From here*:

Another heathen is seemingly endorsed, Hansen says. And this man was known for being a liar, keeping a “kinda skanky” mistress, and drowning in his bath. “Uh, gee: You think alcohol was involved in that?” Hansen asks.

“Dude was hardly a Christian, and espoused things that were antithetical to Christianity, and here we’ve got this respected Christian leader-writer dude, referring to him, without rejecting all the bad stuff the guy believed and did.”

The leader in question, Hansen says, changed his name from “Saul” to “Paul” well before quoting the pagan writers, three in all. Hansen says he’s actually “More than okay with what Paul did,” but notes not all may approve.

*No, I am not Brant writing in disguise. Nor am I stalker (well he is in my RSS feed, so that is kind of stalkerish, just socially acceptable stalking). As to why I’ve posted him multiple times, well, its just good stuff. Except that one thing he did. But we don’t mention that anymore.

Well, one of my daughter’s papers came home yesterday with a jack-o-lantern on it, which made me realize that October is upon it, and it is almost the season for ODM’s to start howling about Halloween and castigating Christians who dare to allow their children to trick-or-treat.

So, in advance of the festivities, I though perhaps we could have a little contest to see which of our astute readers can guess the number of articles from the following ODM sites reference the “evils” of Halloween during the month of October:

• CR?N
• AM
• Old “Truth”
• TeamPyro
• SoL 3.0

In scoring, an article only counts once, even if it is posted on two or more of the above sites. Additionally, only your first guess counts, and the earliest correct guess will win. If there is somehow a tie, it will be broken with the following tie-breaker question – of the articles which address Halloween, how many will attempt to tie the ECM into the same article?

The winner of this contest will be able to submit to me an article for guest publication on CRN.info whose only qualification is that it must meet publishing standards (no coarse language, overt blasphemy, etc.). If the winner is one of the writers at CRN, he or she may pass the prize to a designee of their choice…

Normally, I don’t link to specific sermons I listen to online, but I’m going to make an exception today. The verse we quote in our masthead, Matthew 23:23, and it is at the center of the Mars Hill Bible Church sermon this past week. You can listen to it below for the next 12 weeks…

Grace and peace,

Chris

 

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