Category: Kingdom Culture

10 Greatest Lawyer Movies

Ok, this doesn’t really have anything to do with the kingdom of God. Well, maybe it does. The Bible says the kingdom of God is established on justice. (Isaiah 9:7).

The wife and I watched The Verdict tonight and I got all worked up about great lawyer movies. So here are the ten greatest lawyer movies of all time, brought to you by your trial lawyer turned blogger:

1. To Kill A Mockingbird. A lawyer who stands against a racist majority for righteousness and justice. The best of movie of them all.

2. 12 Angry Men. This movies captures the idealism about juries that makes me proud I’m a trial lawyer. There is nothing that compares to the collective intelligence of twelve jurors. This movies proves it.

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Note To Ted Haggard

Charisma Magazine reports in a recent article that defrocked minister, Ted Haggard is upset with the Church because he claims it hasn’t helped him be restored to the ministry.

You remember Ted Haggard, he was the dude who was preaching against homosexuality while allegedly engaging in drug-fueled sexual conduct with his homosexual masseur. (It should be noted Haggard denies the relationship was buggery-based).

Complaining about his treatment since his rather public defrocking Charisma reports Haggard as saying: “The church only believes in forgiveness and restoration for insignificant people . . . Virtually every institution on earth is demonstrating that they’re doing a better job restoring people than the church.” Continue reading “Note To Ted Haggard”

The Cult of Celebrity

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The wife and I were in Los Angeles yesterday.

I was in a mediation all day on a case I am handling there, but my wife headed out to Rodeo Drive and then in the afternoon returned to the Beverly Hilton, where we were staying.

About 4:45, she began texting me pictures of celebrities. First it was Mark Wahlberg, then The Dude himself, that’s right, His Dudeness, The Big Lebowski a/k/a Jeff Bridges.

There were others too: Colin Firth, Amy Adams, James Franco, Randy Newman, Ed Begley, Jr. Apparently the movie stars were at the Beverly Hilton for a lunch honoring the Academy Award nominees. Continue reading “The Cult of Celebrity”

Don’t Respond To Egyptian Crises Like This

As a citizen of the kingdom of God, there are a number of ways to respond to the current crises in Egypt.

There is one way not to respond, and that is to talk about the end times.

You know what I mean, Egypt is going to fall to the Muslim extremists, they will make war on Israel, Russia (or is it China now) will attack from the north with 2,000,000 men and they will all meet at Armageddon, chaos, dogs and cats living together, the rapture, the end . . . and Hal Lindsey promoted to the left hand of the Father.

There are a number of reasons it doesn’t benefit the kingdom of God or you to engage in end-times speculation over what is happening in Egypt. Here are three:

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5 Best Books I Read in 2010

I’ve had a goal over the last several years to read 50 books per year. Last year I fell woefully short at 27.

Nevertheless, here is my list of the top 5 books I read in 2010, in no particular order:

1. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller

Donald Miller of Blue Like Jazz fame has produced another winner. Million Miles is a book about how to live a meaningful life, a life that is an interesting worthy story. Miller takes the elements of what makes a good book and suggests, quite convincingly, they are the same things that make for a meaningful Christian life.

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