• I was fortunate to miss the fireworks/mortar rounds on Navarro Avenue last night, as I was at the Galaxy soccer game at Home Depot Center. These cool people from Chapel Hill Bible Church (who are visiting Harambee, serving for two weeks) brought me along to their outing. It was nice. But when I got home the corner store was (almost) on fire again! There was smoke coming out of their old storage shed that is attached to the main structure. There was a guy up there yelling about “Give me a hose.” I couldn’t figure it out. I called the fire department, and by the time they came (pretty quickly) the smoke had turned to red embers and then to a low flame. But they put it out.
• My World Cup predictions stink. Bad. You could make money by seeing who I pick, then betting the opposite way. I would say Italy are the favorites. Somehow that major scandal back in Italy is helping the Azzuri, but I don’t know how to explain it.
• BonoFatigue.com: I read it and winced. Too close to home. But funny. The first entry is a keeper. hattip syoung_88
• Kafi and the kids are in New York. I talked to them this morning. Sam still hasn’t figured out his days. I told him I’ll be there on Saturday morning. He’s trying hard to calculate how you get from Wednesday to Saturday.
• Jesus, Mean and Wild: He’s mean. He’s wild. I think that explains a lot of my misunderstands of Jesus. Some things don’t make sense when you have your “jesus, meek and mild” filter on.
• The new Sidekick 3 – oh baby
• Today I had a totally different book idea: There are these Bible verses that mean everything to me, that got me through dark patches in my life, that gave me hope and a future – but what I received from these Scriptures is basically out of context. And yet, though understood out of context, they have anchored my life. It’s illogical. But very very real. I would love to read something by a Christian hero where they basically took either (a) a very pentecostal, free reading of the Bible, taking it of context, and yet built a life around it, a Godly life, or (b) where the person read a verse and it was as if they Holy Spirit was speaking into their ear, again a Pentecostal approach, but it’s not necessary in this second thought for the verse to be out of context. Talk about live action faith.
• Most adults only have 2 people they can talk to
the morning after
July 5, 2006 at 9:14 am (J333)
Tyler Watson said,
July 5, 2006 at 11:48 am
As for your book idea, I think you can turn to a lot of the Early and Medeival church writers. Anselm of Canterbury is a start. When the dude speaks, he is a biblical quotation machine and forms doctrine and a picture of the godly life, but most of his quotations are way out of context. Heck, even the Gospel of Matthew uses OT quotations out of context. So, there you go. As for my own life, God used Isaiah 49.1-6 while I was at UC Davis as a part of what I believe was my calling to seminary. And Lord knows those verses ain’t about seminary or some sophomore Aggie who can’t pick a major. I don’t advertise that those verses were part of my calling since to do so sounds pretentious considering how messianic that passage is.