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Our Daily Thread 2-1-14

Good Morning!

Can you believe it’s already February?

Tomorrow is Groundhog Day.

If you see Phil, treat him like you would any other varmint, ‘cuz I am soooo done with Winter. 😉

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On this day in 1788 Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.

In 1790 the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City. 

In 1861 Texas voted to secede from the Union.

In 1862 “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the “Atlantic Monthly.”

In 1893 Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world’s first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.

And in 1920 Canada’s Royal North West Mounted Police changed their name to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The organization was commissioned in 1873.

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Quote of the Day

“None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man’s life.”

Thomas Cole

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Some days it’s really easy to select music. Like today. On today’s date in 1909 George Beverly Shea was born.  From TheTrueSeven

This next one is from TheSevenSunny

And today is also Victor Herbert’s birthday. The Abington Symphony Orchestra, From Imacademy1

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Anyone have a QoD?

Or try this one. Broncos or Seahawks?

Broncos 31-21

125 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-1-14”

  1. First again? I seem to be on a new schedule, whether I’m ready for it or not. 😉

    And good morning, AJ. The music looks good today — time to give it a listen!

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  3. Hi, Jo. Hope you have a nice night! I love Battle Hymn of the Republic, too. I used to play and sing it at my grandmother’s house next door when I was growing up. She’d stand by the piano bench and sing along. Fond memories.

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  4. It’s also Saturday!
    Good morning everyone.
    I finished John Hagee’s book, Four Blood Moons, last night. I have several comments I want to make. But they are issues I want to keep. So, I will make comments on my word processor and edit them and post them here.
    I have heard of John Hagee before, but this is the first time I’ve encountered him.

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  9. I keep seeing a bird I don’t recognize at my neighbor’s bird feeder. But every time I run in and get the camera, it’s gone before I get back outside. 😦

    Like 3 times now I’ve missed it. But I will get him.

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  10. i was awake way too early for a Saturday and tried and tried to go to back to sleep but failed. I am having that first cup of coffee, the dogs have been out and the 10 pound and the 40 pound one are fighting for lap space. Lulabelle promises me one day she is going to be a good girl. When she comes back inside from her morning constitutional her ears are cold so I have to hold them in my hands and warm them. This started a week or so ago. They both rush to their bowls like there will be a treat, turn their noses up at DOG food and come back into the living room for Morning Love.
    I will receive my first pay check on February 14–so Happy Valentine’s Day Kim!
    I saw on Facebook that Adios went to see George Strait who closed his show with Johnny Cash! Now wouldn’t THAT have been something?
    I find this a little humorous… The president/owner of the parent company to the company I work for is a former officer in the Marine Corps (yes, I know once a Marine, always a Marine but I couldn’t figure out another way to phrase it). We have a Monday meeting that I am expected to attend that starts at 8am. Luckily one of my bosses warned me that what 8 am means is that I should be there no later than 7:45am the closer I make it to 7:30 the better.

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  11. I have another suggestion about Bible reading. Acts should be read immediately after Luke, or some other Gospel. The reason is that we are attempted to assign Acts and the rest of Church history to another epoch. It isn’t. It is part of the same story. Read Acts 1 as another chapter of the same book. It is. The reason this came to mind is that it occurred to me, while reading Acts 4, this Sanhedrin is the same one that condemned Jesus just a couple of months before. They are dealing with the same problem, not a new one.
    Only now, it has changed for the worse.

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  12. Kim, you are correct because you said “former officer in the Marine Corps”. But you don’t say “former Marine”, he was an “active duty marine”. Two of Elvera’s brothers were Marines. One on Guam and Iwo Jima during WW II.

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  13. Lots of talk here, this morning. Good talk that I enjoy.

    Seems I remember Hagee is the one who believes that Jews do not need to become converted to Christianity. I have been seeing the book advertised and it has an intriguing title. Looking forward to your take on it, Chas.

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  14. Good Morning….looking forward to Chas’s comments concerning the book…
    We are up to about 8 inches of snow…I haven’t ventured out to measure it this morning….we got an additional inch or two overnight…oh it is so beautiful…and my crazy husband went out to run in this stuff…..wish I wasn’t such a wimp sitting here in my warm home with a nice hot cup of coffee at my side…I’m sure he is having a fun time 🙂

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  15. Somebody has to do it, Nancyjill, I am glad you are up to it! I often am relegated to that position, it is tough, watching the snow come down or the sleet and listening to the wind howl while forced to sit in my comfy chair next to the fire…

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  16. Okay, I get confused sometimes. I see a big black and white dog and think “Donna” and then read about snow. I know it never snows in LA or it would be national news. Why, every major news outlet would break into regular programming with a special report about the snow in LA. Then I see it’s a post by nancyjill. The two avatars are too similar for my glances. Now I see the difference.

    As for AJ’s attempt at a QoD, I’ll say “I really don’t care for either team, but Denver is an arch enemy of my favorite team, so Seattle by any amount.” Actually, for once I would like to see a tie in the Super Bowl. (I also am tired of seeing Peyton Manning all over the TV.)

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  18. We have more snow here (about three more inches), which is supposed to turn to rain/freezing rain, and then down to 22 overnight, so I can’t even imagine what our yard might look like at this time tomorrow. And our neighbor who usually plows is out of town.

    I remember one winter in Chicago that we got snow in October, October 7, by far the earliest I’ve seen it snow. (I usually didn’t even see snow in November in Chicago, and I always hoped it would hold off until December. December I mentally told myself it was the season for snow.) Well, we got an October snow, several snows in November, and then the snowiest December on record. I was so dreading the rest of the winter, since January was usually the worst month for snow and I was sick of it in December. It turned out that as soon as we hit the new year the snow spigots got turned off and we got hardly any more. But by December I really thought I might be in an asylum before spring arrived. This year I’m not feeling as “desperate” as I was that year (being snowed in with one’s husband is a whole different thing from having to drive in snow daily), but I can re-imagine what it must have been like, because we have now had snow on the ground for a full month, a lot of snow for four weeks (the really big snow was four weeks ago tomorrow, and we’ve had several smaller snows since then); and basically at this point I know spring is coming and this can’t last forever. But if we were still in December and had this much, or even half this much, on the ground for four weeks straight, I’d be not only sick of it but scared at the concept of how much longer this might go on.

    I left Chicago for several reasons, but one of them was that I’m a wimp when it comes to snow and cold, and I truly detested it. I can see that snow is beautiful, but other than looking at it through the window, I just detest every aspect of winter weather.

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  19. Still no snow here — Tess’ distant cousin w/nancyjill in Colorado has plenty, though — but it is finally feeling like winter. No rain either (maybe some tomorrow), but now the temps are cooler and it’s become windy and blustery at night. For a while I was actually having a hard time remembering it was winter with that weeks-long stretch of dry, upper 70s, lower 80s temperatures through much of January.

    So I went out to the back fence and have put in place some stronger barriers — to provide (I hope) for at least a stronger temporary fix. Metal panels from an old fence and several 17-pound pavers wedged up now against all of them (I have 2 more pavers to put at the very end, then that should make it pretty unmovable).

    Cowboy’s theme song now, I guess, has become “Don’t Fence Me In.”

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  20. I was tangential friends with Hagee’s son in high school. He was a wild child and had lots of negative stories about his dad. They are extremely wealthy and from what I know, a significantly dysfunctional family. Don’t think I’d trust anything he’s written…

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  21. I have just finished reading Four Blood Moons by John Hagee. He has an interesting assertion concerning the future of Israel. Below are some of my observations as I read the book.
    Last things first.

    Bottom line: I don’t recommend the book. He has written 246 pages and 16 chapters to posit a theory that could have been done is fifty pages. About a third of the book is scripture quotes. In fact, the real issue is dealt with in chapters 12-16, and I will summarize them for you here.

    So? What is Hagee talking about? On p. 172, he says, Four “blood red” total lunar eclipses will fall on Passover and Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) in 2014 and 2015, the same back-to-back occurrences at the time of 1492, 1949 and 1967! These three dates are the most important dates in Israel’s history.
    There have been several Tetrads (four consecutive blood moons) since NASA first recorded their occurrences, but Tetrads linked to significant Jewish history have happened only three times in more than five hundred years.
    Etc.
    He believes that these events fortell dramatic events in the life of Israel. He doesn’t specify anything, just that some dramatic event will happen in, to, or about Israel..
    The astronomical events are to begin April 15, 2014 and end on September 28, 2015.

    “Each of these three previous series of Four Blood Moons began with a trail of tears and ended with triumph for the Jewish people.”

    It is, of course, more complicated than I’m telling you here, but this is the gist of the matter.

    Do I believe it?
    I don’t know. I’m somewhat skeptical because I remember the 88 Reasons Christ has to Return in 88 many years ago. I was completely doubtful then, and as you see, it was all nonsense. In regard to my skepticism versus total disbelief is this:
    1. The Bible, and specifically Jesus, said that there would be signs in the heavens.
    2. World events corroborate the assertion that dramatic events will occur in Israel.
    Israel is surrounded by enemies bent on her destruction. They are strong and have (?) the bomb. All they need is organization.
    In the past, Israel has received help from the US in some form. Now, I suspect Israel is alone. This administration has depleted our power and influence in the area and is not inclined to assist Israel in any way. Given a chance, they would likely assist her enemies.
    That would be bad for us.
    In the end, there will be an Israel.
    In any case, we will soon find out. More later.

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  22. Talk about your benevolent dictator! That is Mumsee. She seems so quiet and mild mannered but the children adore and obey her. It is truly an amazing thing to see.

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  23. Good conference speakers last night (both of whom had trouble getting there as they had to fly out of Atlanta at some point). Among the highlights was finding out that Kirk Cameron came with one of the speakers, he spoke for about 15 minutes which was very cool (and showed a brief clip of his current film).

    I haven’t seen his movies but remember being impressed when I heard him handle (with grace, truth, clarity and much finesse) a tough Piers Morgan interview in CNN that I listened to on the car radio on the way home from work one night. I tuned in late and missed his intro, so I wasn’t even sure who was being interviewed, but he handled himself well in the face of repeated and rather hostile questions by Morgan on his (Morgan’s) favorite obsession, gay marriage.

    We have a couple more speakers today and then a debate tonight which should bring a pretty packed house.

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  24. Remember when the world was supposed to come crashing down around us on Y2K?
    I firmly believe that one of the reasons Christ has not returned is that we are so obsessed with predicting when it will happen. What we CAN do is live our lives in preparation just as we should have a plan for any event in our life.

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  25. Hagee’s book suffers greatly from the lack of an index.
    Hagee is a big supporter of Israel. I didn’t see anywhere where he thinks the Jews are saved without Jesus. Maybe so. I didn’t see it here.
    But I agree with him. The Bible clearly says that God has established Israel as a nation. Some observations from a previous work I did:

    Why should there be an Israel?

    God makes an unconditional covenant with Abraham. Gen. 15:
    God made a promise to Isaac and excluded Ishmael. Gen 17:21
    God promised the land to Jacob. Gen. 28:13-15. Excluded Esau.
    Promise renewed. Gen. 35:12
    Everlasting covenant: Ps. 105:8f 8He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
    Psalm 89: David will be their king.
    Psalm 132: The LORD has chosen Zion. …”my resting place forever”
    Romans 11:29, “the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
    Ezekiel, 11:17 Regathering of Israel & 20:41, 36:24, 28
    Isaiah 49: esp. v8f.
    God will restore Israel:
    Micah 2:12-13 “I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel.”
    Micah 4:1-5:5 “In the last days…” “They will beat their swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks.” (This is the millennium)
    Ezekiel 28:25f “When I gather the people of Israel from the nations…..”

    Ezekiel, 36:24f. “For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land…..”
    Ezekiel , 36: 31. “Then you will remember your evil ways and evil deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices.” , 36:33f ….See also Zech. 12:10f

    Ezekiel 37, The valley of the dry bones has nothing to do with the return from Babylon because, Ezekiel 37:24f, David is their king.
    Isaiah 55:3f “I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.”
    Isaiah 14:1-2 “The LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land.
    There is more of this. The reason I compiled this some time ago is because there is a doctrine among some pastors, called the “Replacement Theory”. That is, God has transferred all the promises given to Israel to the Church. I heard a lecturer in the mid sixties say, “I believe God is finished with Israel”. This was before the 1967 war and it looked dark for Israel. This is not new. Martin Luther believed it.
    In the 1067 war, BTW, quoting Hagee, “In total, 21,000 of Israel’s enemies were killed during the Six Day War; Israel lost 779 soldiers. Jerusalem became the capitol of the Jewish people once again. David Ben-Gurion was correct when he declared, ‘In Isreal, in order to be a realist, you have to believe in miracles.’”
    More later 😉

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  27. I remember Hagee from the TBN heydays (before their big fall from grace) in the 1980s. I knew a woman (pentecostal) who used to listen to him on TV. Since then I’ve seen his name on books that seem to be dispensational in orientation?

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  30. Kim, I hear you — most of us “grew up” as Christians hearing all kinds of speculative notions (probably starting with the Late, Great Planet Earth in the ’70s and culminating with the first Gulf War and beyond). And Chas mentioned the 1988 thing, too, I’d forgotten about that. It’s easy to hit burn out and disillusionment from all of that, especially as you see those books, one by one, getting tossed on the 50-cent sale table after being proven to have been faulty. Sigh.

    But the topic remains one that is important for believers to spend some time looking into, making use of sober and biblically sound principles.

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  31. Right Ricky. I liked that. And that was the Statlers behind him.
    If you click on one of the options after the song, you can get Anita Carter. I was in love with Anita Carter.

    I perceive that Hagee is, indeed, dispensational. I will comment on that later.

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  33. Anita! I knew it was one of them. West Texans, like my parents, always considered Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas to be unbelievably beautiful and romantic. No tumbleweeds, no sand blowing, just trees, hills, the Old South and Anita Carter singing.

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  34. Oh wait — Now I get it.

    The book I asked about a few comments earlier on this thread was written by the pastor who will be debating our pastor tonight. I think that was the author/debater in sitting in front of me in the audience last night, the man who had the book with him.

    Sounds like it’s an end-times novel from the some brief descriptions I’ve read.

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  35. Hagee does appear to be dispensational. He is, indeed, a pre tribulation rapture proponent.
    Chapter 6 is about the rapture, with an unconvincing argument for a pre-trib rapture.
    “It might happen before you finish this page” I have a big problem with that.

    It is this: “During the time of famine the church of Jesus Christ will be in heaven sitting at the marriage supper of the Lamb as honored guests of the Master. “ p. 132

    Why do I care? Because I’m afraid that people are expecting to be delivered from tribulation and will be unprepared for troublesome times when they come. There is nothing in scripture to indicate that God’s people will be delivered from tribulation. Baptist on the corner of 4th and Washington St. think Christ will come and that they will be delivered from tribulation because the church in Philadelphia is delivered. (Rev. 3:7). That may be all right for the church on 4th avenue, but the churches in N. Korea, Iran, Sudan, Syria, China, and most other places in the world say that if He’s going to deliver them from tribulation, He’s late. There is famine in the world and the church is affected by it.

    The Bible clearly states that there will be tribulation and that God’s people will be part of it.
    Matt. 24:15, 29-31.
    Rev. 7:14
    Rev. II Thess. 2:3f

    Again, why does it matter?
    When I attended Southwestern Seminary, most of the professors were non-millennial. That is, they didn’t believe there would be a millennium. Some, in the early 1900’s believed the world would get better and better in every way in every day and that would bring in the millennium, That is “Post millennialism”. Most, in my parent’s church believed in Dispensationalism because they used the Scofield Bible and it says so, right there in the notes.

    It didn’t matter what any of them believed because they are out of the scene and whatever they believed is irrelevent. Now, I see world events, and the turmoil in the Middle East such that it could come to a head in our lifetime. Maybe not mine, but certainly in the life of most of you. Jesus gave his great prophesy in Matthew 24. Then he gave three parables, the fig tree, ten virgins and talents. They all say the same thing:

    Watch!

    How do we watch? I’m not stocking up on food. I haven’t bought any silver or gold (Though I might yet as an inflation hedge.). A pastor once said, in another context, “Keep your account with Heaven balanced.” God deals in the Spiritual realm. Some say we are like the Laiodecian Church, neither hot nor cold. It seems to me more like Ephesus, in Rev. 2:3, “lost your first love.”
    Anyhow, I needed to get that off my chest. I’m still an old teacher at heart.
    Thanks for watching.

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  36. Husband is somehow related through his mom’s side of the family to Marshal Grant who was guitarist for Johnny Cash. Husband recently happened upon an article relating the death of Marshal and how he had been a surogate father for Rosanne Cash after Johnny’s passing.

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  37. Miss Bosley now has two additional nicknames: Nosy Rosy (her nose is pink under white fur for the Rosy, and you can guess about the Nosy), and Frightnin’ Lightnin’ (needs no explanation).

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  39. My mother spent the latter part of her life looking and hoping for the return of Christ.
    My pastor in W. Lafayette, In. was looking/hoping for the return of Christ.
    Both of them died without seeing the return of Christ.
    When they met the Lord, I suspect both of them found they were doing what they were supposed to do.

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  41. If you play Anita Carter, then click on a bottom selection, you can hear “I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight”. She was pretty, almost beautiful and her voice was clear, soft and beautiful..

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  42. Chas, on the book you reviewed, the description sent up red flags for me. Last year, during the month of Ramadan, I went into the city for a weekend . There we could watch TV programming broadcast from the Middle East. One of my teammates was going through the channels and we happened on one of the tele-imams (they really have taken a page from TBN’s playbook) that were giving special teaching for the month. This particular one was going on about the special conjunction between the moon and stars in this month and how it allowed for more angelic activity. He listed all the important events in Islamic history that had occurred due to this conjunction, one of which was the birth of the great prophet, Jesus Christ. So, the synopsis of Four Red Moons sounded eerily familiar. It is pagans who observe “days and months and times and years” and are tied to the action of the “weak and beggarly elements” – see Galatians 4. Christians should know better.

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  44. Karen, the Bible doesn’t specifically say, but we can hazard an educated guess. Many were buried by the action of the mudflows, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that occurred with the breaking up of the “fountains of the deep”. Knowing how destructive even a single one of the events I listed can be in modern times, I am convinced that the Flood is how we can account for the majority of the fossilized material now in existence. Some material was obviously still floating around as the waters receded, since the raven, which will eat carrion, found enough to live on to eliminate the necessity of returning to the ark. Noah had the sense to realize what kind of a bird the raven was and went by what the dove did instead. Of course, all that decaying material must have made great compost, as Noah was able to successfully grow a vineyard soon after.

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  46. Jumping in without having read the thread yet, but I wanted to share a video hubby recently found on YouTube that we just watched together. A 10-year-old blind autistic boy sings “Open the Eyes of My Heart.”

    This mama of an autistic son who turns 10 next week was moved to tears watching this. Hubby was very moved, too, to the point he could hardly speak. I think you will be blessed, too, whether or not you have a special someone on the spectrum in your life as well.

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  47. I love climbing tall mountain ranges and finding fish fossils at the top. I remember seeing some near the summit of a mountain in Glacier National Park. I always think of the flood when I see them.

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  49. Checked Soylent Green out of the library today as a joke–it’s the movie we saw on our first date.

    (Honestly? Why was there a second? Well, he was cute and smart)

    What movie was memorable in your dating life? 🙂

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  51. No movie was important in our dating life. We started dating in October of 1955, were married in June of 1957 and saw our first movie around 1967. It was at one of those big movies in Washington. It was either “The Sound of Music” or “My Fair Lady”. We have forgotten which. We still don’t see many movies.

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  53. Oh Michelle, what a loaded question. The boy I loved, loved, loved in high school took me to see Purple Rain EVERY time we we out. He currently lives in Pennsylvania with his “husband”–should have been a clue. Midshipman and I went to the movie almost every Saturday that we dated. Ex-husband and I didn’t go to movies. The first movie Mr. P and I went to see was Dark Shadows. My choice. We go to the movies quite often. Most recently we saw Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. Yesterday he sneaked off and went to see Lone Survivor without me.

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  54. All those answers sound reasonable. After I posted, I thought that maybe many of them washed out to sea as the water receded.

    The funny thing to me is that I’ve read the Bible many, many times, & I don’t think I’ve ever thought about that question. But it seems like an obvious one to have.

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  55. Michelle – Re: Perspectives – No, I’ve never heard of it before.

    Re: Movies and Dating – I have never been on a date. My siblings all watched movies with their future spouses. Each of them had different tastes, but the one common denominator was that they all watched ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ (1944). Not sure what my siblings were trying to say with a movie about old maids who kill lonely old bachelors 😉 Perhaps it was just a way of seeing if the future life partner would understand the family’s sense of humour.

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  56. Kim – I read that post you shared about clutter & depression. I can see where that could certainly be the case with many people.

    But I don’t think that’s always the case. I’ve known happy, well-adjusted people who were simply disorganized, & tended to let clutter accumulate. My Emily is one if those.

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  58. Movies and dating. We didn’t see a movie in a theater until after we were married. But while we were courting, we watched a movie at his house with his daughters. It had a lot of driving scenes in it and was supposed to be funny, but it was long, long, long. I almost fell asleep and wished I could just to have an excuse to stop watching it. I didn’t tell him I hated it until after we were married, and that just to make sure he never pulls it out again. (Because I won’t remember the name of it, and if he asks, “Do you want to watch ‘Movie Y,’?” I won’t know enough to say no, but watching the whole three hours once was plenty.)

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  59. Kim – Emily is like her dad in this regard. She is so focused on what she is doing or will be doing next, she neglects follow-through, & then just doesn’t see the mess, until at some point it kind of pops out at her. Lee has learned to be organized & thorough in his work life, but still struggles doing that at home. (But since he works his butt off 12 or more hours a day, I’m not complaining. 🙂 )

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  60. Cheryl, that wouldn’t be ‘It’s a Mad, Mad World’ would it? All of Stanley Kubrick’s movies could have used a good edit – they were behemoths in length. The first and last time I saw the afore mentioned movie, any laughter I had (it didn’t strike me as uproariously hilarious) was used up halfway through the movie and I just kept wondering when the thing would end.

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  61. Michelle’s question: We saw Flash Dance on our first date. I liked the music from it. Flash Dance What a Feeling; Maniac; Lady Lady Lady.

    I don’t remember what other movies we saw when we were dating, but after we were married I remember renting Parenthood, which came out in 1989 when we were expecting 1st Arrow. Great cast, including Steve Martin, Tom Hulce (who had played Mozart in Amadeus), Rick Moranis, Martha Plimpton, Keanu Reeves, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, and Dianne Wiest. We enjoyed that one. Lots of humor, tender moments, sad realities, pregnancies, babies…just the kind of thing we loved watching as we anticipated the arrival of our first.

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  63. Roscuro, no, we just watched Mad, Mad (etc.) World this week (my husband loves it and was thrilled that they finally came out with an extended version on DVD), and I enjoyed it. This was some sort of car race thing with a lot of sight gags and stuff. I don’t get into slapstick and it was abominably long. Since it was the first time all four of us had done something and they seemed to enjoy it, I put up with it, but I really wondered if it would ever end. I probably enjoyed “Mad World” more than I would have when we were courting simply because I understand my husband’s mind/humor more, and because he has talked about it so much. And it has an “intermission,” so for 90 minutes or so we took a break. We had lunch, I edited for a bit, and I checked e-mail, and then we went back to it.

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  64. I haven’t seen Mad…World in a long time, but my siblings and I always got a kick out of that movie when we watched it as kids. And Ethel Merman slipping on the banana peel at the end always did us in. 🙂

    I remember that we invited our neighbors over one time to watch it with us, and the neighbor dad fell asleep during the movie! I wondered how he could sleep through such a funny movie, but he was either tired from a hard day’s work or didn’t care for the show, or (quite likely) a combination of those.

    We always thought it was fun, though. 😉

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  65. Yes, Michelle, I took the Perspectives course. It is a great, and well put together course. Looks at missions from the Biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic perspective. Well worth the time it takes. I would encourage everyone to take the course.
    One of our speakers one week was Don Richardson. He was so good that I bought the tape and share it with people here.

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  67. We enjoy It’s a Mad,Mad World and another more recent version named Ratmoviesace. My husband likes that kind of humor so I have learned to appreciate it. We thought the Dennis the Menace movie was quite funny. When we dated we mostly went to older neighborhood movie theaters that only charged a dollar for movies. We enjoyed that and still love to get buckets of popcorn when we go to the movies. Because my husband likes music, we saw more of those type events than movies.

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  68. I don’t know if I’ve ever watched “Mad … World” all the way through on TV, but I do remember that my mom had a part-time telephone polling job she did from home (I was maybe 14?) in which she had to make blind calls and ask people their opinions about the name and sound of the movie (before it came out). She had to be sure she had the right number of “Mads” in the title (are there 4?).

    Some of the driving scenes were filmed on our peninsula, I believe.

    One guy I dated (briefly) took me to see a movie called “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” in Hollywood one summer. Horrible movie, plus we got there late, the movie was 1/2 over, and he insisted we go in and watch the last half first then stay and watch the beginning on the next show.

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  70. The funniest part of watching It’s a Mad…. Mad World is watching the reaction of others to it, like my son when he was young. He laughed so hard that it made me laugh. Slapstick is one of those things that only some can appreciate.

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  71. I hadn’t thought of this before, but the lady on WTZQ says that Groundhog Day marks the half way point between winter and spring. It figures.
    But the real weatherman says that meteorological seasons are not the same as calendar seasons. The weather precedes the season by a couple or three weeks.
    Makes sense.

    I may have to watch It’s a mad mad mad mad world someday.

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  75. Some movies I just can’t watch. I don’t get slap stick, I enjoy just plain comedy. Some, emotionally I can’t watch. Mr P was watching Uncommon Valor yesterday on TV and I watched part of it but then emotionally I just couldn’t stick with it. I might be a good movie, but I don’t know. I went to read Fannie Flag’s newest book about the Last Reunion of the All Girl Filling Station. It is set in Point Clear, AL and I am recognizing certain characters. She calls the owner of the book store (Page and Palette) by her real name.

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  78. When Chuck was a little guy, we had problems with him trying to imitate the Three Stooges. We had to train him that bonking people on the head was a bad thing.
    Well, it didn’t take long, we removed 3 Stooges from his viewing list.

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  79. My husband loves The Three Stooges. They have neen good for two gifts I have given him: one, a decorative plate for display; and two, a video recording set of their shows. Do you think it made him a wise guy, huh? Well, he has to get a bit slapstick when trying to decipher the tax code.
    🙂 🙂 🙂

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  81. I just discovered:
    When you play a selection, such as Anita Carter’s, and go back, the twelve selections after the song change from time to time. I went back to hear “I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight” again. But it wasn’t there. But I did get to hear a couple of duets with Hank Snow. The are great together.
    I heard, “When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold” and “I Dreamed of an Old Love Affair”.
    I don’t own either of these, and the last time I looked, I couldn’t buy them.
    Not much Anita Carter out there.

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  82. Kim went to church. It was the Feast of the Presentation which doesn’t often happen on a Sunday so it took precident over the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the Temple approximately 40 days after His birth. It is a question I wanted to ask tomorrow. The first born male child belongs to God in the Jewish tradition. The parents are able to redeem their child for five shekles. We are told the offering that Mary and Joesph give. We are told they followed all the laws but we are never told if they redeemed Jesus or gave Him to the priesthood. We are were reminded of a firstborn, not a Levite who was given to the priesthood…Samuel.

    What are your thoughts on it? We were left to ponder it ourselves.

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  83. Samuel was a prophet and a Judge. He was never a priest. He was always subject to Eli who was a priest.
    Jesus was a King, not a priest, but in Heaven, he serves as King and Priest. When the crowd shouts “Jesus, son of David”, they were making an eschatological statement. Jesus presented himself to the Jews as king on Palm Sunday, but was rejected.
    He will return as King.
    The function of a priest is to be an access to God for the people.
    Is that what you’re looking for?
    Luke 2:22f tells about Jesus being redeemed.

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  86. Wow, you have to watch out for that Mumsee. She has quite the aggressive sense of humor! and here last night I was planning my route for a visit, a little early, as it would be in a year and a half, but I love maps.

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  87. I misinterpreted the description of Samuel’s father as being an Ephraimite by misreading I Samuel 1:1. It turns out that I Chronicles 6:26 lists Samuel as a son of Levi. So, Samuel could be a priest and evidently served a priestly function because they couldn’t hold a sacrifice without him. Hence, King Saul’s sin.
    So, I blew it on the statement about Samuel above. But stand by this one.

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  88. Our sermon today was on 1 John 1:5-10. We seemed to have a number of visitors from the conference this morning.

    But I’m so tired I’m almost punchy so I’m planning to take a nap this afternoon.

    One of the weekend presenters was from the Cornwall Alliance, anyone hear of it before? Dedicated to biblical stewardship of the earth — a lot of the talk by the president of the organization was very technical, but much of it was fascinating to me. Seems like a good group for those who believe Christians have a call to care for creation and the environment — but who realize that the secular “green” movement misses the mark in so many ways.

    http://www.cornwallalliance.org

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  90. Jesus Presented in the Temple

    22 Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),[f] 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”[g]

    I had to go back to the King James Version to find it…every first born male who opens the womb. If the first child was female the male children born afterwards did not have to be redeemed. It allowed a non Levite to enter the priesthood. They may not have redeemed Jesus as a symbol that He was the Son of God. I find it interesting to contemplate. I am still interested in learning more about this.

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  91. I don’t think a non Levite can enter the Levitical priesthood.
    There is no indication that Jesus ever performed any of the priestly rituals. It seems, OTOH, that he always observed them.

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  92. Bummer about the Noah movie which, of course, is what this generation will believe as the Bible version. Truly, we are living in dark times.

    I have friends who live near Will Rogers State Park in Pacific Palisades (the beach cliffs above Highway 101).

    Every time I visit them, I think of the Madx4 movie and look for the W palm trees!

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  93. Kim, you got me thinking. The two turtledoves were for the end of Mary’s 40 days of purification (Leviticus 12:2). I have always regarded the fact that Jesus was a firstborn male child as the fulfillment of the OT sacrificial system of using firstborn male sheep. However, I never thought of the shekel redemption, which was used at the time of the dedication of the Levites (Numbers 3) when the number of firstborn males in Israel exceeded the number of male Levites. It is also the redemption price for a male child under five who was dedicated by a vow to the Lord (Leviticus 27). Mary and Joseph knew that Jesus was born for a special purpose, and it says that they went to present him unto the Lord.

    As for the comparison between him and Samuel, the circumstances surrounding both Samuel and also Samson’s birth are very similar to the birth of John the Baptist. All three were to be Nazarites from birth, drinking no alcohol (Numbers 6). Some Bibles cross reference Matthew’s quote of the prophets about Christ (2:23), “He shall be called a Nazarene”, with the command of the angel to Samson’s parents (Judges 13:5); but there is some confusion about that. The name Nazareth comes from the Hebrew word for ‘branch’ and so Matthew could have been quoting Isaiah, Jeremiah and Zechariah’s prophecies of the Branch (Isaiah 11, Jeremiah 33, Zechariah 3 & 6).

    It says in Hebrews (6&7), that Christ is a priest, not after the order of the Levites, but after the order of Melchisedec. That was a prophecy made by David in Psalm 110. Melchisedec is the first named king of Jerusalem (Genesis 14:18-19), a title David much later conquered for himself (II Samuel 5:6-10) . Hebrews talks about how Melchisedec’s dual role as priest and king was totally unique and foreshadowed Christ’s role as both. The author also says that the Levi paid tribute to Melchisedec through his great-grandfather Abraham and so Christ’s priesthood was superior to the Levitical priesthood. Christ said that the Old Testament was His testimony and there are so many details of His life that are foreshadowed, in layer upon layer, in the Law and the prophets.

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  94. Kim, all the firstborn males in Israel had to be sacrificed to God, man and beast. (Ex. 13:1-2, 15). Human sacrifice is detestable to God, so he permits redemption by the sacrifice of a lamb, or if the family is poor, they could substitute two doves.
    This is a subject I haven’t studied much. It has to do with OT Jewish law. I understand they still practice the redemption of the firstborn, but without sacrifice.
    Mary and Joseph were obeying Jewish law by redeeming Jesus. He was the firstborn, and after 40 days, Mary was purified and the redemption was made.

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  103. So…our oven is broken. Meat loaf is in the crock pot, and supper will be later than usual. (Just in case any of you were planning on stopping by.) 😉

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  104. I saw the ad on FoxNews a couple of days ago.
    Seems there was a brouhaha because someone on MSNBC tweeted a comment that racists Republicans would object to the content. I think someone got fired, but I didn’t follow it closely.

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  109. I think I’m the only person I know with TV that is not watching the Super Bowl. No interest in either team. Besides, “Downton Abbey” is on, followed by “Sherlock”.

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  110. I have the channel of FoxNews, but I’m not watching anything. I’m playing Freecell and blogging.

    I’ve never heard of the actor who was found dead of a drug overdose.

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  113. We’re not watching the Super Bowl, either.

    My former pastor, at my former church, would encourage his congregation to be in church for Sunday evening service rather than at home watching the Super Bowl, because, after all, God is more important than football. I understood his point, but I still thought that it was something important to many people, & maybe giving them some slack for staying home to watch the game would have been better.

    My current church does not have Sunday evening services (but we do have small groups throughout the week, including a couple on Sunday). But they do have a Super Bowl party at the church each year, partly as an outreach.

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  114. 6 Arrows, Again, there’s treasure in the twelve selections after this song. Shea sings, “The King is Coming” on one of them. It must be part of the entire album because the song lasts about four minutes, but it indicates 31 minutes at the bottom. It doesn’t really take that long.
    I’ve always loved “The King Is coming”.

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  115. Thank you for recommending “The King Is Coming”, Chas. I’d never heard it before. Wow, that was beautiful. I’ll have to listen to the rest of that album, too.

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  116. I tried to watch the Broncos…I really did…I even bought a new Broncos shirt to wear today…the lack of oxygen at sea level is killing them…that’s my reasoning for this disaster….didn’t watch the half time show….I read about the “performers” beforehand and decided to pass. I’m now watching re runs of Monk… 🙂

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  118. I saw the last half of the game, that was quite a rout.

    Now I’m watching a PBS show on Pete Seeger and the folk music of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Love watching Peter, Paul & Mary singing “If I Had a Hammer.”

    The blacklisting of that time has echoes in some ways of the politically correct clamp-down today on more conservative social issues.

    Democracy takes constant vigilance on the part of the people in all times.

    The actor who died — I saw him in “The Master” on television some months ago, a film that was (I think) intended as a veiled/fictionalized/parallel portrayal of Scientology’s origins. I may have seen him in Capote, too, but I’m not entirely sure I saw that film. If I did, it would have been on cable at some point.

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  119. love the new heading picture, Aj. I was getting tired of that deer. They are such a pest where I am from. The ducks and ducklings are great. Wait, is that a goose??

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  121. When Bosley returned home after her evening wanderings I smelled meatloaf on her breath. I think she gained two pounds because she found 6 Arrows meatloaf to be so tasty!

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  122. Janice posted at 5:52 this morning!
    I was just rolling out then because I have to go the Y early because TSWITW has a WMU meeting this morning.
    That Bosley is going to get into trouble if you let her wander about at night.
    And I’m not going to take a kitten, no matter what you say.

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  123. Yeah, it looks like there are four geese. I got a photo yesterday of geese in their V formation. I’ve wanted that for a while, but it’s a tricky shot, partly because we usually see it while we’re driving, and that’s not a good time to get a shot of something else in motion. But yesterday the roads were icy and my husband was driving slower.

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