Last night, while wandering around in the worst store in America – K-Mart, I picked up a must for any “kid” experience the feelings that come with Spring being upon us.
I bought a kite.
Yep.
And a cheap one. $5.99 +tax for my “Coke SpinKite”.
And I just got done taking a 5-minute “fly a kite break”.
When’s the last time YOU flew a kite?
Today I purchased the ILO DVDR04 from WalMart for $138. I bought it to work on getting some DVDs of some live satellite feed of Christian Music videos. Glen and I came up with the idea over dessert the other night.
So far, the thing is sweet.
I had only two ways to hook the thing up to our ANCIENT television, and the second way worked!
After getting it all hooked up, the setup was easy! It even runs through all of our cable channels to automatically “skip” the ones that aren’t channels!
Because our tv is older than we are, we now have to use two remotes to watch tv. One to change channels (the new DVD recorder remote) and one to change the volume and turn the tv off and on.
I think I may be able to “fix” this problem by getting a “universal” remote, but so far – can’t find one that has “ILO” listed as a compatible device.
I recorded just a minute-or-so of live television earlier this afternoon and wasn’t really “impressed” with the recorded video quality, but I wasn’t really discouraged either.
Sure beats recording to a bulky vhs tape! One DVD+R can hold up to 6-hours of video!
I can now make sure we don’t miss the weekly episodes of Myth Busters!
Occasionaly, this model is “updated” by “ILO” – the company that builds it. I actually downloaded and installed an update tonight. It was neat! I downloaded a file, burned it to a cd and then put the cd in the dvd player and it automatically updated itself!
I think I have a new favorite toy.
Last night I’m pretty sure I was the most “broken” I’ve ever been in front of a congregation.
Last night I didn’t “preach”. I bore my soul.
And God honored it.
Jess and I joined Matt and Andraea Hunter for the 7:15 showing of “The Pacifier” (PG) this past Saturday night. In a word, the movie was entertaining. It was your typical humorous “no chance” babysitter plot.
It was interesting to think of tough-guy Vin Diesel playing the part he did in this movie, but in-all, his “over the top” macho-personality wasn’t harmed “much” in the making of this flick.
The girl from ABC’s “American Dreams”, Brittany Snow makes her film limelight debut in this film as the oldest of 5 children who are to be watched by Navy Seal Vin Diesel, “Shane”.
In a nutshell, “good” wins over “evil” and everyone except the bad-guys go home happily-ever-after.
If you have read this post, you don’t need to go see the movie unless you absolutely “have” to.
Dr. Bud Bence was definitely God’s man for the hour today as he spoke to us here at Warsaw Wesleyan.
He spoke on Luke 23:33-46 and gave us three examples of those who dealt with the “supreme” crisis – knowing they would die upon a cross.
First, the “Cross of Resentment” – the thief on the left carried this cross – hurling insults and curses towards Jesus. He wanted out of the problem, as quickly as possible, and he died a resentful cross-bearer.
Second, the “Cross of Resignation” – the thief on the right carried this cross – this thief took the higher of two negative ways to deal with crisis, but his was definitely better than the first. This thief came to accept the reality of his crisis. His understanding of the reality of the crisis – his acceptance of his fate – allowed him to ask Jesus to remember him IF he was the Christ and entered into His kingdom. Jesus, as we know, looked upon this thief in love and stated, “this day you will be with me in paradise!”
Third, the “Cross of Redemption” – Jesus took up this cross. Jesus, the SON OF GOD questioned “WHY?” – he asked if there was any other way. But in the end he DID the will of God and said, “not MY will, but YOURS be done.” Jesus wanted to make sure that THIS crisis was somehow involved in God’s will!
I want to take up the “Cross of Redemption” method in dealing with ALL crises – and what a better time than now!
