Obama & the Born Alive Infants Protection Act

On the way to work this morning I was listening to Bill Bennett’s Morning in America. He had a guest on there, a registered nurse named Jill Stanek who was discussing Obama's opposition to the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act. She has an incredible story of how she held an aborted 22 week old who survived the procedure and then died 45 minutes later. She then became a right to life activist. She shares that and yet another reason to reconsider possible casting a vote for Obama this November. I strongly encourage you to look at her site here.

Also on her site, she has a link to the following video from Family Research Council, a response to Barack Obama’s statement on Father’s Day that fatherhood begins at conception. AWESOME…

Get Smart: Steve Carrell Interview

We saw the movie over the weekend. Very funny.
Is rated PG-13 and here's the Content review from Focus on the Family.

Jesus and Buddha on Happiness

John Bloom, Desiring God

Greatly disturbed by the suffering he saw in the world, 29-year-old Prince Guatama Siddhartha (563-483 BC), who was later called the Buddha (enlightened one), left his wife and young child and set out on a search for the meaning of life.

What struck him was the impermanence of the world—nothing lasted. In spite of this, people were attached to impermanent things. They desired to hold on to life, health, possessions, and each other. But life, health, possessions and people pass away. This, he reasoned, was the cause of human suffering. Therefore, he concluded that if he could kill desire his suffering would cease and he would be happy.

But the Buddha did desire something: lasting happiness. Ironically, it was this great desire that fueled his philosophy of killing desire.

There is a vacuous absence of God in the Buddha’s pursuit of desire-less joy. He didn’t say much about God’s existence. To him, God was irrelevant to human happiness. Rather, happiness was being free from desire-induced suffering and reincarnation. It was the blissful end of individual existence—the sweet annihilation that is Nirvana.

How different are Jesus’ answers from the Buddha’s.

Click here to read the rest.

GNAR WARS

A Jedi and a Sith battle it out...on SNOWBOARDS!!

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/18/votd-star-wars-snowboarding/trackback/

Midwest Flooding: Thought this was very cool

Brothers Rick, right, and Tom Hobson and sisters-in-laws Pat, third from right, and Rhonda Hobson embrace just after Rick and Rhonda Hobson arrived from McLaurin, Miss. with a trailer full of flood relief supplies in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Tom Hobson, is organizing the effort to help his flooded hometown of Cedar Rapids, which sent supplies and equipment to Mississippi following 2005's Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

HT: Yahoo News Photos

Minnesota Johns and the Voice of Gabriel - Part 2

Part 1 here.

Quicktime Versions of both parts over at ICY Pictures.

Minnesota Johns and the Voice of Gabriel Part 1

Quicktime version available over at ICY Pictures...

Minnesota Johns and the Voice of Gabriel Part I

Part Two is coming soon.

Every year at our church, the youth group has an event called the Raymond Awards. It's like a mock Academy Awards where all the kids make a video that's submitted in advance and then there are prizes for Best Actor, Actress, Picture, etc. Well, Jason (our youth director) and I decided to make an Indiana Jones spoof about a week before the Raymonds. That's right, a week before. What we started out thinking would be a 5 to 7 minute film, turned into almost 20 minutes long. We had a great time making it and lot's of laughs when the youth saw it. We also showed it this past Sunday after our church cookout. To our surprise, almost 200 people hung around to watch this thing. Never thought I'd have that many people see one of my little movies.