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FULL MOVIE: "Jonah- A VeggieTales Movie"

carlbarnhill — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

MOVIE TRAILER: Paul Blart Mall Cop

carlbarnhill — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

SNL Classics: Hans & Franz

carlbarnhill — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:50:00 +0000

MOVIE TRAILER: Terminator Salvation

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TERMINATOR: Salvation
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carlbarnhill — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:43:00 +0000

Rick Warren’s Inaugural Prayer

carlbarnhill — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Pastor Rick Warren Prays ‘In Jesus Name’ and Then Some
by Lauren Green of the Fox Forum
View Original Post: CLICK HERE

Pastor Rick Warren’s invocation was probably the most Christian prayer delivered in recent inaugural history. Not only did he pray in Jesus name, but he then recited “The Lord’s Prayer”, the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples.

The one thing this certainly shows is that Pastor Warren does not shrink from conflict or controversy. He had been blasted by liberals over his rejection of gay marriage and support for California’s Proposition 8. And President Barack Obama was heavily criticized for asking Warren to give the invocation.

Pastor Warren declined all interviews before the inauguration saying there were too many requests to accomodate them, and said that his prayer would speak for itself. And did it ever.

That President Obama even chose Pastor Warren, shows a willingness, in my opinion, to make faith a centerpiece of his administration. And here’s why. Anyone who has spent five minutes with Pastor Warren knows that he is passionate about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the “great commission” of spreading that gospel through out the world.

And by “spreading” it that means living it as well as preaching it. Every prayer I’ve heard him offer always ends in homage to the founder of Christianity, Jesus Christ.

Linda Douglass, spokesperson for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, said that none of the clergy involved in any of the inaugural events were told what the content of their prays should or should not be. They were never asked to water down the religion or make the prayers more generic or ecumenical. So it couldn’t have been a surprise that Pastor Warren would be forthcoming and direct.

There had been much discussion in the blogosphere and elsewhere in the media after Warren was selected to deliver the invocation, about whether he would pray “In Jesus name.” In 2001 at President George W. Bush’s inauguration, Rev. Franklin Graham did offer his invocation in Jesus’ name, as did Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell in the benediction. Both preachers were rebuked by Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz who said that it “excluded tens of millions of American Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Shintoists, Unitarians, agnotsics and atheists from his blessing.”

Pastor Warren declined all interviews before the inauguration saying there were too many requests to accomodate them, and said that his prayer would speak for itself. And did it ever. If there had been any doubt about to whom he would pray, he repeated the name of Jesus in Hebrew, Arabic as well as Spanish:

“I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life —-Yeshuah, Isa, Jesus….”

If that didn’t make the point, he then recited the Christian prayer found in the New Testament books of Matthew (6: 9-13) and Luke (11: 2-4):

“Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.”

Pastor Warren would only say before the inauguration that he would pray the only way he knew how as an evangelical minister. That alone should have been a clue.

I expect there’ll be plenty of criticism, adding to an already full plate.

Watch Rick Warren’s Prayer at the Inauguration here:

About that Oath Flub.

carlbarnhill — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0000

No doubt this is an historical day for America with the Inauguration of Barack Obama. There was some talk today surrounding the oath flub. I thought that Obama may have messed up and been really nervous. Check out this article below… I am not sure what happened, but it was interesting. I thought they had some type of line in the oath that said something like “I swear to protect the United States from its enemies both foreign and domestic.” I guess I was wrong.

“About that oath flub.”
View Original Post: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/01/20/1751351.aspx
From NBC’s Pete Williams

The recitation of the presidential oath came in fits and starts.

The Constitution prescribes the text: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

But Chief Justice John Roberts, using no notes, flubbed his lines, and Obama knew it.

First, Obama jumped in before the “do solemnly swear” phrase, which seemed to throw the chief justice off his stride. Roberts rendered the next phrase as “that I will execute the office of President to the United States faithfully.”

“That I will execute,” Obama repeated, then paused like a school teacher prompting his student with a slight nod. Roberts took another shot at it: “The off … faithfully the pres … the office of President of the United States.”

The oath then got more or less back on track after that. Close enough for government work.

NBC’s Abby Livingston adds the transcript:
ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama…
OBAMA: I, Barack…
ROBERTS: … do solemnly swear…
OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…
ROBERTS: … that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully…
OBAMA: … that I will execute…
ROBERTS: … faithfully the office of president of the United States…
OBAMA: … the office of president of the United States faithfully…
ROBERTS: … and will to the best of my ability…
OBAMA: … and will to the best of my ability…
ROBERTS: … preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
OBAMA: … preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
ROBERTS: So help you God?
OBAMA: So help me God.
ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr. President.

WATCH The Presidential Inauguration Live!

carlbarnhill — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Watch Live Coverage of today’s events at:

www.hulu.com

Moving Day at the White House.

carlbarnhill — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:00:00 +0000

NBC’s Today Show reports on how the moving out of the Bushe’s and the moving in of the Obama’s take place.

Ben Stein Speaks Out.

carlbarnhill — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:53:00 +0000

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS.

Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees.. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a crche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where theAmerica we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on
your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they
will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein