C.J. Mahaney is the founding pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland and the author of several books including Humility: True Greatness.
His testimony is a powerful testimony to God’s grace in saving the ill-deserving.
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Happy Belated Birthday, Canada!
Thursday was Canada Day. I celebrated it by visiting a Compassion church partner in the Copan Ruins area of Honduras. In honor of my homeland, enjoy Clark, the Canadian Hockey Goalie:
I think that counts as a great Independence Day gift to all my American friends, too, eh?
Free Audiobook of the Month: The Pursuit of God
A.W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God is available for download as this month’s free audiobook at ChristianAudio.com. Use the coupon code JUL2010 when ordering.
Jonathan Rourke Imitates C.J. Mahaney
From the recent Resolved conference. Amazing:
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Jonathan Rourke as CJ Mahaney on Vimeo, posted with vodpod
Isn’t it amazing how technology has changed over the last 17 years?
Watching this archive footage from the CBC reminded me just how quickly things have progressed.
In 1993, people online were generally courteous. They used their real names.
And there were no watchbloggers.
Amazing.
Saw this yesterday—Amazing!
Bonus! Bruce Lee vs. Iron Man
I hope these make the end-of-the-work-week countdown go a little faster.
Happy Friday, everyone!
Toyota hired some great people to work on the new campaign for the Sienna. The concept is actually pretty clever and executed quite well. Check out the video for the “swagger wagon:”
There’s an important lesson:
Good marketing doesn’t take itself—or its audience—too seriously.
Sometimes you need to have a little bit of fun with your audience.
What are some examples of “fun” marketing that you’ve seen recently?
An exerpt from Mark Driscoll’s recent sermon, Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son, from Luke 7:11-17. The edited transcript follows:
Jesus finds wrecked people.
That’s what he does. That’s our Jesus. God comes to earth as the man Jesus Christ, and he goes looking for absolutely wrecked people, people on the worst day of their whole life.
Luke says it this way: “He went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out.” Do you feel that?
Read these lines, “The only son of his mother, and,” what? “She was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had,” what? “Compassion on her.” Compassion on her.
This is a devastating day.
This is a wrecked woman. Continue Reading…
A challenging excerpt from Mark Driscoll’s sermon, The Beatitudes, Part 1 from Luke 6:17-36. Watch the video or read the transcript below:
The kingdom of God is not about getting. That’s what Jesus is saying. It’s not about getting wealth. It’s not about getting power. It’s not about getting comfort. It’s not about getting fame. And the kingdom of God is not about doing. It’s not what you do so that God will be pleased with you.
The kingdom ultimately is about being.
It’s about being in relationship with God.
And there are two ways that some will teach you to work out the counterculture kingdom ethic of Jesus.
One is absolute nonsense, religious garbage that arouses anger as I travel throughout this land, and I see Muslims, Jews, and Jack Christians who are religious, worshiping places, worshiping people, identifying themselves by their performance, and their power, and their prestige, and their prosperity. This is no holy land! This is a very unholy land! This is among the most unholy lands on the nation of the earth! The idolatry is steep and deep!
It’s just like the days when Jesus went to the temple, and absolutely was filled with fury. There is a righteous anger in the heart of God over those who would pilgrimage here, and cut in line for food, and steal, and cheat, and download porno in their hotel, and flirt with others, and follow ridiculous religious rituals, and then talk about the holy land. It’s not about the holy land. It’s about the holy king, and the holy kingdom, and repentant people by grace being connected to him, and being conformed to him.
The kingdom is not about going somewhere, but about belonging to Someone.
And so for us, it is never a place, it is a person, and the center of our faith is Jesus. Continue Reading…
A great video to watch with the kids based on illustrations from The Jesus Storybook Bible with narration by David Suchet.
HT: Justin Taylor
Z shared this video on his blog the other day. Who says learning can’t be fun?
Sing along with the lyrics below: Continue Reading…
