Monthly Archives: July 2007

Overdressed

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On August 28, my favourite band, Caedmon’s Call, releases its newest album.

For any familiar with this group, it’s of interest that Derek Webb has reconnected with the rest of the crew for this album and the tour that will follow.  A nice little interview with the band about this new album can be read HERE.

There’s a sweet promotional through the band’s website, where you can get a 2-CD set for only $12 US…

And yes, I’m already signed up.

I am Still Hungry

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Found a blog called Grits & Grace.

Found this great bit there…

My wife and I are participating in a group study of Dr. John R.W. Stott’s “New Issues Facing Christians Today”. It’s a very challenging and, personally speaking, very convicting book. I won’t get into the meat of the study, but I wanted to share something from the book. Stott argues that many well-intentioned Christians “prattle, plan and pray” but ignore the real need. He tells of a homeless woman whom a parish priest promised to pray for as a brush-off, and who wrote the following poem:

“I was hungry and you formed a humanities group to discuss my hunger
I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to your chapel and prayed for my release
I was naked and in your mind you debated the morality of my appearance
I was sick and you knelt and thanked God for your health
I was homeless and you preached to me of the spiritual shelter of the love of your God
I was lonely and you left me alone to pray for me
You seem so holy, so close to God – but I am still very hungry and lonely and cold

ouch…

I was convicted because she could have very easily been writing that poem for me.

Matthew 25:35-36 says, “I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.”

I am reminded that as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. As the church, we are not only to hear the word, but to act on it. By “doing” we are following God’s will out of love and gratitude for our salvation.

Pilgrim Steps

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Here’s a random read that came across my path.  It’s by a fellow PILGRIM, who was raised in a Restoration Movement faith.  The ARTICLE speaks of his journey into Orthodoxy.

No, I’m not becoming Orthodox.

No, I’m not telling you to do it either.

Just read it.  It might encourage your search for life.

Games

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I’m not much of a gamer, but I’ve come across a few lately that are worth mentioning…

Bloxorz: Classic puzzle game but unlike any other I’ve played. It WILL will plain-out force you to throw up your arms in frustration at some point. My bro-in-law Steve called it “addicting”. I concur completely. It’s fun too!

McDonald’s Game: My friends at Adbusters would like this one: A tongue-in-cheek commentary on the fast food industry… all squeezed into game. As much as I think they’re trying to show how easily such companies take our money from us in exchange for garbage, I never did actually run my McDonald’s successfully. You go do better.

Third World Farmer: Like the flip-side of the McDonald’s game… another bit of world commentary. This time, it’s about the struggles of farmers in developing nations. I actually survived better here than in McDonald’s… don’t know what to make of that. Whatever the case, a sweet little game that can provoke some thought on our world as well.

Jack Bauer

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I live with a Jack Bauer fan, and she’d likely “amen” most of these.

So they made me laugh.

Such things were once said about Chuck Norris.

Well, move over Chuck. Jack’s on the scene…

Basic Truths About 24’s Jack Bauer

  • Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead. It just makes him angry.
  • If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.
  • If you wake up in the morning, it’s because Jack Bauer spared your life.
  • Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
  • If it tastes like chicken, looks like chicken, and feels like chicken, but Jack Bauer says its beef. Then you better believe it’s beef.
  • Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.
  • 1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.
  • Let’s get one thing straight: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer does not feel like carrying you.
  • Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
  • Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.
  • When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer hates lemonade.
  • Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.
  • Osama bin Laden’s recent proposal for truce is a direct result of him finding out that Jack Bauer is, in fact, still alive.
  • Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men.
  • Jack Bauer doesn’t miss. If he didn’t hit you it’s because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away.
  • When Jack Bauer was a child, he made his mother finish his vegetables.
  • Jack Bauer killed 93 people in just 4 days time. Wait, that is a real fact.
  • Simon Says should be renamed to Jack Bauer Says because if Jack Bauer says something then you better do it.
  • Jack Bauer won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it wasn’t a big deal. He thinks yellow wristbands are gay.
  • Jack Bauer’s favorite color is severe terror alert red. His second favorite color is violet, but just because it sounds like violent.
  • You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
  • Jack Bauer can get McDonald’s breakfast after 10:30.
  • When the boogie man goes to sleep, he checks his closet for Jack Bauer.
  • In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What the hell have you done with your life?
  • Jack Bauer killed so many terrorists that at one point, the #5 CIA Most Wanted fugitive was an 18-year-old teenager in Malaysia who downloaded the movie Dodgeball.
  • In kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for Show and Tell.
  • What color is Jack Bauer’s blood? Trick question. Jack Bauer does not bleed.
  • Guns dont kill people, Jack Bauer kills people.
  • If Jack and MacGyver were locked in a room together, Jack would make a bomb out of MacGyver and get out.
  • People with amnesia still remember Jack Bauer.
  • Sun Tzu once wrote, “If your enemy is weaker, conquer him. If he is stronger, join him. If he is Jack Bauer, you’re dead.”
  • Jack Bauer literally died for his country, and lived to tell about it.
  • Jack Bauer has been to Mars. That’s why there’s no life on Mars.
  • Superman’s only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness.
  • When Batman is in trouble, he turns on the Jack Bauer signal.
  • Jack Bauer was conceived by torturing the other sperm until they gave up the location of the egg.
  • Jack Bauer’s family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child. Once.