Restaurant of the week: Red Robin
We ate at the RR in Jenks a week or two ago and were pleasantly surprised. The kids meals were reasonable including the healthy drink which for a dude with 4 kids is nice, and the adults menu had plenty of choices as well. Known for it's burgers they were dinner plates on the menu as well as a nice selection of appetizers and deserts. When my food came I was pleased I ordered a bacon cheeseburger with a fried egg on the top. The guy who came up with that menu selection is a very wise man indeed. There were draw backs, the $12.00 price tag for the burger was a little steep, and the service left some to be desired. When you drop a 50 dollar bill on burgers you want great service, we didn't get it. All in all great food, good atmosphere but the price is tough to swallow. 3 stars.
Album of the week: What life would be like - Big Daddy Weave
These guys a fun, not the soul stirring lyrics of Casting Crowns or Chris Rice - not the great music/vocals of Third Day, but if your driving with the kids just wanting to sing loud and bob your head BDW is my favorite. The 1st two songs on this album are the calling cards You found Me, and What Life Would Be Like. The chorus of You found Me is as follows:
When I saw a flash of light and I heard the sound
Of a voice like thunder shake the ground
it was the first time I remember ever feeling my heart beet
And the arms the gripped me felt like grace
And I realized in their embrace
To be held so tight I've never felt so free
Also known as the day that you found me
This is the only 5 star song on my iPod but the whole album is worth a listen. Overall 4 stars.
Book of the week: The Shack
The much acclaimed book that tries to rationalize why bad things happen to good people or even innocent children as well as explain the Trinity and their relationship to one another in a fictional form. For a popular book maybe the worst I have ever read. The story was sad but fairly gripping until a quarter of the way through the book we met poorly developed characters who a portraying the Trinity and from there on out it is almost completely dialogue. The topics are some that have been tackled in some of the stoutest Biblical Theology or Systematic Theology books ever written. In A fictional medium! On top of all that I have a hard time picturing God as a large black woman. I don't want to be overly critical, I am obviously not that bright and no writer for sure, I just felt the author grasped at to much in this genre. I do appreciate what he tried to do, and agreed with many of his points of doctrine ( not all mind you), but he lost me in all the dialogue with little or no action mingled in. Sorry 2 stars is the best I can do. RLR
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