SEC Coaches Meet South Park

Here is a pretty good South Park version of all of the SEC coaches. Don't worry. Some good, theological stuff is coming up. Just indulge me a little bit.

Gameday A Little Early

Alabama is playing Ole Miss this weekend so I wanted to share one of the all-time greatest commercials ever. The star is Ole Miss Head Coach Ed Orgeron.

Compare and Contrast

I pulled this interview of Dallas Willard off titusonenine this morning. Then, the Advent (via webite superman Charles Gaston) sent me a quote from 19th century Anglican Bishop J.C. Ryle. See if you can reconcile the two. I cannot.

Enter Professor Dallas Willard, a kind and thoughtful Christian philosopher who has been teaching at the University of Southern California for the past forty years. Professor Willard is a breath of fresh air to students passing through USC as he encourages rigorous thinking, and honest reflection about the worldviews that color the bulk of what goes on in the classroom today. tothesource asked Julia Thompson, a student who has taken several of Professor Willard's courses, to interview him the day before this year's graduation on May 13.

tothesource: Tomorrow is graduation here at USC and I imagine you've been to your share of ceremonies and heard lots of commencement speakers! You've often said that character and morality are not considered to be valid parts of a university education so it seems curious that, upon graduation, we students hear a lot of speeches and comments urging us to go on to live "good lives" as "good people" and "good citizens" now that we are equipped with college degrees. What sense can we make of this?

Dallas Willard: Two things. Number one the issue of being good people leading good lives is so important that it cannot be ignored. When it comes time to address students at commencement even those who claim that they do not believe in moral instruction, or passing down values through education, cannot help but address the importance of being good people and leading good lives. Read the whole thing here.

Here is the quote from J.C. Ryle:

"Substitute anything for Christ and the gospel is totally spoiled. You have only to push something between Christ and the eye of the soul, to draw away the sinner’s attention from the Saviour, and the mischief is done."

- J.C. Ryle, Bp. of Liverpool, Knots Untied, p. 16

Gameday!

Here is a great video for gameday!

And another!

Paul Tillich Quote

"The state of our whole life is estrangement from others and ourselves, because we are estranged from the Ground of our being'; 'We always remain in the power of that from which we are estranged. That fact brings us to the ultimate depth of sin: separated and yet bound, estranged and yet belonging, destroyed and yet preserved, the state which is called despair'; 'Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life.'"

- Paul Tillich

This is an amazing quote.- DOB