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Barack Obama and John McCain Get Real
Published by Jeff, on August 22nd, 2008 in Front Page, Leadership, Stuff I Find.Rick Warren hosted a “civil forum” where he took roughly 50 minutes with each candidate asking questions from all over the political map. Two very insightful questions were:
- What is your greatest moral failure, and what is the greatest moral failure of the USA?
- What current Supreme Court justice(s) would you not have appointed?
Watch it for yourself and then watch the commentary afterwards by the CNN reporters and see a new kind of political debate take shape prompted by the creativity and courage of Rick Warren and Saddleback Church.
PS. If the video below doesn’t work, try visiting the link below it.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/16/warren.forum/index.html
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The other day, I got an email that I was sure was a hoax, but after looking it up, I discovered that it was actually real.
Check out the amazing pictures on the hammer gallery site and read some of the incredible stats on snopes.com.
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Churches to Watch
Published by Jeff, on July 31st, 2008 in Leadership, Other Christian Sites, Stuff I Find.Apparently, these are the 250 best(?) churches to track for ideas… sounds like a lot of them to me. How can you “track” 250 churches?
http://churchrelevance.com/resources/churches-to-watch/
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I saw a very interesting website this week on how American Consumerism is the result of a skillful intentional process. This isn’t a conspiracy theory, and it is quite biased, but it’s also some incredible food for thought.
Check out http://www.storyofstuff.com/ for yourself.
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I saw something last week on American Idol that really freaked me out. They opened the show by having the contestants perform Shout to the Lord by Darlene Zschech!
If you don’t know the song, Shout to the Lord is one of the most popular contemporary worship songs of all time. It’s popularity alone is perhaps the reason American Idol chose to have the top eight contestants perform it, but I was really creeped out by the whole thing. Watch it, and then I’ll tell you why I have a problem with it.
My problem with it…
I have always had a problem with the commercialising of Christianity. I don’t have a problem with the practice of paying teachers for teaching or for paying pastors for pastoring or artists for performing or writers for writing, etc. But I have a problem when someone uses their own Christianity to make money (“Buy from me because I’m a Christian.”) or when a person plays off Christian values to make money (some of the biggest “Christian” bookstores are owned by secular firms because they saw a business opportunity).
What was American Idol doing? Were they affirming their own Christian values? Were they playing off the values of their audience? Were they performing a great piece of music for its own sake?
My guess is that it was option number two. I don’t have anything against that song or the people who love it, but frankly speaking, there are many other songs they could have picked with better lyrics, better instrumentation or better melodies. No, they picked the most popular worship song for one reason… to make Christians think American Idol was a good show to watch. Just look at the comments on YouTube to see what Christians now think of the show.
Such irony for a show called American Idol to play off its Christian audience!
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20 WAYS TO SURVIVE IF YOU’RE IN A HORROR MOVIE
Published by Jeff, on October 29th, 2007 in Front Page, Stuff I Find.(Gleaned from the Internet and modified by me.)
- If a killer with a knife is chasing you around the house, do NOT go upstairs. Go out the front door!
- Never stoop over to see if the killer is dead. He’s not.
- Avoid the following geographical locations: Amityville, Elm Street, Crystal Lake, Transylvania, many islands, lover’s lanes, most secluded mountain resorts and all small towns in the state of Maine.
- Never dig up strange-looking objects in the woods.
- Never bury pets or loved ones in old Native American burial grounds, because they aaaalways come back.
- As a general rule, don’t try to solve puzzles that open doorways to Hell.
- Find out what your parents were up to when they were younger. You never know if they burned up a serial killer, had a mysterious “other child,” are not your real parents, or opened up a doorway to Hell.
- Never stay overnight in the old house at the end of town that’s supposed to be haunted. Let them think you’re chicken. Even if the prize is one million dollars. It’s not worth it.
- If a TV starts calling your name, don’t touch it.
- No matter what people say, there is no good reason why anyone’s eyes should glow red.
- If a kid says, “I see dead people,” believe him.
- If you just ripped your phone out of the wall and it rings anyway, DON’T ANSWER IT!
- The crazy old guy everybody laughs at knows what he’s talking about.
- If a crazy old person tells you never to feed your cute new pet after midnight, don’t!
- Pay attention to dogs, cats, horses and other more intelligent creatures. If they’re nervous, scram.
- Always skip the shortcut.
- Never take anything from a clown in a sewer.
- Aliens are not friendly.
- No, it’s not your imagination. They ARE out to get you and it IS as bad as it seems!
- For goodness’ sake, turn on the lights.
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"Our biochemistry is about 97% the same as a mouse.
Our biochemistry is about 50% the same as a banana.
Human Cytochrom 'C' is closest to that of a sunflower.
Human eyes are closest to the eyes of an octopus.
Human skin is closest to that of a pig."
Explain to me, how this fits in with primates??? With all due respect, i think his aim with "god set it up that way" was meant to be an insult of some kind. He sounds very passionate about this subject and with passion comes biases. While i'm not researched in anyway on this specific argument, generally speaking i'm convinced these people only look at their "evidence" with one prospective; 1st proves evolution or doesn't.. They don't even consider any other possibility of what it could mean..Taken at face value because i don't know anything about the human gnome and could be missing key things due to pure ignorance. Start of video; You had plenty of time to research and form a "theory" on something then proceed to drop this well researched project on someone and expect them to refute you on the drop of dime?? I dont think you need a PHD to say; you should allow someone to try refute your findings within a respectable time frame. That seems like the most objective thing to do. Although i think this would show insecurity on "Ken's" part. (To have holes punched in something your just presenting would be kind embarrassing. or was it arrogance?) Rest of video: Sounds like its not an exact match, "within 15 bases", and something about Telomeres not belonging? The choice of "correspond with" instead of something like is "exactly like", implicates some differences as well?.. But i could be completely wrong.. "no reason, no rhyme" sounds like he is insulting the bible as well. Would be very interested in hearing a completely objective view on these findings..