Revival on American Idol!?

While perusing through Dr. James White’s vlogs of the Jalal Abualrub debate, I inadvertently ran across a You Tube clip of American Idol’s rendition of “Shout to the Lord”. I don’t really watch (or care for) American Idol but was made privy to this performance by visiting Anglela Grow’s blog (To Live is Christ). In her brief observation, she was troubled, by what appeared to be, a superficial nod to Christ. I, too came to a similar  conclusion which was only reinforced when I saw the YouTube clip (shudders). What was more disturbing was the affirmational comments made by professing Christians.

Some heralded this performance as “spiritually moving”, “a work of God” and a host of other sentimentally ensconced declarations that shout (no pun intended) LACK OF DISCERMENT. These people seem to be basing their statements upon some emotional experience than on the  objective word of God. Am I being too critical or does the word of God give people like myself  Angela, and others who arrive at the same conclusion a reason to be skeptical? I believe it does…

After a lengthy conversation with a Samaritan woman in Sychar, the Lord rebukes the woman for her ignorance of the true God (John 4:22). She had false idealogical conceptions of the Messiah (and no real relationship to the God of Israel) yet with her sin and all (which the Lord does not bypass in the text) requests that Christ give her “living water”.  How does this tie in with my previous comments on American Idol? I wont pretend to look into the hearts of men but I’m willing to “bet” most (if not al) of those contestants are not Christians. The name American Idol should make any Christian recoil in disgust-do we seek to self-aggrandize through some popular medium to gain noteriety-wherein does Christ get the glory and does this not a violate the second commandment?

Well here is the You Tube video of the performance-you decide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is This Funny?

I was forwarded  an e-mail containing a  supposedly humorous joke involving God, Christ, and the Devil…After I read the punchline, I was anything but amused. Since it was forwarded to many, I think I will voice my opinion on the matter. Now, am I being sanctimonious and torqued over nothing or is this joke harmless, clean humor? It would appear to me to be borderline blasphemy if not blasphemous.  Here is what I was sent:

Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.  Finally fed up, God said, “THAT’S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.”  So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.  They moused.  They faxed.  They e-mailed.  They e-mailed with attachments.  They downloaded.  They did spreadsheets!  They wrote reports.  They created labels and cards.  They created charts and graphs.  They did some genealogy reports  They did every job known to man. Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.  Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off..  Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.  Jesus just sighed.  Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:  ”It’s gone! It’s all GONE! “I lost everything when the power went out!”  Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.  Satan observed this and became irate.  ”Wait!” he screamed “That’s not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don’t have any?”

 God just shrugged and said,  JESUS SAVES

(sighs) What do you guys think?