Fun Pass

This video has everything I could ever want in a short film:

• Imagination
• Ingenuity
• Community
• Compassion
• Fun Passes
• Perseverance
• Yarn and an S-hook
• Heartwarming Story
• Happy Ending
• Flash Mob
• Custom Song
• Cardboard
• Arcade
• Lots of Tape
• Army Guys
• Pizza

The video is a bit long, but it's way worth it.

What would our world look like if we as Christians lived out our faith as passionately as Caine's devotion and passion for his Arcade?

Even with no customers... his Arcade an inside joke with his family...  nobody at school believing he has an arcade, Caine still had passion because he believed.  He knew that his Arcade was awesome and the best cardboard Arcade in the whole entire world.

What would our world look like if we truly believed that Jesus is awesome and the best thing in the whole entire world?

I have a feeling we would attract onlookers and curious passersby who just might want to buy one of our 'fun passes'... but instead of 500 plays, our fun pass is eternal life in Jesus Christ.

Living out our Christian faith with the passion that Caine ran his Arcade would change the world.

God gave us creativity, ingenuity, passion, and influence... are we using it for His glory... or for something else?

On the journey with you,

Pastor Beau 

Games and stuff...

<-----  1,000,000 points if you can tell me what video game this is from?

I know.  Too easy.  (I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next. Time.)

I think you'll see as this blog progresses that (and here comes a confession)
I am helplessly and unashamedly RETRO.

I fully embrace and have come to grips with the fact that it is no longer 1984... but that doesn't mean I have to stop liking all things old.

If your kids are with me for any length of time you'll begin to hear them dropping words like "cassette tape"

Do you see what I see?

Ok.

I don't know if it's because I'm getting older... or because I'm slowly becoming my parents, but I've recently been noticing all the truly awful things in the mediasphere (TV, music, internet, movies, books, etc...) that are aimed directly at our kids' hearts, souls, and minds.

If Jesus said that the greatest commandment of all time is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind (Matthew 22:34-39)... I'm pretty sure not much of what is floating invisibly through the airwaves and directly into our homes, or is sitting on our kids' iPods is going to help us as parents instill this truth in our children very effectively.

I'm not just saying this as a children's pastor... I'm saying this as a father who is concerned about what my