"As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.
"What has happened?" the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby-carriage along the sidewalk.
"Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well," replied the man; "and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City."
"Hm!" said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. "If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?"
"I really do not know," replied the man, with a deep sigh. "Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.""
- L. Frank Baum, "The Land of Oz"
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
This sounded really lame to me at first. But then I listened to a few, and they are actually pretty dang cool.
Sermon Jams
I couldn't listen to sermon podcasts like this on a regular basis, but they really do a good job of aesthetically augmenting great preachers like John Piper, Ravi Zacharias, or Alistair Begg (among others) with musical "atmosphere."
(HT: Founders Ministries Blog)
(Btw, I listened to two great podcasts today:
1. "The Pastor as Resident Theologian" by Greg Heinsch from an Acts 29 Network Boot Camp. Good stuff in there about the cross and culture in the church.
2. "Being Filled with the Holy Spirit" by Wayne Grudem, preached at Piper's Bethlehem Baptist Church. Got that one off of Monergism Audio. Non-cessationism probably has no better theologian than this hoss. And I love his God-centered (rather than wonders-centered) pneumatology.
It's kind of like a "Best of" in a certain sense.
I think I like it.