My dear alma mater, Univ of GA, doesn’t play their first game until tomorrow but already leads the SEC in one category…players arrested. How about that?
Our Atlanta zoo was missing one of their critters, a rattlesnake, but they didn’t tell partons or zoo neighbors because they had folks looking for it. After all, they explained, it’s nocturnal and probably slunk away to a dark corner of the non-public building where it was housed. The snake was found…by a 4 year-old kid…on his front porch…in the residential neighborhood near the zoo...and the kid got within 4 feet of the thing. The zoo people say that maybe they should have knocked on a few doors. Indeed. Preachers may wish for a good illustration about not sounding the alarm about sin. It could be deadly to some people.
SBC cliché watch: NAMB search committee chairman describing Kevin Ezell, nominee for NAMB CEO as, “God’s man.” So was the last guy…so was the guy before that…both of whom were dispatched by trustees. Let’s at least be creative, guys. I hate to say it and it ought not to be but that phrase is completely worn out.
Speaking of our NAMB nominee, who will be the first to use our wonderful new nomenclature, “Great Commission Giving,” when referring to his church’s giving, beside Plodder that is? And, will anyone object, preferring to “embrace and celebrate” such?
September has never been so welcome to Plodder, far too much heat and humidity. Global warming? Better candidate: age.
The SBC’s most read blogger, Wade Burleson, is back from his blogging hiatus and to get started his readers are treated to…well…a picture of his smiling self. Well, you look about the same as you did a few months ago, bro.
College football game to watch: Northwestern State vs Air Force. Last hear NWS was 0-11 and lost their two games against big time opponents by 48 and 53 points respectively. Oddsmakers are giving NWS and a staggering 48 points. Take the points. I think the NWS Demons will do better than expected. Never underestimate a demon, I say.
Have a nice weekend.
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I think South Carolina plays Georgia next week; and I'm sure in partial tribute to Gaffney's Sidney Rice will be victorious over the Dawgs.
Rice prophesied such an outcome when he danced all over the Hedges End Zones just a few years ago in his National Debut, on the way to becoming Brett Favre's darling Receiver last year.
I hope you and Wade Burleson will take up Andrew Murphy's illustricous blog earlier this week at www.religiondispatches.org
A Grand effort indeed.
Have invoked Marshall Frady's name in a discussion that ranges out to Nascar at SBC Voices in a thread about Ezell and Glenn Beck.
You may want to take alook as I linked your Ezell blog there.
Oh, as you know Winder, great piece this morning at ed.com on Billy Sunday etc by Colin Harris.
Now it's on to some good BBQ for lunch and the Andy Murray match this afternoon.
That's my Friday roundup.
Some of you may enjoy my thoughts up today at my blog, remembering my Grandfather and his Prayer Warrior Days in Rome Georgia.
William,
I thank you for saying you are praying for Kevin Ezell. I think I understand why you mention the use of "God's man" in your post. It is far to frequently used among preachers.
Yet, I do pray Ezell is God's man for the NAMB. That would be a good thing, I think.
Anyway, I join you in praying for Ezell and the NAMB. I think this is the first time I have ever commented on your blog. I trust it is OK with you?
Sure, CB. I'll have to be careful, though, because I know you don't put up with any nonsense. :)
William
Who has the inside track for prez of the IMB? Do you have any insights William on who it might be?
Agree with the comments about "God's Man" (also about the Air Force game...if one had bet Plodder yesterday...).
I'm convinced that successful church and denominational leaders operate in a "continuous now" where no real evaluation is possible. If Ezell doesn't work out (i.e. if the NAMB fails), will any of those currently saying "God's Man" handle questions about that phrase.
Although, since Ezell is currently the pastor of both Al Mohler and Russell Moore, I'm fairly confident that we're going to see a great deal of work to assist the NAMB, by other agencies, where ever possible.
My question is: why in the world would Ezell leave Highview for such a step down?
So my astute friend Jonathan's alma mater beat the demons by 44 points 65-21 and didn't cover the spread...not that I'm a betting man.
FBCJW, I have no inside info on much of anything. Who do you think I am, David Montoya or Wade Burleson? I'd guess that we will get more of the same with respect to the new leader's view of state conventions and the Cooperative Program.
William
The SBC’s most read blogger, Wade Burleson, is back from his blogging hiatus and to get started his readers are treated to…well…a picture of his smiling self. Well, you look about the same as you did a few months ago, bro.
It's not the first time. Am I the only one who finds this slightly pretentious?
The SBC’s most read blogger, Wade Burleson, is back from his blogging hiatus and to get started his readers are treated to…well…a picture of his smiling self. Well, you look about the same as you did a few months ago, bro.
It's not the first time. Am I the only one who finds this slightly pretentious?
Another insider, from an insider church, now at NAMB, and at that, a megachurch that hasn't been "cooperative" with the whole convention and played the rules to its own advantage. One of these days, the circle will be so narrow that they will run out of available, qualified people and start selecting warm bodies who know someone with influence.
I guess this selection means they already have.
Anonymous, WB and I get along just fine and have online over the years. The little square box was my attempt at a :), it didn't take. That should have taken any edge off.
I'm not sure if you are saying I am pretentious or he is. I think he is thick skinned enough to take a little ribbing.
William
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQxa4xYHmCI
Watch this video, complete with a segment on The Plodders US Congressman Broun
Think about it. Goldline and the SBC's ERLC Richard Land.
Serious business.
Read a few chapters of Will Bunch's book on Beck and the Tea Party, the Backlash.
William: ... as, “God’s man.” So was the last guy…so was the guy before that…both of whom were dispatched by trustees. [...] that phrase is completely worn out.
Norm: At heart is the notion of certitude and that we experience such in things related to God; that is, at heart is the notion of, as McGregor would suggest, the credibility of stating, “I know” as opposed to “I believe.” Was it plausible that “A” was God’s man? If not, then “A” should not have been hired in the first place, which is the argument of some, but for reasons that I think may be unacceptable. That “A” eventually did not achieve or may have worked intentionally to counter agency goals is not sufficient evidence to suggest he was not God’s man, but it does point to our ability and will to thwart what God may intend for others and us. To the point of hiring and after organizational entry to some point, “A” was likely God’s man, as such is understood in SBC; but given one’s autonomy and ability to resist the lure of God, if “A” makes a sufficient number of decisions that are contrary to the needs of the organization and the people it represents, “A” may no longer have the blessing of God in said role. Such does not negate the importance of his role and God’s blessing at an earlier time, but it does point to the need for us to ask God daily for guidance and steadfastness to act accordingly to said guidance so that we may maintain God’s blessings for the activities we engage. Let us pray for our leaders that they will continue to find favor with God. That we would, too.
Norm (Continued): Do we not also to a greater degree share responsibility for the failure of others if we, ourselves, have not been faithful? We cannot know, but we can believe, even if our belief sometimes has a “nevertheless” quality, as my mother (not cognizant of the formal categories of a philosopher like McGregor, but the experience of such categories, nonetheless) has stated; and absent a reason not to believe in a certain way, we are committed to follow said understandings with heart, soul, and mind. Committing to belief instead of deluding ourselves with certitude, we are open to the searches of God and the leading of God’s spirit.
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