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Monthly Archives: August 2014
What I’ve Been Reading (Book Reviews)
Julia Immonen with Craig Borlase, Row For Freedom. The story of Immonen’s turn from living in the bubble to rowing across the ocean with four other people to raise awareness bout hurting people ensured in human trafficking. Heartfelt, honest, and inspiring, this one … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Current Events, Reviews, Theology
Tagged Clone Wars, JJ Abrams, Julia Immonem, Mickey Mouse, New Dawn, Row For Freedom, Star Wars, Timothy Susanin, Walt Before Mickey, Walt Disney
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#TBT: The Usual Suspects: Truth From So Many Angles (DVD Review)
At Hollywood Jesus, we’re doing a month-long look at our favorite indie films. Here’s another of my favorites, this time a crime noir about a mismatched band of thieves who find themselves tangled in a bigger conspiracy. It’s one of … Continue reading
The Be-Attitudes: Challenged Or Beaten Down (Sunday’s Sermon Today)
Sometimes, I think that the Church has a persecution complex. We can convince ourselves in the holy huddle, the protective bubble of family and friends who think like we do, that ‘the world’ (whatever that is) is out to get … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Current Events, Sermons, Sports, Theology
Tagged Louie Zamperini, WIll Muschamp
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Blue Lights In The Mirror (A Mustard Seed Musing)
Driving home on the interstate one night, I was passed by an SUV doing well over the speed limit. No innocent to speeding myself, I looked down at my speedometer and recognized that the other vehicle was doing twenty to … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Theology
Tagged adam and eve, Garden of Eden, Jesus' death on the cross, speeding ticket
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FF Rant: #Winning (2014)
Here’s my dream draft in a ten-team league for this year, drum roll please… Quarterback: Drew Brees, New Orleans Saints ($35). Consistency, consistency, consistency. Brees just keeps chucking it, even while the NO brass keeps saying they’ll take more running reps. … Continue reading
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Tawni O’Dell’s One Of Us: Shadows Of Home (Book Review)
Psychologist Danny Doyle returns home to his coal-mining roots in Pennsylvania to check on his ailing grandfather, and finds himself embroiled in a serial killer’s machinations to avenge old wrongs in Tawni O’Dell’s fifth novel, One of Us. Eerily similar in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reviews
Tagged harlan coben, hope floats, john connolly, out of the furnace, tawni o'dell, winter's bone
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The Be-Attitudes: Peacemaking or Keeping the Peace? (Sunday’s Sermon Today)
Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called children of God.–Matthew 5:9 I’ve always wanted to be a superhero. Whether it was Superman or Luke Skywalker, I wanted to be the person who would defeat evil and make it so … Continue reading
FF Rant: Hit The Alarm Clock (Sleepers & Bounceback Candidates 2014)
For this year’s sleepers write-up, I’m ignoring the top fifty players on my draft board. For the record, I had the rough draft of the list done by July 20 and have updated it with preseason games and additional information … Continue reading
Gregg Hurwitz’s Don’t Look Back: Face Your Fear (Book Review)
Familiar with Gregg Hurwitz’s work on Batman: The Dark Knight (nineteen issues), I dove into his latest thriller, Don’t Look Back, and knocked it out in one sitting. Reading like a movie script, or a Harlan Coben/Linwood Barclay “normal person in an … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reviews
Tagged batman, Gregg Hurwitz, The Dark Knight, Trust No One
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William Kent Krueger’s Windigo Island: Born Ogichidaa Stand Against Evil (Book Review)
Intrigued by what I read about William Kent Krueger’s Windigo Island, the thirteenth book in the Cork O’Connor series and his sixteenth overall, I reached out to the author himself and quickly received an autographed advanced copy for review. The series … Continue reading
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