Best Russel Crowe film to date.

Best western for years.

Best remake..EVER!

Compulsory man-movie at our church.

It is something that sits just under your skin.

It is annoying.

Every time you brush up against it, it hurts.

Every time you sit down, it becomes a pain in the rear, but if you keep on walking it is fine.

We have a neighbor like that at church.

It doesn’t matter what we do, it doesn’t matter what we say, it doesn’t matter what we try, whenever I sit down I am reminded that he exists. A phone call, a letter, a complaint, something to remind me that he is there.

I can’t remove him, I can’t appease him, he seems to derive satisfaction from being annoying.

He would like to be much more.

He would like to be terminal. He would like to end WHAT we do. He would like to destroy WHAT we are building.

The thing he has not yet realized is that he can not destroy WHO we are.

He can not destroy my love for God, my passion for my family, my love for my church.

He may dampen my mood, but he can’t affect my faith.

No. Come what may, I will grow through this experience. I will learn from this experience and we will move beyond this experience.

But this I am sure of, somewhere up the road is another thorn, just waiting to get under my flesh. But I will be better prepared because every day I am learning as Paul learnt that “His Grace is sufficient for me.”

So ex president Billy-boy Clinton has released a new book - Giving, How each of us can change the world

So, is Bill talking about giving without really giving?

Will he give then deny it later under oath?

Will he only admit to giving when we see the Blue dress?

All I know is I don’t want to be an object of his generosity.

The last time Billy was handing anything out for free he destroyed Monica Lewinsky’s world.

What astounds me is that Americans will look to this two faced assassin as some sort of moral compass, the guy couldn’t lie straight in bed… so to speak

Barbara Bush put it best:

“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”

• You pay the highest price for the lowest way of living.
• Sin only shows its pleasures, but never it’s consequences.
• After the pleasure of sin is gone the consequences can live for a lifetime.

These are lessons Bill Clinton would be better off writing about and a book by him that would actually restore his credibility.

Kathy Griffin gets up to accept an award last night at the Emmy’s and says:

“A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus.” She topped it off with, “Hell has frozen over. Suck it Jesus, this award is my god now!”

Kathy Griffin is refered to as a D-list actress.

Damned? Well that is a question that only God can answer.

Doomed, it sounds like it.

Desperate, without a doubt.

I am surprised by how many of my friends; clever, articulate people seem to hold to this lie as a truth.

I one way it is not surprising, it is the doctrine of the day as it where. Everywhere we turn, the majority of books that are published, sermons that are preached, churches that are planted are done soon the premises that all I have to do to be saved is keep trying to be a good man, a good woman.

So many of them seem to content to remove from their faith the supernatural element of salvation. Now they would say that is not so, but it is just a logical extension of the fact that if they believe they can choose Christ, then they believe that they have the power to be born again.

We have whole modern church movements that are centered around this assumption, that if we bring people in, make them feel comfortable and excite them enough, then they ‘choose Jesus’ to enhance their life. Now these series of thoughts, this mode of belief is not a new thing.

Charles Finney (the patriarch of modern evangelical revival theology) believed that teachings like original sin, atonement, justification, and the supernatural character of the new birth, where contrary to the needs of the church. He said, “No doctrine(s) is more dangerous than this to the prosperity of the Church, and nothing more absurd.” “A revival is not a miracle,” he declared. In fact, “There is nothing in religion beyond the ordinary powers of nature.”‘ Find the most useful methods, (”excitements,” he called them) and there will be conversion. “A revival will decline and cease,” be warned, “unless Christians are frequently reconverted. “*

Michael Horton comments that toward the end of his ministry, as he considered the condition of many who had experienced his revivals, Finney wondered if this endless craving for ever-greater experiences might lead to spiritual exhaustion.’ In fact, his worries were justified.

The area where Finney’s revivals were especially dominant is now referred to by historians as the “burned- over district,” a seedbed of both disillusionment and the proliferation of various cults. Ever since, Evangelicalism has been characterized by a succession of enthusiastic movements hailed as -revivals” that have burned out as quickly as they spread.
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*Page 320 of Charles G. Finney, systematic Theology

I wrote this over 12 years ago….things change yet stay the same.

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For evangelism, we must realize that this is:

a. A desperate generation
b. A suicidal generation
c. A generation of sexual experimentation and perversion
d. A generation of peer pressure
e. A generation with lack of parental intimacy
f. A generation with no belief in the future

There are some characteristics that we need to understand in our evangelism, that make this generation unique.

1. The first generation to be raised in a nuclear age with fear of having no future.

2. The first generation to be brought up under the full exposure of the modern media.

3. The first generation to witness the exploration of the final frontiers of space.

4. The first to live in a fully high tech electronic age whose scientific knowledge is doubling at an overwhelming rate.

5. The generation that has studied the moral disintegration of civilizations yet is bend on repeating the same tragic mistakes.

6. The first generation in history to combine all these singular factors in one lifetime.