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Comment on A Football Fan For a Day by Michael Carpenter

Michael Carpenter — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:24:32 +0000

You may get an hour or so of sleep

Comment on A Football Fan For a Day by Jason

Jason — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:48:52 +0000

It doesn’t start until 2:00 AM here, and I don’t have a horse this year. However, precisely for the reasons you mention I will be at a pub downtown with a bunch of Austrians who want to watch the game. And I have to be up at 6:15 the next day. I still don’t quite know how that is going to work!

Comment on Persons of Peace by Marty Schoenleber, Jr.

Marty Schoenleber, Jr. — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:39:58 +0000

thanks for your notes on Dr. Wolf’s presentation. Very helpful. Keep planting churches brother and raising up new church planters to reach the next generation with the gospel.

Comment on Almost…(saved) by Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus (Video) — June's Journal

Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus (Video) — June's Journal — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:26:06 +0000

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Comment on I Know of No Cowards by Michael Carpenter

Michael Carpenter — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:33:05 +0000

Ah! Everything is making sense now. I knew there is something wrong with you.

Comment on I Know of No Cowards by Wyman Richardson

Wyman Richardson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:58:15 +0000

Great post Michael!

I don’t drink coffee at all.
[quickly ducking under table and crouching in fetal postion...]

Comment on I Know of No Cowards by Michael Carpenter

Michael Carpenter — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:11:23 +0000

Yes! Decaf is a tool of the devil himself.

Comment on I Know of No Cowards by Matthew Carver

Matthew Carver — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:05:31 +0000

I do agree with one thing he said, I don’t think Jesus would approve of Decaf…

Comment on A Snapshot of Evangelicalism? by Michael Carpenter

Michael Carpenter — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:27:27 +0000

“…highly rehearsed, choreographed and polished presentation of what we already believe”

I could not think of a better description of evangelicalism.

Thanks for the link to the film. Cued to watch. I just googled “elephant in the the middle of the room” and that is the one of the first pictures that came up which illustrated the point all to well.

Comment on A Snapshot of Evangelicalism? by Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000

I think the elephant room is neither a snapshot nor a distortion but just evangelicals being evangelicals. The appearance is that we are really letting everything on the table and everything is raw and unscripted but as you have shown there are really some things that are off the table and it is a highly rehearsed, choreographed and polished presentation of what we already believe. I think this is alot like evangelicalism right now. We think we are being totally rebellious and really stretching ourselves, but in reality we are doing this in a safe way. Much like the picture above, the only elephant we allow into the room is a trained elephant that we know can’t really hurt us.

Incidentally the picture of the elephant above comes from an instillation by Banksy which is very well documented in the film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”. That guy is dealing with some elephants in the room.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587707/