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Posted on 08/12/2017 5:00:14 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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Good evening, my, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Did you go to the VFW Friday night?
I never could get on FR last night. The thread posted seemingly by accident and I never knew it cuz I couldn’t get on.
FR was all messed up.
They had smothered pork chops at the V last night with 3 sides and desert.
Very nice
I would like to ask Old China Hand what he thinks about Kim Duk Hoo
My My, how the times have not changed
It was overcast, but we got a good walk in, at the trail that goes behind the Middle School(3 miles).
Since it looked like rain, I didn’t ride the bike, but I made up fort that yesterday.
And this is why I sometimes wince at the polarized discourse that goes on so often in FR.
I read that this earthly thing is pure good, or that earthly thing is pure evil, and so on in what, at best, is a tiresome hyperbole and a misunderstanding of God’s ways of working in a fallen world.
I’ve sometimes jumped on these things by pointing out that there could be better goods or worse evils, but that keeps it on the academic plane, where people tend to live in their self perpetuating pride games. Getting it out of that plane is important — which is why good preachers use illustrations so often. Illustrational truth is one of the great modes of the bible, and is the reason why we see few direct scriptural propositions about many of the divine prerogatives of Jesus the Lord. God the Son proved who He was by living it out before our eyes. This again gets our thought out of the academic plane, where it can trace the works of the Lord.
I have written a poetic (and musical, thanks to God’s work through my buddy Ronnie) point that Jesus was born a humble redneck. Now does the bible ever come out and state it propositionally? Nope. But if you look at the testimony about His life (we even know that He was a carpenter only by the word of others) I aver that the picture pops out bright and clear. He was no highfalutin chap, and one born on the wrong side of the proverbial tracks at that, and we still can understand the idiom today.
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-levy-6/a-humble-redneck-i-was-born
Anyhow... I believe it is a fair restatement of Jesus’ manifest purpose when I put it like this:
“A carpenter was my trade,
With a hammer I was good;
With quality in all I made
Out of every kind of wood;
And now I’ve come to rebuild your soul
If you give the job to Me;
There’s nobody else can make you whole
And to set your spirit free.”
I’ve only had moderate success with audiences for these songs, but I believe it is a time of slow refocusing upon Jesus. We’ve been formulaic so much in our worship that we have missed some of the testimonial color of Jesus’ life.
Or to use another redneck idiom, Jesus could have been characterized to say (with His life, if not also with His words) “Hold My wine and watch this.” I don’t have a recording of that yet, but I shared my poem about it with, of all people, a Hindu man. He got the point.
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Good evening, Pro, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to you and yours.
Have a good day staying out of the heat? We have had some sprinkles.
Prayers for our troops, veterans, families, allies, friends, and Canteeners
for a safe and peaceful week ahead.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Force, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our G-d from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.
May HASHEM cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighting men from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.
May He lead our enemies under their sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is Hashem, your G-d, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.
G-d bless and keep your children safe, Alouette.
Hai, ya, just hanging with family. F’cast rain Sat eve and on Sunday. Sure do need it to knock the dust down at least. Heading out for flights again on Tuesday for a four day run.
J
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
God Bless our military men and women who have given their all.
Thanks, unique.
Christ I can’t take a bath without a couple of Chinese jumping in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DqvweTYTI0
Howdy, Kathy.
Have a good day? Did you get more rain?
Howdy, PRO.
How’s your weekend going? Did the cool-off that’s been promised arrive yet?
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