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Scotish Rugby player said a few years ago:

“It’s basically all or nothing, following Jesus. I don’t believe in pick ‘n’ mix Christianity. I believe the Bible is the word of God, so who am I to ignore something from it?

“I might as well tear out that page then keep tearing out pages as and when it suits me. If I started out like that there would soon be nothing left.

“I want to live my life believing and doing the things (God) wants and the Sabbath day is a full day.

“It’s not a case of a couple of hours in church then playing rugby or going down the pub, it’s the full day.”

As a result of his convictions, he won’t be playing in the rugby world cup game this Sunday. Amen. At last a Christian man with convictions.

Read the full article on the BBC website: BBC Sport – Rugby World Cup 2011: Devout Euan Murray questions Sunday matches.

A Jewish man who was translating for the American Psychiatrists who were assessing German War criminals in Nuremberg after the second world war says this:

“Did we learn anything from these psychiatric tests? No. We didn’t find anything abnormal, nothing to indicate something that would make them the murderers they would become.

In fact, they were all quite normal. Evil and extreme cruelty can go with normality. (…)”

Read the article on the BBC website: Jewish US Army translator who got close to the Nazis

The briefing has an article on the British Protestant scene. It is interesting. the first thing that strikes me is the number of churches in the UK: 48.000, and the number of ministers: 36.000. For a reminder, there are about 2068 evangelical churches (not sure about the number of liberal protestant churches though) for about the same population. Also, the number of people who are members of a church is 5.5 millions in the UK as compared to 600.000 protestants in France (of which 46000 are evangelicals, less than 0.5% of the population). In the UK, 6% of the population attends a church service on Sundays (Thats 3.5 million people). Paul Levy says (here) it’s a pretty dire situation (which I agree with when you consider the rich christian history of the UK). But from a French perspective, the UK is a kind of evangelical heaven. No wonder many young French Christians who go to study in the UK don’t want to come back. Read the Briefing article: Does the future have a church? | The Briefing.

We need a God who makes moral judgments. if He loves everyone in exactly the same way, what does His love really mean, and what does it mean to be loved by God? Our universe would  make no sense and the pain of injustice would be even greater if we did not have a God who recognizes right from wrong and judges the wicked. Be glad, though: Just as we love justice, so does God.

DeYoung, The Good News We Almost Forgot.

• First football practice for Jean-Baptiste. Premier entrainement de foot pour Jean-Baptiste. #
• Pour ceux qui comme moi apprécient le rugby mais ont besoin d'être éduqués sur les subtilités du jeu http://t.co/aEoEhTo #
• Interesting link on the lifespan of a link shared on social medias http://t.co/tRNoex1 #
• Thanks to @challies for posting the following video on his blog http://t.co/mXnxxRi worth watching #
• C'est la rentrée, reprise du footing. 5km. Pas trop dur. #
• La rentrée went well. Maxime freaked out when the teacher said hello to him, but that was expected. #
• Back to school today. First time for Maxime in nursery, and Jean-Baptiste starts primary school (CP). #

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A moving testimony by a man who should have been piloting one of the planes of 9/11. Thanks to Tim Challies for pointing this video out. Look it up here if it doesn’t appear below.