Dan Meth, who has done a whole lot of cool stuff that I’ve posted before, put together this nice little Munch/Home Alone mash up…
I thought it was funny.
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On preaching with “L” plates
There’s a great article here that’s encouraging to young preachers and to those who seek to critique and encourage them.
I love honest criticism. Particularly constructive or useful criticism. One of our resident drama teachers gave me some tips on non verbal stuff this morning, that was really helpful. Another lady told me I should have included a benediction at the end of the service… oh well… there’s one in every crowd.
The standard “that was good and helpful” line that young preachers get from just about everyone isn’t all that useful – particularly for learners. From the article:
Great preachers are the ones who preach really bad sermons. The difference is that they preach really bad sermons when they’re young, and are sharpened for life by critique.
Mediocre preachers are those who start off with sermons that are, eh, pretty good, but they’re never critiqued and thus never grow.
I know which I’d rather be…
On the Lord’s Prayer
I preached on the Lord’s Prayer today.
Here’s my sermon as a word cloud thanks to wordle…
Here are my points in list form (mostly from Matthew 6)…
- Jesus says “this then is how you should pray”… not “this then is what you should pray”… The Lord’s Prayer is not a script for a prayer.
- One of the great ironies in Christian culture is that we have taken the Lord’s prayer and done with it exactly what Jesus was telling people not to do. Before teaching people how to pray he teaches them how not to – he warns against babbling like the pagans. The Lord’s Prayer is not a mantra to pray over and over again, but a guideline…
- The Lord’s Prayer is short.
- Prayer is for Christians – we’re to pray for God as “our father”…
- “Hallowed be your name” is primarily a request, not a statement. I got this idea from John Piper. I’d always read that line as a statement about how great God’s name is. ..
Sanctify can mean make holy or treat as holy. When God sanctifies us, it means that he makes us holy. But when we sanctify God, it means that we treat him as holy.
- Prayer shouldn’t be contrary to our actions. We shouldn’t pray for God’s will to be done and not be trying to do it, we shouldn’t pray for forgiveness without forgiving others…
- God, as our loving father, wants to provide for our material needs as well as our spiritual needs (which he provides through Jesus). We’re so scared of the prosperity doctrine that we kind of dismiss the idea that God has promised to look after our physical needs. I found Soph’s post on the fountainside pretty helpful on this point.
- The idea that our forgiveness depends on us first forgiving others is pretty confronting. It’s in the verses just after the Lord’s Prayer and comes up again in Matthew 18. This is probably a point that is underdone in our evangelical “faith alone” circles… here’s the bit at the end of the Lord’s Prayer.
14For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Do(+d)g(-g)y patte
This patte should probably be served with pooper scoopers rather than biscuits…
“The grass is made out of Hummus covered in Parsley with sprigs of Chives sticking out. The Poop is made from Aubergine Pate with lots of Paprika Powder added to give it..uh, a ‘nice’ poop color. The flies are made out of Olives and Onions.”
From here.
Mmm, handburger…
I’m going a bit crazy having not had McDonalds since July. So crazy I might almost buy one of these hand warming mousepads even though I live in the tropics…
Free paper, plain
Mmm. Free paper. A tasty calorie free treat.
Advertised uses include making paper hornets (or wasps in Australia), chewing gum disposal, phone number collection, bookmarking, or “a tasty snack”…
Robots with… stuff
So, you like robots?
That’s probably a pick up line about as likely to get a teenage geek anywhere as just about every other pick up line they might use, that is to say, not very far.
But if you do like robots, and you’ve got a bunch of time because you’re a single teenage geek, then maybe you should head over and check out this attempt to draw 165 Robots with Stuff…
You do the map, you do the movie map
The image below may seem almost illegible. In fact, it no doubt will… but click it (or here) and you’ll get a subway map of blockbuster movies. It’s clever.
Bacon jam helps you eat, like, a pig
Pig + Blender = Bacon Jam. That’s the equation celebrated by this shirt.
A shirt that celebrates what is quite possibly the most awesome dining innovation since sliced bread.
When man first sliced bread he was left facing a conundrum – what to put on this slab of excellence that would enhance it. Bacon jam is the answer.
“…….we take a big bunch of really really good bacon, and render it down…add a bunch of spices..onions, etc..and let it simmer for about 6 hours…give it a quick puree, and blast chill it…and you have bacon jam.”
Tale of the tape
This film themed sticky tape is pretty cool. I can’t think of any reason that you’d want to buy it, unless you’re storyboarding animation projects for work…
It’s Pac time
My love for cereal is well documented. Cereal should be one of the five food groups… Beer, Bacon, Coffee, Chocolate and Cereal.
This, I believe, is the pinnacle of cereal theming – the Pacman breakfast cereal, featuring marshmallows.
From this site – dedicated to collecting details about the breakfast cereals of today for the cerealphiles of tomorrow…
Lego Mario Bros
This giant Lego Mario statue is for sale on eBay. For another day. It’s currently at 3,500 Euros.
