Category: misc

Friends of God coming to DVD


The HBO documentary by Alexandra Pelosi, which came out earlier this year and featured Ted Haggard (before his scandal), Jerry Falwell (who died earlier this year) and the Christian Wrestling Federation (who are preparing to take their ministry to Nigeria in a few weeks), will be coming out on DVD in October.
Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi DVD is available for pre-purchase from HBO.com for $25 or $22 from Amazon.com
From HBO:

In Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, intrepid roving reporter/tour guide Pelosi takes viewers on an entertaining road trip into the red-state heartland of America, chronicling the leaders and followers who comprise the booming evangelical Christian movement.
Traveling to the states that helped elect and re-elect George Bush, Pelosi meets up with a dizzying array of outspoken and upbeat evangelicals: from TV celebrities like Joel Osteen, Jerry Falwell, and Ted Haggard, to the leaders of groups like the Christian Wrestling Federation and Cruisers for Christ (a car club), to regular folk committed to carrying out the Creationist messages plastered on billboards throughout the Bible Belt.

Thanks to the DMN for the heads-up

10 Commandments on film… again

The 10 Commandments are coming to the film… again.
With the original movie and the Prince of Egypt, I’m not sure why the story needs to be told on the silver screen again but it may be worth checking out. Christian Slater does the voice of Moses in this animated retelling of the Exodus story. The animation looks more like a computer game than most other animated movies coming out today…

Lehmann baby 3 on the way

Well Keri and Aaron made it to encounter this morning, but it wasn’t long before they were headed out the door and heading to the hospital in anticipation of baby 3.
The latest from Aaron around 1 p.m. CST is that they are going to induce Keri today. So we should see a new addition to the Lehmann family before too long.
Laurie and I will be heading to the hospital before too long so we’ll be sure to grab some photos of the going-ons.

New reading

We picked up a couple new books at Mardels today (as if I really need more books to finish :-)). I feel like I’m reading four books right now – which is pretty close to the truth. I read different ones at different points of the day.
Laurie wanted to get Don Miller’s book, Searching for God Knows What and I was hoping to get Rob Bell’s latest book, Sex God.
We didn’t find Sex God but I got Bill Hybel’s book, Holy Discontent, which Brian’s been reading lately. I’m looking forward to reading both.
In the meantime, I think I’ll throw out a couple tags…
I want to know what Michael Robinson is reading, my mom, my dad, Thomas and Walker. So tag – you five are it.

Power Uno

Laurie and I just got back from Kara and Tim’s, we kind of invited ourselves over to hang out with my sister and her husband. They went to the Dallas Farmer’s Market today and picked up a bunch of fruit and veggies, so they provided the sides and a great blackberry cobbler and we brought the meat, sirloin steaks.

We had a great meal, a strawberry summer salad, green beans and new potatoes and the steak.
It all went down great with the hot cobbler and Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. MMMmmmm….

Afterwards we played a couple games, Imagine If, and Power Uno.

I think Imagine If maybe Kara’s new favorite game – but she cleaned house the first round we played so that may have something to do with it.

We ran into a couple snags though with Power Uno, since Laurie and I had only played it once a couple week’s ago at our Community Group meeting (it was a very spiritual week :-)).

I’m going to try and remember the situations and see if anyone has an answer to them. I can’t find any “official” rules or instructions for Power Uno on the web, although I did find some instructions for Super Power, No Sissies.

Just to set up the game/picture we were playing in this order, Jonathan > Laurie > Kara > Tim.

Situation 1: Going around the circle, it was my turn and I played a Draw 2 card. Laurie was next and she drew 2 cards from the deck. I then played another Draw 2 card (same color – identical card to what I laid down originally). We were confused on who would draw the next 2 cards. Would it be Laurie since I jumped in (out of turn to play a duplicate card) or would it be Kara (next in the circle after Laurie) since Laurie had already drawn two and I played at the end of her turn or the beginning of Kara’s turn?

Situation 2: When a duplicate card is played (as in above) who plays next? If I played a red 5 and Kara played a red 5 (out of turn) does she get to play again or would Tim play next since he was next in line after Kara?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated – any Power Uno players out there let us know what you think.

Anyone else find any new games or variations on old games they love playing?

We’re enjoyed Power Uno, Imagine If and another game we played on July 4 with the Treadaways, Sequence. We haven’t purchased that one yet but we’ve been meaning to. I think we have a hard time justifying paying $15 for it when we saw it at Half Price Books for $6 :-). We’ve also enjoyed Boxers or Briefs but I think Imagine If may beat that one out as a top game. And if we can find it in a store, we’d like to purchase Dirty Laundry.