie and The Cat that isn’t exactly his (playfully voiced by Keith David whose voice is indelible to me as clan leader Goliath from Disney’s Gargoyles) adventure around The Pink House (Coraline’s new home owned by Wybie grandmother) and meet it’s eccentric occupants: retired theatrical sisters (Jennifer Saunders as Miss Spink and Dawn French as Miss Forcible) and their yapping terriers in the basement and Mr. Bubinski (voiced by Ian McShane) and his circus mice who go tweedle-dee-dee instead of oom-pah-pah in the attic; and explore behind the little door in the wall into an other world…an exciting and magical world that seems almost too good to be true…beware the beldam!
I wonder if Gaiman’s choice of villain name is at all a play on the word bedlam…