100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds

Pretty good compilation (maybe PG-13 for some language). Lost of great one-liners.



HT: 22 Words

Cutting the Nerve of Complaining

Stephen Altrogge, from his fantastic book, The Greener Grass Conspiracy:

Nobody likes a complainer. And yet most of us find ourselves complaining on a fairly regular basis. My stint in the Midwest elicited daily shrieks of complaint at the frigid January wind. “Who on earth decided to establish a major city in this wretched climate,” I would rant to the nearest cringing ear.

The fact is, most of our complaining stems from a faulty sense of entitlement. We all have long lists of things we think we deserve. When everything that we “deserve” doesn’t fall in our laps, we complain. We view ourselves as the injured party who has every right to grumble. Work is stressful, we don’t feel like we deserve that. We have relational problems, we don’t feel like we deserve that either. And apparently I felt like I deserved sunny skies and 70 degrees in the middle of a Chicago winter.

The gospel makes it clear that all we deserve is hell. God created us. Therefore he owns us, and we owe him our complete allegiance and gratitude. But we rebelled. We wave him off as unimportant even as we revel in his blessings every day, living in warm houses, eating delicious food, and enjoying the company of loved ones.

The beauty of the gospel is getting what we don’t deserve. We have mercy instead of justice, salvation instead of damnation. Even on our worst days we are doing infinitely better than we deserve. When we complain, we are telling God that this incredible grace isn’t enough.

In order to cut complaining out of our lives, we should actively savor and apply the gospel. We must adopt an attitude of deep thankfulness. Let’s remember the incredible grace and blessing we have received in light of our utter depravity. We really could not ask for more.

"Living Really Does Make Dying Worth It"

Just got my copy of Notes From the Tilt-a-Whirl DVD and plan on watching it very soon. Here's chapter 4 from that, "Talking Rocks." LOVE the worldview painted here.

What is the Church's Role in Culture?

Tim Keller, Michael Horton, and Matt Chandler discuss.



HT: Zach Nielsen

Music Video of the Week: Josh Garrels

Josh Garrels - "Zion and Babylon"

A Prayer When Feeling Stressed and Out of Control

This prayer from Scotty Smith hit me where I am today. Had to share the whole thing. And if you don't already, subscribe to Scotty's blog for more like this.

Has God’s unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years of the right hand of the Most High.” I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. Psalm 77:8-12

Heavenly Father, we treasure the gift of this Psalm—this story-hymn revealing King David’s heart struggle at a time when he felt abandoned by you, and in doubt about your love and faithfulness. For if a man after your own heart—the king you chose to shepherd your people, experienced times of confusion, doubt and disconnect, why should we be surprised when we do?

Hallelujah, for a God who doesn’t ask us to pretend or just “suck-it-up”. Hallelujah, for a Father who understands the weakness of our frame and the confusion of our souls. Hallelujah, for a LORD who gladly welcomes our groans, cries and the full range of emotions we feel when circumstances seem to contradict things we’ve been taught about you—good things we see in your Word. There is no other god like you. You alone are good. You alone can be trusted with our anguish and anger. You alone are worthy of our worship.

Father, we hate feeling out of control. We are confused when our cries for advocacy and relief seem to be ignored or rejected. It’s so hard to watch people and situations spiral downward in a direction of more hurt and harm. We feel helpless. We feel stressed. We wonder why reasonable prayers go unanswered. It’s hard not to ask with David, “has God forgotten to be merciful? Is his love failing? Are his promises void?” We abandon ourselves to you this day, this hour, this moment.

We choose to remember and meditate upon your deeds, works and miracles of the past. We cannot deny your mercy and your might. We cannot charge you with being a God who doesn’t care or who doesn’t act on behalf of his people. For when we appeal to “the years of the right hand of the Most High”, we see much more than King David ever saw in his lifetime. We see King Jesus sitting at your right hand and we remember everything he has accomplished for us and everything he has become to us.

King Jesus, you are our wisdom, righteousness, holiness and redemption, for we have none in ourselves. You are our peace, for you are the Prince of Peace, who has reconciled us to God and are actively turning chaos into cosmos. You are our hope, for you have risen from the dead and are reigning over all things; working in all things for our good and your glory; orchestrating all things after the counsel of your will. You are our Savior, deliverer and refuge.

These things we choose to remember as we wait upon you. If you won’t change the things that are overwhelming and stressing us right now, please change us. Give us a peace which passes understanding… give us more of you, Lord Jesus. So very Amen we pray, in your kind and mighty name.

DeYoung: Male and Female On Purpose

C.J. Mahaney quotes from Kevin DeYoung's sermon at the Next Conference. Worth quoting this part in full and you can listen to the full message here.

The world says you are free to create yourself. God says, “You are created to reflect my image.”

What does it mean to be in God’s image? It means we have a certain resemblance to God with our intelligence, our appreciation for beauty, our rationality, and in our capacity for worship and language. It means we represent God, that we have dominion over creation as rulers, as stewards, as those called to cultivate. It means that we are relational beings, interacting with God and with each other so that the image of God consists in these relational virtues of knowledge and righteousness and holiness.

Listen to Colossians 3:9–10: “Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.” Likewise, Ephesians 4:24 says, “put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” So the restored image of God shows us what sort of image bearers we are. We are those who have the righteousness and holiness that is characteristic of God himself.

Now the world says, “You are not created for divine exaltation. You are here for self-exploration. You are not made to be stamped with a divine impression, but you are here to spend your life on self-expression.”

So we have all these commercials.

Cingular at least used to say, “Express yourself.”

Dr. Pepper, “Be you.”

I am thankful for the Army, but the Army got in on it with, “An army of one.” I don’t know a lot, but what I learned from playing Risk is that even if you have your army of one Kamchatka—you’re gone. You need more.

Our world tells us you are a blank slate. Whatever you choose to paint on the canvas of your life will be beautiful because you painted it. That is what the world says.

Now common sense tells us this does not work in any other area of life. Try it when you have a job selling refrigerators and you don’t sell a single one, and you get fired and you tell your boss, “But I believe in myself.” And he is going to tell you, “Believe in yourself and get somebody else to pay you for it.”

One of the most dangerous areas where we see this self-exploration and self-creation is in the area of gender. In the world’s eyes there is no male/female, masculine/feminine gender. Gender is just cultural, social constructs, antiquated concepts better to be just disregarded, relics of an oppressive, less enlightened past.

But I hope you see how patently unbiblical this is.

“From the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female’” (Mark 10:6).

And we see already in Genesis before the fall that there were distinct, yet complimentary, roles for men and women. Man was given as the name of the human race and he was the one to whom God gave the command. He was the one to be accountable.

Have you ever noticed that after Eve sins by taking a bite of the fruit, who does God first address? Adam. He was to be responsible. And yet he abdicated the very authority that he was supposed to lovingly exercise. And Eve, contrary to design, usurped her husband’s authority.

When you come to Ephesians 5:25 you find the overarching command for the husband to love his wife. The women may think, “Well, that is lame. The husband just gets kind of a freebie. I mean, we have all got to love. I have got to respect and submit.”

No, there is a reason that the husband is told to love in this unique way as the head of his household. It is because the male propensity to sin is to either be a dictator or a doormat. And both are abdications of our responsibility to love. And the woman, her overarching command is to submit to her husband or to respect her husband because, twisted by the fall, her point of sinful inclination is to usurp her husband’s authority.

God has designed us male and female and it is not simply God’s design as his image bearers, but it is actually the way in which the world works best.…

10 Practical Ways to Be a Good Dad

Scott Thomas:

1. Get involved with your child from the beginning.

2. Prioritize fatherhood.

3. Make yourself available always.

4. Have regular one-on-one time with each child.

5. Connect with your child at all levels.

6. Become an expert dad.

7. Teach them.

8. Take kids to work.

9. Stay connected when you have to be away.

10. Show affection often.

Head over to the Mars Hill Blog to see each of these fleshed out some.

Movie: Notes From a Tilt-a-Whirl

This looks fascinating. Here's a blurb about it from CanonWired:

An Idea Film. A Bookumentary.
A cinematic treatment of a worldview. A poet live in concert. A motion picture sermon. VH1 Storytellers meets Planet Earth. 60 Minutes meets Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. In this unusual but fascinating film sequence, best-selling author N.D. Wilson gives an emotional and intellectual tour of life in this world and the final chapter that is death. Everything before and after and in between is a series of miracles–some of which are encouraging, others disturbing and uncomfortable.

http://www.notesfromthetiltawhirl.com/

How LeBron Broke the Golden Rule of Sports

This is a little dated already in terms of LeBron's comment, but the commentary on following sports isn't.



HT: Challies

Music Video of the Week: Owl City

Owl City - "Alligator"

Russell Moore on Immigration

In light of the resolution on Immigration passed during the SBC Annual Meeting this week, I found this post by Russell Moore extremely solid.

It is easy to lash out at undocumented immigrants as “law-breakers,” and to cite Romans 13 as reason to simply call for deportation and retribution. But this issue is far more complicated than that. Yes, undocumented immigrants are violating the law, but, first of all, most of them are doing so in order to provide a future for their families in flight from awful situations back home. Many of them are children (as our Lord Jesus was at the time of his immigration).

And, even given our nation’s Romans 13 responsibility to maintain secure borders, the message our nation sends to those across our borders isn’t clear and univocal. As Southern Baptist leader Richard Land puts it, there are two metaphorical signs on our border: “Keep out” and “Help wanted.”

This isn’t to say that there aren’t real political challenges here. I agree that the border should be secured. I support holding businesses accountable for hiring, especially since some of them use the threat of deportation as a way of exploiting these vulnerable workers. I support a realistic means of providing a way to legal status for the millions of immigrants already here. But there are many who disagree with me, and for valid reasons.

The larger issue is in how we talk about this issue, recognizing that this is not about “issues” or “culture wars” but about persons made in the image of God. Our churches must be the presence of Christ to all persons, regardless of country of origin or legal status. We need to stand against bigotry and harassment and exploitation, even when it’s politically profitable for those who stand with us on other issues.

And, most importantly, we must love our brothers and sisters in the immigrant communities. We must be the presence of Christ to and among them, even as we receive ministry from them. Our commitment to a multinational kingdom of God’s reconciliation in Christ must be evident in the verbal witness of our gospel and in the visible makeup of our congregations.

Immigration isn’t just an issue. It’s an opportunity to see that, as important as the United States of America is, there will be a day when the United States of America will no longer exist. And on that day, the sons and daughters of God will stand before the throne of a former undocumented immigrant. Some of them are migrant workers and hotel maids now. They will be kings and queens then. They are our brothers and sisters forever.

We might be natural-born Americans, but we’re all immigrants to the kingdom of God (Eph. 2:12-14). Whatever our disagreements on immigration as policy, we must not disagree on immigrants as persons. Our message to them, in every language and to every person, must be “Whosoever will may come.”

Read the whole post.

David Platt's Sermon at the SBC Annual Meeting

I had a chance to watch David Platt's sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting yesterday via the live feed, and I was seriously blown away. If I can ever find the video online (looks like it should be up soon), I will definitely be posting it, but the Baptist Press has a summary of the sermon up, and here are some of the highlights.

Preaching from Matthew 24:14, Platt said Christians are often confused about their message, their mission and their motive. Christians' message, Platt said, is that God is King and that He rules over all.

"Our God is sovereign over all nature," Platt said. "The wind blows at His bidding. The sun radiates with heat from His hands. Every single night, our God brings out the stars one by one and He calls them each by name."

In addition to being sovereign over nature, Platt said God is sovereign over nations and holds the rulers of the world in His hands. The good news, he continued, is not just that God is King but that the King has come in the person of Jesus Christ -- and all who believe in Him and trust in His name will be both children of God and heirs of God's Kingdom forever.

But the church, Platt said, is guilty of minimizing and maligning that good news.

"We have reduced Jesus the King to a poor, puny savior who is just begging for people to accept him into their heart or invite him into their life, phrases that are never used in the Word of God," he said. "We have reduced the Gospel of the Kingdom to a shrink-wrapped presentation that if we can get people to say and pray the right things back to us, we will pronounce them fit for heaven and free to live their life on earth however they desire.

"Not true," he continued. "Our King is not a savior who is begging for anyone's casual approval. Our King is a sovereign who deserves everyone's eternal praise."

...The motivation for Christians to pursue such a mission, Platt said, is their desire that God be praised and to complete the task He has given them.

"What drives passion for unreached peoples is not guilt. It's glory," Platt said. "Glory for a King, for a King who deserves the praise of every people group on the planet."

Platt said that pursuing that goal will come with a cost, because Satan is opposed to God's people reaching the world with the Gospel. Some people will hate Christians for their message, and some may even kill them. But Platt reminded Southern Baptists that the reward is worth the sacrifice and challenged them to be bold and intentional in their efforts.

"Let's do it all with our eyes fixed on the sky, where one day the Son of Man is going to come in clouds of glory and power, and His angels are going to gather the elect from the four winds, from every tribe, tongue, people and nation," Platt said. "We will see His face, and we will see our King, and we will reign with Him forever and ever and ever and ever."

HT: Baptist Press

UPDATE: They have the video up now. You can view it below. They do another worship song first. David starts speaking at 8:10.

Non-Christians Aren't Stupid, They're Blind

Mark Driscoll:

Book Review: George Barna - Futurecast

Genre: Non-Fiction/Christian Research
Publisher: Tyndale
Publication Date: May 18, 2011

I’m a pretty skeptical person when it comes to statistics and research. It’s simply far too easy to make unsubstantiated claims, falsely attach causality when it might not exist, and simply ask confusing questions that don’t really lead to any solid conclusions from the results. Despite all this, I do tend to think there is value in much of the research being done to identify trends (especially spiritual trends), but the value must be reality-checked and taken simply for what it is.

That’s the perspective I brought to George Barna’s newest book, Futurecast. The Barna Group is one of the most recognized research groups in the country, and Barna’s written numerous books about the “intersection between faith and culture.” In Futurecast, Barna attempts to show “how our behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs are shaping our future – and what we can do about it now.”

Coming from a distinctly Christian perspective, Barna throws out metric after metric detailing the results of extensive research to paint a bleak picture of the world as it currently is and the direction it appears to be headed. The goal is to educate Christians as much as possible about the trends being observed in the culture so that individual Christians can make a difference in their specific spheres of influence.

There was a lot to appreciate about this book. I applaud the effort of Barna to educate Christians and try to motivate them to be agents of change in the world. I especially appreciated the first 4 chapters (on Lifestyles and Aspirations, Family Life, Attitudes and Values, and Technology). Again, taking into account my skepticism towards statistics, there was a lot that Christians can learn from these chapters about how the world thinks and how the gospel applies to their lives. We don’t need to shape the gospel to these trends, but it’s helpful to know the perspectives people are coming from when having gospel conversations. The gospel is timeless, but culture and perspectives on truth are not. It doesn’t hurt to have the best understanding of people to be able to love them best with the truth.

After these chapters, Barna dives into more research within the Christian and religious realm specifically (dealing with Religious Beliefs, Religious Behavior, and Organized Religion). These were the chapters where I really began to doubt many of the numbers being tossed around (and there are seriously a LOT of numbers thrown around). A good deal of the emphasis is on the fact that Christians are essentially no different from non-Christians. Much of the problem here is measuring essentially immeasurable data, but I’m frankly really tired of hearing this. It’s simply not possible, unless you believe questionable research of “representative populations” over the truth of Scripture. True Christians will live changed lives. It’s simply a necessary mark of true belief. That doesn’t mean Christians always behave perfectly in-line with their beliefs (we wouldn’t need to gospel if that was possible), but this picture of no distinction is misleading and simply false.

Barna’s “Reflections” sections at the end of each chapter typically made me cringe as well. He makes many statements that reveal a clear bias (such as when discussing house churches vs. traditional churches). Also, many of his conclusions simply don’t follow, even from the questionable numbers.

As I mentioned earlier, despite my issues with it, there really are some good things about this book, and I think especially the first few chapters would be good for most pastors to read. In the end, though, as Christians, we have the everlasting Word of God to guide our actions and beliefs. We have the eternal, timeless truth of the gospel to share with people, regardless of the latest trends. There are things we can learn about people today, but their thoughts and actions are just the latest manifestations of the truths about people in Scripture. Trends come and go, but the Word of God remains forever. This is a comfort amidst the pessimistic views of the future painted in this book.



This book was provided for review by Tyndale in exchange for a review. No expectation of a positive review existed.

An Astonishing Accomplishment for John MacArthur

I'm so thankful for faithful men like John MacArthur who demonstrate a faith in the sufficiency of scripture for salvation and the Christian life. May we all strive to value God's Word this much.

Clint Archer:

If I were John MacArthur, for one thing, I’d be able to throw a football further than anyone reading this post. But I would also be faced with a conundrum of existential proportions: What’s next?

Last Sunday night, to the sound of thunderous ovation, Dr. MacArthur completed the expository preacher’s equivalent of landing on the moon. They say the space shuttle carrying Armstrong employed less technology than a modern coffee machine. By finishing the Gospel of Mark, MacArthur has preached on every verse of the New Testament, using less technology than a typewriter (a rollerball was his instrument of choice to hand-write every one of his thousands of sermons).

For 43 years John tunneled his way with a worm’s-eye-view of the Greek grammar and syntax each week in his tiny home study, so that he could share the mined wealth of insight with a hungry congregation of 6000 members, and a waiting planet of innumerable Grace To You listeners. He set out to achieve this goal early in his ministry. It must have been the confidence of youth, bolstered by pro football and baseball scouts desperately wooing him, which fueled his “dream big” mentality.

A lesson learned: If your checklist for success is as mundane as “Big house, small wife, two cars parked outside a two-car garage full of junk, and a couple of kids” you set yourself up for midlife crisis. Either you attain your underwhelming goal and think, like the preacher in Ecclesiastes, “Is this it?” resulting in the purchase of a Harley Davidson, hair transplants, or home renovation. Or you fail to attain your dream of mainstream mediocrity and...find solace in the company of new friends like Prozac or Jack Daniels. But when your dream is to produce a commentary-level exposition of every text in the NT, and you achieve it in your mid-seventies, you are beyond motorbike shopping. If I were John MacArthur, my next challenge would be as herculean as the one just accomplished: deciding what to do next.

If MacArthur were most people, he would simply retire to a golf estate, buy a yacht, and begin the mental and physical decline which accompanies the departure lounge of retirement.

But John is not “most people.” He has too much Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas in him. Though he may feel like the answer to his conundrum is blowing in the wind for now, I am pretty sure he will “not go gentle into that good night” of uselessness which plagues retirees past their sell-by date.

No, John will rage against the dying of the light, and endeavor some other impossible task. If for no other reason because there is no church he could attend. I mean imagine John MacArthur relocated to your suburban church plant and became a member, perhaps occasionally leading one of your home cell groups. Would you enjoy preaching? And would John survive listening to you, while patiently taking notes in his study Bible margins with a new rollerball? Exactly.

Read the whole post here.

Music Video of the Week: Matthew Mayfield

Matthew Mayfield - "Missed Me"

The Reality of the Resurrection - Odd Thomas

Love Odd Thomas. His stuff is fantastic (along with Propaganda). Check them both out at HumbleBeast.com.



HT: Challies

The Reading Promise

As someone who loves to read and hope to impact that love to his children, this made me smile.



HT: Randy Alcorn

Piper, Carson, and Keller: Marriage as a Covenant

So much wisdom here. As someone who just celebrated 6 years with my wonderful wife on Saturday, I'm so thankful for examples like these men.



HT: JT

This also reminded me of a line from Andrew Peterson's song, "Dancing in the Minefields."

It was harder than we dreamed, but I believe...
That's what the promise is for.

Music Video of the Week: Tedashii

Tedashii - "Last Goodbye"

Dazzle Your Children with the Gospel of Grace

I finished Give Them Grace by Elyse Fitzpatrick and Jessica Thompson on my flight home yesterday. Even though I didn't agree with everything in it, it's probably the best parenting book I've ever read. I love the focus over and over on the gospel and how it should permeate your parenting and conversations with your kids.

I'll be posting a review of the book soon, but The Resurgence has a post today that's an excerpt from the book and thought I'd share. Great discussion of the balance between giving your children grace and "parenting by faith."

The one thing our children really need is the gospel of grace.

They need to be absolutely dazzled by the kind of love that would suffer the way Christ suffered, forgive the way he forgives, and bless the way he blesses.

Grace, Forgiveness, & Peace

Martin Luther wrote that it is grace that brings us forgiveness of sins, which produces peace of conscience. The words are simple; but during temptation, “to be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.”

Living and parenting in grace is not the easy road. In fact, it is much harder to rest in his promise of grace than it is to make a list and try to live by it. Some parents may think that giving grace to their children equates to giving themselves a pass. Just the opposite is true. Giving grace to children is an exercise of faith, and faith is always more difficult than works. It flows out of humility, a character trait that none of us comes by naturally. That’s why most people miss it and why works, not faith, is the stumbling block of the cross. You are not slacking off when you tell them of his dazzling love. You are doing the hardest thing.

Parents, Be Dazzled Too

So go ahead. Freely dazzle your babies with the cross of Christ. Give them grace when they succeed and grace when they fail. Show them how much he loves little children, like you. Bring them to him and encourage them to jump up on his lap and share all their silly stories and fears and joys with him. Assure them of his great delight in them. And when they sin, when they fail, tell them all over again, “Oh, honey. Let’s run to our Savior. Jesus loves sinners. Let’s tell him about our sin and ask him for grace to love him even more.” Then, when you give them grace like this, you’ll find yourself dazzled by his love and grace, too.

Strachan: Christians and Their Sports Heroes

Good word from Owen Strachan in light of the recent happenings with Jim Tressel at Ohio State.

Decades ago, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford identified an odd phenomenon in sports culture he called “Sportianity” which referred to the tendency of evangelicals to approach sports with the same zeal they had for Christianity, to identify with athletes and teams and then read into those causes a sense of purpose and righteousness they typically reserved for their faith. Deford decried the odd mix of religion and sports, clearly seeing it as bankrupt and corrupting....

...Like so many pursuits and passions in this world, though, we can easily become imbalanced in our love for sports. Just as we can allow our love of music or literature or academics or work or sex or food to entice us to sin, so we can allow sports too big of a role in our lives, and too great a purpose. As Deford alleged, we can mix sports and faith, creating a weird and ethically murky cause that is equal parts religious and athletic zeal. We can pray for sports teams to win. We can make the very common mistake of thinking that the athletic figures we like are morally upstanding based solely on their performance. “Yes, Dwayne Wade did cheat on his wife, thereby ruining his family, but he shows such fortitude in the clutch.” “Yes, LeBron James has fathered children out of wedlock, but he brings people such joy by the way he plays the game.” “Yes, Player X gets into fights on the court and whines about calls, but he attends this church and says he’s a Christian–I support him fully.”

We can do the same for athletic programs, mistakenly thinking that because we like them they are somehow bereft of the sins and compromises endemic to institutions in this fallen world. We evangelicals can be all too guilty of confusing athletic causes with Christian ones. We also can avoid many of the hard questions we should ask about every part of our world–philosophical questions that analyze every aspect of our institutions and practices–and confine our analysis of sports only to investigations of on-field character. We should ask, “How did he respond to being whistled for a foul?” and try to teach based on that event, but we should also permit ourselves to ask much harder, possibly disruptive questions like, “What are the ungodly elements of sports culture?”

In general, I think many of us need to take a step back from sports and grow a bit more reflective about them. We don’t need to leave them, not play them, not watch them. But I do think that many of us could do well to examine the ways in which we may be confusing sports with Christianity. Our cause is Christ and his kingdom, not any team or athlete. We ascribe ultimate importance to the things of God, not the details of games. We fervently support our local churches, not the team we love most. We see Christ as sinless and righteous, not any athlete, however much we may admire and like them. We regularly inconvenience ourselves to serve our families, not to make it to a regular round of games.

If these ideas sound tough to pull off, that may serve to show us how much we really do love sports, and accordingly how a little perspective might serve us well. I’ve definitely been an athletic idolator, so to speak, and I am aware that I can easily slip back into such sin if I’m not careful through the Spirit’s power.

To close, I’m not suggesting that Christians should freak out anytime the opportunity to watch a game presents itself. I am saying, though, that we must avoid the pitfalls of Sportianity. Only Jesus deserves our worship. Everything else in this world we engage with caution, care, and theological awareness, holding gifts of common grace lightly.

Read the whole post.

Sojourn: Seasons of Change

I can never get enough of testimonies to the power of the gospel to change people's lives. Awesome stuff here from Sojourn.



HT: Zach Nielsen