The Swiss are famous for their neutrality, not their ferocity. But they put on a good act.This has been a GREAT day. I don't know if my sermon worked or not. It was more lesson than sermon, but as I explained to them at the beginning, we have to go where the text takes us. And this morning's passage (1 Cor. 13:8-10) is a teaching text.
What I enjoyed so much was the obvious growth we're experiencing at Pathway. We had more visitors today who indicated they'd be back. As Matt pointed out, we had a "first" this morning - the McCures had to look for a place to sit when they came in.
God is good and he is gracious. I cannot overstate my conviction that Pathway is God's church and any outcomes the result of his grace.
After the necessary preacher's crash I went up the road to the auto parts store and got a throttle return spring for the carb I installed yesterday. After some cranking to get gas into the float bowl Gerta fired right up. Once I saw that she ran I put the air cleaner back on and hooked up the heat tubes that are part of an air cooled VW setup and she purred like a kitten.
I am SO relieved. I diagnosed this as a fuel problem when it started three months ago. After doing all kinds of things, including rebuilding my old carb, I was beginning to doubt either my diagnosis and/or my skills. But getting a new carb that solved the problem tells me that a) my diagnosis was correct, and b) that old carb was beyond repair.
Most importantly, my 30 mpg fun ride is back up and running so I don't have to use my 14 mpg beast at a time gas continues to climb. Tomorrow I'll take it out for a drive and see if I need to make any adjustments to the fuel mixture.
But wait! There's more!
The Lakers are spanking the Magic. We're still in the third quarter but it's lookin' good.
Last week's TIME magazine included a longer article titled, "Decoding God's Changing Moods." The author, Robert Wright, discusses the back-and-forth behavior of God, whether one reads the Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity or Islam.
I began reading with a skeptical view that went south from there. A dozen paragraphs in he writes, "The Bible has the logic backward." I don't know who this guy is but he strikes me as more than a little arrogant when he concludes rather summarily that the Bible, which has been around for a while, has misjudged the situation.
The Bible's "error" in this case has to do with King Solomon, who had 300 wives and 700 concubines and who, the Bible says, "turned away his heart after other gods." The Bible attrributes this idolatry to his involvement with those Gentile women.
Wright interprets "turned away his heart" as a statement of romantic affection when instead, Wright says, those marriages were to solidify political alliances. "Solomon's many wives didn't lead to his many gods; his politics led to both the wives and the gods."
OK, if you say so Mr. Wright. If the Bible says his wives led to his idolatry but you say it didn't happen like that, then by all means I'll defer to your analysis of the situation. Never mind that you interpret the phrase, "turned away his heart" as a statement of romantic affections when that association of the heart with romance is a strictly modern and western view, not the ancient Hebrew view.
It irritates me when people who clearly haven't done their homework feel competent to pass judgment on Scripture.
I'm getting a new computer this week!! He said it could come in Monday or Tuesday, but probably Wednesday. I'm hoping it's tomorrow! I could drive Gerta over to pick it up.
What I enjoyed so much was the obvious growth we're experiencing at Pathway. We had more visitors today who indicated they'd be back. As Matt pointed out, we had a "first" this morning - the McCures had to look for a place to sit when they came in.
God is good and he is gracious. I cannot overstate my conviction that Pathway is God's church and any outcomes the result of his grace.
After the necessary preacher's crash I went up the road to the auto parts store and got a throttle return spring for the carb I installed yesterday. After some cranking to get gas into the float bowl Gerta fired right up. Once I saw that she ran I put the air cleaner back on and hooked up the heat tubes that are part of an air cooled VW setup and she purred like a kitten.
I am SO relieved. I diagnosed this as a fuel problem when it started three months ago. After doing all kinds of things, including rebuilding my old carb, I was beginning to doubt either my diagnosis and/or my skills. But getting a new carb that solved the problem tells me that a) my diagnosis was correct, and b) that old carb was beyond repair.
Most importantly, my 30 mpg fun ride is back up and running so I don't have to use my 14 mpg beast at a time gas continues to climb. Tomorrow I'll take it out for a drive and see if I need to make any adjustments to the fuel mixture.
But wait! There's more!
The Lakers are spanking the Magic. We're still in the third quarter but it's lookin' good.
Last week's TIME magazine included a longer article titled, "Decoding God's Changing Moods." The author, Robert Wright, discusses the back-and-forth behavior of God, whether one reads the Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity or Islam.
I began reading with a skeptical view that went south from there. A dozen paragraphs in he writes, "The Bible has the logic backward." I don't know who this guy is but he strikes me as more than a little arrogant when he concludes rather summarily that the Bible, which has been around for a while, has misjudged the situation.
The Bible's "error" in this case has to do with King Solomon, who had 300 wives and 700 concubines and who, the Bible says, "turned away his heart after other gods." The Bible attrributes this idolatry to his involvement with those Gentile women.
Wright interprets "turned away his heart" as a statement of romantic affection when instead, Wright says, those marriages were to solidify political alliances. "Solomon's many wives didn't lead to his many gods; his politics led to both the wives and the gods."
OK, if you say so Mr. Wright. If the Bible says his wives led to his idolatry but you say it didn't happen like that, then by all means I'll defer to your analysis of the situation. Never mind that you interpret the phrase, "turned away his heart" as a statement of romantic affections when that association of the heart with romance is a strictly modern and western view, not the ancient Hebrew view.
It irritates me when people who clearly haven't done their homework feel competent to pass judgment on Scripture.
I'm getting a new computer this week!! He said it could come in Monday or Tuesday, but probably Wednesday. I'm hoping it's tomorrow! I could drive Gerta over to pick it up.
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