i saw this twain quote on my google homepage this evening.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
randomquotes from "what would JESUS deconstrcut?"
i’m reading john d. caputo’s book “what would JESUS deconstuct” at the moment and here are a few quotes that have stuck out thus far.
deeconstrcution is organized around the idea that things contain a kind of uncontainable truth, that they contain what they cannot contain [emphasis added]
page 29
the nest time we look up to heaven and piously pray “come, LORD JESUS,” we may find that HE is already here, trying to get warm over an urban grate or trying to cross our borders.
page 30
the truth will make you free, but it does so by turning your life upside down.
page 30
it’s a good read thus far.
CHRISTian the lion
this is the video i talked about with the tapestry launch team today at lunch.
basically these two guys raised a lion from cub to lion. when he was too big they figured out a way to release him into the wilds of africa. after a year they wanted to visit and see how he was doing. when they got to africa they were told that CHRISTian (the lion) was now the head of his pride and would not remember him for he was now completely wild. this video is what happened.
it gets a little sappy at the end but it’s still cool.
ht pamela
my discing for the day
course – mead
holes – 9
score – +1
my run for the day
distance – 3.0 miles
time – 34:31
pace = 11:31/mile
weather – 66°/clear
the process
an interesting video that i will definitely end up using eventually. it’s all about what would happen if the stop sign had to be invented by a modern marketing strategy. it makes me laugh.
the leiningers
we got to reconnect with some old friends yesterday. the leiningers are friends who are missionaries in siberia through the imb. they are in the states on a two month furlough. andy and i were on staff together at the first baptist church of carthage. he and elisabeth are the type of friends that we reconnect with instantly no matter how long it has been since our last conversation. they are simply great people and pam and i love it whenever we get to spend a little time with them. andy was a very good minister at carthage but he is an incredible missionary. some of the stuff that he and elisabeth (because she is just as much a part of what is going on) are doing is simply incredible. their kids are pretty cool also. the imb missionaries that i know are some of the coolest people in the world.
the difference a month can make
i thought y’all might enjoy seeing what the point area looked like a month ago and what it looks like in the same spot during may. both photos were taken at emy j’s (the best little coffee shop in the point area) on the 28th of the month. it’s just that one was in april and the other was in may.
quite a difference huh?
great neighbors
we have great neighbors. we had great neighbors in baton rouge and we were afraid when we moved to the point area that we might lose that and have neighbors that we didn’t really connect with. thankfully that didn’t happen. while no one can ever replace the wonderful neighbors we had in baton rouge it’s nice to know that we have wonderful friends in our new home too.
we just finished eat steaks and talking for a very long time with a couple of our neighbors. it was a wonderful evening.
SIDE NOTE – i listen to a great seminar on missiology from ed stetzer today. he brought up an interesting point of the main question that CHRISTianity attempts to ask the world … “if you were to die tonight do you know for sure where you would spend eternity.” he made a good point in pointing out that this question has been the main question that CHRISTians have tried to ask and answer for non-CHRISTians for the past 30 years while the big questions that people have been searching for answers for have changed. i wonder what the “big” questions are around all of us. if we don’t know the questions it is very difficult for us to show how JESUS can be the answer.
the best little league game everywhee
i’ve talked about improv everywhere before (we based the parkview mp3 view off of something they did). their latest project was to take an unsuspecting little league game and make it like a major league game. the video below shows it happening.
what a great thing.
RANDOM QUOTE – silence
silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
josh billings, american humorist, 1818-1885
5 reasons why "the customer is always right" is bad form
here’s an interesting thought concerning how the old mantra “the customer is always right” may actually be bad for business and customer service. basically the guy sides you should be loyal to you workers and perhaps even be ready to “fire” customers.