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Sunday, October 16th, 2005Brian Meza and his friend Joshua flew in from California for the weekend. We hooked up yesterday for lunch at Vincent’s in Little Italy and dinner at Crossroads Tabernacle in the Bronx, for the third and final showing of The Man. Hip Bop (â€Âa fusion of hip-hop and bebopâ€Â) flava, musical virtuosity, and theological depth [...]
He messed up my sermon
Sunday, October 16th, 2005At NYU’s InterVarsity (MEF) meeting last Thursday, a student named Gerard messed up my sermon. Just kidding. Actually, he enhanced it even though his testimony compelled me to change the scripture text minutes before speaking. Born and raised in the Philipines, Gerard moved to the U.S. as a teenager when his mother got a job [...]
GodBlogCon wrap up
Sunday, October 16th, 2005DJ Chuang facilitated a breakout session on emerging church blogs at the GodBlogCon conference this weekend at Biola University, in between live blogging from the conference. He has various posts including the following excerpt from “GodBloggers Publish or Perish“: “Instead of having an answer to dispense and entice others to buy-in through persuasion, blogging is [...]
“Something happened that shouldn’t have happened.â€Â
Sunday, October 16th, 2005“The Louisiana attorney general’s office is investigating allegations that mercy killings occurred and has requested that autopsies be performed on all 45 bodies taken from the hospital after the storm.“Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said investigators have told him they think euthanasia may have been committed. “‘They thought someone was going around injecting people with [...]
Put the sock back!
Friday, October 14th, 2005“In what appears to be the latest consequence of broadcaster Pat Robertson’s August call for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s assassination, Chavez announced plans to expel from the country New Tribes Mission, a church-planting and Bible-translating mission agency. …“Since 1946, New Tribes has served Venezuela’s indigenous communities through translation, church planting, literacy, humanitarian aid, and community [...]
Tim Keller on Becoming “Missionalâ€Â
Friday, October 14th, 2005“One of the reasons much of the American evangelical church has not experienced the same precipitous decline as the Protestant churches of Europe and Canada is because in the U.S. there is still a ‘heartland’ with the remnants of the old ‘Christendom’ society. … In conservative regions, it is still possible to see people profess [...]
Al-Qaeda posts “Help Wanted†ads online
Friday, October 14th, 2005“Al-Qaida [sic] has put job advertisements on the internet asking for supporters to help put together its web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported.†From Wired, 10/06/05. Article. Sample English language video montage (produced by Al-Qaeda linked Global Islamic Media Front): Jihad Hidden Camera. Warning: video contains disturbing terror images combined with sadistic [...]
Introspection, from one Christian to another
Thursday, October 13th, 2005“Tom DeLay and Bill Frist, the two political operatives in Congress with arguably the deepest support among Christian churches, both face serious allegations of financial trickery. Karl Rove, the Bush administration power broker who speaks almost daily with Christian leaders to coordinate political action, is under investigation for divulging classified information, then covering up his [...]
Innocent Voices opens tomorrow
Thursday, October 13th, 2005Go. See it. Previous posts here and here. Website here. Trailer. posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 10/13/2005 11:21:00 AM 1 comments
P-O-R-N Sunday came and went …
Thursday, October 13th, 2005… this past Sunday, and I forgot about it, even after promoting it this summer. Oh well. Apparently the news media covered it, and it’s not too late to get involved. See also www.XXXChurch.com for resources on how to talk the S-E-X talk in church and provide accountability for those struggling with the issue. posted [...]
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