I’ll be honest. I’m not sure how I feel about this one.
On one hand, it’s actually kind of amusing.
On the the other, it feels kind of creepy stalkerish. And while, that is also what makes it sort of funny, when it’s used for a worship service it feels a bit awkward.
I don’t know, maybe “Debbie” is “Russell’s” wife/gf in real life and this makes more sense if you go to this church. Probably so.
Anyway, I’m tired of over analyzing this. So what do you think?
Funny or not so much?
So, you’ve played Jesus in a couple of movies and you get typecasted as our Lord and Savior. What’s an actor to do?
Simple. You play Jesus….again.
But this time things are set in the 21st century, Jesus works at a diner, and he’s visited by Sting (the wrestler not the singer) and Jaci Velasquez, who’s cars have broken down and have been sent to the diner by a highway patrol officer who is actually Satan.
I can’t believe a major Hollywood studio didn’t greenlight this project.
It’s called The Encounter. Enjoy.
And in case you don’t believe it’s actually Jesus, he has proof: his driver’s license. And of course, the picture is from the last movie he played Jesus in.
Tired of carrying that big heavy Bible around? Well, Pastor Andrew Farley has a heretical novel solution…..
Let’s chop it in half!!
That way we don’t have to deal with any of those difficult passages in the Old Testament. Why do exegesis when you can just ignore the passages you don’t understand like?
After all, Mark Driscoll has built a very “successful” ministry around this very premise.
Besides, it’s not like the New Testament is interested in the Old Testament anyway. It only quotes it about 300 times or so. Clearly the New Testament was written for 21st Americans with no real connection to the Hebrew Bible.
If only somebody had thought of this before. Oh wait they have…..
Got religion? Well, it’s time you lost it, says the Rev. Andrew Farley in his new book, “God without Religion.”
Christians need no spiritual relationship with the Old Testamet, including the Ten Commandments and the principle of tithing, considered by many Christians as traditional hallmarks of the faith, posits Farley in his book.
Farley is a Texas Tech associate professor of applied linguistics and pastor of the church Ecclesia.
“God without Religion” peaked at No. 8 on the Washington Post’s best seller list in early June.
The book’s ideas have elicited opinionated responses.
“Your book cannot go to press,” Farley recalled someone emailing in response to one of his “God without Religion” seminars.
Farley’s insistence about tithing as an unnecessary spiritual discipline irked the email sender, the author said.
Although the sender claimed Farley’s message would damage American churches, Farley asserts just the opposite in the book: abandoning religion may help Christians reclaim their faith.
“People love Jesus in general,” Farley said during an interview with The Avalanche-Journal. “But maybe they’ve been burned by the church one or two times.”
Judgmental followers, guilt trips and calls for adherence to Old Testament commands may cause the burns, but they are the result of religion, not New Testament teachings, Farley writes.
I think this may be our new favorite Christian rap video.
It’s incredible in every way.
Watch, enjoy, and you’re welcome.
UPDATE: Apparently, we all owe Stephen Wiley a huge debt of gratitude. It seems he may have been the pioneer of Christian rap.
Is it just me, or do these two have a very “Home Shopping Network” feel to them? But wait! There’s more……
White people aren’t the only ones dabbling in bad Christian rap these days.
Everybody with us now:
“Baby Wake Up… It’s Suuuunday
Get the Kids Up… It’s Suuuunday
I been going to church my whole life on Sundays,
I messed up all week but not on Sunday!”
We pastors can be a fickle and often schizophrenic group. We’d like to share one example with you.
Bishop Robert E. Smith Jr. preaches in Little Rock, Arkansas and has a bevy of recorded sermons on youtube. Here is one from just eight months ago, where he touts the virtue of “being nice.” He seems reasonable, calm, and measured.
Bishop Smith has apparently had a change in heart about that whole “being nice” issue though, because just this month he preached on how ignorant nice people are- and I’m pretty certain he encourages us to cut people into pieces.
Where did that measured pastor from the video that he named “Be Nice To People” go? By the time he recorded “Nice People Are Ignorant Folks,” that man seems to have left…
Jack Chick has pretty much laid down the gauntlet in his latest tract, “Still No Revival?”
If you are new to our site and haven’t had the benefit of reading dozens of examples of Jack’s best work, this tract pretty much sums up why he’s so unhappy with the church today. He covers everything from Catholocism to Islam to “the gays.” It’s pretty much Jack Chick’s opus magnum, and we are honored to give it a home at American Jesus.
For every intelligent Christian who can hold an academic discussion about the purpose of Biblical narratives, there seems to be a hundred idiots like this one.
Stupid yet Arrogant Christians: Making us look like idiots since the Enlightenment…
You know that creepy guy in your neighborhood that you would never let near your children because he may or may not be a convicted sex offender?
Well, back in the 90′s he was the host/MC of this awesomely terrible video.
