Something for Sunday Morning
If you have a God you understand, you have erected an idol.
Benedict Groeschel, 12/13/2008 Podcast from Sunday Night Live (not a precise
quote, but I got it very close).
Eric Scheske
Friday
Yes, I realize posting has been a bit lazy this week. I've been struggling with
a cold/virus/bug/demon for almost six weeks now and this week it tipped me:
ongoing fatigue reinforced by a new non-stop cough laid me out, plus I was met
with
Ponderisms
1. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 apiece on those little bottles
of Evian water?
Try spelling Evian backwards: NAIVE
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2. Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section
in a swimming pool?
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3. If 4 out of 5 people
From the Notebooks
Good Christians are many, if it weren't for all those people: the whiners, the
manipulators, the crooks, the liars, the heretics, the greedy. But Christ put up
with all of them and remained sinless. The Bible recounts disciple buffoonery
and selfishness, yet Christ communed with them, loved them,
From the Notebooks
I liked Napoleon Dynamite.
I found it funny, at times hilarious, both in its scenes and the utter inanity
of it all.
Yet people I respect (and who used to respect me, I gather) can't fathom its
humor. They're simply in awe that anyone, much less
From the Notebooks: Feature Piece
Theology for the Acquisitive Culture
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay
destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor decay destroys, not thieves break in and steal. For where your
treasure is, there
Something for Sunday Morning
"Sad looks spring from egoism, from thinking about oneself to the exclusion of
others, from laziness in one's work, from lack of mortification, from the search
for small self-indulgences, from carelessness in one's relationship with God."
Francis Fernandez
Brews You Can Use
Christmas tree made up of Heineken beer bottles in Vietnam last year
[http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132].
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The best reason to diet yet: So you don't have to drink this stuff. A
From the Notebooks
There seems to be two types of voluntary seclusionists, the hermit and the
loner. The hermit is the person who seeks solitude for religious reasons. The
loner is his secular counterpart, a person who seeks seclusion but not for
religious reasons.
I am mostly interested in the loner because there
Wednesday Miscellany
Smile: You're not an island, and sin is not isolate. What you do makes a
difference, whether you know it or not. Science is beginning to get it:
happiness is contagious
[http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis_fowler08/christakis_fowler08_index.html]
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