I’m about to sign off the internet for a while and celebrate with my wife and family. Merry Christmas to all. I hope you have a truly wonderful evening and day.

From here:

The whore church that has no heart for holiness, that would rather sponsor dance contests than prayer meetings, that makes like Belshazzar’s Feast with the champagne flowing and voluptuous partying, instead of seeking God’s help to walk rightly in increasingly bleak times, is not the Bride of Christ.

The whore church? A comparison to Belshazzar? An accusation of “voluptuous partying”, and also a quick peek into the book of life to let us know that Mars Hill Church isn’t actually part of the church.

I guess we can add another name to the list of names I’ve called Ingrid: hypocrite.
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The logic in this piece is somewhat crazy.  For years and years, Jews and Muslims have been at odds with one another, shedding countless amounts of blood over religious differences.  There is now a small contingent from both parties that are looking to make peace with one another, in an effort to show the world that there is no need for violence between the two groups.  Of course, the world is not right with the ODMs if someone is not killing someone else over religious differences.  Ken Silva, the general editor of this piece, truly believes that people with different beliefs cannot co-exist without, at minimum, a website dedicated to bashing your opposition. The short piece opens with this

*singing* “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…” The emerging church of the coming Global Family slithers on.

I am trying to figure out how two religious groups trying to end long-term violence is connected with the emerging church– or even how that is a bad thing.  If the grand finale of age-old blood shed is linked to the emerging church, then count me in!  Of course, Ken had to generally edit this ending to the piece…

Somewhere we know B-Mac is smiling.

and of course, they added the music video video from McLaren’s new album.  Nevermind that McLaren had nothing to do with this piece at all.  Oh well… such is the logic of the ODMs