A Piper Cub Lands in Philistia

Michael “iMonk” Spencer has a great article about teaching and music from Michael Card at the Worship and Arts Conference. Card is so real, that sometimes it’s scary.

UPDATE: Make that two great posts. Here’s the other one.

In case you aren’t familiar with it, Buzzword Bingo is a corporate game that you play in boring meetings. Every time the presenter says a corporate buzzword, you search your bingo card (which is filled with these inanities) and cross off any place(s) where it exists.

I got a note from a co-worker (who I barely know) about 6 weeks ago that’d probably produce a winning card in and of itself. I hope, for the sake of his frontal lobe, that he was using all these words to be a smart-aleck:

(BTW, he found another job within the company a few weeks later. I think that’s a good thing.)

A couple of videos (click the pictures) from the Correspondents’ Dinner.

The professional comedians this year were some of the guys from Whose Line Is It Anyway? Apparently, Colin Mochrie has finally found someone whiter than he is:

Then the President, always a great self-deprecator, gave a funny speech, taking shots at himself and his peers:

My favorite part:

I bet nothing half this exciting happens this weekend for the Division 1 men’s basketball championship.

Click the image below for a video of the ending of the Division 2 men’s basketball championship.

In a recent discussion about music/songs, Tim Challies noted the following:

(To be fair to Tim, he doesn’t appear to fully agree with this statement — more proof below — but was citing it as part of his point.)

I’m sure that Tomlin, Redman, Crowder, Kauflin, et al, really appreciate a comment like that. Basically, guys, your life’s work is pointless. Go eat a gun or something.

But more importantly, MacArthur is ultimately stating that God is incapable of using these men for His glory — a hallmark of QR-ness.

One of the commenters decried MacArthur’s statement:

To which Tim replied:

But, dude, it’s out there. “The tongue is a fire” and all that.

And what of the thousands of people to whom he made that statement at that conference, many of whom are probably church leaders? And the thousands more who will hear it later, either repeated by those listeners or — worse still — if that comment was recorded for posterity? How many of them will recognize and identify it as over-generalization? How many of them will not see it as a fully intentional and considered statement?

But let’s discard that notion. Let’s assume that every last hearer of that over-generalization discards it entirely or at least gives MacArthur the benefit of the doubt. I’m not as sure as Tim is (or even as I would have been 6 months ago) that he “would admit that . . . his statement was something of a harsh generalization”. From much of what I have read from those who received advance copies, MacArthur’s upcoming book, The Truth War, is loaded with over-generalization about the emerging church with little or no specific evidence.

As I’ve said on a number of occasions, I wouldn’t consider myself to be emerging. But it is quite disheartening to see a student and teacher of the Word — particularly of MacArthur’s caliber — falling into such an uninformed and facts-be-damned camp.

I have a great deal of respect for Dr MacArthur. I’ve read some of his books and often listen to his teaching on the radio. But I had more respect 6 months ago. While I’m not ready to throw him under the bus, like many of those who disagree with his eschatology have done recently, I’m starting to fear that “over-generalization” may be becoming his middle name.

There is a relatively famous apologist/blogger of whom many of the QR bloggers out there are fanboys. He has adopted an honorable motto:

I would say that this statement needs a second part, though:

And maybe a third part:

The Breck Girl has promised Universal Healthcare if he’s elected President. Yeah — that idea has worked really well for Canada.

(warning: one dirty word in the last 30 seconds of this video)

HT: Chris at Fishing the Abyss

SURPRISE, AZ (PU) — Texas Rangers pitcher, Rick Bauer, was found dead early this morning on the mound of Surprise Stadium, the spring-training home of the Rangers.

His body was found with bizarre welts all over it, as though someone had struck him repeatedly with line-drives. The initial coroner’s assessment is that Bauer died of this repeated blunt-force trauma.

Police have no suspects as yet, however, it is reported that his uncle, Jack Bauer, was quite unhappy about the sullying of the family name by Rick’s 15.63 spring ERA. Calls to CTU for comment have not been returned.

Apparently, the classifications for pollen count levels were created in Antartica, or someplace else with no pollen. Here’s the chart:

Here’s the pollen count in Atlanta this week:

Yeah, I think that 5937 is “over 120″.

Christianity Today has an article regarding the Passion movement. Early in the article, it is stated:

Most watchblogs exist primarily (solely?) for the condemnation of the first two categories (monasticism — or anything smacking of Rome — and emerginess). I predict that by April 4, 2007, 18:00 GMT, at least one watchblog will condemn Passion for “incorporat[ing] elements” from them.

If you see such an example before I do, please let me know.

In May, Al Gore will be releasing a book called The Assault on Reason.

Of course, one commenter on the Amazon page for this book nailed it: