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that’s a lie

a long time ago i taught adam and noah to always remember that commercials are trying to sell you something. part of what i taught them was to shout at commercials “that’s a lie” when you see an obvious commercial claim concerning something that can’t be true. we don’t do it all the time because not ever commercial is blatantly lying. yet when we see a commercial that makes claims of purpose and meaning coming from the consumption of a product you will often hear someone in the terrell house shout “THAT’S A LIFE!”. the above hersey’s chocolate commercial is an example of one of the commercials we would shout at.

first, let me say that i am a huge fan of hersey’s chocolate. i love me a hersey’s bar with almonds. mhmmm. yet this commercial is a complete lie. what are hersey’s bars made of? apparently pure togetherness and  friendship that spans the world of skinny people. come on!?!?!?!? have you ever had anybody call you and say “hey, i’m going to go grab a hersey’s bar, would you like to come along?” i doubt it.

i hate it when commercials make claims about metaneeds. it’s just a candy bar folks.

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sunday! sunday! sunday!

just a little reminder that tapestry will get together at the terrell house sunday night for the superbowl.

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a compliment i’m thankful for

fry kong

i’ll explain the above photo in a second – it has nothing to do with what i am about to post.

we regularly have guests at tapestry and i have the privilege of taking many of them out for coffee and conversation. i get to learn about their pasts and presents and find out about what types of experiences they have had with faith and church. today i had the opportunity to grab coffee with one of those guests. while talking with him he stated that he had always felt nervous when he went to a church service but that had not been true for the two times he had come to tapestry. for the first time in his life he was not nervous at a church gathering. that’s a compliment i was proud to receive on behalf of the group.

SIDE NOTE – i was cooking french fries tonight when i ran across this monster of a fry. as you can tell from their looks the basset hounds were rightly impressed.

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70s chase scenes

the 70s had some of the best car chase scenes ever and i love car chase scenes. the above scene is from the movie bullitt (probably the greatest chase scene ever involving cars). neatorama linked to a page that details the author’s view of the best chase scenes from 70s movies. it’s not a bad list.

bullit doesn’t make the list because it was made in 1968 but it is such an amazing chase scene.

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pam – the impressive wife

pam

thoses of you who know pam know that i definitely married above myself. she’s smart, cute, and GODly. i’m proud to belong to her. i thought i would share with you guys and girls that read this little blog of mine that earlier today pam left for an operation smile project in nicaragua. she has been on several operation smile projects before and wasn’t planning on going on this one but the speech pathologist that was going on the trip broke one of her legs. this means the project was short a speech pathologist, a very important part of the team when dealing with cleft palate repair.

if there’s something weird and it don’t look good, who you gonna call? pam terrell apparently 🙂

anyhow, on her first operation smile trip pam kept everyone updated concerning how the project was going via a blog. she’s decided to do it again which means you can follow her adventure by going here. i’m pretty much always proud of her.

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sometimes the best protest is laughter

We Have Signs

westboro baptist church is an infected pimple on the name of CHRIST. they are awful and in my opinion embarrass JESUS by claiming to be followers of HIS while joyfully spreading hate all over the place.

anyhow i read this article concerning an interesting counter protest in regards to a westboro protest that was happening in front of the twitter office. the counter protest was a series of absurd signs that helped point out the stupidity of the westboro signs.

here’s the article.

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the week in tweets – 2010-01-30

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attractional & incarnational approaches

i’m almost finished with the tangible kingdom by hugh halter and matt smay and i’ve enjoyed it thus far. i may be enjoying it more because the book was recommended to me from two different people who said they were reminded of tapestry while they were reading it (thanks john & trey). the more i read of the book the more thankful i am that people think we are doing something similar. it’s a nice compliment.
 
i’m not going to write much about the book until i finish it but i thought i would go ahead and point out the differences that halter and smay and see between attractional and incarnational evangelism.
 
here’s the table they have in the book:
 
attractional approach incarnational approach
unbeliever is invited to church sojourner is invited to belong
unbeliever confesses belief sojourner confesses interest
unbeliever repeats a prayer sojourner experiences the good news
believer joins a church sojourner participates in community
cognitive discipleship experiential apprenticeship
focus: counting confessions focus: transformation
believing enables belonging belonging enables believing

i think their lists are pretty accurate. i much prefer the incarnational model, especially the idea of apprenticeship. we need let people try on faith to determine if they really believe or not.

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economics battle rap


this is a battle rap produced by planet money explaining the two divergent economic models of hayek versus keynes. in my opinion it’s a great summary. now battle wisely.