Deep Thoughts by Mr. G

1. Love God. 2. Love others. 3. That trying to drink a gallon of milk in an hour does something to your system and not meant to be done. 4. Messy Games can be well messy. Bring extra clothes. 5. There is more to life than just school. 6. Boundaries in relationships are a "Good" thing - treat your relationships of having both physical, mental, social, spiritual boundaries. 7. Duct Tape doesn't fix everything. Learn to respect property. 8. There are some things in life you have to let God be in control. 9. Learn to laugh at yourself. 10. Be Thyself and no one else. Other thoughts: that things retro from your decade of High School will eventually come back in. Doing the moonwalk still can impress people, and if you can impersonate certain "Wrestlers" people think you're still cool!

Paul Williams asks this very question in his latest column: And So it Goes: What is Truth? This quote: "I asked why truth needed “absolute” as a qualifier. Did the word itself not carry enough weight? He said he did not know. He was just a musician. Later I had a thought. Could “absolute” be to “truth” what “perfect” is to “harmony”" Good thoughts. So if all truth is God's Truth; why do we need the qualifier: Absolute Truth? Since there isn't anything relative about it - only in God's eyes.

This past Sunday I spoke on the discipline of submission. Alot of my talk focused on men being men. That there isn't a Nice Guy in the Bible. Jesus was meek, but not weak. There tends to be this wussy, wimpy, dopey, stupid DAD complex that is emulated by our culture and society. We have guys like Homer, Everyone Loves Raymond, and so forth to Thank for that. What we need are godly, Christian, men that will do what is right no matter what. Even Jack Baurer forsaked his own kids for his work. Kind of makes me want Chuck Norris to have children. I mean really where are the Christian men role models?? Seems to be something that is lacking in our movies, TV, and even other sources of media. Let's get away from this wussifcation of Man and focus on the how men can be godly and be the Men of God ...that God has called them to be.

So I'm getting ready to finish my day. (Suppose to be my day off but needed to practice my sermon and finish it up) So a telemarketer calls. (Oh, great) So we do the usual chit chat. She goes over her rehearsed chat. I ask to be sent material and a website. To which she replies we don't do that. We want to give you address labels for new people moving into the area for $50+/month Don't you want to reach your community for Christ with new people? Sure ...what makes you think we're not? What do you do now? (I mention a few things the church has done and I'm the new preacher and been here a short time and tired because I've just moved) She goes on ...well as a man of God don't you think you want to be reaching your community? (I'm angry, I'm upset and well ... at this point I almost hang up but listen) Then I replied: (I wanted to say as a man of God God gives the increase and we don't need your stupid program because I trust God and not some silly