Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Merry Christmas!!


A co-worker gave this to me the other day, it is now displayed proudly on my desk. If you haven't seen The Nightmare Before Christmas you definitely should.....by the end of the day, one of my favorite movies ever.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Shadow of the Day

The actual video can't be embedded so here is the song itself:




If you want to watch the video click here.

The song is rather moody I think and I kind of like it. However it is incredibly sad when you watch the video and see the message of the song, a message that would be completely different if God wasn't taken out of the equation.

Looking at the never ending evil in the world can only bring one of two responses, and Linkin Park obviously went for the wrong one.

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Monday, November 05, 2007

It's for the kids!

This is pretty doggone funny.

Party of Parties

This was yesterday's sermon at my church. I found it to be brilliant, many people found it joyously moving.

Check it out.

New Life Sermons


I'm curious if others like it as much as I did.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Seeker - Sensitive Dreck

Let me but upfront about this, I despise seeker sensitive churches, using the common usage of this term. These churches, just to paint with a broad stroke, wastes their Sunday mornings preaching sermons to the 4 people who were dragged there by their family members in the hopes that one of them will "Convert" to being another person sitting in the pew who isn't being taught anything since that person is now "saved" and can now be ignored.

The incredibly sad part about all this is that there is a church in my area that proclaims itself seeker-friendly, then this very same church closed its doors on Christmas since being there for the seekers was just too doggone hard that day!

Anyway, just as I saw a study that suggests that people are more irritable when they don't get enough sleep comes this report that not teaching what Christ demands we do is failing to bring people to true salvation.

Yes, I am stunned as well.

Here is a quote from the story:

"Some of the stuff that we have put millions of dollars into thinking it would really help our people grow and develop spiritually, when the data actually came back it wasn’t helping people that much. Other things that we didn’t put that much money into and didn’t put much staff against is stuff our people are crying out for."

This is what happens when foolish man decides that he is wiser than an all-powerful and all-knowing God. This is the idiocy that occurs when we turn our backs on God and instead use poll data to decide how we are to run our churches. Hopefully truth will be learned from this pile of horsepoopie that "seeker-friendly" churches have created.

Read the rest of the article here.