Praise the Lord. Praaaaise the Lord!Is there anything to eat around here? I'm hungry.
Robert Furchgott died the other day at 92. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry but nobody cares because he also invented Viagra.
And there are enough punch lines from this story that Jay Leno would have his monologue covered for a week.
Your suggestion?
Lakers look lame.
Here's a fun video from France. I love the fix. Hey, it's all good, man.
Tomorrow's sermon is important. The more I study the topic of communion in 1 Corinthians the more I'm struck by the significance of the event. Methinks that the evangelical church has overreacted to the error of the Roman Catholic Church (transubstantiation) and of the Lutheran Church (consubstantiation). We have gone to the other extreme and so diluted the observance that we don't recognizing its power and importance.
Paul writes that because some in the Corinthian church had acted improperly in connection with the Lord's Supper some of them were sick, and some had even died. That would seem to suggest that the observance is a lot more than just a memorial, just a reminder of an historical event. And his equating the participation with demons that occurs at an idol feast with the participation with Christ that occurs at communion (chapter 10) also suggests this is more than a memorial.
We'll have communion together next Sunday, but not until after we've worked through tomorrow's passage to make sure we're ready to do this.
Speaking of a memorial, I've been thinking ahead to Monday. I'm going to miss being in West Michigan. I'm sure if I looked I could find a parade here but I haven't seen anything about one near us. In Jenison, Grandville and many of the small towns around Grand Rapids, they have a community parade every Memorial Day that prominently features veterans, flags and kids in wagons.
Whether it's west Michigan or Nebraska there's something about small towns in rural America; they have a richness the big cities don't know. That Norman Rockwell thing. Hey, people are people no matter where they live. I certainly don't mean to suggest that the people in West Michigan are any more patriotic or sincere - that they love their families or their country any more than people in large metropolitan areas on the coasts. But in the absence of the luxuries and diversions of the big city they find significance in the simpler and purer things of life.
Props to my Michigan peeps.
The web site of the local ABC affiliate has a news story with a headline that reads: "How to avoid a DUI this Memorial Weekend." That's got to be a pretty short story, doesn't it?
Robert Furchgott died the other day at 92. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry but nobody cares because he also invented Viagra.
And there are enough punch lines from this story that Jay Leno would have his monologue covered for a week.
Your suggestion?
Lakers look lame.
Here's a fun video from France. I love the fix. Hey, it's all good, man.
Tomorrow's sermon is important. The more I study the topic of communion in 1 Corinthians the more I'm struck by the significance of the event. Methinks that the evangelical church has overreacted to the error of the Roman Catholic Church (transubstantiation) and of the Lutheran Church (consubstantiation). We have gone to the other extreme and so diluted the observance that we don't recognizing its power and importance.
Paul writes that because some in the Corinthian church had acted improperly in connection with the Lord's Supper some of them were sick, and some had even died. That would seem to suggest that the observance is a lot more than just a memorial, just a reminder of an historical event. And his equating the participation with demons that occurs at an idol feast with the participation with Christ that occurs at communion (chapter 10) also suggests this is more than a memorial.
We'll have communion together next Sunday, but not until after we've worked through tomorrow's passage to make sure we're ready to do this.
Speaking of a memorial, I've been thinking ahead to Monday. I'm going to miss being in West Michigan. I'm sure if I looked I could find a parade here but I haven't seen anything about one near us. In Jenison, Grandville and many of the small towns around Grand Rapids, they have a community parade every Memorial Day that prominently features veterans, flags and kids in wagons.
Whether it's west Michigan or Nebraska there's something about small towns in rural America; they have a richness the big cities don't know. That Norman Rockwell thing. Hey, people are people no matter where they live. I certainly don't mean to suggest that the people in West Michigan are any more patriotic or sincere - that they love their families or their country any more than people in large metropolitan areas on the coasts. But in the absence of the luxuries and diversions of the big city they find significance in the simpler and purer things of life.
Props to my Michigan peeps.
The web site of the local ABC affiliate has a news story with a headline that reads: "How to avoid a DUI this Memorial Weekend." That's got to be a pretty short story, doesn't it?
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