One More Reminder, Mike Horton to Appear on CBS's "60 Minutes"

Mike Horton is scheduled to appear on CBS's 60 Minutes this coming Sunday, October 14.  60 Minutes is doing an investigation of Joel Osteen and wanted Michael's take.  For more info, Click here: News and Events.

Mike taped for nearly four hours.  He was pleased with how it went.  Now, we'll see of how much of this actually gets on the air.

Update on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 02:02PM by Kim Riddlebarger

CBS has just posted a two minute preview of the program dealing with Osteen.  Mike is not in the interview, but you can see Joel cry because God is using him in special ways.  Gag . . .  Click here: Joel Osteen Answers His Critics, Tells Byron Pitts "We're Not Perfect" - CBS News

Comments

[zrim]

Rick and Rana,

This is my week! Birthday on the 11th, Godfrey on the 12th and Horton on the 14th.

Rick, can one just show up at TURC or does one need tickets, etc.?

Zrim

[Rick B.]

Zrimmer,
Just show up my man. 8:00pm lecture. "Calvin at 500; did he Succeed?"

I think he did.

Free will offering taken. Not that we have a free will.

Happy Birthday!

Go Horton!

[zrim]

If there is a free will offering at a Reformed church maybe he didn't succeed (?).

Zrim

[Mark VPol]

To answer Scott's question and for anybody else that was wondering... The 60 Minutes website should be updated either Wednesday or Thursday. For this past weekend it was updated on Thursday. Mike was shot around campus today and the cameraman said it might be up by Wednesday. The WHI site will have the most current link that we have available - maybe I will make it known on that page when it actually goes to Mike's spot.

Finally, I noticed the past couple of weeks that during CBS's College Football and NFL broadcasts they have commercials for 60 Minutes, how cool would it be if Mike was shown during those.

Take care all

[Charles S]

A few years ago a friend invited me to attend a meeting. "You'll be impressed" He said. I went and to my dismay I was listening to a speaker in a packed arena tell of the wonders of Amway and how God and Amway put his shattered life back together... saw Joel Osteen on TV the other day, decided to listen and..deja, that meeting without the Amway!

[dlzr]

Not to be self pious although I sinfully am, but Football, NASCAR, and TV journalism on Sunday? For crying out loud, the people of God can do better than that on His sanctified day.

I thought Reformed folk took the Lord's Day seriously, not for the sake of piety, but out of love and gratitude for Christ.

Is it profitable and wise for a Minister of the Word to encourage the covenant children of God to partake in such nonsense on the 8th Day?

It would have been better if Dr. Horton did not do the interview, because it is broadcasted on the Lord’s Day. The interview provides a distraction for the Church during the time of week that God calls His people out of the world to worship Him.

Please tell me I’m wrong and have misunderstanding Christian Liberty or something.

[Rick B.]

dlzr,
I don't plan on missing either Church service on Sunday. If anything would get in the way of corporate worship, I just wouldn't do it.

60 minutes is on at 7:00. Our evening worship starts at 5:00. That's plenty of time for me (with our church 5 minutes away from my house).

I do take the Lord's Day seriously, I rest from my labors and diligently use the means of grace.

Horton might have objected if they asked to interview him on a Sunday, or if he thought the Sunday broadcast would cause Christians to stumble,but they didn't, and he didn't.

[dlzr]

Thanks for the reply Rick.

Could you answer me this question:

If the Lord's Day is to be taken seriously and biblically, wouldn't that include the whole entire day. Not just an hour or so in the morning and an hour so in the evening. Doesn't the Lord's Day include the part of the day before, after, and in between the corporate worship service.

And I by no means am an authority or a perfect or even a good model of the practice of keeping the Lords Day.

But we are quick to jump all over Osteen, while reading books like "A Better Way" and watching football on Sunday. Seems kind of odd to me.

[LTCman]

Hey brother Dlzr...do you think I am dishonoring the Sabbath when my wife and I continue celebrate God's gift of sex on a given Sunday afternoon?

[Rick B.]

dlzr,

The Lord's day is a (whole) day set apart.

I think I (we?) need to know where you're coming from a little better.

So if I may, I'll ask you; What does keeping the Lord's day mean to you? What should it look like in practice?

I ask because for some reason I'm seeing you taking naps or gazing at a blank wall when your not in Church on Sunday.

[zrim]

I have no problem dragging my mule out of a ditch on the Sabbath...or walking through wheat fields. My problem is that I don't have a mule or wheat fields.

Zrim

[dlzr]

Rick,
I would think that the 4th commandment does suggest very strongly of keeping the entire day holy. And keeping the day holy is not only about what we shouldn't do, but what we should and can be doing. Such discussing the sermon with our family, enjoying Christian fellowship, taking a nap (rest is commanded), going on a family walk, reviewing catechisms, playing a game with the family. Perhaps others have better suggestions, I would be grateful to hear them.

It just seems to me there are better ways of spending the Lord's Day then watching television and engaging in worldly entertainment. We have 6 other days when we can do that.

It is important that we live out of the benefits of the Lords Day to give our weary souls the divine encouragement to live a life of gratitude for all that Christ has done for us.

So when I spend the Lord's Day watching TV, or going to the gym, or eating out, it just seems to cheapen the day that God as set aside to be holy.

Man was created for the Sabbath. Man was created to worship God and enjoy all that God is forever. The Sabbath is a taste of heaven.

And the only response I have for LTCman is one of envy!

[zrim]

dlzr,

Did you know that Calvin played lawn bowling to pass the Sabbath?

(Talk about the sermon: 15 minutes; play a game: 2 minutes for candy land and up to 25 for chutes and ladders; Christian fellowship is at worship, not hanging around with Christians over coffee and cookies or anything else one can do with pagans; taking a nap sounds a lot more like not grasping the difference between heavenly rest and earthly, but because I think you can find Sabbath in creation, snooze away, but don't characterize it as a prescription for the heavenly Sabbath.)

Zrim

[dlzr]

27 minutes with my covenant children as enough time that qualifies for something. God's gift of covenant children, his children given to me to raise in the faith, and your talking 27 minutes. Does anyone take God's word seriously for anything. Children of the Covenant given to us as a gift, to raise in the faith, and 27 minutes. We whine about reformation and the bad teaching of Joel Osteen, and we come up with 27 minutes with our Covenant Children. Reformation starts in the home, and it takes more than 27 minutes. Maybe if we spent less time on the Lord’s Day watching NASCAR and the NFL, reformation might take hold in the next generation.

[zrim]

Huh?

The 27 minutes was gametime, not Christian instruction. If you are tallying up minutes (I was being sarcastic), I will throw in 63 minutes for our Sabbath bike ride, another hour or so for alone time for each of us, this and that here and there around the house (don't worry, I don't go shopping, to the movies, out to eat, mow the lawn, etc.), some lawn bowling (more sarcasm for fun), then suit up again for PM worship (my deacon collecting duties seem lately to be getting a bit tiresome).

That's after they have been at catechism at church for an hour on Sunday, and after the 15 minutes per weekday we do after dinner, not counting family worship. I hope that is serious enough for you. May I turn on 60 Minutes yet or do we actually have to wait for the second the sun goes down?

Recently, I was on vacation with my Evamgelical extended family. When Sunday rolled around, they thought nothing of trampling the Sabbath; I laid low and did not go shopping or whatever else they did and got weird looks. So to some I guess I am a grumpf, and to others I am just not legalistic enough.

Zrim

[Chris Sherman]

Oh naive me, maybe I am misunderstanding this whole Sabbath thing, I thought my rest was in Christ.

And dlzr, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

[dlzr]

Thanks Chris for the comment. It is a beautiful thing to hear the people of God to affirm the fact that our rest is in Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today and forever. And God by His good pleasure has given man the Sabbath where the fact of our resting in Christ would most intensely be proclaimed. So yes in one sense God by his grace created the Sabbath for man, but by another sense the people of God have been created in the image of God to gather and to worship God together.

So be of good cheer and enjoy the Sabbath resting in Christ for all it is worth. The Sabbath is the best day of the week.

Chris, press on and keep the faith. A faith that perseveres and strives to please God out of love and gratitude for all that Christ has done for us.

And Zrim, encourage the saints in all your duties in the church. For the Church is the beautiful bride of Christ united to Him in a mystical union by the power of the Holy Spirit.

For me my post on this topic has ended.

[Chris Sherman]

dlzr,

I was just quoting Jesus' words,"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath"

It wasn't my my idea.

[Ken e]

After watching that clip really makes me want to tell these touched people......"you can do nothing with out.......Joel"

[Matthew]

"I think it's a cotton candy gospel," says Dr. Michael Horton, theology professor at Westminster Seminary in Escondido, Calif. "His core message is God is nice, you're nice, be nice ... If it were a form of music, I think it would be easy listening," he tells Pitts.

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