FREE tickets + last-minute-babysitter – 2 a.m. assignment crunch = irresponsible adulthood
adulthood = married night out
irresponsible = FUN night out
Therefore: irresponsible adulthood = FUN night out * married night out = (FUN + married ) night out
Conclusion: Mavs won…I’m tired…g’night 
I know, I know…I’m slow getting this up. Luke is now 8 months! He weighed in at almost 23 lbs and 29 inches long.
I had a rather chatty fella call me today at work. He called to give me some information so I could set up an account for him for one of our web tools. Anyway, he is in chicago and knows the company is in texas, so he brought up the weather. A good topic for today since it was sunny and in the mid 70’s!! As we were talking, he asked where I was from, noting that I could not be from texas due to the lack of southern drawl. He took a stab at locating my home state…that in itself tells you how wrong he was…can you guess his choice (hint: read the post title)? Yup…he thought I was a yank! Okay, I don’t really take exception to the choice, but had to keep from laughing. I hope he just hasn’t spoken with anyone from new york recently…I’m pretty sure they might take exception to someone thinking that I speak like them
PAINFUL LABORS
The cloak is lifted,
I thought to find
a brotherly embrace;
Yet instead found disgrace
and shame and humiliation.
AHA!!! Finally there is objective, scientific, study-based proof for men (and women, though I’m skeptical as to their response) to be able to skip out on watching chick flicks, a.k.a. “romantic comedies.” Our newly backed response? “I would love to watch this artistic and ably-produced movie, but I fear that it will lead to unrealistic expectations about our relationship. I’m just looking out for US.”
I think my favorite line is this:
…some of us are still more influenced by media portrayals than we realise.
Ummm…yeah…how many years ago was this established?!?
TAG…we still love this old game, chasing after people, daring to be braver than the next by sneaking furthest away from base… So, where is base in this web-world? Maybe that is the progression…no more finding safety at base.
Well, I’m not crazy about the tag games that are going around, so I’m not really continuing a home-made version, but it is the only inspiration in the past few days to actually write something of my own that will be less than a full paper wrestling with some issue. Thanks to Jaybrams…
Came across this gem on News of the Weird’s (http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html) news list for the week:
Police in New Britain, Conn., arrested Joel Rubin, 42, in January and charged him with using a stolen credit card, but unanswered was why Rubin also tried to use his own store discount card to get a lower price on the merchandise. It was Rubin’s name on the discount card that tipped off police, and it was not immediately clear why Rubin wanted to save a few bucks off a bill that would be sent to someone else. [Hartford Courant, 1-13-09]
Always looking out to save someone a few bucks…
But not only my neighbor’s will, but also his honor is more important than mine. The desire for one’s own honor hinders faith. One who seeks his own honor is no longer seeking God and his neighbor. What does it matter if I suffer injustice? Would I not have deserved even worse punishment from God, if He had not dealt with me according to His mercy?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), Life Together [1954]
our sunday school class, like any “true” evangelical group is studying Romans…okay, i jest. but we really are working our way through Romans. we have just climaxed with chapter 8:
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (8:37-39)
Now we enter what can be the dark valley of chapter 9 (and following)…dark not because of what it reveals about God, but because of the warring battle that the heart & mind of man fights. It is a battle that I still fight, to a differing degree depending on the day. And I suspect, as with the confession of many a revered pastor, theologian, and Christian who has gone before me, it demands FAITH, then a lifetime of seeking understanding, if the Lord permits.
I am excited about the journey we as a group are taking, though well aware of the dangers that lurk as we delve into God’s Word! As we gather together to devour this slab of meat that is before us, may the Spirit help us digest the hunks lest we choke on them (ewww)!!
To claim the risen Jesus as ’son of god’ in the sense of ‘Messiah’ was the most deeply Jewish thing the Christians could do, and hence the most deeply suspect in the eyes of those Jews who did not share their convictions. [727]
But that misses the point the early Christians were eager to make, the point that brought them quickly into confrontation with the authorities both Jewish and pagan. To imply that Jesus ‘went to heaven when he died’, is to miss the point, to cut the nerve of the social, cultural and political critique. Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. The resurrection, in the full Jewish and early Christian sense, is the ultimate affirmation that creation matters, that embodied human beings matter. That is why resurrection has always had an inescapable political meaning; that is why the Sadducees in the first century, and the Enlightenment in our own day, have opposed it so strongly. No tyrant is threatened by Jesus going to heaven, leaving his body in a tomb. No governments face the authentic Christian challenge when the church’s social preaching tries to base itself on Jesus’ teaching, detached from the central and energizing fact of his resurrection (or when, for that matter, the resurrection is affirmed simply as an example of a supernatural ‘happy ending’ which guarantees post-mortem bliss). [730-31]
The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright
