This ad for an Audi electric car features Captain Marvel being caught up on earth developments that have taken place during her time away faring through space.
It’s amusing.
It features (minor spoiler) more Captain Marvel dialogue and screen time than Endgame itself.
It may also explain why our opposition leader in Australia thinks it takes eight minutes to charge an electric car.
I totally expect to go and see Endgame again on Saturday.
I can’t remember the last time I got all the tips right in a round.
The AFL came good last weekend. I’m not holding out great hopes for this weekend. There’s a couple of games where I just can’t make myself pick the favoured team, and one where I don’t want to pick Brisbane, but don’t feel like I’ve got a choice.
NRL, on the other hand simply continue to prove that if they were racehorses, the stewards would always have work to do.
NRL (last round 4/8; season tally 35/56)
Souths
North Queensland
Melbourne
Canberra
Manly
Easts
New Zealand
Parramatta (it’s their rostered weekend on)
AFL (last round 9/9; season tally 28/54)
Port Adelaide
Hawthorn
Greater Western Sydney
Brisbane (kiss of death)
Richmond
West Coast
Carlton
Geelong
Fremantle
This is part of a podcast featuring Bryan Chapell, preacher and teacher of preachers.
In this question he’s asked about Jesus and preaching from Old Testament texts.
His answer, of course, is applicable to the whole Bible, and how preachers apply the texts from which they’re preaching.
Question:
And you have decades of experience preaching, and teaching others how to preach, so as you look at conservative evangelicalism — our neck of the woods — what would you say is the greater danger: is it that we would fall too far on the side of seeing Christ under every rock, so to speak; or is it that we don’t make the connection to Christ sufficiently when we preach the Old Testament?Bryan Chapell
Honestly, I think the greater danger is the latter one. Often I hear people teaching others to just be a better person, improve their performance, improve their competence, know more, or do better. And the problem with that is it actually just serves the human instinct. People think that they are the answer to their problem with God. If all I am regularly doing is teaching people to improve their competence or improve their performance, then they will inevitably perceive themselves as their own redeemer. And that becomes the problem. People will do better so the ogre in the sky will be nice to them, or do better so that they can compare to other people—either in doctrine or in performance—and that will make them acceptable to God.
Now, nobody would answer it that way in the exam. But when we are constantly communicating that they should do better or know more, people will believe that what makes them acceptable to God this week is that they’ve done better or they know more than the people down the street. The gospel message, which is unfolding through all the Scriptures, is that God must make a way. You do not make your own way, God must make a way. And being true to the Scriptures is asking, If you do not make your own way out of your human predicament, if God has to make the way out, how does he ultimately do that?
I think grace is on display virtually everywhere. If God is giving food to hungry people, if God is giving rest to weary people, if he gives victory to a few people; what is God showing us about himself? He’s the rescuer.
Last Saturday night I participated in a phone conversation that dealt with directions about various medical treatment choices that may or may not be needed for someone who is not capable of making those choices themselves.
I found this article by Kathryn Butler at Desiring God covered a lot of the considerations that were being put before us, and approaches how those options can be thought of from a biblical perspective.
It is more positive to have given some thought to this beforehand, and to have even discussed them with those for whom you may end up making choices (or who may be making them on your behalf).
Butler is/was a trauma and critical care surgeon, her reflections do not come from a place of pure theory.
Well worth a read:
Making life-or-death decisions for loved ones cripples many with feelings of guilt and doubt that persist for years, and which can progress to depression, complicated grief, chronic anxiety, and even post-traumatic stress disorder.
So how do we make compassionate, Christ-honoring decisions about our loved ones’ care when the unthinkable happens? How do we discern the right path when time to reflect is nonexistent, and when the mind balks at the ramifications of our choices?Read the whole post at Desiring God.
