I grew up when MTV actually played music videos.  MTV was so culturally pervasive that it was darn near impossible to hear a song without thinking of the video that went along with it.  Heck. I still can’t hear Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” without picturing Tawny Kitaen and a couple of Jaguars…give me a moment.

The thing about music before and after MTV is that it relies not on visuals but on piercing the heart via the mind.  Even though I was a teenage metal head, I still loved The Eagles’ “Hotel California” especially after living in Hollywood because it so perfectly encapsulated the experience.  I was walking down the Sunset Strip one day at age 18 when I looked up to cardboard cutouts of James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and John Belushi when the line “you can check out but you can never leave” suddenly made perfect sense.

Which one of these is an actual Proverb?

a) “Cleanliness is next to godliness.”

b) “If you find honey, eat just enough– too much of it, and you will vomit.”

c) “God never gives you more than you can handle.”

If you guessed “b”, you would be right and possibly know your Bible better than some of the Duck Dynasty folks who seem to think “a” is in the Bible (it isn’t…neither really is “c”).

Why you all were preparing for Star Wars Day tomorrow (how is this not a national holiday?), I was compiling the Three Things You Need to Read this Week:

I think there is a good possibility that evangelical pastors could end up in jail for preaching on the Biblical case for marriage within the next twenty years.  If radical activists get their way, America could go the way of Canada and have a Commission set up with the responsibility to sniff out “hate speech” wherever it may be.

If that happens what does a guy like with a  family to support do? Moreover, I’m a wimp! I don’t even feel comfortable in a Hampton Inn the coach section of an airplane (in my defense I have a lot of miles, get a lot of upgrades and being in first class is a lot better!).  Believe it or not, the answer lies in the Book of Revelation, which is typically obsessed over and abused or wholly ignored by Christians.

When Mozilla’s CEO Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO for making a $1000 donation to Proposition 8 (which was illegally leaked by someone at the IRS), gay rights activist and columnist Andrew Sullivan stated that if this was the campaign for equality than count him out. Sullivan wrote, “The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society,” he went on to say “If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.”