Archive for January, 2010
Scott Roeder forgets to read the rest of the Bible…
Jan 29th
For those of you who don’t live in the Wichita Kansas area, Roeder killed the infamous abortion doctor, George Tiller, on a Sunday, at Tiller’s local church.
Roeder’s defense, in summary:
“I don’t believe anyone can take life other than God; except in self defense or to defend another person.”
Good try Roeder but I think you shot yourself in the foot with that statement. Abortion is legal in Kansas. And yes, I am pro-life. I understand your concern for the innocent but your actions were worse than those of Tiller. Because what YOU did was illegal, both biblically and constitutionally. God’s law is exactly that, God’s law but within that law is an amendment that I think you neglected (More than likely, conveniently overlooked.) to notice. Something about “render under Caesar”. I don’t know, maybe that “render under Caesar” doesn’t apply to you or Pat Robertson but it does for the rest of us. Thanks to you, we can now blame the 700 Club for your actions. And I want to extend our gratitude, from the rest of Christianity, thanks for moving us further backwards. How did the word guilty sound? More importantly, how does the word life, sound now?
Good luck in the pokey, homey.
Social Network Rules
Jan 28th
Anybody else getting tired of hearing the “pros” tell you what or what not to blog? Or what or what not to tweet? Or what a status on Facebook should or shouldn’t read? C’mon! I can’t be the only one.
Isn’t the point to be yourself? Isn’t the reason people blog, tweet, or contribute to social networks because they want to reveal to the world who they are or what the product being pimped is? Of course one should use common sense but to tell me [this] is how I should do the aforementioned is asinine. I don’t want to be like you. I don’t want sound like you. I don’t want to write like you. Find somebody else to feed people to your site, I ain’t gonna be your pawn. Cause I want to be like Juh-eee-sus.
Would Jesus dunk His fish sticks in water?
Jan 27th
Why do we do that? Why do we assume that if Jesus “would do something” that we would approve of it? Maybe I’m reading a different bible but I don’t see Jesus “doing” a lot of agreeable stuff. Who’s to say, that if Jesus showed up today, that he wouldn’t be doing the things we approve of?
Last night I caught myself.
My daughter is on one side of the kitchen island and I am on the other. I am standing eating spicy chicken fingers and she is on a stool eating fish sticks. She dips her fish stick in ketchup and laughs. Because that is funny. She then starts using her fish stick like a fat coffee stirrer to stir her water. And then takes a bite. I realize she is doing this because the fish sticks are hot. Naturally, ice water is a cooling agent. “Smart kid”, I’m thinking. And then I find myself thinking, “…she is making soup.” Ice water, ketchup, green beans, fish sticks, and cheese block soup.
This is where I caught myself. I heard myself say, “Kyah don’t do that; that’s yucky.” In which the return response was laughter and a faint, “no.” And I did it. I began to wonder, “WWJD.” But this time, instead of trying to justify my actions, I realized Jesus would never denounce creativity. Jesus would never say, “This is how you are supposed to eat.”
Bang! Pharisee killed.
Unless my kid is endangering herself or others, she will be allowed to eat however she wants to. Well, until momma objects.
Tuesday’s Question
Jan 26th
I doubt. And honestly, my doubts can scare the crap out of me. What bothers me, is the fact that the only thing I do doubt, is the same thing that I am supposed to trust the most. Wanna’ get even more scary? I don’t think I have ever doubted the existence of Satan. And when I realized this, I was calmed. Trusting God is an event. It’s a process. Believing in God is easy, at least for me. It’s the trusting part that causes me to doubt.
Do you doubt? What do you do to continue believing and trusting God?
