Although there are a couple of places that the language caused me to wince (not sufficiently respectful) as I read this, I also thought that it is by and large a pretty good presentation of the gospel, and likely to be read by a very great many who have never heard. It made me look around to figure out what direction she is coming from: here is an account from an observer.
01-02-2010
Others are: mom, wow, swims (wait, that last one has to be turned upside-down to work!).
I struggle to find what to say - and this 6 minute video by Alexis Bauer is well worth watching and even a little funny.
According to Colin Powell, not by principles and dogma, but by what will capture hearts and minds.
That’s exactly backwards. The heart is deceitful - Bible principles are the only sure foundation.
Update: A fairly good answer from Rush.
Or Sunday School. Or witnessing. This is from John Piper. Although I have a few reservations about him, this is really good:
“…Keep your minds from being contaminated, because the preparation moment is a heart/mind thing in which every three minutes you are crying out to the Lord as you are reading your text in Greek or Hebrew or English. You are reading it and you are saying, “God, please. I have got to have a word. I have got to have a word for my people. Let me see what is really here.” That is a prayer for the mind part. My points must be here in the text. I can’t make this up. My people have to see it. I have to see it. I don’t want to pull rank on these folks by quoting Greek—and they say, “I don’t see that,” and I say, “Well, believe me it is there.” I don’t want to do that. I want them to see what is really there, so I need to see what is really there. So I am pleading with the Lord, “Show me what is there.”
And then I am pleading just as strong, “Help me to feel what is there. If it is a horrible thing, help me to feel horrible. If it is a beautiful thing, help me to feel thrilled over its beauty. Bring this dead heart into some kind of conformity—moral, affectual conformity to what is really there.”
Those are my two kinds of prayers, light and heat. If you try to work it up without the Holy Spirit giving it, people will know. They will know. Your people will know sooner or later. “I don’t think that was a real affection. That was planned.””
Indeed. Before I read this, I explained to my son it was a joke. After I read it, I realized it’s not funny at all.
Andy Wilson @ Microsoft Research TechFest
Senator Obama, Join my church! Although this link is really not humor, Scott’s Scrappleface is some of the best political humor around.
If you wonder who controls the price of a barrel of oil, of a gallon of gasoline, take a look at the chart here.
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