Last week, Tim Challies, posted a blog article concerning Michael Jackson, his life, legacy and death. Tim opened his article with this,
So the king is dead. What a sad end to a sad life; a pathetic end to a pathetic life (by which I mean to use pathetic in its true sense as “arousing pity and sympathy). I don’t know that I have ever seen, in one man, such a combination of self-love and self-loathing, shocking narcissism combined with equally shocking self-hatred. Truly Michael Jackson was unparalleled.
Read the rest of his post here, A Tortured Existence.
As massive crowds gather outside the Staples Center in L.A. to commemorate, celebrate, and “eulogize” the tragic life of this man, Michael Jackson, is there anything we can learn from his death?
Here’s a video from the guys from I’ll Be Honest titled “What can we learn from Michael Jackson’s Life and Death?”
1. It teaches us the dangerous power of idolatry.
2. It teaches us the reality that all flesh is like grass.
3. Enormous wealth is poisonous to flesh.
4. It confirms the Biblical Truth that fallen man is given to self-destruction.
5. It was the example of a WASTED LIFE.
6. Shows us that life is a vacuum outside of Jesus Christ.
7. Is a great reminder that it’s been given unto man once to die and then the judgment.
8. It teaches us the vanity of popularity.
9. It reminds us of how short life really is.
10. Teaches us that in the end, he is just another man.
Thanks for the post. I, too, blogged my reaction to MJ's death at http://bit.ly/bFOvs. I spoke of him in Sunday's sermon in reference to where his soul is now, and how we (the Church) should be looking to reach EVERYONE with the Gospel that God Loves them, too, not just we who occupy the pew.
God bless, and welcome back to Twitter!
Just read your post. It really is a grieving thing to see. It just brings us back to reality doesn't it? If we would stop and think about how many people out there in the world have lived lives like Michael Jackson? Living for self and his own glory and sin. How many people in the world idolized this man, and in effect strive to live the same life that this man did.
It's a heart breaking reality.
“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that. The saving of souls, if a man has once gained love to perishing sinners and his blessed Master, will be an all-absorbing passion to him. It will so carry him away, that he will almost forget himself in the saving of others. He will be like the brave fireman, who cares not for the scorch or the heat, so that he may rescue the poor creature on whom true humanity has set its heart.
If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
—C.H. Spurgeon
May the Lord have mercy upon us and grant us grace to feel, grace to understand, grace to die, grace to cry out, and grace to shout even to the rooftops: “Repent from your sins and believe in the Gospel!”
I'm sorry, but why do you have a Scientology advertisment on your website?
Oh, I don't have control over which ads appear on the advertisement sections. Google randomly generates them based on basic keywords. Like for example for N.D. is based on religion and Christianity. Somehow scientology crept in. Which is why I placed a note saying “We do not agree with everything listed here. (but) You can support us by clicking the ads above.”
I hope that clears things up.
[I'm working on getting Christian and reformed advertisements though. Much like as you can see in http://www.challies.com