“If Picard and MacGyver teamed up, they could defeat any evil in the world.”

- Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office)

True. That’s so true. If only this could happen.

“We Christians, kind of, tend to align ourselves with Christ by the things we do and our actions. I don’t ever think of aligning ourselves with Christ in being an outcast… “

- This American Life

“Kmart has started selling sweatpants that promote chastity that have the words ‘True Love Waits‘ written on them. The real reason they work is because no one wants to have sex with anyone who wears sweatpants from Kmart.” - Conan O’Brien

Now, I’m an advocate of waiting to have sex before marriage, but the necessity to wear it on a t shirt or sweatpants is ridiculous! Why not just have shorts that says “I don’t’ put out” across the butt - oh wait, they’re already selling shorts with a message across the butt. There’s two things (amongst many) that are wrong with this:

1) Do we need to teach teens to wear their sexuality on a shirt? The purpose of True Love Waits is to teach teens that sex is a sacred act meant for the confines of marriage. So if it’s sacred, should we be wearing it on a t shirt or on a bumper sticker? I cheapens it. It makes it seem as cheap and common, as well, premarital sex.

2) Why they heck are people making a profit out of it?!? Is selling this about getting a message out or making a buck? As many times what starts with a good idea ends up commercialized and wrong.

Those are just my thoughts… what are yours?

It’s Friday. I’m brain dead. Here’s some good food for thought. A little Oswald Chambers. He’s like the Barry White of devotionals. Enjoy baby.

Always measure your life solely by the standards of Jesus. Submit yourself to His yoke, and His alone; and always be careful never to place a yoke on others that is not of Jesus Christ. It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong. That is never God’s view. There is only one true liberty— the liberty of Jesus at work in our conscience enabling us to do what is right.

Don’t get impatient with others. Remember how God dealt with you— with patience and with gentleness. But never water down the truth of God. Let it have its way and never apologize for it. Jesus said, “Go . . . and make disciples. . .” ( Matthew 28:19 ), not, “Make converts to your own thoughts and opinions.”

“What more can be said, what greater case could be made than this: to find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear His voice, you must listen with all your heart. To love Him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life you were meant to live, unless you live from the heart.”

John Eldredge - Waking the Dead