The big game is tomorrow, and I am eagerly anticipating the opportunity to see LSU put a shellacking on Ohio State. The road to this championship was less than orthodox for the Tigers, and ESPN’s Pat Forde describes the drama this way.
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2008 NFL Playoff Bracket [UPDATE]
Wildcard weekend is over, so I have updated the playoff brackets that I posted last week. Here they are. 2008 NFL Playoff Bracket (WORD) 2008 NFL Playoff Bracket (PDF) The Cowboys are scheduled to put a licking on the Giants next week. You can also follow these brackets here.
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An Unscientific Postscript on the Iowa Caucuses
The Iowa caucuses are over, and Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee are the winners. A couple of items are worthy of note after tonight’s results. First, Obama emerges as the first viable African American candidate for President in the history of the United States. At least he seems viable, and that’s a big deal. Second, Huckabee, who was outspent 20 to 1 by Mitt Romney, came out of no-wheres-ville and is now a front-runner for the Republican nomination. (I’m wishing I would have taken the trouble to shake his hand when I saw him last summer and snapped this picture.)
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2008 NFL Playoff Bracket
The NFL playoffs are upon us once again, and I will be pulling for the Cowboys (big surprise). As a public service to you, I am posting a playoff bracket that you can use to follow the games if you are so inclined. Here it is in both WORD and PDF formats. 2008 NFL Playoff Bracket (WORD) 2008 NFL Playoff Bracket (PDF) One more thing, here’s the official Superbowl XLII website: www.nfl.com/superbowl.
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Iowa Caucuses: Do You Remember the Last Time?
Today the Iowa caucuses will be meeting to choose their nominees for president. There have been many predictions as to who will come out on top. I don’t think any of the ones doing the predicting have any clue about what will really happen. I remember that four years ago, many of the prognosticators saw Howard Dean as the inevitable winner of the Democrat caucuses in Iowa. Boy were they wrong. After finishing a disappointing third place, Dean put an exclamation point on his defeat with a rare display of . . . Hmm. . . Shall we say, jubilance?
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Hypocrisy in the Anglican Communion?
According to the Associated Press, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., Katharine Jefferts Schori, says that the only difference between gay clergy in the American church and those in other churches in the world is that the Americans are now open about it. Speaking of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Bishop to be elected in the Episcopal church, she says this: “He is certainly not alone in being a gay bishop; he’s certainly not alone in being a gay partnered bishop. He is alone in being the only gay partnered bishop who’s open about that status.”
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Dr. Mohler To Be Nominated for President of SBC
The Southern Baptist Texan reports that my pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress will nominate Dr. R. Albert Mohler this summer for the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time will know that I receive this news as a very positive development for our denomination. I have a great love and respect for Dr. Mohler, and I can’t imagine a better candidate for SBC President. More later. (HT: Justin Taylor, Henry Institute)
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Normalizing Same-Sex “Marriage†through Divorce
The Washington Post has a disturbing article about the legal challenges facing same-sex couples who were married in Massachusetts but are now seeking divorces in other states. The basic quandary is this. Whereas states have laws providing for the division of assets, custody of children, payment of alimony, etc., states that do not recognize same-sex unions have no legal provisions for the dissolution of same-sex “marriages.” A case in point appears in the first paragraph.
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Lessons from the Martyrs at the New Year
On Sunday, the Associated Press ran a story about Christians in India who are fleeing from persecution at the hands of Hindu nationalists. The article mentions briefly an incident that occurred in India about 8 years ago: “In 1999, an Australian missionary and his two sons, aged 8 and 10, were burned to death in their car in Orissa following a Bible study class.” This line appears in the story to provide background to the current Hindu persecution of Christians in India. But I remember when I first heard about this story, and there is much more to what happened than is indicated in the AP article.
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What Evangelism Isn’t
An excerpt from Pastor Mark Dever’s new book on evangelism appears today in Christianity Today online. You can read the excerpt here. You can order the book here. In the excerpt, Dever says this: “Who can deny that much modern evangelism has become emotionally manipulative, seeking simply to cause a momentary decision of the sinner’s will, yet neglecting the biblical idea that conversion is the result of the supernatural, gracious act of God toward the sinner?