Maybe our next coach can lead us back to the glory days in which this old school ESPN commercial took place. Those Cats will rock youse.
31 March 2007
30 March 2007
29 March 2007
28 March 2007
Check out the caveman's crib...
See if you can find a recipe for the roast duck with the mango salsa.
Unless you've already lost your appetite...
Caveman
24 March 2007
22 March 2007
Best of luck, Tubby
I wish you the best at Minnesota. Regardless of how the next UK coach does, you will be sorely missed, for the class with which you conducted yourself the entire time you were our coach. I wish it could have worked out...God bless you, Tubby.
19 March 2007
16 March 2007
Music good enough for Jack Bauer
So I discovered this band after seeing them on Leno. Rocco Deluca and the Burden. They're the first band signed on Kiefer Sutherland's label, Ironworks. An alternative type band with a lead singer (Rocco obviously) that sounds a little like Jeff Buckley and plays a dobro. Yep, a dobro.
They've got a bluesy sound that sets them apart from most other bands out there today. Check out their first single, "Colorful," as they play it live on Jimmy Kimmel. Check out "Soul" too. Their first album, I Trust You to Kill Me, is on Itunes. I own it, and it rocks.
13 March 2007
Why NOT to be a Florida fan
What is that?
Seriously, what is that?
No, honestly, what is going on here?
My Final Four
Midwest: Oregon
East: Georgetown
West: Kansas
South: Memphis
Kansas over Georgetown in the finals.
Sadly, another early exit for the Cats...I have them going out in the second round to the #1 seed (Kansas) for the second year in a row. Tubby, GET SOME RECRUITS!
11 March 2007
It's not about us
So I was flipping through the channels getting ready to go to bed, out here in Altus, OK. I stopped at a broadcast of Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston. (You probably know where this is going, but I've never really watched him for an extended period of time.) During a thirteen-minute sample (which was about all I could watch), Joel mentioned the Bible a grand total of one time (with the super-specific phrase, "in the Scriptures, Romans says...") The word "God" was mentioned four times. Six times, on the bottom of the screen, there were advertised how to purchase messages, or where next to have "An Evening With Joel," (you can go watch Joel in St. Louis, London, or Manchester, England!) I lost count of the times he said "happy."
Ummm...this is church? I don't want to be overly critical, because I'm sure there are lots of people being changed in Houston (and St. Louis and Manchester!), but I'm sure there are just as many that are like me, that just randomly tuned in. What is Joel telling these people, in not so many words, about the Church? That it's a self-help clinic with a super-cool gold model of the world spinning ever so peacefully behind the speaker? That the goal of Christianity is to be "happy?" That if you accept Jesus as your savior, or if you purchase Joel's latest message, "Don't Allow Critical Voices to Steal Your Dreams," or if you go spend "An Evening With Joel," all your problems will go away? Is he just a motivational speaker?
It may just me being cynical, or maybe it's just late and I need to sleep, but I don't think the Church is about us. I don't think pastors should spend the majority of their time telling us how we can be happy. And maybe they should reference the Bible once in a while. Calvary Chapel does it right, going verse by verse and chapter by chapter for their sermons. There are plenty of ways to make sure your church is rooted in the Bible, and actually referring to and talking about the Bible is a good start.
Maybe my thirteen minute snippet wasn't enough to get a true picture of what Lakewood and Osteen are about. It's probably not a fair evaluation, and I realize that. My point is that with millions of people as your audience, you have to be extremely careful with your message. Maybe we should talk less about us and our happiness and talk more about what God actually says.
02 March 2007
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
