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First up, via Monday Morning Insight SNL and the Japanese version of The Office. If you are not an Office fan, you may not get it, but if you are an Office fan... enjoy


Secondly, via night watch blogging a wonderful display of intellect

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The latest NOOMA video, NOOMA 020 | Shells, is available for viewing on Facebook for free until Wednesday, May 21 at 12 noon EST!

It's easy to get overwhelmed with appointments, gatherings, to-do lists. But what are we really doing with our time? Many of us are running from place to place and it seems like life is just passing us by. We're doing so many things, a little bit of everything, and yet it doesn't feel like much of a life. But most of us find it hard to say no. We feel obligated. There are so many good things to do. So many good causes to join. But while we're busy doing all these good things, are we missing out on something great? Maybe saying no would be easier if we knew what it meant to say yes.

Here's the link

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A short film by Lucas Crandles.
If you couldn't get caught, would you kill a stranger for $10 million?

evangelical outpost

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In honor of St Paddy's day, here's a classic Muppet sketch - a rendition of "Danny Boy," performed by Animal, the Swedish Chef, and Beaker. via boing boing

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This has to be one the best names for a Canadian group.

tapestry calgary reminds us that "If Jephthah, the dread land-pirate of Judges, lived in the great Canadian prairies" we might have...


Here's a couple more of their songs:
the happy birthday song
history is for idiots

Web site: arrogant worms

A couple of songs that are often associated with the arrogant worms are actually by 3 dead trolls in a baggie
The Toronto Song
The War of 1812

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Scot McKnight has this example of fishing

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the official recording of (and unoffocial video) of U2's "Wave of Sorrow" - thanks dave wainscott

wave of sorrow 1 here

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Prayer of Francis - Sarah McLachlin via nightwatch


Everything Goes Numb - StreetLight Manifesto pure volume site; official web site


Sweet Sweet Song of Salvation - Larry Norman


Guide to free music online

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I linked to the emerging - missional poster video here.



Well, you know that team pyro would come up with their own slant on being anti-emerging - missional. While I disagree with their arguements, I still get a kick out of their posters... as well, the music on their video is better.

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Here's a great video via Scott Williams.

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Joho the Blog points to this wonderful clip.

This video makes fun of moderns newbie computer users by illustrating - in a way fully understandable to them - how silly some of their questions are by creating a similar problem 500 years ago.

It's from a show called Øystein & Meg (Øystein & I) produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting television channel (NRK) in 2001. The spoken language is Norwegian, the subs in Danish. It's written by Knut Nærum and performed by Øystein Bache and Rune Gokstad.

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This is a song about a church being moved hundreds of miles across the US on the back of a very big lorry. Features the 40 strong Manning Chorus in what is possibly one of the most bizzare bits of TV I've ever been involved in - a musical number at the end of a show about, basically, feats of engineering skill. Some of the footage is amost Fellini-esque. It's taken from the upcoming series MONSTER MOVES which airs on Five (UK) and National Geographic (USA) from early 2007. For more info on the show visit www.windfallfilms.com, or the music www.danielpemberton.com

The YouTube description is a little off... the church was moved 12 miles.

Here are some more detail from the Windfall Films site:

Trinity Lutheran Church, topped with a 100ft steeple, was set to embark on an epic twelve-mile journey. Over the years, its congregation had dwindled from 250 to just 13. So the parishioners had raised the funds to move it to a town with more worshippers. With a truck on the front and sixty wheels underneath, ‘house mover’ Ron Holland boasted that the church could reach a top speed of 10mph. Filming its journey would be one almighty steeplechase.

link via challies

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I don’t know how many times I have heard believers say things like “This gospel presentation did not contain the gospel” because, in their view, some element was missing.

Francis Chan, not Jackie :-) teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church has a video up at Stop & Think: the movie. Francis Chan was also one of the speakers at Passion '07.

Steve Camp in his review of the video, writes:

The film was very well made and Pastor Chan is a very passionate and gifted communicator. As I watched this piece a few times, it occurred to me that Pastor Chan forgot one thing in his presentation of the gospel… the gospel itself....

Understand, it's not completely vacant of biblical truth; but it more hints at the gospel in romantic, sentimental tones rather than boldly proclaim it. It is in the "language and method" of Arminian invitationalism (God really is crazy about you and is begging you, waiting for you to accept Him as your Savior) than in the "language" of the biblical gospel. It is what I call, "sloppy agape."

Pretty strong words, for that I thought was a pretty good video, in it's context. So here are Camp's five "heartfelt concerns with this video:"

1. There is no mentioning or explanation of what it means to saved by grace through faith in Christ alone - justification by faith (Romans 3:21-26)

2. There is no mentioning or explanation of repentance from sin (Luke 24:46-47)

OK, at one level this is true. Chan did not use these words and phrases. But does that negate the truth that was communicated? I think not. Chan is speaking to people who are starting to think about life and meaning and purpose... the video, after all, is on a site called Stop & Think. Paul in his summary of the gospel in 1Cor 15:1-4 uses non of Camp's phrases, but does this make it less than the gospel? To see this video as portraying "all" of the gospel is wrong. To try and reduce the gospel to the 5 points of Calvinism or the 4 spiritual laws or the bridge diagram or any such tool is to put the gospel into a tiny box. Not only that, but it implies that everyone comes to Christ in the same way.

Chan says,

“... we are all going to be found guilty. The thing is that same God is saying, ‘I don’t want to punish you. I want to forgive you. I want a relationship with you.’ What I’m talking about isn’t a religion. It’s not about joining some cult. It’s about talking to your creator and having a relationship with Him... get alone with God and just say to your creator, ‘look: I love you. I know that I’ve messed up, but now I understand that your son paid for that. That blows my mind. I want to spend eternity with you, I want to follow you. But don’t just say, ‘OK God: I want to follow you’, because there are people all across America right now that say, ‘yeah, I believe in God, yeah I follow him,’ then you look at their lives and it doesn’t show. Jesus said, if you really knew me, you would obey my commands.”

If you watch to the entire video, Chan is clearly NOT giving a come-to-the-front-of-the-church-and-you’re-in presentation. He’s talking about a change of life in accepting God’s offer of forgiveness. Just because he doesn’t use standard Christianese doesn’t mean he doesn’t convey core concepts.

3. There is no mentioning or explanation of the Lordship of Christ; our submission to Him as Lord; or our confession of Him as Lord unto salvation (Acts 2:36-40; Romans 10:9-10)

That's simply not true. Chan doesn't use that language, but he certainly communicates that clearly. See above.

4. There was not one mentioning of any Bible verse specifically in the entire video. A non-Christian who would watch this would have no idea where to look in a Bible to see if what Chan was saying was true. Pastor Chan used the language of "Jesus says..." or "God says..." or the "bible says..." But, he never told them where those things are said; and when he was trying to quote it himself, he usually misquoted it (2 Tim. 4:1-5).

To the first part, I say "So!?" This is an intro video... a "stop & think" video. It is not a sermon, it's a chat on the beach, while surfing. Unless you are using the Outdoor Bible or the "expanded Bible" [that's what happened to my Gideon NT when I tipped my canoe going through some rapids!] To the second part, just because references are not given, does not mean that the Bible is not being quoted. As to his misquoting it... I don't think so, unless it's vital that a particular translation is used.

5. But whatever concerns I have mentioned above, the absence of this concern is absolutely profound. There is no mentioning or explanation of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (1 Cor. 15:3-4; 12-18). Without the resurrection, our preaching and hope are "in vain." Without the including of this in the video, it renders whatever gospel presentation there was... "in vain."

Come on... Yes, the resurrection is the foundation for what Chan says... but why, do we have to have everything squeezed into a 15 minute package. Chan has been talking about the problem of sin and how the answer to that is found in Christ. Chan is carrying a surf board... that tells us something about the context of who he is speaking to... & it ain't theologically savy people... it's people who are spiritually hungry or at least willing to start thinking about meaning and purpose. I wonder if some of the expectations of certain words [and it's not just full-scale 5-point Calvinists who do this] leads more to an understanding that we've got to do things "right", we have to say things "right". And we are stuck in a so-called gospel of works.

Chan rightly says:

"The most amazing truth in the world... despite everything you have done in your life... God still loves you... the God of the universe is crazy about you."

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ad freak has this video of two employees of the bank of america performing a rewrite of U2's one with immortal lines such as 'we'll make lots of money... one bank'...


Thanks to jonny baker for the link.

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