KennyB
glorifying & growing

For lunch I like to watch Hulu.com. Hulu is a website that is a clearinghouse of sorts for television programing that may be watched streaming online.

Today for lunch, while eating my scrumptious microwaved burritos, I watched the pilot episode of The Pretender, a show about a genius who is able to assume any role in any environment. Jarod, the main character, assumes roles for the purpose of righting wrongs.

As I sit after the burritos have been consumed and the show as been viewed, I wonder how many people in worship services are pretending in their faith.

It does not matter whether their pretending is on purpose (such as being forcibly taken to church by a parent), or accident (one not fully understanding his lack of faith) the outcome is the same. Non-faith equals a life that is without forgiveness, without salvation, without hope.

Jesus says,“But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.”  (John 4.23 HCSB)  True worshiper, worshipers who rely on Jesus for forgiveness, salvation and eternal hope who worship truthfully and not pretending.

Church leaders, challenge your people and lead people to test the truthfulness of their faith.

God Bless,

kennyb

Ok…I started with Drupal and liked it tremendously. When I got frustrated with the audio module, I turned to Joomla. Joomla, also, is a great CCS framework. But as I sat looking at a website that I really was not pleased with I began to understand that what I really wanted was a blogging site. Blogging text, audio and maybe video and that brought me to looking into WordPress.
I downloaded the free WordPress package and installed it on my mac with MAMP. After missing with it for a while I decided to try it out in the real world.
I really like WordPress. I am no a big site master or anything so this was just what I needed, something relatively easy to maintain and post on.
If you are a newbie to websites, and want to tinker without spending a bunch of $$$, check WordPress out.

God Bless

Messing around with my Google account adding calendars and stuff. This is a great FREE offering from Google that will allow families to stay connected in a crazy techie world.

Through our accounts, my wife and I are able to share our calendars in real time. She makes a change and my calendar changes. It is great! You can access your calendar on any computer, preferably a Mac, as well as your mobile device.
Church planting in Utah makes for crazy schedules and difficulties syncing our lives and our whereabouts. Google calendar makes that much easier.

Use it…the price is right and it is easy.

God Bless,

Went to Angels and Demons with some friends not to long ago. We were apprehensive about the theological content of this film, but we still desired to view it.

We decided to read a couple of articles about the film before viewing it to see what others were saying. From the articles we found out that the historical timeline laid out in the film was incorrect, among other things.

So we show up and watch the film, which my wife and I both enjoyed. To us, it was Indiana Jones in Rome. The film was nice to the Catholic church, in our opinion, even though we understand the book was not.

My wife and I love to see films like this, so we can talk it over later. This film is good for that – fostering further discussion.

Like many films we have enjoyed over the years, although the historicity is corrupt and the theological truthfulness falls short, yet we enjoyed it as entertainment.

Unfortunately people look to film as a visual representation of a written truth as is evident in Cicel B. Mille’s The Ten Commandments (Famous Players-Lasky/Paraamount, 1923) where many today still believe it was Romans who guarded Jesus’ tomb.

As Christ followers, we are exhorted by the apostle Peter to always have an answer for questions of our hope (1Peter 3.15 ESV), which also means being able to assess the culture, in this case film, in light of biblical truth.

Read the Bible, and understand film as entertainment.

God Bless

WOW… Great movie. Alma and I went on a double date with our buds (David and Ginny). We had a great time watching the movie and talking about it afterward.

Guys make sure you take out your honey at least once a month for a date night. I understand you don’t have to bait the hook once the fish is on it, but the little fish will be much happier if you do.

Date your wife!!!