The Pharisee Twist

No this isn’t a dance… if it was it would not be safe… for you would get tangled up in your robe and fall. As twisted as this sounds, I understand what the Pharisees were trying to do with their rules. It was all about being acceptable to God….. something we all desire. Yep… all […]

Paraprosdokia

One of our Elders, Greg Quinn sent me this today… A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. Check out the following for examples: I asked […]

Random Thursday

1 – I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean last night… it was good. 2 – Scotty won A.I. – didn’t watch it (see #1) I think this may be it for me and A.I. 3 – Oprah preached a message for her final show. 4- Have you noticed there are no longer any […]

Day 1

I have been thinking about the R U Ready Post? and the question how does one remain ready for Jesus to return… everyday? Do you remember when you started your current job? I do. It was about 3 years ago. On day one I was asking a few questions about Farmington Baptist. Where was she […]

R U Ready?

My family will go on vacation this summer…. just like everyone else’s family. We have the date set and the plans in motion. We are excited about it but our bags are not packed, sunscreen is not bought, nor is the food we will eat. We are not ready to go. We plan to go. […]

Diversity and Difference

What if we started looking at diversity as difference? Would that change things? I think it would. Diversity is something you promote. It closes down the ability to do something different outside of its ethnicity, ideas are shut down to keep an identity and it shuts down open communication, which limits the ability for people […]