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Why do we constantly have to prove our Christianity to each other?
I mean seriously. How many times have I gotten an e-mail that says, “If you love Jesus you’ll send this e-mail to X number of people”?
Let’s show them we love Jesus by filling their inbox with junk.
Now there’s a blog entry going around on Myspace and other places that says basically the same thing, but asks people to post a message on their blog or bulletin board saying they love Jesus.
Last night a woman went on a rampage a city council because she was a Christian, the council members are Christians, she knows what church they go to, and Waxahachie was founded on Christian morality, yet the council was going to vote to approve a liquor license at the civic center.
She was on a righteous mandate from God suddenly.
You know who else was on a righteous mandate from God? The people involved in the Salem witchtrials. They were God’s judge and executioner.
Does a righteous indignation some how make us closer to God?
What do you think?

I have a confession to make — I’ve been bitten by the Myspace.com bug.
I’m not sure how I let it happen, but I let my guard down one night and then “Bam!” just like cooties I was overwhelmed.
I’ve avoided the online networking service for the past year, telling myself I was too good for it.
I kept telling myself I already had a blog, or online journal, and I didn’t need another thing to waste my time.
But then one night, shortly after Christmas, I visited a friend’s online profile and decided I was tired of being “out of the loop.”
My friends were joining the service, that boasts itself as “a place for friends,” daily and I was being left out.
I usually like to be on the front lines of things and suddenly I found myself following the growing numbers of people who log in daily to share journals, pictures, music and information.
But who needs Myspace? After all I was one of the first ones in my group of friends to get a “real blog” on blogger.com. Why couldn’t they just join my world instead of me joining theres?
So while I had vowed to avoid the Myspace community for so long, I now find myself checking the site almost hourly to be sure I haven’t missed someone wanting to be my friend, or a comment posted by “I’ll take the glazed with chocolate covering,” a Lancaster cop I met recently at Café Brazil in Dallas (yes, that is the name posted on her online profile).
Sure Myspace sends e-mail updates to alert me when one of my friends have added comments or messages, but if I’m lucky, I can beat my e-mail server and find comments and messages sooner than my e-mail client can notify me.
And if I’m lucky I may get to read a journal entry from my buddy Brandon, who lives in Ohio and apparently hasn’t updated his journal since September 25, 1992.
Since joining Myspace after Christmas I’ve accumulated 26 different friends — something Brandon says somehow validates our existence in the online world.
Most of my friends are from college but some are from my high school alma mater, and others have simply contacted me through networking groups, designed to join people with similar interests.
The site is almost like a large “Six steps to Kevin Bacon.”
Your list of friends and network expands as you add more friends to your profile.
I’m roommates with “Mattchew”, who’s brothers with “All Things New”, who’s friends with Christian artists Michelle Tumes and Rebecca St. James, which makes me friends with Michelle Tumes and Rebecca St. James.
If I’m lucky, one of my friends will give me true validation and put me on their list of Top 8 friends, showing people I really do exist.
Many are suggesting that an alternative community is developing within the boundaries of Myspace.
With over 46-million users it is one of top 10 English websites in the world.
The site and service was first founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson, the current president and Chris DeWolfe, the current CEO.
In July 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, parent company of Fox Broadcasting, paid $580-million to buy out IntermixMedia, the former owners of the site.
With so much attention given to the online community, companies and celebrities are quickly jumping on board.
Madonna, Green Day and other artists have their own profiles in the online community that are typically maintained by publicists or record labels, but are many times maintained by the artists themselves.
There’s even a growing number of politicians joining the community. Politicians wanting to gain as much exposure as possible are joining up and marketing their thoughts and campaigns to the growing number of users.
The online Republican group has 27,100 members to date and the online Democratic group has 31382 members.
Victoria Bernal a community building associate with the Benton Foundation writes “creating a successful online community is one of the most sought after and elusive goals in a Web strategy.”
Bernal said huge sums of money are spent to perfect online strategies to build community, customer relationships and loyal customers.
In the non-profit community, clients, grantees and citizens take the roll of customer.
“The (non-profits) stakes are higher because usually the nonprofit’s goal is to sell not a product, but a mission,” said Bernal. “In this context, an online community can be a powerful tool to bring constituents together to share their concern for an issue.”
Nonprofits can use online communities to increase visibility about an issue of concern, mobilize concerned citizens to advocate a political support fundraising efforts by connecting donors and members, announce current events to the public and to recruit volunteers for the organization.
Many credit Howard Dean’s early success in the 2004 Presidential Elections, with his ability to join people online behind his cause.
But while Myspace works to improve community and networking, parents need to remember that the information their 14-year-old posts on their profile is available to all 46-million users with very little effort.
Parents need to keep a constant watch on what information their children are posting online. Start your own profile and join your child’s network of friends. Don’t let them navigate online alone.
Well, that’s it for this week, I believe “Dr Rosenrosen” has just updated his online journal. If I hurry I can be the first to comment on it.

Got this from a Lancaster cop:

The following 15 Police Comments were taken from actual police car videos around the country.
#15. “Relax, the handcuffs are tight because they’re new. They’ll stretch out after you wear them awhile.”
#14. “Take your hands off the car, and I’ll make your birth certificate a worthless document.”
#13. “If you run, you’ll only go to jail tired.”
#12. “Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? In case you didn’t know, that is the average speed of a 9 mm bullet fired from my gun.”
#11. “So you don’t know how fast you were going. I guess that means I can write anything I want on the ticket, huh?”
#10. “Yes, sir, you can talk to the shift supervisor, but I don’t think it will help. Oh, did I mention that I am the shift supervisor?
#9. “Warning? You want a warning? O. K., I’m warning you not to do that again or I’ll give you another ticket.”
#8. “The answer to this last question will determine whether you are drunk or not: Is Mickey Mouse a cat or a dog?”
#7. “Fair? You want me to be fair? Listen, fair is a place where you go to ride on rides, eat cotton candy, and step in donkey crap.”
#6. “Yeah, we have a quota. Two more tickets and my wife gets a toaster oven.”
#5. “No, sir, we don’t have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we’re allowed to write as many tickets as we want.”
#4. “Just how big were those two beers?”
#3. “In God we trust, all others we run through NCIC.”
#2. “I’m glad to hear the Chief of Police is a good personal friend of yours. At least you know someone who can post your bail.”
#1 “You didn’t think we give pretty women tickets? You’re right, we don’t. Sign here.”

Why would people want to read books about The Book, when they can read The Book?

For those of you in the D/FW area, Mattchew, Brandon Mc and I plan to make a visit to Cafe Brazil on Central tonight.
I don’t think we’re calling anyone for invites, but if you’re interested in joining us, you can call us.
Maybe we’re just lazy for not calling, but oh well. We’re leaving the invite open to you.

“Someone’s out there selling Who Would Jesus Nominate? t-shirts.”
– Josh Lyman
West Wing