Saturday, August 7, 2010

Film & Theology, and Food too!

   Today was spent at home, relaxing (something that will very soon become a rare occasion I'm sure!), praying, reading and studying. My roommate Michael Baker, worked all day, and we were both invited over to Ryan and Erica Wagenhauser's house, a couple from our church. Ryan is on the communications team, which means he works in audio/video and other forms of technological communication. We were joined by another brother in Christ Matt Behr. Ryan, Erica and Matt all come from Montana, moved out here last year to serve the Lord at Mars Hill. 
   We had a great dinner, fellowship, and watched 2 movies and discussed the theological impact of both of them. The first movie was "Legion", about the end of the world because as the movie puts it "God has lost faith in man", and so angels are sent to destroy mankind. I won't spoil it for anyone, but it was very graphic in the violence and language, and used the Lord's name in vain quite a bit, which ruined it for me. 
   The second movie we watched was "Book of Eli", which I really enjoyed, but I won't get too into it because this one I actually recommend, but again it is graphic on the violence and language, which I didn't mind too much because it fit with the story. If someone wants more info on either of these movies, email me and I'll fill you in, I don't want to spoil it if someone wants to see it for themselves. I wouldn;t let anyone under 13 see either one though.
   Tomorrow I'm working a wedding at the church for 4 hours and making $100!! Praise Jesus for His continued faithfulness!!! Here's a pic from dinner, more tomorrow...
...left to right: Ryan and his wife Erica Wagenhauser, my roommate Michael Baker, and Matt Behr, and yes, we drinking Pyramid Apricot Ales with dinner!!! ("Betty Brews", to Dave and Brian....)

5 comments:

  1. Or you can watch The Book of Eli on Clear Play, but don't turn the violence all the way up.

    Zoe

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  2. Why do they call it Apricot Ale? I can not taste any fruit in it at all. Maybe they call it that because of the color of the labels! What ever the reason, I think you would be better off with an apricot milkshake. That would live up to it's name. And it would taste good! ;)

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  3. Yeah, Book of Eli was better with no violence filter.

    Glad to see you're settling in up there!

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  4. Apricot Ale, Miss Sarah, DOES have a faint apricot flavor - but not so much as to drown out the great beer flavor....which I know you love ...

    and Thanks for the movie info. Think I'll skip Legion, but will probably see Eli again.
    Sounds like you had a nice evening!

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