A La Carte (5/18)

  • Tim Challies
  • 05/18/07
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Friday May 18, 2007

Dating: Josh Harris has posted an article written by Isaac Hydoski that deals with online dating. "This is by no means a comprehensive treatment of the subject--it's simply our local church seeking to give wise counsel to the men and women in our care."

Film: I find this troubling.

Humor: This is an important video, featuring step-by-step instruction for the man hug.

Review: Irish Calvinist reviews Wayne Grudem's "Evangelical Feminism: A New Path to Liberalism?"

Comments (9)

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a comment from Tim H. • 05/18 @ 12:36pm

Sad thing about Bruce Almighty :-(

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a comment from Justin • 05/18 @ 7:39pm

SO whats the big deal with the Christian bands having music in that movie? I don't get whats so troubling. Its just music and a funny movie. Obviously fictional I mean come on a second Noah? I've a preview and it seems pretty funny.

I just hope this doesn't become an issue.

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a comment from J.R. Jones • 05/18 @ 10:30pm

@ JustinWhat I think it really comes down to is the glorification of Christ. The movie is meant to be a type of spoof off of a Biblical story. As funny as it may seem, it also seems odd that we have Christian music artists taking their time to play at the premiere of a movie poking fun at a widely known story in the Bible.

The bands could be spending that time in other ways, glorifying Christ. Thats just one man's opinion.

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a comment from Justin • 05/20 @ 1:53am

I understand people being upset about a spoof on a biblical story even though thats another argument entirely, however why be worried about where a "christian" band who share their personal beliefs in public performs? I wouldn't worry about them or what they do unless they were publicly sinning somehow.

The biggest problem I have with "christian" bands is that all they do is just try to make money off christians by preaching to the choir. Very few bands activley try to take their message outside the church.

Don't get me wrong I like "christian" rock however I think its more a money making industry than a ministry. I have some friends who are in the Christian music industry and have met other artist and by those meetings have been repulsed almost to the point of quiting what God has called them to.

No one likes to talk about it but, but yes Christian music has gotten better, and its making a lot more money than it use to. However I really fear the problem is where they perform but what their motives are.

Tim Maybe you can make a post sometime about how Christian should view "christian" music industry.

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a comment from Logan Mauldin • 05/21 @ 9:39am
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Speaking of "Evan Almighty," I first saw the preview for this movie while taking my young son to see "Meet the Robinsons," and after the preview, he asked the question that I had in my own mind: "Didn't God promise not to destroy the earth by flood again."

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a comment from Jason R. Kaiser Sr. • 05/21 @ 10:51am

Justin-

My question would be...if Christian bands playing at a Biblical parody isn't sinful, which it may or may not be, where would one draw the line? I think at best these bands have made an unwise decision.

Jason

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a comment from J.R. Jones • 05/21 @ 3:26pm

Justin-I'm completely lost now. You went from questioning why it troubled Tim that Christian bands were par-taking in a concert around a Biblical parody to how much you dis-like the "majority" of Christian music being a money making scheme.

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a comment from Justin • 05/23 @ 12:30am

I guess i'm just a confusing guy.

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a comment from kari • 06/17 @ 2:25am
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Hey...

So I'm not sure if you've seen either of the movies, but our church is part of the Ark Almighty program and we have seen several people learn about Christ through the good works and "random acts of kindness" that the money from this program allowed our youth group to do.

The producers actually met with our pastor, showed them an advanced copy of the movie, and then offered our church $5000 with which to reach people with through good works. This was an amazing ministry opportunity given to us (and tons of other churches) to reach people with. An opportunity that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

Just think about that before completely dissing the movie and/or the program and website. :)