Did I hear correctly? Did Bob really say during the message "Joseph had his feet kicked up like Pastor Adam, feet on the desk, telling people what to do?"
Yes, I think he did. And with me filling in for him on February 25th… that’s a lot of time to come up with something real nice. Muhahaha!
I’m in the process of really getting the word out about our Gospelcom Alliance membership. Here’s the official press release on our press site.
Vote for yourself, vote for your favorites, don’t see what you like… add it!
This has to be one of the funniest cases of grand theft auto ever recorded. So good that there weren’t any charges pressed at all. Although stealing a 1989 Toyota Camry could hardly be listed as "grand" theft. More like "did you a favor" theft.
Woman’s Key Works in Wrong Car
ATHENS, Ohio (Feb. 6) – A college student who reported that his car
was stolen got a surprise when he learned a woman had mistaken it
for her daughter’s car and taken it — using her key.Kate Anderson of Athens became an accidental car thief when she
went to pick up her daughter’s car near an Ohio University building
last week. Anderson spotted the nickel-gray Toyota Camry and used
her daughter’s key to unlock the car, start the engine and drive
home- without realizing that the car wasn’t her daughter’s. Read the rest
The first thing I thought of when I read this story was my 1987 Chevy Corsica. With that car, you didn’t even need a key to start it. You just turned the ignition and the car started. With the Corsica I think the key hole in the ignition was just a place to store your keys as I remember multiple times driving down the road and hitting a bump, only to have the keys land on the floorboard.
HT to Sallyb for the story.
Kristen and I woke up to a screaming Paul about 6:30. For some reason Paul (3 1/2 years old) woke up with a very sore neck. We think he just slept on it weird. He’s in otherwise good spirits, just doesn’t want to move around a lot. Could be a long day.
Thankfully, after working 10-12 hours Monday through Thursday this week, I’m off today and tomorrow. Hopefully Paul will feel better soon so we can get back to wrestling.
I’ve long practiced this, glad to finally get a third party to verify that I’m not alone. When you go to a movie with a guy friend, if there are many empty seats the two of you leave a space in the middle. I always called that the "gay buffer." Oddly enough, students in Light Force have extended that to just about any social situation… but let me be clear, the gay buffer is only for movie theaters and similar situations. Sitting next to another guy in a full van is no big deal.
This appeared as the urban dictionary word of the day:
I’m not gay seat:
The empty seat in a movie theater that two males leave between them to show the rest of the audience that they are straight.
Bob: I went to a movie with John the other day but we left the I’m not gay seat, so no one thought it was weird.
So, there you have it.
Missionaries know it. Businesses know it. Documentarians film it. Marketers make money from it. But what is it? It is ethnography.
Ethnography ????? ethnos = people and ??????? graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitativefieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic
research method founded on the idea that a system’s properties cannot
necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other.
It doesn’t matter if you are a youth pastor in a community. An insurance salesman. A high school math teacher. Or a physician. If you want to succeed in a community, you need to take the time to understand how the community works. Understanding ethnography helps you understand how the people think, how the politics of both elected and unelected people control things, and understand how cultural phenomenon dictate community behavior. (Holidays, local business practices, etc)
Here’s the thing. Most doctors, pastors, insurance salesmen, and high school math teachers that fail, do so for cultural reasons and not because they are bad doctors, pastors, salesmen, or teachers. They fail because they failed to grasp the culture they are working in. Yet they blame themselves, their training, or even the people they want to sell to, provide services for, or teach for their failure!
Success at Romeo depends not just on us teaching doctrine and working hard. It depends heavily on us adapting and developing methods to reach our community by first understanding how the community works. Stick with me.
Some examples:
Just a couple of hours ago we completed our latest Kids ministry "MainStreet." This is as big a thing as our little church can do. It’s the Little Engine that Could!
Tonight was great. Though people came late, it was quite full. Also, I was super excited to roll out a whole new cast of characters. They are going to be great. More about MainStreet later.
I caught this on ESPN’s website. It’s too good to not be true:
Wiese, a die-hard fan of the Chicago Bears, signed a pledge in
front of a crowd at a Decatur bar last Friday night that if the
Bears lost Sunday’s Super Bowl, he’d change his name to that of the
man who led the Indianapolis Colts to victory.Final score: Colts 29, Bears 17.
So Tuesday, Wiese went to the Macon County Courts Facility and
started the process of changing his name. Link
What an idiot. I mean, Peyton Manning may have led his team to a Super Bowl championship… but changing your name to Peyton Manning? Yuck.
