The Best of 2008!

2008, What a year! I didn't realize, until I started to make this list, how political my blogs became as the year progressed. Sorry!

Here is a list of my favorite blogs for 2008 by month;

January -- Yesterday is Gone so Say Goodbye! -- original post date: 1-21-08

February -- Where Will You Choose to Meet God? -- original post date: 2-18-08

March -- 10 Things I Learned From My Son's Science Report -- original post date: 3-8-08

April -- God, Beth Moore and My Wife -- original post date: 4-30-08

May -- Why Do We Run From What We Are So Desperately Longing For? -- original post date: 5-20-08

June -- The Movie of My Life -- original post date: 6-26-08

July -- How Healthy Marriages Are Important to a Community -- original post date: 7-9-08

August -- My Ghostly Encounter -- original post date: 8-14-08

September -- Where Were You On This Date? -- original post date: 9-11-08

October -- Romans 13: 1--7 (Submission to the Authorities) -- original post date: 10-23-08

November -- We Are Sparta! (My 300th Blog) -- original post date: 11-23-08

December -- Talk About Some Big Hair -- original post date: 12-8-2008

My Last Blog for 2008!

This will be my last blog for the year 2008! I just finished teaching a marriage education class to 8 couples in Tyler today and I am very glad this is my job. All my couples thanked me for taking the time to teach them some valuable communication, conflict resolution, budgeting and other skills they will need to get their marriages off to a great start. I even got a phone call during one of the breaks from the couple who completed my 8 hour class last Monday. (The one that lasted from 3:00-11:00 p.m.) They got married and they want to e-mail me some pictures of the wedding!

God has blessed me with a wonderful job. Not only do I teach these great skills to couples, both married, engaged or other, I also learn from them as well.

I hope God blesses me in 2009 so that I can help even more couples.

Happy New Year, See You in 2009! -- Mark English

Some 2008 Movies I Am Anxiously Awaiting to See!

Borrowing a cue from my friend Tech Daddy, I thought I would list a few of the upcoming movies for 2008 that I am anxiously awaiting to see. Some of them have already come to the theaters and I need to just go and watch them, others are due out soon, and some later this year. Here is my list! Click on the names of the movies to see the trailers.

1. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (a Veggie Tales Movie) -- already in theaters.

2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Silver Skull (Opens May 22)

3. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Opens May 16)

4. The Dark Knight (Opens July 18)

5. WALL-E (Opens June 27)

6. Iron Man (Opens May 2)

7. The Incredible Hulk (Opens June 13)

8. Horton Hears a Who -- already in theaters

9. Kung Fu Panda (Opens June 6)

10. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Opens April 18th nationwide, it's in some theaters already.)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out November 21, but alas no trailer for it yet.

The next James Bond movie also comes out November 7. It is called Quantum of Solace. By clicking this you will get to see a "Behind the Scenes" clip about the filming of the new Bond film.

If you have any more exciting movie suggestions let me know. It looks to be a great movie year, I hope!