Why is it that it’s considered impolite to call someone fat, yet, people think it’s perfectly fine to say to me, in a derogatory tone, “You’re so skinny!” I feel like responding with, “Thank you, and you’re so fat!” How would they like that? Unless you are commenting on my skinniness as a compliment, that I look good being skinny, making an observation that I am skinny is as impolite as calling someone fat. But no one seems to think of it that way.
Year: 2011
“I am celebrating 80 years as a Christian this year!”
She didn’t look a day over 70. Her face was radiant with joy, she sang the hymns with gusto, and spoke with clarity giving glory to God.
I haven’t seen too many models of older people who live with a purpose. I’ve mostly seen depressed seniors, with no meaningful work to do, simply living out their days.
Isaiah 3: The pride and glory of men will fall
As long as we think we can handle things and solve our own problems, we won’t allow God into our lives. Pride keeps God away.
Without God, we will fail, no matter how good we think we are.
Instead of fragrance there will be a…
Continuing in Isaiah:
We live as if we’re in control of our lives, we live selfishly, we ignore God, we set up idols to rule us, as if there is no judgement day of reckoning, but there is.
Judah was warned.
We are warned too, that the Day of the Lord will come. Then where…
In studying Isaiah chapter 1 and worship, I was thinking that sometimes church can get in the way of true worship.
I love “church” and all that we do at church, but I’m not sure I love it because it’s worship or I love it because it’s comfortable and enjoyable. I can’t help but think that perhaps the “stuff” we do isn’t quite hitting what God wants for His church.
This year at Bible Study Fellowship, we studied the book of Isaiah. I had not systematically studied this book, so it was a good discipline. However, some of the reading and homework was too much for me to keep up with. It was time consuming just to get the answers the questions and I didn’t really spend time thinking through what I was reading.
We watched The Lightning Thief on Netflix, it was quite entertaining. Since I had not read the Percy Jackson books, I decided to get them from the library.
The Sea Monsters is book 2 of the series. The story line is clever and intriguing, but it’s written at about a 4th grade level, not much style but it gets the point across.
Yesterday, one of the kids in Sunday School broke one of my Resurrection Eggs. It made me upset, I might even say I was mad!
I know, it’s just an ordinary plastic egg, and if it was just any plastic egg, it wouldn’t matter. But the Resurrection Eggs are special to me…not the plastic egg itself, but I had hoped that the kids will see the Resurrection Eggs as something special, even sacred.
Good Friday come and go, usually with nothing more than attending a Good Friday service at church and a fish sandwich at McDonald’s, the last day of the discount btw.
I did a quick search to see what John Piper has to say about Good Friday that I can meditate on, and found his wonderful teaching on responding to suffering:
People say, Let’s talk over a cup of coffee. But I don’t drink coffee.
Or they say, Let’s do lunch. But I don’t want to spend money eating out (unless they’re treating).
How about getting together to walk and talk?
In addition to being a healthier alternative, which is already a good enough reason, here are more advantages: