So for years now, all of Sony friends have been telling me that the Playstation 3 was going to dominate for the rest of the lifespan of the next two next-gen consoles. But, now that I mention it, these are the same people who said that the New Star Wars trilogy would be better than the original based on new technology alone.... so with that kind of track record how could they be wrong?

Sales reports tell us that the Wii and the 360 are dominating the Ebay marketplace. And according to Punchjump.com the PS3 is selling for an average of $544.61.

Sure Sony still makes a profit (as they should for a cool system), but it seams that they have an almost "hands inside of pockets" shirk to them nowadays.

I'm curious what Sony will do, esspecially when the new Smash Bros. and Halo 3 hit the shelves.

The Peacemaker

(from Rob Bell's Leaving Ignorance for Awareness)

Judges 15: 1-11

Did you notice how this started so simply and all of a sudden it was 3,000 men.

1. what they each do is demonize the other person.

a. A person stuck in this pattern can’t say “maybe I had something to do with this.

b. The pattern always leads to something worst

2. They have the excuse – “this is just how the world is”

a. It’s un-creative

The Myth of Redemptive Violence.

“The world is made better through acts of violence”

“Popeye”

“in a typical segment, Bluto kidnapped a screaming Olive Oil, Popeye girl friend. When Popeye attempts to rescue her the massive bluto beats his opponent to a pulp. At the last moment when our hero oozes to the floor a can of spinach pops from Popeye’s pocket and spills into his mouth. Transformed by this gracious infusion of power, he easily diminishes the villan and rescues his beloved.

The format never varies. Neither party ever gains any insight.

Violence does not teach Bluto to honor Olive Oil’s humanity, and the repeated pummeling’s do not teach Pop-eye to swallow his spinach before the fight.

This myth is everywhere.

No one gets mad at Bruce Willis and says “you d didn’t need to blow up the building.

Matthew 26:47-53

I could do it the world’s way… but I’ve found another way. I’ve come to put an end to the violence.

Haven’t we seen enough

v.54

he came to bring peace

v.55-56

The cross is always personal for us… but Jesus is calling out the whole system and screaming that it’s a lie.

He dies violently, but his hands are clean.

He dies naked, but with dignity.

The cross confronts the whole myth.

Where are all the peacemakers?

The people who say, “no there has to be another way”

Jesus goes to the cross saying “ you can kill me, but some ideas live on”

You can put the cross in the warm fuzzy corner and that’s ok, but the cross is subversive to all of culture.

So when He rises from the dead, he said “this is my son”

What if when things went wrong people said “call in the Christians, because they’ll no how to make peace here.”

Through Jesus God forgives us, but the cross confronts the entire system of the world and screams “there is a new way.”

1. Are you involved in demonizing someone else or tried to make them look bad?

2. Have you ever done something back to somebody because of what they did to you?