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Our Daily Thread 1-13-15

Good Morning!

And a Happy Birthday! to Karen O.

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On this day in 1906 Hugh Gernsback, of the Electro Importing Company, advertised radio receivers for sale for the price of just $7.50 in “Scientific American” magazine. 

In 1942 Henry Ford patented the plastic automobile referred to as the “Soybean Car.” The car was 30% lighter than the average car. 

In 1984 Wayne Gretzky extended his NHL consecutive scoring streak to 45 games.  

And in 1990 L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the nation’s first elected black governor, took the oath of office in Richmond. 

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Quote of the Day

“This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.”

Elmer Davis

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 Today is Trace Adkins’ birthday.  With 38 Special.

And since I love his voice, and this song…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJn5eeUEVk&feature=player_detailpage

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Anyone have a QoD?

51 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-13-15”

  1. It’s a bit late to be first, don’t you think?
    I have a combination praise/prayer request from my oldest GD, Becky. Becky is the one with the blog.
    I’m transferring the entire e-mail to the prayer site.

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  5. Happy Birthday Dear Karen. We love you.

    I am trying to get myself back on schedule.
    Last night at Bible Study we discussed a little what we will study next. Several of requested Revelations. M, who is also our Priest Associate said he is finally at the point in his life where he would consider doing it. He quoted along the lines of whoever adds or takes away from it will have the same done to them. He also said he would like to do Romans, although he confessed he did not have the time to devote to it right now to properly lead a study on it. Several requested a short book out of the New Testament. Remember it took us 18 months to do Genesis! I am fine any way we go.
    The husband of the couple who hosts our group is a fairly well known and respected pain management specialist. He has been very innovative in the area of pain management that has not involved drugs. I talked to him about Mr. P last night after the study was over. He said if P can get a referral to him, he can get him to a specialist at Johns Hopkins who can fix what is wrong and then he (the host) can manage the pain from there. I took him the report from the tests back in the Summer. He read it and understood it much better than I could have told him what was going on. I suppose I will go put this over on the Prayer Thread with more details. This week Mr. P is paying for the hours he spent driving to and from Austin. 😦

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  7. Did you catch the article about the shootings in Moscow, ID? That is my hometown. I mentioned that to some of the boys, and that the perpetrator was the adopted son of one of the victims. They told me to never give a gun to the thirteen year old boy. They were not joking. I did mention to them that the perpetrator had been out of the house and actually living in another state for some time. We trust some of our children with weapons but not all of them.

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  9. Be careful about commentaries on Revelation.
    The book we used in seminary was “Worthy is the Lamb” by Dr. Ray Summers. We learned a lot about the Parthians and the Roman Curia.
    Dr. Summers was a non-millenialist.

    A lot of different interpretations accompany the book. It never really mattered how Dr. Summers, Dr. C. I. Scofield, nor anyone else interpreted Revelation in the past. I think it’s becoming more important now.

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  10. Chas, I guess it depends on how important “safety” is to the teacher. My husband would be more inclined to teach Romans, because it was a life-changing book for him, but he’d also say that what we believe about the end times affects us today, and is thus very important, so he wouldn’t shy away from that, either.

    For example, some–not all–people who believe post-millennialism also believe that it is the church’s responsibility to make life better for the culture. They would believe, for example, that a Christian should never vote for any politician who isn’t a Christian. They would be inclined to see that the church should be an activist organization, perhaps picketing abortion clinics, perhaps with your church’s name on the sign. Potentially, such a mind-set could lose the distinction of God’s purposes for the church, and see it as a means for changing culture.

    We need the whole counsel of God, even the controversial books.

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  16. Happy birthday, Karen — no squirrel dinner tonight ! 😮

    Revelation was the book our pastor was preaching from when he was stopped cold (this was years ago). He’d just reiterated something he’d gotten from a popular commentary and realized he just didn’t see how it comported with the verses he’d just read. So, he stopped. Done. Sermon over. No one complained.

    It was only after years of personal Bible study, weighing all of the various positions through the lens of Scripture as a whole, that he ventured back into teaching from that book. 🙂

    I understand that BSF this year has taken on Revelation (Jo?). I’d run into an old BSF friend over the summer and I asked her how in the world they would present that — the only fair way to handle it in a nondenominational study like that, in my mind, would be to be sure to cover all the positions that have been (and still are) held within Christian orthodoxy.

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  19. Good Morning and the most blessed of birthdays to our sweet Karen! ❤
    The sun is shining this morning and it feels soooo good!…we are told it will be hidden behind snow clouds in just a bit and we will be receiving more snow…sigh…..

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  20. We’ve been going through the book of Romans for probably about 2 years now (we’re up to Chapter 9). Excellent, foundational study in the Christian faith.

    The rain seems to be over for us (again, for now) — dry, desert winds are returning to the LA region today, so warm days and cold nights.

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  21. Happy Birthday Karen O!!! Wishing you a year filled with God’s blessings.

    Although we are not “southern”, we do eat chicken feet. I was selling fresh chickens a few years ago and one of my customers wanted the feet. She explained why and I tried it. It makes very rich, tasty chicken soup.

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  22. Karen,
    In answer to your Southern question, the short answer is I wouldn’t. The only people I have ever known to eat scrapple were from PA. Perhaps they meant hogs head cheese? I wouldn’t eat that either.
    According to Andrew Zimmerman or Anthony Bourdain, I thought chicken feet were a Chinese thing,

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  23. True Story. I have a friend R who lives in a ritzy, upscale neighborhood outside of Richmond, VA. Her next door neighbor shoots all the neighborhood squirrels and eats them.

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  26. What Linda said. 🙂

    It’s a PA thing. Fried crispy is best. No oil though, just use a nonstick pan. Throw a couple over medium eggs and hash browns in and you got breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

    Mmmmmmmmm….. scrapple……. 🙂

    And yes, I know I probably shouldn’t eat it, but a few times a year I do. 😛

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  29. Kim,

    I’ll keep praying for Mr. P. And I feel his pain. I know how frustrating it can be to still be able to accomplish some of the stuff you want to do, the stuff you’ve always done, but now the physical price you pay can be nearly unbearable. I rode to VA for Christmas and then hobbled around for a week because of the toll on my knees and back. I can do it, but oh do I pay. It sucks. It sucks bad.

    And I’ll keep praying for you too. I know the toll it takes on those who have to help and comfort my miserable self, and others in similar conditions. 😦

    And thank you, because without you helping him, it would be much harder for him and he might even be in worse shape. 🙂

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  30. I have eaten scrapple, fried green tomatoes, frog legs, beef tongue but not pig tongue, crawfish, squirrel but not the brain, and turducken. I am from Idaho. We eat rattlesnakes and cougar, not alligator. Though I understand they are raised here in some hot springs.

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  33. I forgot to mention that someone pointed out that scrapple is a Pennsylvania Dutch dish. And I will add that the “Dutch” in “Pennsylvania Dutch” is actually German. The original term was Pennsylvania Deutsche. 🙂

    Having a fairly nice day, after a couple semi-disasters this morning. Reaching into my closet, then suddenly changing my mind & turning around towards my dresser, my hand bumped into my earring holder-thingie, dropping earrings on the dresser, & one on the floor. It took a while before I knew that most of them had landed on the dresser, & not gone off the side near the wall. Some had landed on a thing I have on the dresser, which I didn’t notice right away, causing me a bit of anxiety.

    A bit later, emptying the dishwasher, I dropped a glass on the carafe to the coffeemaker, shattering it all over the place. 😦

    Fortunately, I knew I’d saved an old coffeemaker carafe in the basement. After washing it off, I tried it with a couple cups of water, & it worked! Felt relieved about that.

    Since then, I have managed to not get myself in any more other trouble. 🙂

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  36. Thank you AJ. He really doesn’t complain much. This week I will say that he has been rather testy. He hates when he cannot get up and do things. He had been swimming and had taken off quite a bit of wait, but he had to take pain meds to do that. It was also good for him mentally. He hasn’t been able to do that since before Christmas and I think that bothers him a lot. (Although eating 70% of my birthday cake hasn’t helped…I only got it Saturday! Man’s got a serious sweet tooth)

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  40. Love basil on anything! I have eaten scrapple. My deceased
    M IL ‘ S neighbor brought some over after a vacation. It was good!

    I went to the rally at the state capitol and city hall this afternoon. It was in support of the fired Fire Chief and to present petitions (50,000 signatures) to the mayor asking for reinstatmen of Fire Chief Cochran .

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  42. Well, we also eat fresh goat and salmon and trout and steelhead and pheasant. It is not like you can only eat tomatoes. Ever heard of the Idaho potato?

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  44. Daughter and I are in from the hot tub, watching the guinea fowl roost for the evening. Now I am cooking up a little bacon. Thanks Wilbur. Or Gabedon. Or It’s a Surprise. They all taste the same even though they had individual personalities.

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