Converting people to genuine Christianity, especially Mormons--I totally love them and want to warn them of the dangers of following a false god, a false Jesus, false prophets, and false scriptures; I also enjoy movies, biking, fishing, surfing, hiking, basketball, watching football, and many other things.
I'd like to meet:
People who like to think seriously about their faith or lack of it, and would hopefully really want to do something about it. And if you'd like to meet me, then I'm sure you'd like to meet my friends. Please take a moment to say "hi" to my top 8 friends below. They are all former Mormons, who have found The Truth, Jesus Himself, and are now living for Him. They'd love to tell you how the true God changed their lives and forgave all their sins--past, present, and future!
Music:
Everything but rap or hip-hop (I can enjoy some rock-rap like POD though), but I especially enjoy certain types of classical (Baroque and Choral), alternative and some contemporary Christian, worship music, country and bluegrass, and dance.
Movies:
Facing the Giants; The Last of the Mohicans; Braveheart; Gladiator; Tombstone; Passion of the Christ; The Lord of the Rings; The Chronicles of Narnia; Shadowlands; The Godfather sagas; It's a Wonderful Life; Saving Private Ryan; Vertigo; Cinderella Man; Howard's End; Sense and Sensibility; A Man for All Seasons; Becket; The Shawshank Redemption; Little Women (new version); Tears of the Sun; The Matrix; The Bourne Identity; The Bourne Supremacy; To End All Wars; Hotel Rwanda; Emma; Pride and Prejudice (new version); United 93; Napoleon Dynamite; What about Bob?; and many others.
Television:
Fox news; College and NFL football; 24; American Idol; the Military Channel; Alias in its beginning seasons; and I loved the old Batman series and The Wild Wild West as a kid.
Books:
Obviously the Bible... it's God's word! The following are simply books I've enjoyed reading, and not in any particular order: C. S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity"; his "The Chronicles of Narnia"; his "The Weight of Glory"; his "A Grief Observed"; "Pilgrims Regress"; his "The Screwtape Letters"; J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings" three volume complete series; his "The Hobbit"; J. P. Moreland, "Scaling the Secular City"; his "Christianity and the Nature of Science"; Michael Ignatieff, "The Lesser Evil"; Lt. Carey H. Cash, "A Table in the Presence"; Fernando Teson, "Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality", third ed.; DC Talk and The Voice of the Martyrs, "Jesus Freaks"; John Foxe, "Foxe's Book of Martyrs"; Sheldon Vanauken, "A Severe Mercy"; Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway, "The Heavenly Man"; Bruce Olson, "Bruchko"; Frank Peretti, "This Present Darkness"; his "The Prophet"; John Bunyan, "Pilgrim's Progress"; Nancy Pearcey, "Total Truth"; David Murrow, "Why Men Hate Going to Church"; Ray Comfort, "Hell's Best Kept Secret"; Paul Ramsey, "The Just War"; Gary Rosen, ed., "The Right War?"; Elisabeth Elliot, "Through Gates of Splendor"; Mark Cahill, "One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven"; Jean Bethke Elshtain, "Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World"; Ravi Zacharias, "Can Man Live Without God?"; his "Deliver Us from Evil"; and many more.
Heroes:
Jesus of course since as God, He alone could become a perfect man; as for imperfect humans: my dad; St. Paul; St. Thomas Aquinas; St. Augustine; Jan Hus; Martin Luther; John Calvin; Thomas Becket; Oliver Cromwell; Thomas More; C. S. Lewis; Mother Teresa; Alvin Plantinga; William Lane Craig; J. P. Moreland; Francis and Edith Schaeffer; Fernando Teson; Walter Martin; Ronald Reagan; D. L. Moody; John Wesley; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Winston Churchill; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Abraham Lincoln; Billy Graham; Pope John Paul II; William Wilberforce; Wally Tope; Kurt Van Gorden; Ray Comfort; Sami Dagher; Brother Yun; Brother Andrew; Andrew Murray; Ravi Zacharias; Jay Sekulow; and many others.
