John Message 1

November 17, 2009 · Posted in Uncategorized · 2 Comments 

For those of you who want a first or second look at this past weekend’s message … here it is:

[show clip from the original Star Wars movie of opening prologue (episode 4)] It’s arguably the most famous movie prologue of my generation.  Many movies I’ve watched over the years have been very much forgettable.  But not so the first Star Wars installment (episode 4) which I saw as in Madison as a college student (some of you didn’t know the movie was that old!).  Star Wars had a level of special effects visuals that we’d never seen before, all tied to an epic story that has captured the American imagination for now three decades.

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