September, 2008
Uncoordinated Hands
Submitted by Sam White on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 23:10.
9.28.8 – Uncoordinated Hands
Why do you do what you do? What’s your driving motivation? For many years of my life (seemingly from birth to age 22) I did what I did with one thought in mind: will it attract girls? Jobs, cars, fashion, speech, the one overriding motivation in everything I did was to impress girls.
When I was 22, I found one who actually was impressed with me. So my focus switched to keeping her impressed. She’s kind enough to not say whether I’m successful or not.
What drives you to do the things you do and the way you do them?
Why the Emmys Tanked
Submitted by Sam White on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 16:50.
The ratings for both the Emmys and the Oscars were way down this year. Possibly the lowest ever for the Emmys and close for the other.
At the Emmys, they’re blaming the low ratings on a spoof they did at the beginning wherein several different hosts were vying for the job and some were voted off (or killed, I didn’t watch). You can blame the bad ratings on the opening skit only if people started out by watching it then turned over to something else. If they started out not watching and stayed away, you have to conclude they weren’t going to watch anyway.
Why?
Four Kinds of Love
Submitted by Sam White on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 01:06.
If we set out to do something and the method we use to do it works, what do we usually conclude? That that was the right way to do it, right?
It isn’t always, is it? When we built that puppet stage a few weeks ago, I was using my electric drill to drive in the screws. But there was some difficulty. Gerald spotted that maybe I was using the wrong bit. See, I could have gotten the job done with the original bit, but I would have continued to have problems. Once I switched to the correct bit, the whole thing went much more smoothly.
Four Kinds of Love
Submitted by Sam White on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 16:53.
If we set out to do something and the method we use to do it works, what do we usually conclude? That that was the right way to do it, right?
It isn’t always, is it? When we built that puppet stage a few weeks ago, I was using my electric drill to drive in the screws. But there was some difficulty. Gerald spotted that maybe I was using the wrong bit. See, I could have gotten the job done with the original bit, but I would have continued to have problems. Once I switched to the correct bit, the whole thing went much more smoothly.
Like Robinson Crusoe, It's Primitive as Can Be
Submitted by Sam White on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 13:00.
No Divorce? How quaint
Submitted by Sam White on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 01:00.
We’ve been going through the “Sermon on the Mount” for several weeks now, looking at what Jesus said in the inaugural sermon of his ministry.
If you’ve noticed, ever week on the Scripture page in the bulletin I put the scripture passage that we’ll be studying the next week. You might have looked at the passage for today and been curious, or even cringed.
Talk about a hard saying for the modern ear:
Why Didn't God Want the Gospel to Come to Texas?
Submitted by Sam White on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 00:57.
Ask most ministers what they think of “The Cotton Patch Bible” and you can get some pretty interesting answers. Some people find it funny, some find it provocative, some just hate it. Those who are familiar with the Cotton Patch are rarely ambivalent in their feelings towards it.
Re-Gifting
Submitted by Sam White on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 15:35.
9.7.8 – Re-Gifting
Do you know what re-gifting is? The term comes from “Seinfeld” and it’s when you give a gift to someone that was once a gift given to you. In other words, it’s a gift that cost you nothing. Another aspect of re-gifting is that, often, we don’t want the person we are giving the gift to to know we are re-gifting.
What if re-gifting isn’t such a bad thing, though? What if it’s actually a godly thing?
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