…and since that last post was way too serious for a Monday morning, here’s something a little lighter.
I’m not sure of the original source of this picture. If anybody knows please pass it along and I’ll give them credit
Aftershocks
Free from the law, oh happy condition! What a blessedness, what a peace is mine to know that my standing in Christ is not about what I do but about what he has already accomplished. What joy unspeakable it is to know that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.
And yet…
Some days when trials come and life seems nothing more than pointless pain, there is voice that whispers again the familiar lies in my ear and tells me that it is all my own fault that I suffer. “It’s because you didn’t got to church last Sunday. It’s because you didn’t tithe. It’s because you haven’t led single soul to Christ yet this year. That is why you suffer. Because you haven’t done enough. Because you are not good enough. Because you chose to stray from the old paths. That is why you are being judged.”
Even after the earthquake is over and your feet stand on solid ground there remain the spiritual aftershocks which can briefly shake again the foundations of your world. And when they come (as they inevitably will) all we can do is cling to a more sure foundation: that the Lord knoweth who are his and that He has loved them with an everlasting love. He knows what we are. He knows what we’ve done. He loves us anyway.
This present pain is not punishment. But some lessons are not easily unlearned. Some roots of doubt go deep.
Reader Submitted Photo: Fundraiser
A lot of schools do fundraisers. Most of them don’t have the KJV on their candy bars.
Friday Challenge: Be Wrong
Today’s challenge is simply to fill in this blank.
“I used to think _________. I was wrong.”
It’s good for all of us to realize we’ve wrong once in a while. (And might still be sometimes.)
Poe’s Law
Is this video real or an intentional fake?
Although several people have sent me this horrific rendition, I’m going to call shenanigans on it for several reasons:
1) The singer starts out by talking about Brian Free and the Assurance which is definitely not an IFB group but then transitions right into talking about Gospel Light Baptist Church in Salisbury, NC which is most definitely an IFB church.
2) The applause track after he mentions the church is an obvious fake.
3) We see three heads of audience members but there’s nobody on the stage or in the choir loft. In fact, this guy is sitting on the arm of the pastor’s chair (right next to the phone). Nobody would do that to the pastor’s throne and get away with it in an IFB church. [Edit: Thanks to everyone who pointed out that he’s actually on a stool in front of the chair. I concede the point]
4) He’s wearing a polo shirt and sneakers. Sneakers. On the platform. Not likely.
5. He chooses a song best known by Vestal Goodman and then murders it in a way that could only be purposeful. While doing it he runs around the stage and holds the microphone in both hands.
I suspect that some hooligans managed to get into a Baptist church somewhere when nobody else was around and shot this video as a spoof. But I’d love to hear your opinions.