Things That Make You Go - Hmmmmm???

License plate frame - *blank* Christian University Alumni

Window sticker -

YES
This is my truck.
NO
I won't help you move!

I also read an article in today's paper from which I took the following words. Pope Benedict XVI approved a document which says that "other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation." "The commentary repeated church teaching that says the Catholic Church 'has the fullness of the means of salvation. Christ established here on earth only one church, the other communities cannot be called churches in the proper sense because they do not have apostolic succession - the ability to trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles - and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said."

I refer to my second question from last Saturday. Why do we feel the need to focus on rules - even if we believe we can point to them in scripture as a proof of their existence? Why do we think we can follow a rule perfectly anyway? Why do we think God is interested in us following the rules just so we can say we follow the rules?

By virtue of my heart rate getting elevated when I think of the article, I show I have missed God's point in changing my heart from the inside. It is easier to focus on the rules I prefer and love those who love my viewpoint.

Maybe that is one of the problems. I think we too often, consciously and unconsciously, gravitate toward the easy.

Two questions:

1) Why do coaches and managers in baseball wear team uniforms and they don't in other sports?

2) Do you think that God believes there are any non-"Pharisaical" religious organizations in existence?

I'm It

In deference to my wife, I keep asking what the rules are to this cybertag game.

I am different from Danna in that she asks what the rules are so she can follow them and I ask so that I can break them or find a flaw in them that would render it ridiculous to follow the rules. That is number 1.

I can sing the Wyoming Cowboy (the real Cowboys!!) fight song and will do it for you if you ask and sometimes even when you don't.

I was born on the same day, in the same year as Michael Jordan.

I am very particular about my lawn. So much so that after repeated requests to try to do it close to my expectations, I fired my own son as lawn man.

I always wished I was 7 feet tall.

I had a small plaster cast on my nose after reconstructive surgery and I had people sign my cast.

I often save my meat to eat last at mealtimes.

I have volunteered to preach on many occasions but have never been asked - see number 1.

Now, here are the rules since I am supposed to put them here but it never said to put them first.

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

I am tagging, Clint; Terry; Tim;