🙂 A free Saturday with no trips to Hollywood or Downey. 🙂
😦 Accidentally left Cowboy locked out in the backyard last night. I called the dogs before closing the doggie door at 11 p.m. — had accounted for Annie (who stayed out way too late and didn’t come in when I’d called earlier — too many reports of coyotes lately, it makes me very nervous when she doesn’t come in when I call her). Tess was in but somehow Cowboy wasn’t and didn’t come when I called, either. Found him this morning on the “other” side of the doggie door when I got up at 6:30 to let the animals out.
🙂 Got some rain this week. But now 😦 we’re headed back to unseasonably warm temperatures in the next few days again, no rain on the horizon.
😦 I must be getting old, I had to write a story yesterday that included a graph on some young / popular rock / R&B singers — and I’d never heard of them. Younger reporter was rattling off the names to me and I was like, “Huh? What? Who? OK, wait, how do you spell that?” Sheesh. It’s come to this. So sad.
😦 🙂 House is in total disarray, but I’m tempted to just run away with the dogs today and go either to one of our hiking parks with nice views of the city — and/or out to the fishing pier for a long walk and to just hang out with my Bible. 🙂 I haven’t done that in ages.
🙂 SC primary. Maybe we’ll make our way to some kind of clarity through this process at some point. Crazy election year. Not panicking — yet.
Eight year old and I were out feeding the buck and a doeling. I was emptying out his manger so we could put in fresh hay, when he reached over and grabbed my rabbit fur hat right off my head. He took it over and dropped it in the middle of his pen so I would have to come in and get it. I laughed and laughed and laughed some more when I realized that eight year old saw nothing funny to laugh about. I got my hat back and we proceeded on our way.
🙂 Thankful for the rain this week (sorry, Donna, but if it stays in the mountains as snow, it’s good for you!) and also for a pretty day today, an Adorable’s birthday party.
🙂 Loving having my daughter home. We had such wonderful massages and then a fun time with the hairdresser. We were still laughing and telling stories when the next client walked in–our church secretary who loves my daughter and so we just extended the party!
🙂 Another chapter down on the book, three serendipity research surprises. I told my husband, ‘It’s like I’m being led.”
He laughed: “ya think?”
🙂 Going to the symphony Monday night and we’ll be sitting BEHIND the orchestra watching the conductor. Should be lots of fun and I should be able to get a blog post out of that!
🙂 Totally ridiculous experience with a counterfeit $20 bill I had just gotten from the ATM. Fortunately, one of the elders at our church is a police officer and he reassured me: “It happens all the time!”
LOL
😦 My prayer request. Except, 🙂 the Lord’s timing is always good. The question is what to make of this one? Yikes!
😦 Ants. 😦
🙂 Thankful for the people who have encouraged me in my life, who pray for me, listen to me, love me and support me. That includes you. Thank you.
I was working on a SS lesson on Matthew 12:38-42 this morning. Not really a lot there but warning the Pharisees of judgment. Not in our lesson, but I will talk some about the unpardonable sin of 12;31F. Then, if we still have time, I plan to discuss the gospels in general. I have never heard that done in a SS class.
Since I have never seen this anywhere before, I thought I might post the outline of the overview for the edification of anyone who is interested.
If you have comments or questions, I might anticipate them for the class.
An overview of the Gospels: Each gospel seems to be written with a particular perspective. Matthew, Jesus is the King. Mark, a servant, Luke, the man. John, the Son of God. No denying the first and last.
This partly from M.F. Unger’s Bible Dictionary
Mathew was a disciple, a tax collector. Likely rich. Left everything and followed Jesus. The others were fishermen. Matthew and Luke have genealogies, with different perspectives. Matthew. a descendant of Abraham, but Matthew shows that Jesus is the rightful heir to the throne in Israel. Royalty line through Joseph. Luke, through Mary.
Matthew tell about Jesus being a teacher and miracle worker. Luke and John tell about intimate events. (Mary and Martha) Luke tells about Mary going to Elizabeth’s house, etc.
If we only had Mark, we would think that Jesus entered his ministry only after John was imprisoned. But we have to believe they had parallel ministries, judging from John 4:1
Luke wrote his gospel to Theopolis. Personal story. Question. How did Luke know all this? Mary told him. Probably others too.
Paul, on his second journey, found Luke in Troas (Acts 16:10), takes him to Philippi. Evidently Paul leaves him there when he goes to Corinth. (17:1). Then, on Paul’s third journey, he picks up Luke (20:5) and goes to Jerusalem. Paul gets into trouble and spends at least two years in prison in Caesarea. (Acts 24:27). Then, (27:1) Luke goes to Rome with Paul.
So? What do you reckon Luke was doing for at least 2 ½ years? I suspect Mary, and many others were burning his ears. He likely knew more than he told. But he gives intimate detail about the birth of both Jesus and John.
John is unique Non-synoptic. He has his own story. In John 12:12, Jesus enters Jerusalem. That means that nine chapters cover the last week of Jesus’ life. 57% cover one week.
I read some things recently about Luke, the doctor. I believe it may have been in MacArthur’s, Twelve Ordinary Men or Twelve Extraordinary Women. Anyway, he wanted to give a clear account to Theophilus so he apparently went back and interviewed Mary and others to get a clear understanding to deliver. And in about Acts 16, the story changes from third party to first hand account. Roughly. I really enjoyed those two books, by the way. It served his purpose of making the apostles more human, showing that God can and does use each of us. And the women were ordinary women used extraordinarily. Neat mental pictures.
🙂 We had a very nice, 😦 though very muddy, walk at a state park one day.
🙂 We got to stand for about half an hour watching a pileated woodpecker chipping away at a tree. I even got some photos, though he had a twig over his face every time he put his head up so I didn’t get anything “perfect.” His mate was across the small lake from us, so we saw and heard her too.
🙂 We also enjoyed time in a coffee shop, window shopping and shopping in a few stores, and hanging out in the “common area” of the hotel (we pretty much had the hotel to ourselves, since it’s off seasons) and playing a game.
🙂 It’s past 60 degrees, in February!!
😦 My girls lost their mother’s mom. She was old and had been in a nursing home for years, and her husband died a year and a half ago, so it was her time. But yeah, it’s still a loss.
In my 1:10 above. I forgot to mention Mark 13:51-52 where Jesus was arrested. A young man fled naked.
If this means what I think it means, it is significant.
It seems to me that Mark wouldn’t have made the remark if he hadn’t been the young man.
People don’t tell incidents like that in serious material if they aren’t personally involved.
What it means is that Mark was part of the troop that went from the upper room to the Garden.
Which means that he was likely in the room where Jesus and the disciples were. If it’s the same room the disciples were in when Peter was freed from prison, it was his mother’s house.
We often think that Jesus went around with just him and twelve guys. But there was generally a large troop, unless he took the Twelve aside.
I think all the gospels were directed to whoever read them. Maybe Luke’s reader was a gentile. Not specifically to Jews or gentiles. Both Luke and Matthew include genealogies
Mark did go to Cyprus with Barnabas. I don’t know how long he was there. That may have had something to do with his gospel. .
Mumsee, it is the same night Peter was warming himself by a fire.
When you’re scared, you don’t worry about the garment. He was probably very young at the time, compared to the others.
Chas, among my perusing of the early church writers, I’ve come across something about Mark’s account. Papias (c.70-163 A.D.) was, like Polycarp, a student of the Apostle John and apparently knew others who had known the Lord Jesus and his Apostles. None of Papias’ writings have survived directly, but several other early church writers quoted him. This is what Papias had to say about Mark’s gospel account:
Mark having become the interpreter of Peter, wrote down accurately whatsoever he remembered. It was not, however, in exact order that he related the sayings or deeds of Christ. For he neither heard the Lord nor accompanied Him. But afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who accommodated his instructions to the necessities [of his hearers], but with no intention of giving a regular narrative of the Lord’s sayings. Wherefore Mark made no mistake in thus writing some things as he remembered them. For of one thing he took especial care, not to omit anything he had heard, and not to put anything fictitious into the statements.[This is what is related by Papias regarding Mark; but with regard to Matthew he has made the following statements]: Matthew put together the oracles [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best he could.
🙂 Got all the animals in last night for bedtime. I’ll have to go back to doing head counts.
🙂 Looking forward to church, I missed last week after that extra long day on Saturday (left my house at 10 a.m., didn’t get home until 8 p.m.) driving back and forth in bumper-to-bumper traffic on 4 of L.A.’s freeways taking Carol to and fro. 😦 Exhausting.
😦 Dryer issues. I really will have to replace these machines in the relatively near future.
😦 No services for us this morning, husband has a bad cold (with one of our pastors undergoing cancer treatment, we’ve become very aware of the need to not infect others at church)
🙂 I haven’t caught it (yet)
🙂 Progress on our ensuite bathroom linen closet – the new table saw we got for Christmas makes building things so much easier. We’ve decided to completely finish that bathroom (including trim) before moving forward with the rest of the kitchen.
🙂 Exciting news from son!
🙂 Daughter was able to write the paramedics exam. No results yet 😦
Kare, my SS teacher is in Calgary, Alberta. While talking with him last night, he said the temperature was 50 degrees. We were warmer in Hendersonville, 55 degrees.
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😦 Family members that you love, but are such thorns in the flesh.
🙂 My husband, children and grandchildren. 🙂
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🙂 A free Saturday with no trips to Hollywood or Downey. 🙂
😦 Accidentally left Cowboy locked out in the backyard last night. I called the dogs before closing the doggie door at 11 p.m. — had accounted for Annie (who stayed out way too late and didn’t come in when I’d called earlier — too many reports of coyotes lately, it makes me very nervous when she doesn’t come in when I call her). Tess was in but somehow Cowboy wasn’t and didn’t come when I called, either. Found him this morning on the “other” side of the doggie door when I got up at 6:30 to let the animals out.
🙂 Got some rain this week. But now 😦 we’re headed back to unseasonably warm temperatures in the next few days again, no rain on the horizon.
😦 I must be getting old, I had to write a story yesterday that included a graph on some young / popular rock / R&B singers — and I’d never heard of them. Younger reporter was rattling off the names to me and I was like, “Huh? What? Who? OK, wait, how do you spell that?” Sheesh. It’s come to this. So sad.
😦 🙂 House is in total disarray, but I’m tempted to just run away with the dogs today and go either to one of our hiking parks with nice views of the city — and/or out to the fishing pier for a long walk and to just hang out with my Bible. 🙂 I haven’t done that in ages.
🙂 SC primary. Maybe we’ll make our way to some kind of clarity through this process at some point. Crazy election year. Not panicking — yet.
🙂 😦 🙂 We’re in a mess. But God is sovereign.
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Eight year old and I were out feeding the buck and a doeling. I was emptying out his manger so we could put in fresh hay, when he reached over and grabbed my rabbit fur hat right off my head. He took it over and dropped it in the middle of his pen so I would have to come in and get it. I laughed and laughed and laughed some more when I realized that eight year old saw nothing funny to laugh about. I got my hat back and we proceeded on our way.
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🙂 Thankful for the rain this week (sorry, Donna, but if it stays in the mountains as snow, it’s good for you!) and also for a pretty day today, an Adorable’s birthday party.
🙂 Loving having my daughter home. We had such wonderful massages and then a fun time with the hairdresser. We were still laughing and telling stories when the next client walked in–our church secretary who loves my daughter and so we just extended the party!
🙂 Another chapter down on the book, three serendipity research surprises. I told my husband, ‘It’s like I’m being led.”
He laughed: “ya think?”
🙂 Going to the symphony Monday night and we’ll be sitting BEHIND the orchestra watching the conductor. Should be lots of fun and I should be able to get a blog post out of that!
🙂 Totally ridiculous experience with a counterfeit $20 bill I had just gotten from the ATM. Fortunately, one of the elders at our church is a police officer and he reassured me: “It happens all the time!”
LOL
😦 My prayer request. Except, 🙂 the Lord’s timing is always good. The question is what to make of this one? Yikes!
😦 Ants. 😦
🙂 Thankful for the people who have encouraged me in my life, who pray for me, listen to me, love me and support me. That includes you. Thank you.
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I was working on a SS lesson on Matthew 12:38-42 this morning. Not really a lot there but warning the Pharisees of judgment. Not in our lesson, but I will talk some about the unpardonable sin of 12;31F. Then, if we still have time, I plan to discuss the gospels in general. I have never heard that done in a SS class.
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Since I have never seen this anywhere before, I thought I might post the outline of the overview for the edification of anyone who is interested.
If you have comments or questions, I might anticipate them for the class.
An overview of the Gospels: Each gospel seems to be written with a particular perspective. Matthew, Jesus is the King. Mark, a servant, Luke, the man. John, the Son of God. No denying the first and last.
This partly from M.F. Unger’s Bible Dictionary
Mathew was a disciple, a tax collector. Likely rich. Left everything and followed Jesus. The others were fishermen. Matthew and Luke have genealogies, with different perspectives. Matthew. a descendant of Abraham, but Matthew shows that Jesus is the rightful heir to the throne in Israel. Royalty line through Joseph. Luke, through Mary.
Matthew tell about Jesus being a teacher and miracle worker. Luke and John tell about intimate events. (Mary and Martha) Luke tells about Mary going to Elizabeth’s house, etc.
If we only had Mark, we would think that Jesus entered his ministry only after John was imprisoned. But we have to believe they had parallel ministries, judging from John 4:1
Luke wrote his gospel to Theopolis. Personal story. Question. How did Luke know all this? Mary told him. Probably others too.
Paul, on his second journey, found Luke in Troas (Acts 16:10), takes him to Philippi. Evidently Paul leaves him there when he goes to Corinth. (17:1). Then, on Paul’s third journey, he picks up Luke (20:5) and goes to Jerusalem. Paul gets into trouble and spends at least two years in prison in Caesarea. (Acts 24:27). Then, (27:1) Luke goes to Rome with Paul.
So? What do you reckon Luke was doing for at least 2 ½ years? I suspect Mary, and many others were burning his ears. He likely knew more than he told. But he gives intimate detail about the birth of both Jesus and John.
John is unique Non-synoptic. He has his own story. In John 12:12, Jesus enters Jerusalem. That means that nine chapters cover the last week of Jesus’ life. 57% cover one week.
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I read some things recently about Luke, the doctor. I believe it may have been in MacArthur’s, Twelve Ordinary Men or Twelve Extraordinary Women. Anyway, he wanted to give a clear account to Theophilus so he apparently went back and interviewed Mary and others to get a clear understanding to deliver. And in about Acts 16, the story changes from third party to first hand account. Roughly. I really enjoyed those two books, by the way. It served his purpose of making the apostles more human, showing that God can and does use each of us. And the women were ordinary women used extraordinarily. Neat mental pictures.
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🙂 A few days away with my hubby.
🙂 We had a very nice, 😦 though very muddy, walk at a state park one day.
🙂 We got to stand for about half an hour watching a pileated woodpecker chipping away at a tree. I even got some photos, though he had a twig over his face every time he put his head up so I didn’t get anything “perfect.” His mate was across the small lake from us, so we saw and heard her too.
🙂 We also enjoyed time in a coffee shop, window shopping and shopping in a few stores, and hanging out in the “common area” of the hotel (we pretty much had the hotel to ourselves, since it’s off seasons) and playing a game.
🙂 It’s past 60 degrees, in February!!
😦 My girls lost their mother’s mom. She was old and had been in a nursing home for years, and her husband died a year and a half ago, so it was her time. But yeah, it’s still a loss.
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Sorry for their loss, Cheryl.
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In my 1:10 above. I forgot to mention Mark 13:51-52 where Jesus was arrested. A young man fled naked.
If this means what I think it means, it is significant.
And I don’t see how it could mean anything else.
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What do you think that means, Chas?
I’ve read that Matthew’s gospel was directed towards Jews, & Mark’s gospel (I think) more towards gentiles.
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It was a warm night?
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It seems to me that Mark wouldn’t have made the remark if he hadn’t been the young man.
People don’t tell incidents like that in serious material if they aren’t personally involved.
What it means is that Mark was part of the troop that went from the upper room to the Garden.
Which means that he was likely in the room where Jesus and the disciples were. If it’s the same room the disciples were in when Peter was freed from prison, it was his mother’s house.
We often think that Jesus went around with just him and twelve guys. But there was generally a large troop, unless he took the Twelve aside.
I think all the gospels were directed to whoever read them. Maybe Luke’s reader was a gentile. Not specifically to Jews or gentiles. Both Luke and Matthew include genealogies
Mark did go to Cyprus with Barnabas. I don’t know how long he was there. That may have had something to do with his gospel. .
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Mumsee, it is the same night Peter was warming himself by a fire.
When you’re scared, you don’t worry about the garment. He was probably very young at the time, compared to the others.
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And I don’t think streaking was lawbreaking at the time.
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Now that you mention it, Chas, I do recall hearing that that young man was Mark. I thought that was what you may have meant, but wasn’t sure.
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Yeah, Chas had us all going there … 😉
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Chas, among my perusing of the early church writers, I’ve come across something about Mark’s account. Papias (c.70-163 A.D.) was, like Polycarp, a student of the Apostle John and apparently knew others who had known the Lord Jesus and his Apostles. None of Papias’ writings have survived directly, but several other early church writers quoted him. This is what Papias had to say about Mark’s gospel account:
Link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_I/Fragments_of_Papias
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🙂 Got all the animals in last night for bedtime. I’ll have to go back to doing head counts.
🙂 Looking forward to church, I missed last week after that extra long day on Saturday (left my house at 10 a.m., didn’t get home until 8 p.m.) driving back and forth in bumper-to-bumper traffic on 4 of L.A.’s freeways taking Carol to and fro. 😦 Exhausting.
😦 Dryer issues. I really will have to replace these machines in the relatively near future.
😦 People to the north stealing our El Nino.
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😦 No services for us this morning, husband has a bad cold (with one of our pastors undergoing cancer treatment, we’ve become very aware of the need to not infect others at church)
🙂 I haven’t caught it (yet)
🙂 Progress on our ensuite bathroom linen closet – the new table saw we got for Christmas makes building things so much easier. We’ve decided to completely finish that bathroom (including trim) before moving forward with the rest of the kitchen.
🙂 Exciting news from son!
🙂 Daughter was able to write the paramedics exam. No results yet 😦
🙂 Such a warm winter we’re having
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Kare, my SS teacher is in Calgary, Alberta. While talking with him last night, he said the temperature was 50 degrees. We were warmer in Hendersonville, 55 degrees.
😆
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Mystery of the year.
How can one shoe get lost?
I wore both of them to church.
I’ve looked all over.
Some thief broke in and stole one shoe.
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If one of Forrest’s shoes is missing, I’m apt to find it under the couch.
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