Fortuitous Bouncing
2008
November
15
I’ve talked with several people about my post earlier this week titled “A Christian President.” Looking back at it I’d like to apologize for one statement. I said, “I guess I shouldn’t be surprised because Christians are notorious for not being Christ like when it comes to politics.” While I do think many Christians are not Christ-like within politics, I should have avoided the ultimatum statement that I gave because it is simply not true. So to you the reader and any Christian who reads this, I’m sorry. My biggest desire (that I tried to show in my political posts) is that Christians would put more hope in Christ than they do in American politics.
Now onto the your regularly schedule Saturday post.
Blogs
- Jim Wallis says leave Sarah Palin and her family alone.
- Shane Claiborne was at Eugene Cho’s church in Seattle last Sunday night. I’m sad I couldn’t make it (would have been a long bike ride). He has some pictures and audio.
- Craig Groeschel is blogging about how to lead a church in financially tough times.
- John Ortberg on the lessons to learn from this past election. The more I read of his (books and blogs) the more I absolutely love.
- Richard Dahlstrom has an excellent post titled: “Mr. Potato God.” Weird title, I know. But an excellent post.
- I’ve been talking to my buddy Ross about him posting some of the fiction he writes. So please please please go check out this post by him. He is an awesome fiction writer.
News
- The majority of Catholics voted for Obama. Now some Catholic bishops are warning Obama that it doesn’t mean they support all his policies, including abortion.
- A local newspaper in Oklahoma made little mention of Obama’s election victory. No big deal or racist?
- Ted Haggard spoke at a church last weekend.
- Believe it or not, more than one senatorial race is undecided. In fact in Alaska, the vote difference is 3!!! Yes 3.
- How is this for some shady marketing: “Life is short. Have an affair.” The sad part is that the slogan has worked.
- In Nebraska you can legally drop off any kid under 18 at local hospitals if you don’t want them anymore. You will not be prosecuted.
- This video is hilarious (embedded). Teenage girls reacting to Archuleta losing American Idol.
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Tyler Braun.
The Ted article reminded me to check in w/ some friends on that. So thanks for the reminder. I do agree w/ the first guy who commented on the Blog saying that New Life did exactly what it needed to do to move forward and Ted shouldn’t have had any disappointment, it’s been a really tough two years for them, first him then the shooting and they’ve had to really rebuild at the same time…
Maybe I woke up from the wrong side of the bed this morning, but the youtube of the teenage girls reaction is sad and disturbing.
Maybe I just haven’t had enough caffeine…ok i’ll make another cup right now.
I agree with Tyler; the video is pretty funny and Yonas, you are obviously not the parent of teenage girls.
It’s all about the drama…..every day, over everything. Fortunately most of us grow out of it…
Actually, the race for the Alaskan senate isn’t quite as close as Bloomberg reported. Mark Begich widened his lead by 1,022, at the end of Friday’s count, over Stevens. (Stated in the Anchorage Daily News…)
Debbie,
That’s true…I have no kids (haven’t found their mom yet).
I apologize also for my earlier remark. I confessed I reacted the same way when Kathrine McPhee didn’t win her title either. I don’t cry as much now though, doing much much better!