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The Evangelical Outpost has rounded-up an excellent list of rappers who have posed as Jesus prior to this month’s Kanye West Rolling Stone cover.

So that’s why it seemed so trite. One would encounter several CD covers depicting rappers posing as Jesus while simply browsing through the used Rap section at the local Rasputin (I’d pass those up to buy though. Not my cup of tea - ‘cept for Nas).

Shock is far from what one feels when reading about the Kanye/Jesus cover. In my case, the SDA church we rent space from has had a picture of a black Jesus displayed in the lobby for several months. In addition, all the evangelical churches I have attended since my youth have always taught that the blue-eyed, flowing-haired, Scandinavian-looking Jesus depicted in pictures is so far from the real Jesus of the Bible. It’s interesting what the Scriptures does say about Jesus’ appearance:

He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.

He was just an ordinary looking citizen of 1st century Palestine. Prophetic words those were though, coming from the Old Testament (Isaiah 53 is all about Jesus Christ).

One little thought that came to mind about the Rolling Stone cover was that the publication seemed to want the issue to coincide with the showing at Sundance of a South African movie depicting Jesus as a black man. But the one thing that caught my attention more than anything was Kanye West’s revelation in Rolling Stone that he was addicted to porn. He says “he remembers first seeing his father’s Playboy magazine when he was 5 years old.” He then admits, “Right then…it was like, ‘Houston, we have a problem.’ ” Hmmm, sounds familiar. We all need a Saviour, don’t we?

Has Jewish feminist Naomi Wolf found Jesus? Find out here.

(via b4G)

This funny film short about a man who “breaks all ten commandments before breakfast” would nicely complement what these guys do. It would serve as a good illustration that we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Oh yeah, here are the commandments for reference.

(Coudal link via webzen)

The Erik Morales vs. Manny Pacquiao rematch fight is about to start!

Update: Wahoo! Manny wins by TKO!!!

On a side note: an unknown lass named Jennifer Bautista* sang the Philippine national anthem before the fight. Jon Secada, on the other hand, sang the Mexican national anthem and the Star-Spangled Banner.

*the article’s headline mistakenly calls her Jennifer Revilla

Here’s a snapshot of the system profiler of an Apple iMac with a 2 Ghz Dual Core Intel chip.

Another year, another Macworld. The usual gang of suspects were there, although the crowd did seem bigger this year than previous years. There were the show presenters, the bubbly vendors, and attractive booth babes. The place was also teeming with creative folk as expected. The whole gamut was represented: agency principals, designers, hipster art students, musicians and photographers. Geeks were also in full force: there were the developers, the gamers, and Mac enthusiasts that seemed to have been Apple devotees since the inception of the Macintosh two decades ago. You’d see a couple of suits walking by once in a while.

Although it may seem like I’ve been people watching the entire time, the photos I took prove otherwise (they’re more of the booth and gadget variety). View them here.*

*about the photos, I thought of uploading them to my new Flickr account, this being a new year and all, but I ran into some problems. All methods of uploading photos failed: from the web-based technique, to the stand-alone Flickr Uploadr, to the iPhoto plug-in. Oh well, I’ll try again some other day.