Humor

What a week! I’ve been quite busy getting ready for a couple of interviews so when I finally had time to check my Google Reader earlier today, I almost fell off my chair at the sheer number of unread blogs. So I activated my SAR (Search And Retain) sensors and here are what I think are pretty good reads this week:

# Now I know that some of the best beer in the world were first brewed by monks, but that’s no reason to turn any pub into a pseudo church! Is it a pub or is it a church? Oh, wait, wrong people to ask — they are Emergent.

# Brian McLaren and Chris Seay in conjunction with a pack of poets, songwriters and storytellers have just released a new “translation” of the Bible that they claim is a “fresh expression of the timeless narrative known as the Bible”. The name of this fresh “translation” is The Voice and it claims to be a dynamic translation of the Bible. Chris Rosebrough at Extreme Theology shares his thoughts on The Voice.

# There’s no need to tell people that they are sinners! All you need to do to preach the Gospel is tell people that “God loves you, Jesus died for you!” Sigh! Modern evangelicalism…

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The empty hallway with its closed and heavy steel doors on either side have always made you uncomfortable, but as chaplain at a high-security prison where inmates headed for execution as punishment for the heinous crimes they have committed are held, you know it’s your duty to minister to those 24 hours away from death.

You walk up to a cell where such an inmate is held in solitude. He looks up at you as you enter, sneers, then resigns himself to the moral preaching (as he calls it) he knows he has to listen to shortly before his time on earth is up.

Without a word, you press into his hands a book by a famous author in Christendom and exit the cell.

The prisoner looks down at the title, and it says “Your Best Life Now!”.

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This had me in stitches, and I think it’s just plain genius how the producers have captured the essence of the nonsense spewing from leaders of the Emergent movement, even managing to include the “sex and church” preachers.

All in all, absolutely hilarious, totally disgusting, but unquestionably sad and thoroughly worrying.

Who would have thought that the joke that my wife always loves to use on me when I’d inevitably get lost while driving would have made it as a comic?

Yes, she’d always tell me that the reason why Moses was in the 40 years in the desert with the Israelites was because he, being a man, would not stop to ask for directions.

I don’t think I’m alone in this, am I? Not asking for directions is a manly trait that runs across all cultures, I say!

And I’m not about to become one of those sissy men culled into stopping the car and asking for directions just because my wife says so. Who cares if we are lost and petrol isn’t cheap anymore? We’ll get you there in time even though it does look like we’re horribly lost now.

Have a good laugh for the weekend, and Shabbat Shalom!

Footnote to the husbands out there: Heeding my tongue-in-cheek advice can land you in rather hot soup. Self-preservation behavior, including stopping the car to ask for directions, is highly recommended.

HT: Way of the Master Radio.

I’d like to first apologize for the silence over the past few days. Everything’s fine, but I’ve run into one of the worst walls a blogger can bang into, i.e. blogger’s block.

It’s not like I’ve got nothing to blog about — there’s tons of material I’ve got in reserve, but my brain can’t seem to juice out anything good in terms of a coherent sentence or paragraph. So, rather than waste your precious time reading bad posts, I thought it better not to post at all.

I’m sure you’ll agree that’s a rather wise decision, eh?

Anyhow, what juiced me up a little (and hence this post) was this little report about how the missing link between whales and land animals might have been found.

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Doug Pagitt¹ just cracks me up!

Yet it’s sad at the same time that this is what leaders of the Emergent Church movement are telling their congregations and non-believers who might be genuinely interested in Christianity.

In this phone interview that was broadcast on Way of the Master Radio, listen to Doug Pagitt totally deny the existence of hell, or even judgment for those that deny the Lord Jesus Christ.

Enjoyed part 1? Listen to part 2 of the interview at YouTube.

I’m aghast and flabbergasted that there are people who buy into this absolute filth and nonsense!

If you have never come across the terms “Emergent Church” or “Emerging Church” movement, here’s a great feature done by PBS that explains what the movement is all about.

Indeed, we have already been well warned of such heresies and apostasies in the Bible. Paul wrote twice in 2 Timothy about this:

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

2 Timothy 3:2-5

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

Shalom Aleichem.

¹ Pagitt, Doug. Interview with Todd Friel. The Way of the Master Radio.

I usually don’t post these short little posts that do nothing but showcase a picture, video or audio clip but (with much apologies to my readers) this is too funny to pass up.

The Protestant in me made me do it.

I found this little gem of a parody about the end times from a Christian perspective, and I had a big laugh so I thought I’d share it with you.

The Book of Revelation has always been my favorite book in the Bible so much so that my wife christens me “Isaiah, the Doomsday Prophet”.

I’ve read the Book close to a dozen times or more, searched out commentaries, read dozens of interpretations and have a few books on just the Book of Revelation itself.

Some might term it a morbid fascination, but I firmly believe that God, in His mercy and grace, has shown us the series of events that must surely and soon come to pass.

I don’t want to sound like some alarmist here, but just take a look at the world today and what’s happening. Compare the events to what is in Revelation, and it will be clear to see that we are indeed heading towards our Lord’s glorious return!

I will share a few of my thoughts on Revelation in the next few days, so this video serves as a humorous opening to the series.

Enjoy!

Shalom Aleichem.

Photo by Beyond the Pale.

Now, who was it that said that Christians have no sense of humor?

God is the one who gave us laughter, so naturally we can be funny people.

No, seriously, we can.

I saw this at Shalene’s blog and just had to share it with everyone else. Sorry if it’s corny, but it’s just so me (yes I can be the king of corny according to my wife, but I blame her family’s influence).

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