Virgin America Safety Video

For those of you who find the stewardesses who try to explain how to buckle a seat-belt yawningly boring, this video is for you! Check out the nun with the laptop at the end. Hilarious!

Futuristic Technology from 1967

This is a real video from 1967. This was their vision of 1999. Check out the flat panel monitors, purchasing online concept, and email! I verified it on Snopes.com.

Will the Church Really Prevail?

"The principle problem here is not the fact that evangelicals adopted Calvinism and consequently lost their zeal for evangelism, but rather that postmillennial Calvinists abandoned their postmillennialism and consequently lost their conviction that the gospel would go forth into the world, conquering and to conquer" -Douglas Wilson (Mother Kirk)

Healthy Toy Alternative- ESV Children's Bible

With so many unhealthy toys out there imported from foreign countries that have less than perfect standards when it comes to that little element called lead, why not give your child A wonderfully safe gift this Advent season? The (click here) ESV Children's Bible is on sale at Westminster Bookstore for $14.94. (by the way, that's 40% off of retail!)

There are over 200 color illustrations and the cover can be safely chewed upon. We know the Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, but this one has no lead!

"How sweet are your words to my taste,sweeter than honey to my mouth!" Psalm 119:103

Who Was It?

Who was the guy in the picture with the grey suit?

It was my dad, Dennis Griffith, circa 1972.

D. W. Griffith, born in 1948 now lives at large, in the greater Mount Airy, NC area.

Some say he bears a striking likeness to the guy who played the father on the hit 90's TV show The Wonder Years. Do you see a resemblance?

Huckabee on Immigration

"Securing our borders must be our top priority and has reached the level of a national emergency." -Mike Huckabee

Is it possible to not like a guy who plays the bass guitar?

If She Were an Angel- A Parable

Once there was a little girl who could hardly wait for Christmas. It was honestly all she could think about. Now there was nothing wrong with this, of course, because all of us should be thinking about the Lord’s appearance as one of us. All of us should remember the Lord’s Incarnation, the Lord becoming a member of His covenant people. All of us should be excited about the prospect, yet again, of living in the midst of a people who are celebrating something they don’t quite understand, but who are celebrating it in a way that makes it easy for us to talk to them about it.

At any rate, this little girl was excited about Christmas for all the wrong reasons. She was sick of school, and wanted vacation to start so she could lie around the house all day and fuss about helping her mother. She wanted to eat a lot of fudge. She wanted to open her glorious presents in her mind a thousand times before Christmas day. Her obligation to give presents to others was a necessary nuisance to the whole business, and so she scarcely thought at all about what she would give the others in her family. There were always the old stand-bys—a necktie for dad, cheap perfume for mom. In short, she was very selfish little girl, and though she was celebrating Christmas, she was holding it upside down and backwards.

And then one night, right near the beginning of Advent, she had a terrible dream. Actually, it was a wonderful dream, but she certainly thought it was a terrible dream. In her dream she saw her parents sitting in front of a desk, like they were getting counseling or something, but behind the desk was an angel. And he wasn’t a happy-looking angel either, but had rather a severe look on his face. He was pushing a collection of papers across the desk, and he said, "I am afraid that you have been spoiling your child. Some in the heavenly office here have gone so far as to say you have been spoiling your child rotten. These papers show exactly what your daughter’s attitude toward everyone else at Christmas is. Pretty grim reading, I can tell you that. Now here are your instructions—we want you to treat her in just the same way. It is all in there. Exactly the same way . . . Got that?"

Her parents had an awful look on their faces, a look the daughter knew very well. They did not want to do this at all. She recognized the look—that’s how she could play them so well. But this time it was different; an angel who looked like a drill sergeant was telling them to get her a cheap tie for Christmas.

So of course she woke up in a panic. She was very quiet at breakfast, and her mother even asked her if something was wrong. But nothing was wrong; she was just thinking hard about it. And as she thought, and as she thought some more, she gradually came to realize that a real angel would never tell her parents to do anything like that. That’s only how she would talk if she were an angel, and for the first time in her life she realized how awful it was.

by Douglas Wilson (from Blog and Mablog)

The Church- By Edmund P. Clowney

In his book The Church, Edmund Clowney examines various aspects of and defines what it means to be "the Body of Christ." Clowney is a seasoned theologian and knows his stuff when it comes to writing about this subject. In this book he talks about what it means to be a part of the holy, catholic church. He examines the marks of the true chruch. He looks at the mission of the church in the world. He takes on Wayne Grudem in his examination of the prophetic movement. He also gives a good critique and counterview of the charismatic movement.

Overall the book was good. I love the subject matter, but I found Clowney's style of writing to be a little long winded. I kept looking forward to the end. Again, not because of the subject matter, but because of the writing style. I give it 4 stars out of 5.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town- Springsteen

I really do not believe he is, but hey, I like the song nonetheless. The saxaphone solo in this song is one of the best!

Extreme Skydiving

Okay, I'm ready! When do we go?