When you’re a judge for a talent contest, and you ask someone why he’s there, and he responds, “To sing opera,” that is not normally a good sign.
Here is Paul Potts, a cell phone salesman, in “Britain’s Got Talent.” Especially watch the face of Simon Cowell, most well known in the U.S. for his role on “American Idol.”
Ever since I read a review of “Heaven Is Not My Home” over at The Jolly Blogger, I’ve been hoping our local library would stock a copy.
But since I had in my possession an Anchor Room gift certificate, I thought it was a dandy time to pick up a copy.
As David Wayne says in his review that captured my attention:
The view that many Christians have is that, after this life, our souls go to heaven and we walk streets of gold, wearing white robes and singing hymns for eternity. What Marshall does is show that our eternal destiny may in fact look a bit more like our current earthly existence than we realize.
Marshall correctly brings out the biblical teaching that the created order is basically good, and therefore it can be embraced. Sin is not the essence of the creation, sin is an imposter.
Because many Christians have wrongly interpreted Biblical passages on the world and worldliness we have adopted an attitude that sees this world as something evil at worst, or unnecessary at best. Either way, this world and this earth and this creation are to be avoided or endured until the time when we will be freed from all of it.
I’m looking forward to reading it — once I get done with “The Rise of the Creative Class.”
Don’t forget! I’ll be at The Anchor Room here in hot, sunny Fort Wayne Friday starting at 7:30 p.m.
Come by, have an iced coffee and listen to my music. What could be better?
The Anchor Room is on the corner of Lahmeyer and Stellhorn roads. Click for a map!
Two books I hope to get done reading before their they’re due back at the library:
If I start running out of time, I wonder which one I should read first? Thoughts?
I wanted to make sure everyone saw the photos of Caleb and his fencing. The one above is Mary’s favorite.
Click on the photos to see them over at my Flickr page.
From “Against Christianity” by Peter Leithart:
Worship is Political Science 101. … Every worship service is a challenge to Caesar, because every Lord’s Day we bow to a Man on the throne of heaven, to whom even great Caesar must bow.
Go to my Flickr page to see all kinds of cool photos of town and family.
Go to the Flickr page and see more photos!
As you can tell by the little calendar at the top of the sidebar to the right, I’ll be playing my songs at The Anchor Room here in Fort Wayne this Friday from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
I haven’t been writing very many songs lately, although I did get something called “Melancholy Days” done a bit ago … but now I’m completely unsatisfied with the third verse. So I’m sticking with what I’ve written already, and I’ll keep jotting ideas into my thick notebook of unfinished songs.
Hope to see you at the gig!
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