So, whaddaya think? What's the story here?If you’re on Facebook you probably know about the movement to replace your profile pic with a cartoon character from your childhood for the weekend. I changed mine to Mighty Mouse. The intent is to help stop child abuse. I’ve seen some posts that question the connection between a cartoon profile pic and stopping child abuse. Where’s any cause/effect relationship between those two?
I view child abuse as particularly evil. Some of Christ’s harshest denouncements were against those who mistreat children. So anything that has the slightest impact on that problem, I’m in. And while at first I was also skeptical of any connection I decided cartoon profile pics across Facebook has at least as much impact as pink socks on the feet of NFL linemen. That is, consciousness raising is part of the solution and building a social ethos is key.
Greyhounds are sight hounds; they hunt by sight and have incredibly sharp vision. The shape of their head and the placement of their eyes gives them a 270 degree range of vision and they can spot something the size of a bottle cap a quarter of a mile away. So we weren’t surprised to learn Al didn’t have much of a sense of smell. When it came time to relieve himself one place was as good as another as long as it involved a vertical surface, and vertical could mean a piece of gravel that stuck up higher than others.
Jack is atypical in that regard. On our walks is nose is always working, even shifting from side to side on his face as he pulls in odors only he can sense. The problem is that he has to find JUST the right place to leave his mark. When he feels the urge he’ll walk along slowly with his nose to the ground sniffing furiously to find the perfect spot.
Drives me CRAZY! “C’mon, dog. I’ve got things to do, so get yours done, will ya?”
I guess I should be happy he doesn’t want to read TIME.
I have a 6 a.m. flight tomorrow. Given the drive to the airport, diagonally across the city, and the shuttle ride to the terminal (never mind the potential for a pat down) I’ll leave the house a little before 4 a.m. I go through Salt Lake City and get into Seattle at 10:00 a.m. (They’re an hour later than we are this time of year.) I should have my rental car and be out of the airport no later than 11:00 which puts me at the folks’ a little before noon. They both have dr. appointments mid-afternoon so I’m meeting Pastor Jim for coffee. We grew up together in the church there (Berean Bible Church), and he’s been the pastor at Berean for about 15 years. Later in the week I’m meeting with Pastor Ken who pastors a church out on the peninsula - Port Orchard. He also grew up in our church but is about 5 years younger than Jim and me.
Jim, Ken and I are just a portion of the people now in full time ministry who grew up at Berean. Others serve, or have served as pastors, youth pastors, missionaries and ministry administrators. Berean is a mid-sized church, averaging about 300 on a Sunday morning, so by any standard that congregation has turned out a very disproportionate number of young people who went on to full time ministry, a pattern that continues today.
Why?
There’s probably no one answer. Berean is and has always been a Bible church where all the ministries of the church are centered on God’s Word. That will inevitably produce lives centered on God’s will. Children and youth ministries have been a priority since the founding of the church. The L.A. Peterson Youth Center is named after our first pastor as a way of commemorating his priorities. A continuing series of volunteers who serve in Sunday School classes and as youth group sponsors patterned godly living and love for their charges.
Pathway can do no better. I pray that a generation from now people are commenting on how many young people grew up in our church and went on to full time ministry. No better assessment of a church’s faithfulness.
So did nobody get my physics humor? Or was it too corny for comment?
I hope to post from Seattle but don’t be surprised if I miss a post, especially tomorrow night. It’s going to be a loooong day.
I view child abuse as particularly evil. Some of Christ’s harshest denouncements were against those who mistreat children. So anything that has the slightest impact on that problem, I’m in. And while at first I was also skeptical of any connection I decided cartoon profile pics across Facebook has at least as much impact as pink socks on the feet of NFL linemen. That is, consciousness raising is part of the solution and building a social ethos is key.
Greyhounds are sight hounds; they hunt by sight and have incredibly sharp vision. The shape of their head and the placement of their eyes gives them a 270 degree range of vision and they can spot something the size of a bottle cap a quarter of a mile away. So we weren’t surprised to learn Al didn’t have much of a sense of smell. When it came time to relieve himself one place was as good as another as long as it involved a vertical surface, and vertical could mean a piece of gravel that stuck up higher than others.
Jack is atypical in that regard. On our walks is nose is always working, even shifting from side to side on his face as he pulls in odors only he can sense. The problem is that he has to find JUST the right place to leave his mark. When he feels the urge he’ll walk along slowly with his nose to the ground sniffing furiously to find the perfect spot.
Drives me CRAZY! “C’mon, dog. I’ve got things to do, so get yours done, will ya?”
I guess I should be happy he doesn’t want to read TIME.
I have a 6 a.m. flight tomorrow. Given the drive to the airport, diagonally across the city, and the shuttle ride to the terminal (never mind the potential for a pat down) I’ll leave the house a little before 4 a.m. I go through Salt Lake City and get into Seattle at 10:00 a.m. (They’re an hour later than we are this time of year.) I should have my rental car and be out of the airport no later than 11:00 which puts me at the folks’ a little before noon. They both have dr. appointments mid-afternoon so I’m meeting Pastor Jim for coffee. We grew up together in the church there (Berean Bible Church), and he’s been the pastor at Berean for about 15 years. Later in the week I’m meeting with Pastor Ken who pastors a church out on the peninsula - Port Orchard. He also grew up in our church but is about 5 years younger than Jim and me.
Jim, Ken and I are just a portion of the people now in full time ministry who grew up at Berean. Others serve, or have served as pastors, youth pastors, missionaries and ministry administrators. Berean is a mid-sized church, averaging about 300 on a Sunday morning, so by any standard that congregation has turned out a very disproportionate number of young people who went on to full time ministry, a pattern that continues today.
Why?
There’s probably no one answer. Berean is and has always been a Bible church where all the ministries of the church are centered on God’s Word. That will inevitably produce lives centered on God’s will. Children and youth ministries have been a priority since the founding of the church. The L.A. Peterson Youth Center is named after our first pastor as a way of commemorating his priorities. A continuing series of volunteers who serve in Sunday School classes and as youth group sponsors patterned godly living and love for their charges.
Pathway can do no better. I pray that a generation from now people are commenting on how many young people grew up in our church and went on to full time ministry. No better assessment of a church’s faithfulness.
So did nobody get my physics humor? Or was it too corny for comment?
I hope to post from Seattle but don’t be surprised if I miss a post, especially tomorrow night. It’s going to be a loooong day.
2 comments:
Corny; yes. And maybe some didn't get it but might have if it read: HEADLINE: Honda Board od Directors periodically tables discussion to cancel the Element.
Ohhhhhh.... (I think it's more of a chemistry pun than physics.)
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