Today we only hit 112. Yeah, that's much better.
I was out in the garage at 4:00 a.m. putting glides on the 12 drawers. Hit a head-scratcher on #11 and eventually figured out that one side measured the 17" it needed to be while the other side was 16.5" I have NO idea how that happened because I used a stop on the radial arm saw. Fortunately, I had enough extra pieces to make a replacement drawer.
Since then I've painted the drawer fronts, so tomorrow I can begin installing them.
I also came up with a design I like for the headboard that I *think* I can execute using the table and radial arm saws at the wood shop. I'll get the pine boards for that in the morning when Home Depot opens at 6:00, then go to the shop late morning when it's started to heat up.
Our narrow driveway on the left side of Baker Rd. is easy to miss because of the big trees on either side, and because it enters the property at an acute angle relative to the gravel road. We've wondered if the frequent visitors we hope to have will miss it altogether. So we talked about what to put out at the road in addition to the required Lane County address marker as a landmark.
"Just look for the ______ on the left side, about 100 yards after it turns to gravel."
We agreed it needed to be something distinctive, eye catching, and ideally representative of who we are in some way. Sure, a neon green pool noodle tied to the tree would serve the purpose, but....
I had an epiphanette this morning.
This is a license plate, just the right size to be easily visible without being too big.
Preaching is a lot more than getting up in front of church and talking about spiritual stuff. It falls in the class of public speaking called oratory, and its governing principles date to the Greeks who are generally considered the originators of that form. Good preaching has more in common with a college paper than a political speech or TED address. There are exceptions - cf. sermon forms like narrative preaching - but a sermon should have a proposition, or what in that college paper is called a thesis. It's a point that serves as the unifying theme for all the content. The content can precede the statement of the proposition (inductive preaching) or, more typically, follow it (deductive preaching).
We've fallen into a pattern; on the way home from church we talk about the sermon we just heard. This morning, when we got in the car Pam said, "I took notes this morning so I could do a better job of talking about his sermon."
My first question: "What was his proposition?"
That is, as I used to tell my students, if the attenders are approached in the church foyer and asked to give one sentence that encapsulates the sermon they just heard, they should be able to do so readily. If it was a well structured sermon with a clear proposition, that proposition, or thesis, should stick clearly in their mind.
So if you heard a sermon this morning, what was his proposition, his thesis? In one sentence, what was his sermon?
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