Weekend Update

First the banks, then GM, soon it will be healthcare, and eventually the innerwebs:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

"That's the news and I am outta here..."

They Found a Sasquatch Who Looks Like Brad Pitt

One handsome Yeti:

The Left and Right Have the Same Problem

"From the Left, the church tyrannizes the sheep by neglecting the revealed word for their own misguided sense of social justice.  From the Right, the church tyrannizes the sheep by going beyond what Scripture says to uphold their own social conventions.  One side subtracts from the word and the other adds to it, but both are guilty of exercising authority beyond that with which they have been entrusted."

-Eric Landry of the White Horse Inn

BOOK PREVIEW

Here's a list of books I'll be digesting this fall: 

Yes, I'm a Keller groupie. No, I don't think there will be anything new from Keller in this volume, and yes I will enjoy the heck out of it.

What's So Great About Christianity by Dinesh D'Souza: I have had this book for a couple of years, and loaned it out twice because I was reading something else. I'm fired up to read D'Souza. 

DEEP CHURCH by Jim Belcher: When a book is praised by Driscoll, Keller, McLaren, Rob Bell, Alan Hirsch, Scot McKnight, Ed Stetzer, Colin Hansen, Tony Jones and Richard Mouw it has to be interesting.

The End of Secularism by Hunter Baker: GREAT title, and given our current politcal climate it should be a timely read. It's getting a great deal of positive publicity.

Money, Greed and God by Jay Richards: Should be good fodder for the Republican in me. According to Edwards what we call capitalism does the most good for the largest number of people. This book explains how and why.

Finally Alive by John Piper: According to Tim Challies this is Piper's best book. That is a monstrous claim, but I hope he is right.

I'll be studying the book of Mark with a large degree of regularity so various commentaries on that gospel as well.

Psalm 32:1

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven

whose sin is covered.

Illustrated here: 

FRIDAYS ARE FOR FACIAL HAIR

Andy Reid's 'stache is going to play a key role in the rehabilitation of Michael Vick...no doubt:

This pretty much sums up about 11 years of my life: