Bible Questions Answered While Gutting a Fish
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Bag of Randomness
- Yesterday’s Sunday school’s lesson over patience was one of the more beautiful moments I ever had in church.
- Love is patient. It’s not always east to give this kind of love to those closest in your life. However, WifeGeeding does a tremendous job of this.
- I was asked to be part of an upcoming worship service and give a two minute talk about stewardship. It’s funny, but even though we aren’t members of the church, we keep being asked to be a part of it. Perhaps it’s time to finally move my membership from my college church.
- I think it would be funny that instead of me talking about stewardship, I would just talk about stewardesses and play it off as confusion.
- On Saturday night WifeGeeding and I went to Bahama Bucks to get some sno cones and were surprised to discover that our spoons were hypercolor – just like those t-shirts from our youth.
- The weather was just beautiful yesterday.
- I guess things aren’t so gloom and doom for the Cowboys, especially with that Giants loss yesterday.
- I give SNL a solid A for their season opener, same goes for 60 Minutes.
- Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the first televised presidential debate. In this article, the following sentence really stood out, “Another presidential debate wasn’t held until 1976. Battle scarred from his 1960 performance, Nixon refused to debate again in his successful bids for the presidency in 1968 and 1972.” I was also a bit surprised that Kennedy was napping just before the debate.
- Octomom had a garage sale
- GoogleMaps fun – Pepsi truck turns into a Coke truck if you go forward of backwards on the map
- I fear the man eating squid
- This church is having one heck of a book burning that includes quite a few Bibles.
- Family, friends and politics, not theology, shape faith
- Young adults spirituality is ‘wide, shallow, compelling’: Pollster
- Wait until October to buy a new TV
- Panasonic and Charlotte Motor Speedway plan to build video screen bigger than Cowboys Stadium’s – but it’s only going to display 720p, at least Jerry’s is 1080p.
- In case you need to block your ex from your social network – link
- 3D Dinosaur Bones Pancake
- A dog’s perspective of rescuing a human
- Captain Kirk fights Darth Vader
- 7 elephants killed by speeding train in India
- First Man to Catch 1,000 Different Species of Fish
- Grace
Sunday dinner on the porch . . .
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Made Me Think . . .
The sermon delivered that morning to those hoping to hear some whisper of grace, some reason to believe or to keep on believing, some exploration of those big questions we all have, even the ones we are more often than not afraid to ask, was instead built around everyone knowing how “right” the speaker was in his opinions.
Like thousands of sermons I heard growing up, the speaker opened his sermon by assuring people how bad of a preacher he was, that whatever the sermon was about came from God and not from him. It’s a brilliant set up, if you think about it. It means that people know up front that if you disagree with anything they say, you are not disagreeing with them, but with GOD.
Using the phrases so familiar from my childhood, the words that provided the comfort and assurance that come from knowing you are absolutely right in everything you think, that not only is there absolute truth but that you have a complete grasp on it, the speaker that morning left no doubt that God was on his side – and you would be too, if only you weren’t so intent on rebelling against God (or him; the distinction was a little blurry by this point).
via Stephen Lamb
Why I Stopped Going to Church
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