Cole’s First Movie!

The Birth of our Son from Adam Mabry on Vimeo.

Rebuked by an Atheist.

Watch this clip, all the way to the end.

Amazing when a self-confessing atheist understands the importance of gospel-preaching better than many Christians I know… heck, maybe better than me sometimes. How often has God used the world to rebuke and sharpen his children.

Ouch. How’s it feel to be rebuked by an Atheist?

P.S. – Thanks, Penn.

A Great Superbowl Ad. Well, it Would've Been…

I’m reposting something from Clayton Bell’s blog, and I can’t do it better than he did, so here you go:

In case you haven’t heard, NBC said “no” to a Super Bowl ad from CatholicVote.com. Here’s a brief explanation of why from the CatholicVote.comnewsletter:

So why did NBC reject the ad?

The network claims that they do not allow political or issue advocacy advertisements during the Super Bowl, but that’s simply not true.

The network was willing to air an ad by PETA, which is definitely an advocacy group, if PETA would tone down their ad’s sexual suggestiveness.

Also, the first ad scheduled to run during the Super Bowl is a creative spot about Pedigree’s pet adoption drive. The ad ends with the line: “Help us help dogs.”

In recent years, some Super Bowl advertisements have caused controversy. But there’s nothing objectionable about our positive, life-affirming advertisement. We show a beautiful ultrasound, something NBC’s parent company GE has done for years. We don’t attack Barack Obama, but focus on him becoming the first African-American President. We simply ask people to imagine the potential of each human life.

Below is the video (RSS subscribers may need to click here), but here’s my request: Watch it during halftime. Take a moment to sit around the computer and watch the video. It’s even in HD!

Tell everyone you know. Repost the video on your blog. Twitter it out. Do whatever you do to let people know about things. Let’s use the power of social media to send a message to mainstream media. 

A Fly on the Wall…

Have you ever wished you could be a fly on the wall just to hear what some people talk about?

D.A. Carson, John Piper, and Tim Keller recently allowed their conversations on various things biblical, missional, and theological to be taped and broadcast for all to see. This triumvirate of gospel wisdom covered some cool stuff. I hope you enjoy.

Merry Christmas, I got you some culture…

This Christmas, a LOT of people will hear Hallelujah from Handel’s Messiah. Robert Shaw, by far, has recorded the best performance of it. Here it is…

You may not know the scripture that inspired Handel to write this chorus, so let me share it with you:

After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out,

“Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”

Once more they cried out, ”Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!” And from the throne came a voice saying,

“Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”

Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, ”Hallelujah!For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready.” – Rev 19:1-7

Hallelujah.  Indeed.

Perspective…

Interesting, and eye-opening.

I'm not a big Rob Bell fan, but…

It’s true, I’m not a huge Rob Bell fan.  But, I do think he is a great, great communicator.  In last night’s Gospel Class we were talking about the Trinity.  He does a really cool job explaining it in this video…which I totally ripped off from him and used in my class.  

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Totally, totally random…

…but very funny.

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