“I love a good hamburger. But, the hamburger doesn’t come from my front pasture.” My Brenham sister found it tough to bring her longhorn steers to the butcher.
“It’s a great blessing when a man of God is leading your team,” defensive end Nick Eason said. “It’s like a godly father in the household.” (from a BP article about Mike Tomlin, head coach of the Pittsburg Steelers, this year’s Super Bowl champions)
Review and vote for your favorite Super Bowl ads at Hulu. I kinda liked Bridgestone, the ETrade talking babies, the Clydsdale retrieving the stick,
Hackers Crack Into Austin Texas Road Sign, Warn of Zombies Ahead (KXAN)
Watch it: Facebook ID theft is the new target of scam artists. Just ask this guy and his friends. (Here’s another article about malware spread thru Fbook.)
Round Rock is #7 on Money magazine’s list of 100 best places to live.
Eric Metaxas “criticizes those who ‘hide in a separate Christian subculture’ and ‘lose the ability to communicate effectively with those who are outside. We . . . become less and less able to speak to those who are different from us. That, of course, is the enemy of evangelism. We grow more and more fearful and suspicious of those outside the camp, until we slowly begin to think of them as a hostile ‘other’ whom we must destroy, rather than broken and exiled parts of our own selves, whom we are commanded by God to heal and restore.’” (From World magazine. Metaxas is founder of “Socrates in the City,” NYC forums designed to expose the Christian worldview to cultural elites)
“More than half of all [film] releases included ‘positive Christian characters’ last year, up from just 6% in 1991, according to the Christian Film & Television Commission, in Camarillo, Calif.” [“What Christians Watch” in the WSJ]
“I grew up in . . . the church of my mother and her parents. I’m deeply grateful for my Southern Baptist heritage. It provided me a beautiful foundation that my life sits firmly upon today. There were precious men and women who loved, taught, nurtured and guided me for 18 years.” When an opinion piece starts off with this kind of patronizing pat on the head, you know where it’s going—and in Saturday’s Statesman, it doesn’t long for the writer to get there, as she speaks of growing out of all that after her happy discovery of people with a new kind of faith with “much less certainty and rigidity.” *Sigh*
“A nurse has been suspended from her job for offering to pray for an elderly patient’s recovery from illness.” (London’s Telegraph)
“This blog serves as an opportunity to follow us (Austinites Blanca Garcia and Liz Rivas), as we make our way around the world in an effort to educate ourselves about the issues and struggles facing those thousands of miles away, as well as the work that people are doing to help the poor and the suffering. Our desire is to then come back to the states and help raise awareness on these issues, and mobilize people to take action. We will be traveling through Africa, Northern Iraq, India and SE Asia in a period of about 45 days. Please bookmark our blog, leave comments, etc.!”
“In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.” (Charles Krauthammer)
And so it begins: Maybe you missed it, but in his third day in office President Obama ordered the nation to start funding international organizations that provide abortions and abortion advocacy as a part of family planning. Reagan withdrew this funding under the so-called “Mexico City Policy.” Clinton eliminated the policy, Bush restored it, and it was no surprise that Obama struck it down once again. It won’t be the last act of abortion advocacy from this administration. If you’re a pro-life evangelical who voted for him, what are you going to do about it?
And so it begins II: Looking for new direction under a new leader, the RNC has elected as their chairman a former member of the Republican Leadership Council, which CNN describes as “a group that sought to curb the influence of social conservatives in the party.” In describing Steele and the RLC, is the operative word “former” or “member”?
Ten Simple Things We Should All Say More Often
Boys With Unpopular Names More Likely to Break Law
“Can you explain to me how, 10 years later, mobile phones have replaced PDAs utterly and completely, yet there’s hardly a phone on the market that can do what PDAs once did even half as well?....The average cell phone really sucks at managing contacts, calendars, tasks, and notes….The reality is that gesture-based handwriting (like Palm’s Graffiti) was brilliant. Easy to learn, 100% accurate, and as fast as handwriting. I’d give a spare lung for that kind of input on a modern smartphone. Imagine if the iPhone had information manager apps and text input like the old Palm V. I’m dizzy just imagining it.” (The Mobile Phone Paradox)
Guys set up a hockey game on the frozen water in an abandoned building’s basement in Detroit. Find legs of a dead body sticking out of said frozen water. Continue to play hockey. (story)
“In trying to communicate the church as community to my two-year-old son, I have changed the way I talk about church. Instead of telling him that we are “going to church,” I tell him that we are going to be with the church, to sing and eat with them. Once Christians repent of reducing church to buildings and programs and begin to cherish the people God has given them to live with, warts and all, community will increase.” (Jonathan Dodson, an Austin church planter, in Resurgence)
“Social services have removed two young children from the care of their grandparents and arranged for them to be adopted by a homosexual couple.” Agency officials decided that the grandparents, who are aged 59 and 46, were “too old” to look after their grandchildren. What’s more they were “informed they would be barred from seeing the children altogether unless they agreed to the same-sex adoption.” Now “the cost of legal bills forced them to drop the case and relinquish their rights.” The shape of things to come? (London’s The Telegraph)
“The greatest opposition to what God is doing today comes from those who were on the cutting edge of what God was doing yesterday.” (R.T. Kendall in The Anointing; HT: Charles at Connexion)
Five minute Nightline video on Seattle pastor, Mark Driscoll. I just wish Nightline didn't get so hung up on what Driscoll said about sex; there's so much more that makes him interesting.
Guitar World ranks the 50 greatest solos in rock and roll history.
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