26 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-29-16”

  3. I was seeing Art off to the office. We were having a discussion about Miss Bosley’s antics.

    We watched a really great movie last night, The Hundred-Foot Journey. Anyone who wants to enjoy good scenery, good food, clashing culinary cultures of Indian and French, young love/confusion, old love/confusion, love of family, loyalty…well, it has all that and more (music, dancing…)

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  6. I have seen that movie Janice. It was good.

    I did yard work Sunday afternoon. While I have found a pair of gardening gloves that I am willing to wear I am still picking briers and thorns out of my fingers. I think I have most of them but one has come to the surface in my left thumb this morning.
    I had a very nice time last night with the girls. We laughed remembering how we all became friends. I cold called on a company one day and recognized the name of the man as someone my husband had asked me if I was related to when we first started dating. That led to us getting together. One of the women joined us through a guy she had dated who was friends with the group but he was an abuser. We dumped him but kept her. She is married to a guy I went to school with K-11.
    The missionary I told you about? Her oldest son is joining them in the mission field as an English teacher. Her daughter has been here in college but is going back with her parents when they go back in September. It has become a family calling.
    We have planned our next get together for August 6th. An ex husband is getting married and we may or may not crash the wedding 😉 Either way we will all get together that night.

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  10. Good Morning…it is 60 here this morning…we had a nice lightening/thunderstorm last night…we sat out on the front porch and enjoyed it immensely!
    That bird on the header appears to be a tad bit annoyed….camera shy?!

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  13. I think the bird looks like he’s plotting something. But cute. Maybe there’s a worm nearby.

    I’m working from home this morning, remotely covering a meeting online (an LA City Council committee will be discussing the city’s proposed new — but really not so new as it just reiterates the old one — coyote/wildlife plan that relies solely on educating all the residents. We’re a difficult people and apparently we are just not getting onboard enough with the coyote thing.

    It’s still too warm at night here, it doesn’t get out of the high or mid 70s, I had to run the fan on medium-high all night long. It’s supposed to all cool off for the long weekend.

    We’ll have to brace for a 3 days of fireworks, never a pleasant time for the poor dogs.

    I haven’t heard from the guy who was supposed to be brought over here to check my roof yesterday — will have to give my friend (who was bringing him) a call if I don’t hear. Tomorrow morning another roofer comes for an assessment/estimate. I guess maybe it takes them a while to work up written estimates, now that I think about it.

    Depending on what those 2 say, I may or may not solicit a 3rd estimate.

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  14. Been reading the article Roscuro linked to yesterday – http://www.theologyforwomen.org/2016/04/thomas-jefferson-headship-and-i.html

    Lee & I have been complementarian in our marriage, believing that he has authority as head of the household, but that that authority should be exercised in the spirit of a servant-leader, not a boss or dictator. (A preacher once said that God gives husbands the power of authority, but He gives wives the power of influence. Those two “powers” are supposed to work together – the husband listening to his wife’s influence, the wife respecting her husband’s authority.)

    This article makes a good case for “head” meaning protection & responsibility, with authority being a less important aspect (but still there).

    “I could (and will) write more. But to summarize this post, I think that I Corinthians 11 presents headship as a husband in a committed covenant relationship with his wife in which he protects her by owning his relationship with her, taking responsibility for her, representing her and their children with his name and protection, and much more. Does authority play a role in the husband/wife relationship? Certainly it does. But there are so many authorities and leaders in life that have nothing to do with headship and marriage that focusing on authority as the point of headship causes us to miss what it’s really about.”

    Have any of you read it? What do you think?

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  15. Well, I have been waiting for someone to say what kind of bird that is, and no one has said so far.

    Kim, there was a blank space on my phone where the recording would have been. I will try to get it on my tablet later.

    I am working on a logo and one sheet today. Does anyone like a particular free app for making artistic designs? I know what I want, but the execution will be experimental and probably involve some LOL moments.

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  16. The NC DMV has a website by which a person can make a routine driver’s license renewal. You can do this six months ahead of time. Elvera needs to have her license renewed by 19 October, this year.
    So, we went on-line to renew her license. It came up with her data which contained her Hendersonville address. She could not renew her license at that address because we live here.
    What we had to do is change her address. That process took about fifteen minutes and cost $13.00 + $2.00 for using a credit card. They will send her a corrected license in 8-14 days. THEN she can renew her driver’s license. That cost $25.00 plus charges.

    I likely will have the same procedure.

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  18. It looks like maybe it is called eastern towhee now, but is one of several birds referred to as rufous-sided towhees. I guess like the dark-eyed junco that used to be considered several species but is now one species with several color variations, or going back and forth over whether the Batlimore oriole is its own species, and the flicker, which used to be considered three species but is now seen as two, but one of them having a red-shafted variety and a yellow-shafted variety. (“Shafted” referrring to the bright red or yellow feathers under its wings and tail.) Or the Canada goose being studied, being subdivided into several subspecies, and some of the smaller varieties being declared to be their own new species, the cackling goose. Bird ID can get complicated.

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  20. Ha!

    I knew Cheryl would know. 🙂

    I had no idea what it was, so thanks for telling me. The pics aren’t great because he wouldn’t let me get close. At one point a male cardinal jumped out of a bush after him, defending his nest I guess. But this one puffed up and squawked. and the cardinal jumped right back in the bush. This guy was like pigeon size.

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  23. Wrapping up the coyote meeting story, one more person to interview but it’s been nice as I’ve been allowed to do it all from home. One of the public speakers at the meeting identified herself as an ecotherapist. 🙂 But she does marriage counseling, too.

    And I still have another story to do after this one, but now that it’s afternoon i suppose I can arrange to do that from home, too.

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  24. Karen, I have been studying this issue for the last couple of years. Between the revelations of abuse that happened in the circles in which I grew up, and encountering young men with very odd ideas of what headship entails (one young man who married into the family believed, at least at one point, that the husband was High Priest of the family, as well as the head), I have become very concerned. I noticed the comment that you made on FB that pastors were making an effort to stop the abuse. I’m not so sure that is the case. I see younger leaders in the churches becoming even less willing to contact the authorities, because they perceive the government as being antagonistic.

    The more I study, the more I am convinced that God does not intend the order of the Church and of marriage to be a burden, but I see that it has been made so. In a misguided effort to correct the errors of things like feminism and now transgenderism, evangelical church leaders have taken the traditional cultural differences between the sexes and teach them as being Biblical requirements. This review of a recent book by two complementarian who believe in ESS gives some examples of this: https://adaughterofthereformation.wordpress.com/2016/06/23/the-grand-design-a-review/. Another example that I encountered recently was an article, written by a complementarian, which suggested that women should be allowed to take degrees in theology, since there was nothing anti-Biblical in women studying the Scriptures. I agreed wholeheartedly, but there were several male commenters who objected that women’s work was to raise and teach children and they didn’t need to know things like hermeneutics and counselling in order to do that. Personally, I have found that the theological questions of a child one is teaching could use the answer of someone with a degree in the area.

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  25. So, the work of women such as Wendy Alsup, Aimee Byrd, Hannah Anderson, Racheal Starke, and Rachel Miller has not been just about pointing out abuses within complementarianism. They have also been calling for the better teaching of women within the church and for allowing women to serve in the church in the capacities for which they are fitted. None of these women want to abolish wifely submission or to make women pastors. They want to be allowed to be like Mary, sitting at the feet of Jesus and learning along with the disciples, instead of always being told to be like Martha and just take care of their house.

    The I Corinthians 11 passage is one that is very important in this ongoing discussion. It is one that would seem to indicate that women did speak, in prophecies*, and pray in public, i.e. before the church; even though, further on, in chapter 14, Paul seems to command the women to keep silence. So, understanding what the passage means when it talks about a woman having power on her head when praying or prophesying is key. One verse that gave me a clue about what it was saying was in Genesis 20:16, where Abimelech is speaking to Sarah, after Abraham lied once again about Sarah, “Behold, he [Abraham] is to you a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with you, and with all others.” The idea covering always seems to be related to a woman having a husband, as a signal to others that she is not available. In discussing this with my mother the other day, I said that in our culture, the cover is the wedding ring.

    Of course, as a single woman, I still wonder about my place, since most of the instructions in the NT are aimed at married women (a strong indication that the Apostles considered marriage the default position). One of the problems with ESS is that it extends the teaching that wives should submit to husbands to say that women in general should submit to men in general. Not only does the Bible not say that anywhere, but it leads to ridiculous applications, like the time John Piper said that a housewife should demonstrate a womanly submission to the postman: http://www.mortificationofspin.org/mos/housewife-theologian/john-pipers-advice-for-women-in-the-workforce#.V3Q85Gz6vv-

    In my discussion with my mother on this subject, I mused that people were mixing up the application of Genesis 1 and Genesis 2. Genesis 1 is the place where it states that God created man, both male and female, how he created them in his image, and that he gave them both dominion over the earth. Women and men are co-rulers in the image of God, however broken they have been by the fall. Genesis 2 talks about the creation of the marriage relationship, how the woman was made out of man to be a helper (ezer, a word used elsewhere to describe how God helps his people) who was his equal. So, in the marriage, the man is the head and the woman is the helper, and neither is denigrated, because, as John Chrysostum said in his Homily on I Corinthians 11, when there is equality, one must lead. It was the fall which shattered and destroyed the marriage, leading men to treat their wives cheaply, taking any that they chose (Genesis 6:2). Marriage is a shadow of Christ and His Church, which is why I think women cannot be pastors of a church. Christ is the head of the Church, but he has given under shepherds to lead it until the resurrection. Those pastors are men, in reflection of role of head in the marriage of Christ and the Church. Otherwise, I do not see that woman should be barred from any role in society which she can competently and safely fulfill.

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