Eugene Cho: nice! Beloved by Jesus.
Check out Jon in this ad for a YMCA camp: http://www.matawa.org/documents/MatawaPG09FIN.pdf
He’s a poster-boy for Jesus!

Scot there was a big out cry about the atheist bus ads here but they were more effective in starting meaningful conversations than any Christian ad. The ad said “there is PROBABLY no God” I have had loads of people asking if I have seen the ads and talking about that PROBABLY word. Its been great I would personally like to thank Richard Dawkins for putting these ads up
(ps never mind rounders oh sorry baseball, the 6 nations rugby internationals start this weekend, now there is a sport! )

This type of sideline catch happens every weekend in the NFL. I may be bias as a Giants fan, but I think the Tyree catch was a bit more spectacular.

Boy does John have it right.
I have found myself in a circumstance of late where the volume has increased an order of magnitude (new sound system) – and it is painful. Even when we are singing songs I like (and most are) I often cannot physically remain in the service. And when I do remain – it usually still destroys the experience.
Yes I’ve made this known – No it doesn’t matter because the emphasis is on igens and this is what they want. After all we have to look to the future.
If I had no family to consider I’d look for another church.

I think Lukas and I would get along nicely!

Hockey doesn’t even beat out baseball one day a decade. And besides, isn’t this kind of an apples and oranges comparison. After all, hockey is a sport.

‘There’s nothing like a rural church to me.’
Been reading your blog for a while and some of us might think that sums up the heart of your take, though I appreciate that you’re doing it from an urban setting and using cutting edge digital tools. Whatever the case, an important form of cross cultural work.
I just wonder whether various forms of nostalgia are much more than a holding action that helpfully put off change until more people can adapt to it. I’ve often thought that holding action is the life giving strength of conservatism. Viewed in that way, conservatism can be pretty merciful and more democratic than the most progressive approaches could ever be in the short run.
Millard Fuller. The real deal. Short on clever verbal theological spin and long on doing something concrete for others.
One other thought.
Evangelicalism–and various forms of biblical religion in general–have been ‘feeding off’ of other older world views since the start in Genesis. In the case of American evangelicalism, I think a strong case can be made that a lot of current conservative Protestantism in America is an unfortunate reaction to the Enlightenment and Darwin. You seem to be trying to make that latter case here regularly, but maybe I’m misreading between the lines.
Why so hard on the atheists since they share the same ‘copy cat/reactive cat’ characteristics that all minority groups do at one point or another? Who, other than God, creates out of nothing?

Even though it was just a little hard for me to see Kurt Warner and the Cardinals lose after such a great comeback, I have to admit I was quite happy to see Ben Roethlisberger, son of a classmate of mine in high school, Ken (who Woody wanted, and I have a pic of Ken and Woody together in my senior annual- though a fine qb who could run and throw, bad knees ended up relegating him to baseball at Georgia Tech), be qb in another Superbowl win. But this time he was a big factor in it. Quite a nice pass just over the outstretched fingers of a defender and into the outstretched hands of Santonio Holmes, who then does a tight rope. Only Franco Harris’ td (his “immaculate reception” in the 1972 Super Bowl I believe), will be remembered more.
Yes, the Steeler tradition is a good one if you like the NFL. A lot of Ohio fans have jumped on board I think, since Ben went there.