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Yesterday was a busy day, with somewhere around 50,000 more people than usual dropping by the blog to read the review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. And somehow my server stayed alive and healthy throughout. That has to be a first.
Plain Fear - Do you remember my proposal for a Christian Amish Vampire End Times novel (Cassidy: Amish Vampiress of the Tribulation)? Well, Plain Fear gets pretty close.
The Next Story: The First Review - This is, to my knowledge, the first review of my book The Next Story. And it’s encouraging: “If The Next Story has the same effect on you that it had on me, it will cause you repent of some of your technological habits, to refine many others, and to refocus your attention on the true goal of all that you do, both online and off - to bring glory to God.”
5 Questions to Ask a Depressed Person - David Murray offers some good starting points for counseling a person suffering from depression.
That Guy - You know when you watch a movie and see an actor you know you’ve seen before…but you don’t know who he is? Here’s a listing of some of the common character actors. (HT)
How a Calvinist Shares the Gospel - John Piper provides a little dialog that describes how a Calvinist might share the gospel.
Can a Person Be Evangelical and Not Believe in Hell? - R.C. Sproul Jr. answers that question, obviously a pertinent one today. “The difficult truth of the matter is that language, while actually having the ability to communicate, is not static. Words have real meanings, but those meanings are grounded both in history and in usage. Sometimes those two come apart, and a word is caught in the tension. ‘Evangelical’ is just one of those words.”
The Hand that Feeds Us - Michael Horton offers a brief reflection on technology and its proper place in our lives and churches.
Villanova’s Student Managers - A great little video clip.
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Comments (11)
Tim,
Vampire novels have been haunting Christian book stores for a while, admittedly without the buggies and rumspringa.
I review one such book here: http://bit.ly/h2xhJY
Dave
I couldn’t help but laugh when I read the synopsis about Plain Fear. People actually read stuff like that?
Thankfully, lest anyone mistake Plain Fear for non-fiction, the front cover tells us it is “A Novel.”
“That Guy” was great. It’s like a Star Trek reunion. But I don’t think my all-time favorite guy was there, the guy from the 60’s whom I always call “the guy who looks like Sean Connery but isn’t.” I’ve seen him in both Hogan’s Heroes and Get Smart. He’s even apparently a Brit. But at least William Schallert was there.
Tim,
For a time, I was reviewing books for WaterBrook, a subsidiary of Multnomah, which is owned by Random House. They sent many an Amish romance my way (gag). I read a couple, then began having my wife read them and reviewing them for me. This genre is amazingly popular at the time. Since the extreme popularity of the Twilight Saga, vampire novels have been popping up everywhere you turn (along with other movies and TV shows). WaterBrook then sent me a copy of “Thirsty” a (and I will use this term in as loose a manner as possible) Christian vampire novel. It was bad. Just flat out bad. It was barely about vampires. It was only Christian in the sense that the author is a professing Christian and one of the characters goes to church and “has faith.”
I often joked with people that if “Christian” publishers had their act together, they’d publish an Amish-romance, historical-fiction, vampire story and it would sell like crazy. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
Hopefully, right down the toilet… but that’s just my opinion!
I checked out the author’s website. “Forsaken” is only book No. 1 in the Plain Fear series.
Sam Elliot is no mere “That Guy”
Pfffftttt.
How can Burt Mustin not be on that page? He is the quintessential “That Guy”!
Wow, Tim, are you going to get royalties from that? That is just scary that someone would actually come up with the same idea you were parodying. [pun intended].
Wow, Tim, I loved the video clip on Villanova’s Student Managers. Literally brought tears to my eyes. I’m so proud of those coaches and atheletes (or whoever was responsible) for taking the risk to do that with Nick and Frank. There is a lesson here for all of us on how to relate to “Image Bearers” that aren’t like us or easy to get to know, and to value them for who they are, just as they are. Thanks for sharing that.
Tim, thanks for sharing the video from Villanova. Amazing story about some of the best of Wildcat country. I’m very proud of my alma mater!!