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Last night we had a very cool meeting. We got together a little early, due to the fact that we watched "The Last Temptation of Christ", and it's a fairly long movie. We, of course, ate first, prayed for Alan and his flight and trip to Idaho for Allelon. Then we settled in to watch the movie. It was, I must admit, pretty interesting. The best I can figure, the concept of the book from which the movie sprang was drawn from the passage where Jesus was tempted in the desert after His baptism. At the end of that passage (see Luke 4:13), it says that Satan "left Him until an opportune time." Apparently the author interpreted the time of Jesus hanging on the cross, waiting to die, as an "opportune time." It's a plausible story, for the most part, but there were some areas that I thought were rather unlikely, such as the beginning of the film where Jesus is portrayed as somewhat of a pansy, for lack of a better word, doubting His calling as the Messiah and being apparently unable to tell for certain if the "voice" He heard was God or Satan. Overall, it was a pretty good movie and somewhat undeserving of the bad rap it has garnered over the years.
By the time the movie was over, it had snowed quite a bit, so Brian, reverting back to his "head usher" days, went out and swept off all of our cars. What a nice boy he can be sometimes! :^) Oh, yeah, Liz made the most wonderful tiramisu, and gave us leftovers to take home! Yum-yum!!
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