Mark Driscoll on “Seeker” v. “Missional” (Part 1)
November 30, 2006
Part One of a two-part video, from a promo for John Piper’s recent Desiring God conference. Mark Driscoll, from Mars Hill Church in Seattle, is dead-on in these videos:
Corrs Video of the Week: Heart Like a Wheel
November 29, 2006
Our weekly Corrs video is an acoustic concert cover of a song which titled an album by…well, 175 points to the first TNKZ reader to identify the artist who named an album “Heart Like a Wheel”. Hint: it wasn’t Wayne Watson.
Best Bloglines Picks
November 28, 2006
Now and again, without much/any comment, I’m going to pass along several blog posts to you that I found that are worth the read. Three today:
Tim Challies discusses the state of our society in An Exhibitionist and Voyeuristic Culture. A radio station invited people to win a PlayStation 3 in exchange for turning their children over to perfect strangers for 24 hours—and some twisted people actually wanted to take them up on it (it was a hoax, but a telling hoax).
Ingrid Schlueter raises a very fair question: what is our friend Rick Warren thinking in inviting Barack Obama, a supporter of partial-birth abortion, out to Saddleback Church to speak regarding World AIDS Day? I have to agree…more and more, Rick is really making me scratch my head these days.Saddleback–Their Blood Cries Out
UPDATE:Saddleback’s Response
‘NOTHER UPDATE:Skye Jethani (no, not a character from Star Wars) writes for Leadership Mag’s blog “Out of Ur”, and has a very different perspective. AIDS Makes Strange Bedfellows
You know, this is a pretty persuasive piece, I must admit…maybe my first reaction was more knee-jerk than it ought to have been.
And Joe Carter writes about The Next Abolition Movement: Abolishing Slavery in the 21st Century. Slavery is alive and well in the world, its victims just as real as our own particular peculiar institution here in the 1800′s.
Another Reason Why Ignorance Might be Preferable to College in Many Cases…
November 28, 2006
Regular reader/good friend/lifeless post-a-thoner Warren Throckmorton does actually work occasionally, and when he’s on his game, he can write a pretty good piece. This piece, on the new book Unprotected, appeared in the op-ed page of the Washington Times recently:
Forum: University hazards to student health
Great points, Doctor…did you read the entire book, though? (Readers: inside joke).
Who’ll Be our Next Prez?
November 27, 2006
According to the website below, a guy who looks an awful lot like Curly says that there are only two Republicans who could spare us another Clinton presidency…
I mean, take it for what it’s worth, but if we don’t want the disaster of Mrs. Bill Clinton as our next president, we get to “choose” between Rudy and McCain.
Thanfully, 2008 is a long way off…
Simple Question: Could you Support a Mormon for President?
November 27, 2006
This is a question that might face us all in 2008; Mitt Romney is a fairly attractive candidate in many respects, but he is a Mormon. Justin Taylor (yep, it’s official; Between Two Worlds is now officially my favorite blog) has been raising this issue. Hugh Hewitt, whom I like a good bit, is a huge Romney supporter, apparently. Here’s Justin’s latest post, talking about Hugh’s upcoming book:
I’ve gotta confess: the idea makes me pretty itchy. Justin says that 35% of Americans surveyed said that they wouldn’t consider voting for a Mormon for president (second only to Islam, and a daunting statistic for Mitt to overcome). I’m not sure whether I’m in that 35% or not, quite honestly. Any readers want to try to sway my thinking one way or the other?
What would be interesting in the max would be to see what some on the “Religious Right” would do if the ’08 election were Mitt v. Hillary. I’m pretty sure that they’d side with Mitt (I am 108% sure that they would not side with Hillary!), but how close would they snuggle? Politics makes strange bedfellows, to be sure…
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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Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
