Archives For April 2005

Today we had the privilege of sitting under Rev. Bill Kinnan during our morning worship services.

He preached a wonderful sermon with 4 main points on John 2:1-12.

01. If you want to experience God’s transforming power – invite Him to your party.
02. When you invite Him to your party, believe that He can meet your need!
03. Surrender to His purposes.
04. Expect blessings in unexpected places, in unexpected ways!

The message was interestingly enough, on a passage of Scripture that Dad Garrett and I talked about just a week ago. Eventually I will post an entire post on the passage and how this miracle teaches some pretty interesting stuff about the Lord.

We enjoyed a great Boathouse lunch with the Kinnans and I found out that Mrs. Kinnan is a steady stevansheets.com visitor! I also heard some pretty interesting stories about my father and grandfather! I will need to confirm both stories in the near future.

The one about Dad involves the “Peter, Peter Pumkin Eater” poem. And the one involving my Grandfather involves a burial ceremony with a dog being kicked.

Interesting.

Jess and I both relaxed this afternoon with our new books! She is reading another Lori Wick book “Moonlight on the Millpond”, and I’m 150+ pages into the latest Frank Peretti book, “Monster”.

I just hit the Monster website (www.themonsterhunt.com) and realized that the actual release date of the book is April 12th – Tuesday! I am sure this is yet another perk of being a Pastor!

Angel Warsaw Movie PosterFINALLY!

Finally, an exciting, well-written, well-produced, and graphically-stunning piece of work for children (and 25-year-olds, TOO!) about the subject of “spiritual warfare”!

Frank Peretti would be proud to see such a DVD as we have found in “Angel Wars – Guardian Force”.

This DVD, the first in a series of 30-minute computer-generated episodes, explodes on the screen with background information of what the author’s idea of this Spiritual Battle that is being fought around us looks like.

Set in the future, God’s angel army battles Satan’s dominion for the souls of earth in a non-typical-Christian fashion.

From swords, shadow-demons, flying aircraft, to angels-with-attitudes, this movie kept me intrigued!

I will definitely be adding this series of DVD videos to my “collection” for future generations to watch and see some QUALITY Christian media!

This was one of those times where I was PROUD of Christians who were influencing others with QUALITY media instead of typical “old school” ways.

AngelWars.com

If you haven’t yet seen these movies, you MUST.

Reading “If I Only Had A Green Nose” by Max Lucado causes certain images of what “Wemmicks” look like and act like.

These series of DVD and VHS movies have given images to those characters in a computer-generated land. We picked this DVD up at the Nappanee Christian bookstore on their “clearance” rack and were pleasantly surprised by the quality!

The graphics are no where NEAR the Pixar-influenced world-standards we are living in, but in my opinion, the story-line makes up for that!

If you haven’t yet seen this series of movies available – ask your local Christian bookstore to order them immediately!

Here they are available at FamilyChristian.com

Shall We Dance Movie PosterMom said we’d LOVE this movie.

Jess did. I tried to take a nap during it.

I caught MOST of the movie even with trying to take a nap last evening. I wasn’t impressed with much except with the “good ending”.

I was disappointed, however, with the idea that “John Clark” (Richard Gere) merely brought a rose and dressed in a tuxedo to “woo” his wife back into love with him.

In an apparently “dysfunctional” family situation where communcation was NOT a priority, Mr. Clark “fixed” all their problems with a rose and a tux.

That, to me, was hardly typical.

“Almost” infidelity is a HUGE thing these days with husbands and wives “wondering” what it would be like to be with someone else, and in my opinion this movie praised such an idea.

Those facts and the idea of an entire movie being made about ballroom dancing labeled this movie as a “dud” in Stevan’s book.

Ladder 49 Movie Poster“Ladder 49” (PG-13) was an enjoyable Friday evening flick for my wife and I. We had heard about this movie from various media and were intrigued by a story of fireman from Baltimore.

The movie is gut-wrenching even for an emotion-less guy like myself. The plot itself is enough to keep anyone’s interest.

With renting the DVD, we were excited by the numerous “special features” that were available for our viewing pleasure on the disc. Realizing that most of the actors did their own stunt-work and trained as REAL firemen impacted us even more following seeing the movie itself!

I was impressed by the LACK of Computer Graphics in this movie – the fire is all real – and that is obvious.

A great story line, with typical Hollywood additions and subtractions make this movie enjoyable, but with the usual hinderances with lifestyle choices by key characters and language use throughout the film.