Notice: During the Month of January, Intersect Culture Month here at Intersect, I review movies and music submitted by the students and we use it during our ongoing discussion of engaging the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
It was hard, but I was able to get past the fact that she had written a song for one of the Jonas brothers. Not usually one for teen celebrity drama, I pressed on and listened to the entire new album by Taylor Swift, called Fearless. I have to admit, I was moderately surprised.
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Have you found your Edward yet? If that sentence makes any sense to you most likely you are the parent of a student or are a student who has read the Twilight series of novels by Stephenie Meyer. After all the descriptions of Edward I’ve been hearing, the previews I’ve been seeing for the movie adaptation of the first book in the series and the interestingly symbolic book cover of two hands holding an apple, I decided it was time to for me to read Twilight, and what an enlightening exp ...
MSX 2008 was amazing! We had over 100 kids every day in VBS, we completeley remodeled a house that St. Mary's will use as a homeless shelter and we gave all the kids school supplies to take back to school with them this week. It couldn't have gone better!
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Make sure you're bringing school supplies for the kids at St. Mary's Missionary Baptist over the next couple of weeks. We will pass them out on August 1st, the last day of MSX. Here we have one of our early donations, one lucky kid will receive a Matt Maples to take to school with them this fall:
Griffin turns 14 on July 14th. Here's how he celebrated:
SOLA 2008 was one of the best camps I've ever been to. We learned that salvation is earned and life is lived by grace alone through faith alone and in Christ alone. What a great experience to hear our students expressing that truth. We'll have more video and picture updates soon, or to see more pictures now, Join the Intersect Facebook Group!!
Emily and I went and saw this movie on Sunday and both of us would highly reccomend it. Emily isn't a big fan of fantasy type stuff but she really enjoyed it and said she felt closer to Jesus afterwards. If you have read the book, expect to be a little disapointed as I was, but if not, you should really enjoy this one. Here are a couple of helpful reviews:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/2008/princecaspian.html
http://lookingcloser.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/the-looking-closer-review-prince-caspian/