Monday, April 07, 2003
Matthew 21:12-14

Verse:
Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He said to them, "It is written, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a "den of thieves."" Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. -Matthew 21:12-14

Thought
A Dull Man? -Dorothy Sayers

We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild," and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.

To those who knew him, however, he in no way suggested a milk-and-water person; they objected to him as a dangerous firebrand. True, he was tender to the unfortunate, patient with honest inquirers and humble before Heaven; but he insulted respectable clergymen by calling them hypocrites; he referred to King Herod as "that fox"; he went to parties in disreputable company and was looked upon as a "gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners"; he assaulted indignant tradesmen and threw them and their belongings out of the Temple; he drove a coach-and-horses through a number of sacrosanct and hoary regulations; he cured diseases by any means that came handy, with a shocking casualness in the matter of other people's pigs and property; he showed no proper deference for wealth or social position; when confronted with neat dialectical traps, he displayed a paradoxical humor that affronted serious-minded people, and he retorted by asking disagreeably searching questions that could not be answered by rule of thumb. He was emphatically not a dull man in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.


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On the road again.

I'm posting from my new Clie PEG-SJ22. This will show up on the Messy Desk sometime after I return & can Hotsync with my desktop. The SJ series has a different connection port. A downside to upgrading to new hardward. None of my wired cabling works. Methinks 'tis time to upgrade to wireless.

We're off on a two-day band trip. I don't mean a 4 piece rock band, but a 35 piece Salvation Army brass band. We're headed to Fort McMurray to participate in the celebration of the 25th anniversay of The Salvation Army in that community.

The bus left at 6:00 am for the 5 1/2 hour drive north. We'll have a quick lunch, suit up & head to a senior's home for our first concert. After that, about 45 minutes of playing at the town shopping centre. Later this evening we will provided some music for their anniversary banquet.

Tomorrow morning we will participate in a worship service. Then, at 2:30 pm, a free concert for the commuity. After that, back on the bus for the drive home. We should be back in Edmonton by 11:00 pm. All-in-all a long two days.
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