Watch Out for Myths About Fatherhood

Al Mohler has a great post on the current myths that diminish the place, signficance and enduring role of father. His point – no matter what you are hearing in the press, dad still has a place in his home.

Pessimisms

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I’ll know how it turned out.   Nore Ephron

Today’s Quote 6/21/09

Erwin McManus tells the story of the night his little boy Aaron didn’t want the lights off when he went to bed. He was afraid of the demons he had heard about the week before at summer camp. McManus groaned inside and fought back the the temptation to say, “They’re not real.” He knew they are real. Before he could answer, Aaron asked him to pray for him:

“Daddy, Daddy, would you pray for me that I would be safe?” I could feel it. I could feel warm-blanket Christianity beginning to wrap around him, a life of safety, safety, safety.

I said, “Aaron, I will not pray for you to be safe. I will pray that God will make you dangerous, so dangerous that demons will flee when you enter the room.”

And he goes, “All right. But pray I would be really, really, really dangerous, Daddy.”

From Ben Patterson’s God’s Prayer Book, p. 24

A significant (finally) discussion of worship music

Here is a series of videos that surface the issues that people who mean to be intelligent about worship will want to consider. And we do want to be intelligent about this, don’t we? Somehow I feel defensive about using that word. It’s like I can hear light switches clicking off even as I write this.

See my previous link to the Worship Goof that iMonk posted.

I have taken a phrase from this discussion and built a sermon around it – “the mature Christian is easily edified.” He needs no one magic way to the encouragement he finds in Christ. All that is invested in communication strategies from music, to drama, to lighting, to exorbitant sound systems to the hours and hours of energy poured into teh “magic bullet” that worship programming is supposed to be is often for the “basically uniterested but I will come and listen if you do it that way” crowd. Meanwhile the growing body of believers watch the swirl of events and increasing budgets and wonder what is going on.