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Pokémon GO Into All the World

Aug 11, 2016Steve Sanchez2 CommentsCommunity Church of the Hills, Culture, Pastor's P.O.V.gospel, Pokémon GO

A DEAD BODY WAS FOUND BY A 19-year-old Wyoming woman when she was playing the virtual reality game Pokémon GO. Police arrested four suspects who used the game to lure victims to be robbed in O’Fallon, Montana, and the Director of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. cautioned, “Playing the game is not appropriate in the museum, which is a memorial to the victims of Nazism.”

Unless you’ve been hiding under Donald Trump’s hair for the last month then you’ve probably heard about this app that has been downloaded over 75 million times and has over 20 million active users since it launched on July 6.

VOX.com explains what it is: “In simple terms, Pokémon Go is a game that uses your phone’s GPS and clock to detect where and when you are in the game and make Pokémon “appear” around you (on your phone screen) so you can go and catch them. As you move around, different and more types of Pokémon will appear depending on where you are and what time it is. The idea is to encourage you to travel around the real world to catch Pokémon in the game.”

CBN News calls this phenomenon a new ministry opportunity. “According to one survey, 82% of churches have reported an increase in attendance.”

They reported the following Tweets:

When I Met Muhammad Ali

Jun 7, 2016Steve Sanchez1 CommentCulture, Famous and Not-So, Pastor's P.O.V.Cassius Clay, Champ, Christianity, Islam, Louisville Lip, Muhammad Ali, Muslim, The Greatest, way of the master

I MET MUHAMMAD ALI LONG AGO in a little restaurant on La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles. I walked up to him and said, “Hi Champ!”

He was very slow, muddled, and slurred his speech. Obviously, all the years of fighting in the ring had taken its toll. He weakly stuck out his hand for me to shake. I remember it being very limp. He then shuffled away.

That was it.

I’m not sure if I was a Christian back then, but, if I was, I do remember this: I did NOT tell him about Jesus Christ. Ali died as an outspoken Muslim.

TARGET INSTITUTES RESTROOM SAFETY MEASURES WITH TOILET CAM

May 14, 2016Steve Sanchez5 CommentsCultureAFA, boycott, gay, lesbian, LGBQ, target, trans, transgender

In response to the boycott of Target stores nationwide from natural born males and females over their new commode policy of free-for-all gender, non-gender, new-gender, LBGTQ-1-2-3 restrooms, executives have introduced minor safety measures using bathroom cameras.

David Bowie and Eternity

Feb 9, 2016Steve SanchezCulture, Pastor's P.O.V.aladdin sane, david bowie, major tom, thin white duke, ziggy stardust

“Look up here; I’m in Heaven,” sang David Bowie on his farewell video before dying of cancer. As a pastor I’m always curious, when a celebrity dies, if he was a Christian. Will I someday meet The Thin White Duke in Heaven? I researched his song lyrics and interviews to get some clues: In his

The Gospel According to Led Zeppelin

Apr 14, 2015Steve Sanchez1 CommentCulturebarack obama, celebration day, heavy metal, jimmy page, john bonham, Led Zeppelin, robert plant, stairway to heaven, the song remains the same, whole lotta love

I recently heard that Robert Plant, former Led Zeppelin front man, lived with his girlfriend in Wimberley, a town near Austin, where Hope Chapel Hill Country is located. Being a former Zep fanatic, (I saw them in their last tour in L.A., about 1979), I wanted to meet him and hand him a Gospel tract.