January 2009
11 posts
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Listen to the title song from Bon Iver’s new EP.
Jan 30th
Barack Is Super Awesome
(Found at the official Inauguration Blog)
Jan 26th
Kierkegaard on the Bible
The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly.
Jan 25th
Why Disney Dumped Narnia
Totaled together, the first two “Narnia” films grossed nearly $1.2 billion around the world, making it one of the most successful box-office franchises in recent years. So why would Disney walk away from such a valuable property? The back story is complicated, to say the least. (found at Miscellanies)
Jan 23rd
LOST Season Premiere Recap
By Joe Carter Alarm clock: 8:15. Baby cries. Man gets out of bed and puts on the 1973 LP of Willie Nelson’s “Shotgun Willie.” Record skips. Thirty seconds of footage that will cause us Lostheads thousands of hours searching for The Meaning Of It All.
Jan 23rd
Letter From Birmingham Jail
But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry...
Jan 20th
Sanctified Facebook
Biblical principles to guide your social networking from a series of posts at Shepherd’s Press Blog: Consider others more significant than yourself Communicate only what will build others up Do all of your communicating realizing that since you belong to Christ, your communications involve his reputation as well as your own. The point is not simply to avoid evil content in electronic...
Jan 17th
Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
Read Pastor Mark Driscoll’s profile in the New York Times Magazine. Some choice quotes: But what is new about Driscoll is that he has resurrected a particular strain of fire and brimstone, one that most Americans assume died out with the Puritans: Calvinism, a theology that makes Pat Robertson seem warm and fuzzy. The mainstream church, Driscoll has written, has transformed Jesus into...
Jan 15th
Get Clean Online
Download my brother’s album at Amazon.com
Jan 7th
Bible Reading Plans
Many different ways to read through the Bible this year.
Jan 5th
Movie Inspiration
40 inspirational movie speeches in two minutes (found at Joe Carter’s Commonplace)
Jan 2nd