I just couldn’t help but laugh at this story:
Franklin Graham Festival organizers are ‘preparing the nursery’
Area pastors see themselves as pregnant, with a whole group of baby Christians due after the Franklin Graham Festival.
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Billy Graham’s Final New York Crusade
USA Today scored a rare interview with the man himself, Billy Graham, just a month before the New York Crusade. The Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade has been called Graham’s last Crusade in New York, and as always, there’s speculation that it could be his last crusade ever. The interview itself doesn’t give that impression, but it does give a glimpse of Graham’s declining health, comparing him to the late Pope John Paul II.
In another final crusade news, a coalition of Christian leaders in the U.K. have invited Graham to come for a London crusade this fall, and though there has been no offical word, it appears Graham is willing to come if his health permits it.
Youth Ministry is Not About Attendance
Youth ministry isn’t something I talk about a lot on here, probably because I know at least a few of the youths I minister to (and possibly parents) read this blog
Titles of Sermons
McSweeney’s just makes me laugh.
Titles of Sermons to which Congregants Might Actually Pay Attention:
“How Much Good Would the Good Book Book If the Good Book Could Book Good?”
Pope Didn’t Want the Job
Pope Benedict XVI prayed he wouldn’t get the job. “Evidently this time He didn’t listen to me,” said the Pope.
Benedict, 78, said he had hoped to spend his last years living quietly and peacefully.
“At a certain point, I prayed to God, ‘Please don’t do this to me,'” he told the audience, saying he viewed the swelling votes in his favor as a “guillotine.” He recalled saying to God in his prayers: “You have younger, better, more enthusiastic and energetic candidates.”
(link via Fully Devoted)
The Fred Phelps Bible
McSweeney’s Selected Passages from the Bible: The King (Fred) Phelps Version. Zing!
(in case you don’t know, Fred Phelps is that guy from Topeka, Kans. with the ‘God Hates Fags’ web site. I won’t bother linking to him)
Jesus Farted
Did I just say that? I guess I did. I somehow managed to work the phrase Jesus farted into a rant about a pot-smoking Jesus comic book over on Real Magazine.
Making March Comprehensible
Garrison Keillor on Easter, Terry Schiavo and Jeff Weise. (link via Nathan Moore)
Recent Hollywood Converts Join Forces
Recently converted ex-Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch and vocal convert and actor Stephen Baldwin are joining forces to launch “a line of ‘cutting-edge Christian products’ in an attempt to give young people of faith some pop culture they can actually be proud of.”
“There’s just not a lot of really cool Christian material out there,” Baldwin added.
Thanks. Thanks a lot. I’ll be the first to admit Christians aren’t perfect, but when it comes to pop culture there have been a lot of steady improvements (Switchfoot, Sixpence None the Richer, The Passion of the Christ, etc.). I’m not sure if high profile converts are really what we need. (link via CT)
Lifestyles of the Hispanic Jesus
Robin Leach butchers the name ‘Jesus,’ misprouncing the name of NASCAR driver Morgan Shepherd’s sponsor, Racing with Jesus as the Spanish version, ‘Hay-Soos.’
Though if you think about it, which seems more likely: a Christian racing sponsor encouraging fans to ‘race with Jesus’ in a series crowded with alcohol and tobacco sponsors; or a Hispanic racing team encouraging a bit of diversity within the white-boy world of NASCAR? Both seem a bit ridiculous. Can you blame Robin Leach? (link via CT)