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This past Sabbath fell on “Valentines Day”.   I imagine many pastors/speakers chose to preach on love, relationships, and other related topics.

Pastor Derek Morris, the Senior Pastor of Forest Lake SDA (the church we attend) titled his sermon “Fire Damage“.  It is the beginning of a 3 part series on relationships that can be found at www.ForestLakeChurch.org in the coming weeks.

In his sermon he covered areas of life that can cause fire damage, but in the middle of the sermon he played a clip from the movie called “Fireproof“, which won “Inspirational Movie of the Year” for 2008.

You could probably guess that he encouraged everyone to go watch a movie that may help your relationship, even if you are not on the brink of divorce or anything close.  Well, he not only encouraged it, he said it was such a powerful movie that the church staff bought a site license so that the church could play the movie to as many people as would like to see it.

Since Valentines Sabbath Tiffany and I have bought and watched the movie and we thought that it was such a good movie for everyone, what we wanted to blog about it.  Whether your relationship is good or bad you will benefit from this movie, and we pray that you will also share it with others.

Above I have inserted some links to the movie website, and Pastor Morris’ sermon, but below you can also see a 30 second TV commercial, a longer trailer, and for more resources go to: www.fireproofmymarriage.com.

I hope enjoy the movie,

Ronald

Fireproof – 30 Second TV Commercial

Fireproof – Official Trailer

I’ll post more videos of our special visitor in a few days, but here is one incident that made our day….well…..more exciting to say in the least. I hope you get a laugh out of it.

For many of us the most vivid memories in life come when we experience things for the first time. Think back to when you were just a little toddler….you had many firsts:

• The first time you spoke
• The first time you stood
• The first time you walked for 5 seconds without falling

Then there was the teenage years…

• The first time you drove a car
• The first time you got a job for real money
• The first time

There were many first times in college and definitely many first times when you graduated from college. Which brings Tiffany and me to our current times.

The last couple of years I have experienced my first full time job after college, we have experienced our first apartment together, we bought our first furniture together and we have also made our first move together (apartment number 2).

But more recently I have experienced my first job restructure at work. Originally under the Financial Planning Department, a steering committee at the hospital decided that Financial Planning should no longer be in the business of computer/database programming. Therefore half of our team: Duncan (Manager), Albert (Programmer), and me (Programmer) were moved to Management Information Systems which is the computer side of the hospital.

The implications of this move are: we are now in a different building, we can now wear kaki’s and polo shirts to work every day, and we have more room for growth. However, the down side is that our department was split in half and the friendships I had over the last two years are now strained with those who did not make the move.

I guess with all that said, sometimes firsts are not always the most joyful experience. Below are some pictures of Albert and I in our new cubes…