Mike's Chair Has The Answers
No, JESUS is the Answer, for the world today.
My title today comes from Doug and Jaci's Morning Show artist of the day (Mike's Chair) and challenge word (answers). Before getting to the office today where I'm typing this, I paid a visit to Joy at that thrift store I talked about yesterday where I picked up The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus, which really aren't secrets, and like me she reads a little bit of everything. This helps because if you're funneling your thoughts toward one group of fiction or fact it's impossible to think of anything or interpret anything outside it. And in an era where mass printing (and mass e-reading, I admit grudgingly) is available, it's great to have -- I say this as a Christian, but it also helps as a crash course in human civilization, e.g. why we have the values we do and make civilized rules against theft, murder, and impertinence -- and you really have no excuse for not seeing others' point of view.
SEE other persons' points of view, but ACT on your own. Sounds like what I did this morning for two things before Coffee With The Boys at church that I dropped in on -- one when I brought the kids to school, I went in to talk to Mrs. Larson Sarah's teacher because Martha and I and Sarah were all unclear on when a particular assignment of hers -- a series of IXL math practices -- were due to be done on the computer, where SO MANY assignments seem to need to be nowadays. I was reading out some of the problems Sarah had to do and the answers she came up with and lamenting inside why not use pen and paper? Well, she did to figure out the problems and she only had to enter the answers, but at the risk of sounding old and stodgy, all those bits and bytes in cyberspace can be manipulated to do and say and be anything. (They're not due until the end of next week, by the way.)
Ironically, you're probably reading this on a computer or tablet or smarterphone that brought my post to you out of cyberspace, but I like to think I'm smart enough to keep paper books and not rely exclusively on what I read online. Like that New Yorker cartoon where one dog typing at the computer says to another, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Believing that you are really reading the post of a real person, not some random gibberish, may be this generation's biggest exercise in faith, even more so than believing that and acting on Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life with no man (no ONE, I don't want to sound sexist here) can come unto the Father -- God -- but by Him. So today's post is a mite evangelical; it's my post, deal with it. I also brought my novel The Book of Numbers live on Kindle yesterday, so you can get a print copy or read it on your device.
I personally recommend the paperback, which you can get at CreateSpace or Amazon. Dealt with errand number two regarding Sarah wanting to spend the night with a friend this weekend, but it works out better next weekend for everybody; then I got to churches for coffee and treats with the "Boys" -- actually many older men and regulars at Bethany, but praise be to God one person was there in that group of eleven who's younger than ME, so I'm no longer the youngest person there (if Jacob keeps coming back, of course)! Sounds like a silly thing to lift up, but it isn't if you're thinking of where the church and we who are still here in Minot going to Bethany Lutheran (if we haven't been raptured first, that is) will be in twenty years. We can make plans without having all the answers.
I count on Jesus for those, David
My title today comes from Doug and Jaci's Morning Show artist of the day (Mike's Chair) and challenge word (answers). Before getting to the office today where I'm typing this, I paid a visit to Joy at that thrift store I talked about yesterday where I picked up The Leadership Secrets of Santa Claus, which really aren't secrets, and like me she reads a little bit of everything. This helps because if you're funneling your thoughts toward one group of fiction or fact it's impossible to think of anything or interpret anything outside it. And in an era where mass printing (and mass e-reading, I admit grudgingly) is available, it's great to have -- I say this as a Christian, but it also helps as a crash course in human civilization, e.g. why we have the values we do and make civilized rules against theft, murder, and impertinence -- and you really have no excuse for not seeing others' point of view.
SEE other persons' points of view, but ACT on your own. Sounds like what I did this morning for two things before Coffee With The Boys at church that I dropped in on -- one when I brought the kids to school, I went in to talk to Mrs. Larson Sarah's teacher because Martha and I and Sarah were all unclear on when a particular assignment of hers -- a series of IXL math practices -- were due to be done on the computer, where SO MANY assignments seem to need to be nowadays. I was reading out some of the problems Sarah had to do and the answers she came up with and lamenting inside why not use pen and paper? Well, she did to figure out the problems and she only had to enter the answers, but at the risk of sounding old and stodgy, all those bits and bytes in cyberspace can be manipulated to do and say and be anything. (They're not due until the end of next week, by the way.)
Ironically, you're probably reading this on a computer or tablet or smarterphone that brought my post to you out of cyberspace, but I like to think I'm smart enough to keep paper books and not rely exclusively on what I read online. Like that New Yorker cartoon where one dog typing at the computer says to another, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Believing that you are really reading the post of a real person, not some random gibberish, may be this generation's biggest exercise in faith, even more so than believing that and acting on Jesus Christ as the way, the truth, and the life with no man (no ONE, I don't want to sound sexist here) can come unto the Father -- God -- but by Him. So today's post is a mite evangelical; it's my post, deal with it. I also brought my novel The Book of Numbers live on Kindle yesterday, so you can get a print copy or read it on your device.
I personally recommend the paperback, which you can get at CreateSpace or Amazon. Dealt with errand number two regarding Sarah wanting to spend the night with a friend this weekend, but it works out better next weekend for everybody; then I got to churches for coffee and treats with the "Boys" -- actually many older men and regulars at Bethany, but praise be to God one person was there in that group of eleven who's younger than ME, so I'm no longer the youngest person there (if Jacob keeps coming back, of course)! Sounds like a silly thing to lift up, but it isn't if you're thinking of where the church and we who are still here in Minot going to Bethany Lutheran (if we haven't been raptured first, that is) will be in twenty years. We can make plans without having all the answers.
I count on Jesus for those, David
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