Pick Me
August 30, 2006
Well, Byron has been gone for a few days, taking care of his fantasy football draft, among his other travels.
This set of videos just came into my possesion, unconfirmed reports say two of these were filmed with a hidden camera at Byron’s draft. You guess which one is Byron….
Corrs Video of the Week: Everybody Hurts
August 22, 2006
Nice, soft cover of this REM song featuring some mellow guitar work by Jim, Sharon playing her usual stellar violin, and Caroline on the congas.
This is not a Spoof…I’m NOT Making this Up
August 21, 2006
Without comment, the latest in Christian childrens’ wear:
You can’t invent stuff like this…
Tip of the Wahoos cap to Purgatorio for this gem.
Snakes on a Plane
August 21, 2006
This one from Purgatorio is a sad commentary on the liars who are making themselves rich on the Health and Wealth “gospel” today…
Tiger Woods: Greatest Individual Athlete Ever?
August 21, 2006
That’s what Gene Wojciechowski thinks:
Woods is greatest individual athlete ever
There are certainly a lot of athletes who merit consideration: Muhammad Ali, Wayne Gretzky, and Michael Jordan; Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, and Pele; Carl Lewis, Lance Armstrong, Jim Brown, and Jerry Rice. But according to Gene, Tiger stands at the front of the field.
Agree with WoJo? Let’s put it to a vote of NKAZ readers, shall we? Who do you think is the greatest overall individual athlete of all time?
For the record, I think I probably do agree…
Campolo Gets it Wrong Again: Why I am Not a Red-Letter Christian
August 21, 2006
Tony Campolo, whom I respect on many fronts and whose writing and speaking I’ve gained from in the past, continues to disappoint with his increasingly left-leaning, Biblically-suspect political posturing; ironically, from a man who teamed with Brian McLaren to write Adventures in Missing the Point, Tony seems to miss a whole lot of points. Here’s his latest offering:
What’s a “Red-Letter Christian”?
Sounds good, doesn’t it? It isn’t. The idea of a “red-letter Christian” seems to be to give the words of Jesus “super-Scriptural” authority, an indirect denial of the inerrancy, authority, and sufficiency of Scripture. If we open the door to say that we can take Jesus’ words in Scripture more seriously, or as holding more authority than, the words of Moses, Isaiah, Paul, Luke, or John, then we’ve created a two-tier system to Scriptural understanding. This kind of selectivity must be rejected outright by evangelicals who take the teaching of the Bible seriously. “All Scripture”, Tony, is “given by inspiration of God.” Numbers, Ecclesiastes, and Zecheriah exactly as much as the Sermon on the Mount. Period, over and out.
Further, what Campolo and his buds take as a “getting back to Jesus’ words” approach seems all-too-often to amount to an overlay of selected parts of the Bible on top of liberal political ideology (and no, I do not need to be reminded that conservatives can be just as guilty of the same thing: point granted). Increasingly, as I read “latter Campolo”, I find a getting away from the Bible’s teaching in favor of contemporary political agendas, red herrings by the bucketful, the “insights” of secular sociology and psychology, and the like.
That doesn’t mean that Tony has nothing to say to us; there are some things that are worthy of our hearing, to be sure. There are some legitimate areas of concern that we conservatives have not spoken of enough, and there are certainly too many in our camp who have unhealthily married Jesus to politics in some dubious ways; fair enough. But a “red-letter Christian”? Not me, Tony, not me, and hopefully, not any of my readers, either.
Matt Friedeman says it better than I do:
Reason #6274383834 Why We Don’t Trust the Media
August 21, 2006
Here’s the AP’s take on a non-issue:
Church Says Women Shouldn’t Teach Sunday School Classes To Men, Cites Bible
And here’s
The Truth, from the Church’s Pastor
So what we have is the AP (and Fox News picks up on it) taking an opportunity to take a tiny slice way out of context in order to find another good reason to, in their eyes, mock the evangelical church.
1. The point itself isn’t newsworthy, for there are 1000′s of churches that would take, vis a vis women teaching men, the same or a similar position, on the basis of the Scripture cited. Agree or disagree with that Scriptural stance, it isn’t newsworthy in the slightest.
2. The point itself is missed; the greater context provided by the pastor of the church fills in the very significant gaps left by the media report: this lady was obviously part of a small contingent of disgruntled people who employed shady and clearly unScriptural means in order to try to pull off a power play. In this light, it’s clear that the church acted graciously (and legally prudently as well).
The drive-by media cries about the fact that we don’t trust it, and then in the next breath gives us scores of ample reasons not to.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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