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Generally Speaking
- Birthday and place: April 4, 1979, Glendale, CA. My bedroom was a bay window, Jeremy's was a closet.
- Grew up in: Los Angeles, CA for 14 yrs; Sioux City, IA for 4 years then back to SoCal.
- Family: Katie, my wife; two boys, Micah Slane, my oldest son born December 13th of '04; Liam Slane, our little Wee-Man born May 15th of '07; our dog (a pug/beagle), Scully
- Occupation: Teaching Pastor at theMovement
- Your roles and responsibilities at theMovement: Teaching/Overseeing the Equipping Classes, Ecclesial Vision, Leading Worship, making noise, Elder.
- How you ended up at theMovement: Started in my living room
- Hobbies: Music, collecting guitars and other gear, photography, reading books, art (digital, drawing, and oil painting), Irish history and anything else Irish (the place, the people, the food, the drink, the music), Los Angeles Dodgers (I love going to Dodger Stadium with friends and family, especially my wife and boys), poker and pool, really good cigars (Cuban Cuabas, Partagas 160's, Partagas Blacks, many by CAO, Rocky Patel, among many others), travel (anywhere new and fun, and especially historic), great beers (Firestone Walker Anniversaries, Victory at Sea, Black Xantus, Old Rasputin, 10 Commandments, Older Viscosity, Abacus, Guinness, Smithwick's to name from a very long list) and brewing my own beer (McGinty and Sons Irish Dry Stout, Brown Derby Porter, Winter of 1940 American Strong Stout, Naughty Redhead Irish Red Ale, Elysian Fields Ale, Nutty Holiday Stout), my family history, American history, laughing, politics, old cars and hot rods (especially tinkering with and driving my '40 Ford Deluxe), collecting useless bits of trivia, the Nebraska Cornhuskers football (I WISH I could watch them on TV every week!).
Favorites
- Favorite Books: First and foremost, above all others, the Word of God, secondly, any book that helps me walk out the Word of God in my life, such as:
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem
Concise Theology and Knowing God by J.I. Packer
Doctrine and Vintage Church by Mark Driscoll
Anything from CS Lewis
Heaven and If God is Good by Randy Alcorn
The Preacher's Portrait, Living Church, and The Cross of Christ by John Stott
Preaching and Preachers by Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones
Christ Centered Preaching by Brian Chapell
Chosen for Life by Sam Storms
Idols of the Heart by Elyse Fitzgerald
Disciplines of Grace by Jerry Bridges
Cross Centered Life by C.J. Mahaney
Salvation Belongs to the Lord by John Frame
Celebration of Discipline and Devotional Classics by Richard Foster
Desiring God, The Supremacy of God in Preaching, Don't Waste Your Life, Seeking and Savoring Jesus Christ, and Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper
Developing the Leader Within You/Around You and Leadership Gold by John Maxwell
The Celtic Way of Evangelism, Real Worship by Warren Weirsbe.
I also love the writings of theologians like St. Patrick, Augustine, Torrey, Spurgeon, Tozer, Bonhoeffer, Calvin, Luther, Wesley, and Edwards. And I love reading about church history, such as Eusebius, Hippolytus, Tertullian, and the Didache.
I also like reading about history, particularly American (such as early baseball, cars, politics, wars, etc.), Irish history (such as How the Irish Saved Civilization, Searching for God and Guinness, Confessions of St. Patrick, and the Irish Puritans).
- Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Original Star Wars Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy (that's right, trilogy, let's just all pretend "Crystal Skull" never happened...it was just a bad CGI dream, right?), Godfather Trilogy, Back to the Future Trilogy, Ghostbusters (soon to be a trilogy!? ARGH!), Hitchcock flicks (Rear Window, the Psycho movies, the Birds, Vertigo), Pan's Labrynth, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Bloody Sunday, Life is Beautiful, Saved!, the Apostle, the Muppet Movie, the Goonies, Usual Suspects, Apocalypse Now!, Angela's Ashes, Donnie Darko, Rosemary's Baby, Les Miserables, Cars, the Pianist...so many more...go to my movie blog page to get more of my movie reviews.
- Favorite Bands/Music: U2, Zeppelin (the first CD I bought: Led Zeppelin II (still my fave Zep record), Pink Floyd (the TONE!), AC/DC (no one does Rock and Roll better), Nirvana (this would be probably the most influential overall band for me in High School, and I saw their second to last US concert in LA, and paid my respects at his home in Seattle), Johnny Cash (very little music actually can nearly bring me to tears these days, Johnny is the only one that comes to mind), traditional Irish Music (this is probably my favorite all around...I wish I was way better at it), Hendrix (I visited his childhood home in Renton, WA, and his grave), the Doors (the band that got me INTO music when I was in 7th grade, my first tape cassette (Jeremy gave it to me, I remember the day exactly, sitting in his Mustang in our driveway)),the Who(the second tape cassette I owned/took from Jeremy), Switchfoot, Lifehouse, Flogging Molly, Bouncing Souls (this band epitomizes, somehow, I'd say the latter couple years of high school for me, lots of memories), Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Incubus, older Pearl Jam (the first tape cassette I bought with my own money), Green Day, Mushroom Jazz, Tony Bennett, reggae, jazz (I LOOOOVE jazz, like Lester Young,and the trio Medeski, Martin, and Wood,and Dave Brubeckto only name a few), Pennywise, Sublime, United AUS
- Favorite Word: 'ello Guv'na!!! (said very annoyingly with a caricatured, purposely awful British accent)
- Favorite Star Wars Character and Why: Storm Troopers because they just look so dang tough when there’s a grip of ‘em, even though in reality they’re probably the most worthless army ever created....and Spock.
- Favorite Cartoon Character and Why: I’m gonna go with Homer Simpson because of his brutal honesty.
- Favorite Place to Visit: Ireland by a long shot, New York, Boston,Hawaii, and definitely Dodger Stadium. That place makes me feel like a kid. Click here to read/see some of my favorite traveling exploits.
- Favorite Place You’d Like to Visit: Israel, Germany, Africa, the entire East Coast of the US
- A Few Other Favorite Things: old guitars (especially Gibson, Gretsch, and Fender), effects pedals, spending a relaxing night with my wife (firepit, wine, and s'mores), going to Dodger games at Dodger Stadium, especially with my boys (they LOVE it!); Arrested Development (the TV show), buffalo nickels, comedian Brian Regan, taking my dad in heads-up poker all night long, anything Irish (especially the people), sports memorabilia, lava lamps, asking the hard questions, philosophizing, thinking, and meditating while lingering over my favorite pipe (I'm the oldest 30 year old you'll ever meet), road trips and traveling (I loooove to travel), learning more about myself, being out in crazy lighting storms in the Midwest (and I mean CRAZY!!!), driving my dad’s ‘40 Ford pickup in the middle of nowhere listening to Metallica’s version of “Turn the Page” by Bob Seger...that is so awesome. I love cruising in my '40 Ford Sedan. Late night hang outs with the boys while talking about life, faith, and theology over a room temperature stout and a tasty, relaxing dark robusto are a fave. I love studying anything I'm into: the bible, Ireland, baseball, beer, cigars, old cars, movies, guitars, etc. All in all, I just love life and I enjoy it as much as I can.
Behind The Scenes
- Secret Talent: really bendy thumbs
- Wildest Dream: Opening up my own traditional Irish Pub. One of these days... you mark my words. Also would love to somehow own a place or a time share or something in Ireland...anything to get me there regularly.
- What gets you amped? Hangin' with my family; seeing my little dudes grow up; music and gear; Ireland.
- What gets you bummed? Drama; Waste; seeing my little dudes grow up; “mature” Christians that don’t do anything with their “maturity”
Faith & Vision
- Your Hope and Vision for theMovement: If I die knowing we helped people getting into the Word of God more, I will die a very happy man.
- How long have you known the Lord? Since August 21, 1997
- Faith Upbringing: Catholic
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