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| This is classic!
Check out the link. You may have to wait for a second, but Marie was totally on the Phoenix news yesterday after our adventure! | | |
|  Last night was guys night and we went to eat big beefy burgers at Fuddrucker's and caught a movie afterwards. I can't remember the last time I saw a popcorn flick/action movie.
I did see Narnia last month, but I wouldn't put that in the same category.I appreciated the film's exposition / credits. It gave people like me enough information to hit the ground running, and I appreciated not being punished for not growing up reading comic books.
Ed Norton was the star of the movie and I think his acting carried the movie and made me care about what happened to his character. The story was good enough, perhaps better than most comic book movies and the action scenes didn't disappoint me at all.
I like the theme of having something inside of ourselves that we cannot control. Every person struggles with that to some degree. Some of us are slaves to rage, anger, pride, lust, or any other shortcoming. It's never clear if Bruce Bannister is in charge of the Hulk or if the Hulk is in charge of the Hulk, but we all know what it is like to boil with rage at something or some one.
In my experience, I cannot control these things and have to look to something outside of my self and bigger than me. The Hulk needed the love of his life to sooth him and remind him of who he really was, Bruce Bannister. I need G-d in my life to remind me who I really am, even in the midst of my worst temptations and trials.
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| Posted from my 'real' blog
As a team, we've really tried to tighten things up
logistically. Most of the experts on adolescent development agree that
how a service feels is just as important as the content (sermons,
games, etc.)With that in mind we've realized that I need to be
spending more of my time on our leadership team instead of creativity.
These past few weeks stretched me a lot. I'm used to making a video or
spending tons of time on a sermon. Those things are important, but they
don't mean much if our youth don't feel welcome, safe and valued before
and after our service. I've used more 'canned' creativity that
I like to admit in the past few weeks. Simply
Junior High put out some great resources that got the burden
of games off of my back. I never knew that creating games that middle
schoolers actually like could be such a burden, but it is tough! Simple
works well, messy usually works, but they can be really finicky. I
love. I'm also finding that asking for help works really well.
I used to wonder why people didn't help more. I thought that they would
telepathically know what needed to be done and just do it. That
explains why the kinds of people who thrive on our team are
thriving...they are self starters and go getters. I'm finding that if I
ask for a little bit of help, and give a little bit of
vision/direction, people are exceeding what I could ever do. Volunteer
youth workers that minister to middle schoolers might be the best
people in the world! I know I'm biased, but that's what I think. | | |
| Posted from my blog
 This happened a few months ago, but I couldn't let the opportunity pass to post this picture. We hosted a mini conference for teenagers here in Austin, and as an added benefit we held a rock the stach vote. Two of our beloved worship leaders in our church graciously agreed to participate in a contest to get the most votes for a mustache. The guy who got the most votes had to shave a beard into a Magnum P.I. style mustache. I think this could've easily been a great fundraiser too. After the vote was counted we revealed who the winner was but also that BOTH had in fact sported a new look. Here is the final result.
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