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Jungle Logo
Originally uploaded by wailer2000.

Yesterday, I started a sermon series on Relationships. Similar in thought to a series we did at The Chapel last year. Dustyn Vanzant reworked the logo, and actually the whole front of the church is looking jungle-esque. I should nab some more pics of the scenery to show you.

The first talk was about marriage - God's great invention for human intimacy, love, and commitment. Of course I couldn't resist playing the "you complete me" scene from Jerry Maguire. "You had me at hello. You had me at hello."

Jennie and I have enjoyed our first six months in Delaware, and can't believe how much has happened and how fast life goes.

I would now like to launch into a new form of random blogging, sort of a stream of consciousness, writing about whatever hits me at the moment.

For my birthday recently, we got a brand new gas grill. I've only had this thing for eight days, but we've grilled out at least eight times. If you have any good recipes, I'll take 'em. Props to Zac & Hilary Derr for the shish-kabob seasoning and demonstrations, those came in real handy last week. Props to Lori Siffert (I think) for the idea to grill veggies and peppers with lots of seasonings at the Digman cookout like three years ago.... Speaking of Digman - I wonder how those Digs are doing. I miss seeing them around. I wonder if he's still The Chapel's version of Mark Price..... Yes, I made a quicktime video for our Relationships series, and I'm working on a second one about marriage. If you're interested, send me some pics of you and your loved one, and you might find yourself in one of my iMovies! (I say that fully expecting everyone to ignore it. That is, unless I give out prizes to the person with the most creative picture of their marriage. Maybe I'll do that! Yes - I will! The person who sends me the most creative picture wins a BRAND NEW, UNUSED copy of TURBOTAX for Windows!!! Send your entries NOW!)..... I guess I have run out of things to blog about. Well, not entirely. I recently saw the new movie "The Interpreter." VERY good. Sean Penn is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors, even though I'm not sure I like him as a person. But that was an intense, well-thought-out movie with great acting, gut-wrenching suspense, and intelligent dialogue. This movie also benefits from the fact that I saw the movie "Sahara" just a couple days before. If you're looking to waste three hours of your life and kill hundreds of brain cells, feel free to watch Sahara. Make sure to bring a pillow..... Since we're on the topic of movies, I watched "Congo" to look for jungle clips and get in the safari mood for this series. While there were no really great jungle clips, it was still a pretty intense movie. Better than Sahara, more serious than National Treasure, and rentable for two bucks less. I think Congo would have been better with a stronger male lead actor. Some Kirk Cameron look alike isn't going to cut it.... Sorry, I think I was a movie critic in another life, even though I don't believe in "other lives."