This is the last week of pre-school for DaughterGeeding, she’ll be a kindergartner next year. Sometimes I’ll put her on my bike and we’ll ride to school together, I hope she remembers that when she gets older, because I treasured every part of it, except for the uphill parts.
We had a death in our church family yesterday. A college-aged girl found her mother, probably mid-fifties, unresponsive at home. As of now, the medical examiner says it’s natural causes. She was a lovely woman, and got real serious about her health about three or four years ago, losing a significant amount of weight, little at a time through proper diet and exercise. Death, no one knows the day or hour.
I’d like to think that Peggy Olson asked Don Draper to walk her down the aisle and give her away to Stan Rizzo at their wedding.
Here’s another piece from the Consumerist – How Important Is It To Wash New Clothes Before Wearing Them? – The short answer: Pretty important if you don’t like itchy, scaly, red rashes. Due to varying laws from country to country on the allowable levels of chemicals in fabric, your clothing could be hopping around the globe carrying various substances that might irritate your skin, reports the Wall Street Journal.
So many people do all they can to prepare for a life after death they don’t actually have an authentic life before death.
Watch U2 Honor B.B. King In Concert – The rock band, who toured and recorded with the late blues legend in the ’80s, played “When Loves Come To Town” (reportedly for the first time in 23 years).
For some reason, Relevant magazine thought it was pertinent to include Captain America – The Definitive Ranking of Christian Superheroes – Personally, I always thought the concept of a Christian superhero quite silly because, well, they got God and it dances on the line of a false idol.
"So many people do all they can to prepare for a life after death they don’t actually have an authentic life before death."
Huh. So much about that statement. On the one hand, I don't know what you mean by "authentic." On the other hand, that statement pretty much defines a fundamental precept of orthodox Christianity, and Islam, and probably others. On the other hand (call me Vishnu), it shows an interesting judgmentalism that somehow, other people's life choices don't qualify as "authentic" to you.
Matt, I’m a man of many flaws, and being judgemental and not seeing the best in people is one of them. My point, especially in the Christian context, is that many to chose to serve God as a means to get into Heaven as opposed to serving God out of love, thankfulness and humility – something I’m sure all Christians have been guilty of at one point or anohter. Heaven is an present and an act of grace by God, not something that is earned on a point scale by doing this and that. Some folks can be so focused on trying to get into Heaven they lose focus of simply loving God, and in my book, those are two different things. If people choose to serve God to only get into Heaven, as if they are buying fire insurance, then I would question the authenticy of his or her faith.
By "authentic," I gather you mean "authentically faithful" or something like that. I guess I'd agree that if you're not authentically faithful, then you can't expect the rewards of faithfulness. But you might get them anyway, because grace. One problem with the idea of "saved by grace" or "justification by faith alone" is illustrated by the parable of the sheep and the goats — as Keith Green once put it, "the *only* difference between the sheep and the goats, according to Scripture, is what they did, and didn't, do.
I tend to think of it as being sincere about the motivation behind a person’s faith. Sidebar: I’ve always wondered where did the “Uppercase” part of your name came from.
Years ago, there was a forum I commented on frequently, just signed as “Matt”. Another regular commenter signed as “matt,” and occasional comment clarifying whether an original comment had been made by lowercase matt or uppercase Matt. Then some other joker named Matt showed up, so I just switched to using full “Uppercase Matt”.
"So many people do all they can to prepare for a life after death they don’t actually have an authentic life before death."
Huh. So much about that statement. On the one hand, I don't know what you mean by "authentic." On the other hand, that statement pretty much defines a fundamental precept of orthodox Christianity, and Islam, and probably others. On the other hand (call me Vishnu), it shows an interesting judgmentalism that somehow, other people's life choices don't qualify as "authentic" to you.
Matt, I’m a man of many flaws, and being judgemental and not seeing the best in people is one of them. My point, especially in the Christian context, is that many to chose to serve God as a means to get into Heaven as opposed to serving God out of love, thankfulness and humility – something I’m sure all Christians have been guilty of at one point or anohter. Heaven is an present and an act of grace by God, not something that is earned on a point scale by doing this and that. Some folks can be so focused on trying to get into Heaven they lose focus of simply loving God, and in my book, those are two different things. If people choose to serve God to only get into Heaven, as if they are buying fire insurance, then I would question the authenticy of his or her faith.
By "authentic," I gather you mean "authentically faithful" or something like that. I guess I'd agree that if you're not authentically faithful, then you can't expect the rewards of faithfulness. But you might get them anyway, because grace. One problem with the idea of "saved by grace" or "justification by faith alone" is illustrated by the parable of the sheep and the goats — as Keith Green once put it, "the *only* difference between the sheep and the goats, according to Scripture, is what they did, and didn't, do.
I tend to think of it as being sincere about the motivation behind a person’s faith. Sidebar: I’ve always wondered where did the “Uppercase” part of your name came from.
Years ago, there was a forum I commented on frequently, just signed as “Matt”. Another regular commenter signed as “matt,” and occasional comment clarifying whether an original comment had been made by lowercase matt or uppercase Matt. Then some other joker named Matt showed up, so I just switched to using full “Uppercase Matt”.
Indiana Jones Bar? Sign ME UP!!!
Just so I can walk in, collapse by the bar and look at the bartender and gasp.. "Whisky?"
I'm 6'7".
Just saying'.
Not mentioned on the list of Disneyland freebies: measles
Surprised it's not on the list
this gave me a good chuckle