Onward, Forward, Toward…

Anti-Christ of the week ending 7-30-05 is:

Anti-Christ of the week ending 7-23-05 is:

According to this guy God said so.
Unbelievable. Then I have a sarcastic question to ask. What caused the hurricanes before slavery? The Crusades….

Michael Spencer over at Internet Monk has written an excellent article about the state of worship (influenced by this article ) and how sometimes we feel as if our worship is actually lying to God.

I was reading this post from a fellow friend of mine at the Brennan Manning forums and came across these paragraphs that really made me stop to reflect.

More Lyrics from The Pretender by Jackson Browne:

The last verse of “The Pretender” by Jackson Browne:

I’m going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you there?
Say a prayer for the pretender
Who started out so young and strong
Only to surrender

Sounds alot like the church of today. To quote the very last line of the song that is repeated over and over …