The OOC

Sunday sermon (Matthew 3:13-17)

Why did Jesus, who knew no sin, need to be baptized?

Movies@Milligan House resumes this coming Friday (Feb. 3) when we watch and discuss Memento, the 2000 thriller about a man with short-term memory loss who tries to solve a murder.

Rated: R for violence, language and some drug content.
Runtime: 113 min

Links for more:

• IMDB
• Rotten Tomatoes
• Ransom Fellowship
• James Bowman

Apparently, the courts now even have the power to determine who should live.
I really don’t know what more to add. I’m pretty much dumbfounded.

With last Sunday’s sermon, Old Orchard Church has begun podcasting. Look for it on iTunes or wherever you download your podcasts.

The RSS feed is:

http://www.oldorchardchurch.org/podcasts/ooc-podcasts.xml

If you have any ideas for improvement, please reply in this space, or contact Nate or me. Enjoy!

“Sanctity of Life” Sunday sermon (Genesis 1:24-31)

What do 21st-century cultures have in common with the Kings and Queens in the recent St. Louis Art Museum exhibit, “Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur”?

• the garage-door effect: visitors who crane around to see just what the heck’s happening behind them as the service begins

Brokeback Mountain

• Thomas Hibbs

Munich

• Mona Charen
• Jonah Goldberg
• Bret Stephens

I haven’t read the book (yet?), but here’s a review from the Wall Street Journal of My Fundamentalist Education:

Christine Rosen’s complaints about Christian fundamentalism are mainly aesthetic ones.

Anyone read or heard about this one? Be forewarned: Amazon’s “customers who bought this book also bought” list includes:

• Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman
• From Jesus to Christianity : How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith by L. Michael White
• The Sins of Scripture : Exposing the Bible’s Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love by John Shelby Spong
• Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel
• The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney

Not exactly people who are open-minded about Christianity and Christians…