Further Up. Further In.
We already know this film will do well because my daughter audibly gasped when she saw the young actor who plays Prince Caspian, Ben Barnes. Mmmhmm... Anyhoo...
We can all start praying that this latest installment in the Narnia series will hit people hard in the hardened heart of our postChristian America, and that it will remain true to the book as LWW was.
Click on the poster here for a giant version of it, and click HERE to see the trailer.
For the whole enchilada, go to the Narnia site at Disney (HERE).
It doesn't open until May but start spreading the news. Maybe we can have another fine example of good Christian art, something we have been sorely lacking as a group for this last hundred years. But don't get me started. ;)
Need more movies to see? Go here!!!!

No more excuses!!!
We have a whole new truckload of ministries involved in serving and community service and getting kids out of human trafficking and slavery and prostitution and inner-city problems and homelessness and drugs and helping in foreign countries and surfing for the Lord (!) and and and... C'mon! There are no excuses any more. Get off thy backside and - in the name of God - GO HELP!!! (love you!)
Go to Servant Evangelism and sign up with someone!!!

At last...
Finally there is a Bible for our "type," for us kooks who love defending the faith. Here is what they say on amazon: The Apologetics Study Bible will help today's Christian better understand, defend and proclaim their beliefs in this age of increasing moral and spiritual relativism. More than one-hundred key questions and articles placed throughout the volume about faith and science prompt a rewarding study experience at every reading.
And listen to these contributors: Ted Cabal, Lee Strobel, Chuck Colson, Paul Copan, Norm Geisler, Josh McDowell, Albert Mohler, J.P. Moreland, Ravi Zacharias, Mark Ritter, Dan Mannion, Cameron Aanestad.
Well, maybe not the last three, although it would have been nice if they had at least asked!!!!
It is here at amazon. :)

You can help now. So... do.
Well, we're trying to do something, for free, for you, and for our brothers and sisters who are having the he** beat out of them throughout the world by some fun-loving religious fanatics and their ilk. We are supplying you with a couple of things you can share with your group.
One is this 4x6 card which we will make every other month. It has a real life prisoner in a real country which is really mistreating him/her. Here is the front. Here is the back. We can send you the Illustrator file now. (At the moment we don't have the means to send you the cards.) But find a print shop and they can print the high resolution files.
We also have powerpoint presentations that you can show in your church. Of what? you may ask.
Of what's going on in the less comfortable parts of the globe where Christians are really being persecuted and thrown in prison and beat up and deprived of anything resembling human rights. This is a way to educate your congregation before the service starts. The info comes to us via Voices of the Martyrs and Persecution.com and PrisonerAlert.com and Compass Direct. Thanks to their frontline fighting, you can find out whom to pray for around this dark globe of ours.
Get the THE LATEST UPDATE free here.

Paper your walls.
You need a fine wallpaper or background for your Mac or PC, don't you? Say yes! Well, we have a couple of them for you. One is our Gaelic version of Your Love is teaching me how to kneel. The other is Bob the Knight, our mascot, so to speak. They come in all sizes for all displays. They are hi-res, they are purty, they are yours. Go here. :)

Our hero.
Alright, we know you may not like this guy here for any of a number of reasons, like his bug glasses, or his rock 'n roll music, or his smoking, or his onstage antics, or his occasional sailor mouth, or - worst of all - that he is Irish. But you cannot ignore that he is one of the few celebrities in the world who is actually doing something constructive with that celebrtity status - like trying to end extreme poverty and AIDS. Wow, it's almost Jesus-like, this love for the poor and outcast.
Just recently Bono (the guy we're talking about, a confessed Christian) received the NAACP's Chairman Award. You can see it here. The first five minutes are typical award bantor - blah blah blah - but by the end of Bono's sermonette, if you aren't welling up with tears and motivated to be more like Jesus, we diagnose you with acardia - you have no heart. Give it a look and be inspired!!!

Do you know Him?
We are embarrassed to admit that we have never heard of S. M. Lockridge before. Shame on us. And to make matters worse he was from San Diego!!! But what a preacher he must have been to deliver a sermon like "That's My King." Here is a small video which puts just 4 minutes of the slightly longer sermon to pictures. Wake up every morning with this and if you aren't moved, you're dead.

Bail ó Dhia ort. You like foreign languages, huh? Try this on. We wanted to make a shirt that said Your love is teaching me how to kneel, from U2's Vertigo, since that's pretty much what we want to be about. But we thought we'd do it in Gaelic in honor of U2's Irish heritage and c'mon! where are you ever gonna see an Irish shirt outside of Ireland or an Irish festival?
Our friends at The Daltai Discussion forum couldn't EXACTLY match the phrase without massacring the language so they took some poetic liberty and ba-da-bing! we get this expression of celtic beauty. It really means both (a) that your example teaches me humility, and (b) that I am humbled by the generosity of your love". Cool, eh? that double-meaning thing? Go here and see it in more detail and order one. Come on, you know we practically give our stuff away. [by the way, it's pronounced iss oola-di may duh ghrah, plus or minus] Better, it sounds like this. Thanks Aonghus!
Here is the new art for the shirt. (here).

Wicked!
If you weren't at Calvary Chapel Murrieta to hear this... well... you missed out. If you were there, here is the Quicktime movie of the Evil and Suffering talk that Mark gave. No pretty transitions, just the slides. And this is the latest version which is even prettier than the one he gave.
So you think you might want to hear the lecture live? Or, as far as that goes, any of our lectures? That can be arranged. ;) Go here.