Archive for October, 2008

He Is Here – Amena Brown

Amena Brown is amazing.  I just came across another of her spoken word poem performances and thought it worth sharing.

Worship solves a lot of problems doesn’t it? It gives our existence meaning.  It reorients our perspective onto the the greatness and reality of God and His love for us.  It softens our hearts.  It inspires us to love one another as Christ loves us.

Here I was dragging and whining through my day and a difficult week and stumbled upon this video.  In 3 minutes my heart was turned Godward and my attitude was adjusted.

Take a minute and get caught up into the reality of the greatness of our God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdeFZm3ai5U

1305 days ago 0

Book Review: Jim and Casper Go to Church

As soon as I read the premise for this book I knew I had to read it.  The idea of the book is simple.  A former pastor and an atheist visit several American churches and report on their experiences.  The result is some candid and revealing insights.

Jim Henderson is a former pastor of a large church and is now leading a ministry called “Off the Map“.  Off the Map is a ministry designed to help Christians do evangelism using conversation and relationship.  Jim stumbled onto the idea for the book when he began paying people to come to his church and do a formal review of their experience.  He found that non-christians often had some very insightful feedback.

Matt Casper is an atheist who has some experience in the christiand world.  In fact, he was once employed by a huge christiand company that creates outreach materials for churches.  Get this, because this is funny…  Matt, an atheist, was writing copy for this outreach company that was to be used by churches to compel unsaved people to repent and be saved.  Or at least come to church.  He eventually left because he “didn’t fit in”.  No kidding!

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1307 days ago 1

Family Going to Church

This is a nice video from the recent Desiring God conference.  It’s convicting, so if you don’t want to feel convicted don’t watch it.

Link to video

1316 days ago 8

Baby Preacher

Comments?  What do you think is going on here?

I have mixed feelings.

Link to video

1319 days ago 3

The Pastor’s Ass

First, let me say that this is the greatest title to any post ever done on this blog…

I got this as an email from Heather today and it cracked me up.  DISCLAIMER: I am in no way promoting email forwards.  I do not endorse, promote, or encourage forwarding vapid Christianese emails to everyone in your address book.  Doing that is evil.  Stop it.  Do not take this as an invitation to forward me special prayers that will release the blessing of Jabez, angels carrying potpourri, burned toast that looks like Jesus, etc.

NOTE: There is no disclaimer about the use of the words “ass”.  It’s a donkey.  Calm down.

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1320 days ago 3

Time for the Beave to Join the Stones

I used to watch “Leave it to Beaver” all the time when I was a kid.  They were reruns then, but I still loved the show.  It’s crazy to see how old they are now.  Especially The Beave.  It makes me feel a little older myself.

The good news is that they they are almost at the right age to go on tour with the Rolling Stones. Who do you think would win if Eddie Haskell challenged Mic Jagger in a foot race?

My daughter watched a few minutes of “Leave it to Beaver” the other day and said it was lame. Sigh.

1323 days ago 0

Is Jesus a Republican?

Who will save us?

This is an interesting time in America.  The great American idol of greed and success has stumbled.  All of his worshippers are scattering in a panic wondering how their great, omniscient god could betray them in their time of need.  All the priests of the economy are offering sage advice on CNBC and Fox News.  “It’s the Democrats fault!”  “No!  It’s the Republican’s fault!”  “Wait, that isn’t true!  It’s rich white people!”  On and on they go like the prophets of Baal dancing around a cold altar trying to coax fire from the sky.

We thought George W. would be our savior.  Our king who would ride in on a white horse and rescue us from economic and moral damnation.  8 years later, we’re all disappointed.  Disillusioned.  A little hopeless.

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1326 days ago 2