Good Monday morning! I suspect that a few of the working folks in New Orleans might call in sick today for work. Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints! The team was not picked to win the Super Bowl, but they did. It's kind of fun to see an underdog win the big one. Oops, here we are going on about the Saints when Kerri is reading this out in Indianapolis. I hear the students in Indiana get an extra hour to relive the disappointment this morning before they have to report for classes. Perhaps we place too much of our lives into a simple football game? I don't know about that, but the Super Bowl does give us a great excuse to come together for a time of fellowship. My life group came over last night to do just that, and to rate the commercials of course.
The corporate sponsors had some good commercials last night, but did you catch the Focus on the Family effort with Tim Tebow and his mother? After all the controversy I had read in the media, I was kind of disappointed in the actual commercial. There didn't seem to be much, um... to be controverted about. The Pythonesque tackling the old lady thing was upstaged by the Snickers commercial with Betty White, and the message seemed kind of tame. I suppose I might ask Dr. Dobson if we are to be the salt of the world, or the sugar?
Of course, we must also remember that in spite of the enormous pile of loot paid for each Super Bowl commercial, the network still has a lot of veto power over the content it seems. The content of Focus on the Family's commercial may have been toned down by the network to avoid any more controversy. The "tame" commercial we viewed may be more of a comment on the world as it is, than on the message of Focus on the Family. If you had to make the decision on the commercial for FotF, would you take what the network would give you or hold out for all or nothing? I suppose that I would go with some message, toned down though it may be, is better than no message at all. Sometimes we have to say or write what we can, and then let the Holy Spirit take it from there. After all, our own effort will accomplish nothing without the power of Jesus and the life-changing message of the Holy Spirit. It's easy to holler "no compromise" at someone else. Praise God the commercial was aired last night.
The weather folks say that we are going to have a cold day, but not buried in 2 feet of new snow like the folks way out east are. Please remember the people of Haiti in your prayers today.
Bucky
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