The people at Pyromaniacs recently published a set of spoof posters titled, Emergent-See Po-Motivational Posters for Emerging Christians: the All-New Motivational Posters for the Emerging Church Conversation Chaos. When I first heard about them I thought, “Oh, these are gonna be good.” So I started reading—I laughed; I chuckled; I became quiet; my heart began sinking; I wept.

While aimed squarely at the emergent church movement, there is really nothing “all-new” about the lies being lampooned here. It has been said that good satire always contains an element of truth, one of which is that the stuff that is satirized in these “motivational” posters is the stuff of ministry—yes, even ministry in the church. I have conversations with the folks in the posters on a regular basis (and you can put my picture in the one above, too). The deceits of the devil are indeed subtle and pervasive—and fatal.

For the second year in a row, Rob (lifeon8thstreet.com) was the winner of Transformatum’s 2008 NCAA men’s basketball pool. As the only entrant who picked Kansas to win it all, Rob receives a pound of House Blend whole bean coffee from Intelligentsia Coffee.

A while ago (Jan. ‘07) I created a Top 25 Most Played playlist in iTunes with the intent of posting it at year end. Unfortunately, Christmas ruined it. Out of the 3,442 songs on my iPod there were only two (2) non-holiday tracks that cracked the top twenty-five: Saul Williams’/Trent Reznor’s excellent cover of U2’s ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and Interpol’s ‘Rest My Chemistry’ from their latest album, Our Love to Admire. (more…)