Of Preference and Principle

One of the highlites of my time as Pastor at SGUC was taking some college students to the Resolved Conference last year.  It was an incredible time of fellowship, instruction, and worship.  Here is a video recapping last year as an advertisement:

(HT Paul Hoover)

Today, I was going through my normal websites, and being a good conservative, the first news source I check is drudgereport.com.  When I got there, I saw this: Hey Matt Drudge, no need for the sarcasm.  I had no idea the kind of power that I had to sink the stock markets.

So last night’s episode was the first one that I’ve watched live in quite awhile.  While not the most intense episode, we did learn a few things and it sets up what should be two great episodes, as I’m anticipating them getting back to the island soon.

• Jin is alive.  Never really doubted it.  I knew that it they were going to convince Sun to go back, that Jin would need to be alive.  I figured they were going to get back to the island mid season and that would mean Jin would come back this week or last.
• Rousseau’s people crashed there.  I was going to wait and let my mom translate the French, but when we first see them on the raft, one guy yells at another, saying “I told you we shouldn’t have followed those numbers!”
• It seems confirmed that Charlotte and Miles were both born on the island.
• We know Sun is working with Widmore.  We also know that Sun is getting updates on what Jack and Ben have been doing.  Should we assume that Widmore also knows what they are doing and is just waiting for them to lead him back to the island?

Questions

• How will Ben prove to Sun that Jin is alive?  And what will he say to Kate?
• Where are the nose bleeds leading?  Charlotte got a lot better, but is still sick, and now Miles and Juliet are getting there, as well.
• Who will die:  Jack or Sawyer?  They can’t cohabitate on the island with Kate.  Unless Kate is to die.  I say Sawyer gives himself up to die.  This show is all about redemption, so that would be a pretty big turn around