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I mentioned the National Day of Prayer last week and even included a link to the National Day of Prayer Task Force website. Shown above is the poster for one of two events I will be attending. The Rome Area Prayer Breakfast, which I think I mentioned, has invited Lee Strobel to speak this year. The Advent Health prayer event will have several individuals from the community offer specific prayers for ministers, educatators, government officials, etc then a corporate prayer time. Chances are there is an event in your area; check with your church leaders and extend your search to include newspaper and radio (and their respective online presence) if necessary.

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Jason Britt at Calhoun FBC – There are a couple of reasons that I blog. Reaching a larger audience than I would be able to person is a big part of it. I’ve made blog friends in Canada, Israel and Australia and engaged many others in discussion and debate. Blogging also serves my need to record and catalogue things. Going through the archives and reading old posts gives me perspective of my own spiritual journey. I’m reaching that age where if I don’t write it down it didn’t happen, or in some cases will not happen.

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The Widget is Broken

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At the top of the left-hand sidebar is a list of recent posts at the Unity Baptist church website. I don’t know when it happened but I noticed this morning this list is longer than usual. That wasn’t a change I was aware of making but when I went into the control panel nothing had actually changed. I changed the number of items to display to 4 and clicked update. I changed the number to 3 and clicked update. It has been set to 3 since 2015 when the church website launched but nothing I do changes what is displayed in the sidebar. Funny that.

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France is bacon – This was meant to be in last week’s post and I was disappointed later to see that I missed it somehow. In this case he only understood after seeing Francis Bacon in writing but there are often contestants on Jeopardy that pronounce a response oddly because they read a lot but may never have heard a word out loud. They allow it because there is nothing wrong with reading lots of books. Some people favor visual learning styles, others auditory, but we cannot discount the experience of hands on learning. Tactile sensation, spatial relationships; we take in the world through a variety of senses and they work well together.

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Satur-deja Vu

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The Last Supper was painted in the mid 1490’s. It was not uncommon to place characters of Bible stories in contemporary settings. There is a famous work that depicts Mary holding the baby Jesus sitting next to the Holy Roman Emperor. The people at the time knew the works were not historically accurate. Very few people were literate and the art of the time, such as oil paintings and stain glass windows, illustrate the people and events of the Bible. It took Michelangelo five years to paint the 343 figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. There is value to studying Medieval art just keep in mind that’s it’s only around 500 years old and depicts events from 2,000 years ago. Di Vinci and Michelangelo are closer to our time than the first century A.D.

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Chad, Chris, Trudy and Lee

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No, I’m not on a first name basis with any of these individuals. Maybe Chris McDaniel but he probably wouldn’t know my first name without a reminder.

On April first I attended the annual Wild Game Supper at a local Baptist church. This was my second dinner, we got to see Sid Bream last year and won a sweet door prize. I mentioned Chadd Wright in Saturday’s post. He is a former Navy Seal with a passion for sharing the Gospel. He spent very little time talking about Seal teams and telling old stories and gave much attention to describing what Jesus can do in a person’s life. Chris McDaniel, formerly of Confederate Railroad, led music and has a powerful testimony of what God has done in his own life. Chris performed last year with Bream and I first met him at a much smaller event with just a few people during the pandemic era of social distancing and what not. It was a weird time. There was one salvation Saturday evening and Chadd took him directly to the baptistry.

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April Fool’s – Today is April 1st and you gotta be careful out there folks. The image above is an old post that appeared in my Facebook Memories this morning from all the way back in 2014. The difference is that I had to click through the following warning to see what was behind it:

There was a related article linked from USA Today explaining that no evidence exists that Chick-fil-A will be selling a steak sandwich and that the post was an old April Fool’s prank. Well you’re fact-checking an old post so it is what it is. Zuckerberg forbid anyone should have fun on social media. I feel safer already.

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What Happened?

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Not only did I not write a special historical fun facts post this week there isn’t even a Satur-deja Vu. I try to take like one day at a time but this week it felt like several days ganged up on me at once. Pray for me, pray my family. There’s no one major issue just many stress factors all hitting at the same time. I can normally shrug off one or two and act like they don’t affect me. By the middle of this week I may have even lost my usual positive attitude but I think we’re okay now.

One more full week until Palm Sunday and Holy Week/Passion Week begins. Don’t let it sneak up on you. Be salt, be light, peace and God bless.

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The time change was Sunday morning. If you changed your clocks you lost an hour of sleep, if not you might not have made it to church at all. We’re gonna give our guy above half credit. The idea of ending the time change is growing in popularity in the United States but how to do it becomes a sticking point. Most people just want it to end, and do not care which time we land on, but if asked which time we should stay on permanently there is slight preference for Daylight Savings Time (DST).

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Christians and Food Laws

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Sometimes I see images like this on Facebook or wander into discussions/arguments and can’t believe we are still at odds over food laws. The early Christians in the first century couldn’t come to a consensus so it should surprise no one that all of us do not agree today.

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