Links For 10/24/06

The following links are what caught my interest so far this morning:

• Unconventional sanctuaries for mobile churches.
• One hot looking homeless chic.
• Mars Hill still taking shots from the blogs and press here, here, here and here.
• Where do I sign up for this class?
• McFly has gone political.
• A look at the future of evangelicals.
• Any butt-reeming idiot can be a parent.
• A new meaning for the phrase "the poop deck."
• Message in a bottle . . . sending out an SOS . . .

Notes From My Sermon

If you’ve ever wondered what I preach about at Compass Point then you can check out this hilarious video put together by one of our folks.  Yes, I did say all of that stuff, though it was taken a little out of context. 

62 Freakin’ Yards!!!

What an incredible win that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers pulled out today!  Rhonde Barber ran two interceptions back for touchdowns, the defense was cranked up and Matt Bryant kicked a 62 yard field goal to win the game in the last few seconds!  It was the second longest field goal in NFL history.  It wasn’t a pretty win, but it was a win!

Needless to say, I got a little loud watching it on television today.  I should have been at the game, but my sorry friend David Covey used his four free tickets to take his wife and parents o see the Bucs.  I guess I’ll let him off the hook since he helped me move a bunch of water last weekend for Compass Point’s servant outreach. 

Links For 10/20/06

Here are some links that peaked my interest for Friday, October 20, 2006:

• Thomas Kinkade has painted himself into a corner.
• A new approach for evangelicals to politics?
• Yesterday all of Paul’s troubles seemed so far away!
• The real reason why Donald Duck doesn’t wear any pants.
• The gift that keeps on giving for the baseball fanatic in you.

The Series Is Set

The Cardinals and the Tigers are heading to the World Series.  Since the Tigers spend Spring Training here in Lakeland, you know who I’ll be pulling for.  Normally I’m a Braves man, but I’ll make an exception this year. 

It reminds me of that old children’s song, "I went to the animal fair, the birds and the beasts were there . . ."

Patterson’s Pet Peeve

I’m a Southern Baptist.  I have been since I was a small child.  Yet, in recent months I have been seriously considering leaving  the SBC over mindless crap like this.  All this bickering among ourselves and petty, childish behavior like Paige Patterson’s just makes all Southern Baptists look like a**holes!!!

Links For 10/19/06

I recently discovered Google Alerts and have fallen in love with them.  Here are few links that peaked my interest today:

• A Canadian church knows how to head bang.
• Apparently Rob Bell can write on something smaller than a huge whiteboard.
• Brian McLaren’s theology and teachings just gets more frightening with time.
• Stingrays are no longer our friends.
• Southern Baptists can’t even agree on a date to publicly disagree.
• And all this time I thought a leftist was somebody to be afraid of.
• A new blog has appeared.  Becoming Missional exists to bring missional ideas to light.
• I never liked math, didn’t feel I did well in it and sucked at it.  So much for that theory.

An Interesting Newsweek Article

This morning, Newsweek Online features an interesting interview by scholar Diana Butler Bass entitled "Thawing The Frozen Chosen".  While I may not like some of her liberal leanings, I do think she is right on base with her conclusions about the future of mainline, missional churches.

Flickr Photo

I shot this picture the other night in downtown Lakeland.  To see other photos I’ve taken, please check out my Flickr page by clicking here.

Driscoll & Mars Hill Slammed Again

We recently started a positive concert ministry here in Lakeland called Outisde The Box.  One of the inspirations for it was Mars Hill’s "Paradox" concert outreach in Seattle.

Over the last year we took a close look at "Paradox" and other church concert ministries in preparation for Outisde The Box.  The more we researched "Paradox", the more we liked the idea of sponsoring concerts by both Christian and secular bands in a non-smoking, non-alcoholic, all-ages environment.  The only concern we had was that Mars Hill seemed to have little or no influence on how "Paradox" was being run.

Now it seems that Mars Hill has corrected that issue by taking back over the leadership of "Paradox".  Apparently they are getting slammed in the local press for it.  It amazes me that a church that does so much for the Seattle community gets such crap heaped on them from the local press.  I guess it goes back to the old saying, "Bad press it better than no press".  Still it seems that lately Mars Hill is getting slammed on a regular basis for some pretty unfair reasons.