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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies- Review
So…this is a bit late. But the movie is a blast and worth seeing if you haven’t. 412teens review: here.
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A Home
Whenever I sit down to type up an ad I always have two versions of it in my head. The correct version that is on the sheet in front of me, and the edited version in my head. If I ever slipped up and typed in the other version, I hope it would sound like this: Beautiful 4 bed, 2 bath house in desirable neighborhood. Open floor plan, kitchen flows into the dining room, the dining room flows into the living room. Big airy windows in the bedrooms, with deep window sills for plants or lazy cats. The roof has been repaired in the last decade so it stands a fairly good…
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Inside Out- Review
(gif source) You guys know that Up is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I think is one of the best movies ever made. Inside Out is comparable to Up. Yah. Go see this one. GQkidz review: here
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Jurassic World- Review
I had so much fun at this movie. I want to see it again. Official review at GQKidz: here
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San Andreas
We saw San Andreas today. It was basically Sharknado without the sharks and with the Rock. And a bigger budget. So in short: we loved it.
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An Open Letter to the Local Church
Let me take a moment to thank you. You have such a hard job. No matter how hard you try, someone will disapprove. Unfortunately, it is also likely that at some point in time, someone will get hurt. You will often be made out to be the bad guy- whether deserved or not. I can only imagine the stress of wanting to be ‘relevant’- and accused of being disrespectful. Of being ‘traditional’- and accused of being out of touch. Whether or not to play hymns or modern worship songs- and having someone saying you are doing worship wrong whichever you decide on. And tithing, my metaphorical hat goes off to…
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O.O
Well, I finished my short story. I realized that this is the first piece of fiction I have finished since 2007. Wow. It’s a terribly sad little story, and unlike anything I’ve ever written. And I love it.
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Sparks
Some writers have a cloud of ideas and characters and their biggest problem is they don’t know which one to pick first. They finish one story, put it aside and start on a whole brand new exciting world. And then there’s writers like me. As most people who read this blog probably know, I have One Idea. One World. One (growing) set of characters. And while I think my world and characters are very good, this is what I’ve worked on my whole life and whenever I look beyond into the vastness of fiction that leaves the confines of that world I see a open nothingness. Until a couple weeks…
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Frozen
If you haven’t seen Frozen yet– go see it. I had zero interest in seeing this movie until the reviews started pouring in, and every friend I know who had seen it loved it and my curiosity was peaked. So the midget, death lady, and I went on Sunday to see what the big deal was about. We were not disappointed. There is one plot point that I was like ‘whaaa…?’, but other than that this is a visually strong and story strong movie. It will definitely be added to my DVD collection when it comes out, and put right next to Tangled of course. The midget’s review was summed up like…
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Simplicity of the Gospel
I missed my Thursday update. I had a good reason, there was Halloween and an advance showing of Ender’s Game. And then the not good reason of I simply forgot to write and schedule a post in advance. (And then the internet went down so I couldn’t post this until later.) I had this well crafted argument in my head, down to the paragraph breaks—and then time went by and I forgot all of it except the drive behind it. So instead, I want to take this time to write on the simplicity of the gospel. ““For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that…