Top Ten Things I wished someone would of told me in High School.

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!

Why does Truth need the Qualifier: Absolute?

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.

The Wussification of Man

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.

My Rant: Christian Telemarketers!!!

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 thing you want to sell me - but I didn't)

I am a man of God and hate to be questioned about it and my integrity. A part of being a man of God is being a good steward of what God has entrusted to us and trying to discern what programs we do and don't do. If you just had sent the info and the website I might look at it later. Thanks. And then she screams at me and then rambles (I couldn't tell if she was speaking in tongues or something else) so at that point I did what any good Christian would do. I hung up! Silence. Peace!

Man, my prayer is that God gives the increase. I'm just SAD that this young lady went about it all the wrong way. I have the website but don't think I'll be checking them out any time soon.

Anyone else have problems with Christian Telemarketers? Sometimes they can be worse than regular telemarketers.