From the site: “I am Second is a movement where signficance in life is shared.”
The website features a collection of videos featuring well-known people, like former US Presidential Candidate Muck Huckabee, Brian Welch from Korn and The Biggest Loser’s Michelle Aguilar, but also regular people from the cities and suburbs of the USA. These people have struggled with a variety of issues; abuse, affluence, addiction, trauma, racism, war and more.
In extremely well-produced video clips, (darkened room, sitting on a couch, a post-modern piece to camera) they share their struggles, their disappointments and ultimately, the hope found in Jesus as he met them in the various situations of their lives.
Well worth a visit, and also great to recommend to friends struggling with all kinds of issues.
If you’re interested in church planting, you’re quite possibly aware that the Church Planting Center at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York has launched a blog.
The RCPC Blog, currently labelled as “beta,” is home to reflections from Tim Keller, Scott Sauls and others from the Redeemer staff team as well as members of their church planting network.
In one of Keller’s first blog posts, maybe even his first, he brings John Frame’s tri-perspectivalism to bear as a tool for analysing the phenomenon that is Willow Creek Church. (Incidentally, I have Frame’s The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, sitting on my desk which I’ve started reading about 5 times and never managed to quite get through it!) It’s an interesting read, although I think that viewing tri-perspectivalism as the silver bullet with which to harmonise the various threads of broad evangelicalism is probably misguided. That said, I don’t think Keller is saying it is the silver bullet, but others around the blogosphere seem to.
I love Facebook.
I love Twitter.
I love Facebook and Twitter on my iPhone no matter where I am in the world (almost)!
But I’m a little worried. To tell you the truth, I’m a lot worried. I’m worried about what’s going to happen to a whole generation of young people when Facebook catches up with them. If you’re under 20, you’re a member of the iGeneration, who along with us GenXers, could also be called the Facebook Generation.
If you use Facebook, I wonder how much thought you’ve given to what impact the information you post on your profile and on other people’s walls will have on you later in life. Remember last week when Facebook asked you “What’s on your mind?” and you wrote that funny comment (or so it seemed at the time)? Just because that comment has slipped off the bottom of your wall, doesn’t mean that it’s gone forever. In fact, it almost certainly hasn’t. Think also of your comments on other people’s walls or photos; even if you close your Facebook account and formally request Facebook to delete your page, these comments will remain, since they are information that you have “shared with third parties.”
In one of Keller’s first blog posts, maybe even his first, he brings John Frame’s tri-perspectivalism to bear as a tool for analysing the phenomenon that is Willow Creek Church. (Incidentally, I have Frame’s The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God, sitting on my desk which I’ve started reading about 5 times and never managed to quite get through it!) It’s an interesting read, although I think that viewing tri-perspectivalism as the silver bullet with which to harmonise the various threads of broad evangelicalism is probably misguided. That said, I don’t think Keller is saying it is the silver bullet, but others around the blogosphere seem to.