This is Happy Monday #576!
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This is a real question I encountered in an online group this week. Most of the social media theologians that responded were on the same page but one guy that disagreed with the general consensus disagreed a lot. We went back and forth citing verses and discussing the nature of Jesus during the incarnation and what that meant in terms of his “being God.”
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So two or three weeks ago I speculated about a new project that might be on the horizon. In Read the Bible I proposed that reading one chapter of the Bible per day would let you get through the entire Bible in a little over three years. I considered posting a series of audio files in which I would read one chapter and offer brief commentary and post those at a rate of one per day. It would be ambitious for sure but if I had started one chapter a day when I started blogging in 2008 I would have been through the Bible five times already.
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Monday morning got you like…
That is the Mondayest parfait I have ever seen. Relax buddy, we got Bible verses, funny memes, pics of doggos, everything you need to get off on the good foot.
This is Happy Monday #575!
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How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? There are over 31,000 verses of text in the Bible and apparently they can all be etched onto a necklace bobble. I’m going to ignore Christians call it a miracle; let’s pretend we didn’t see that. The entire Bible can be etched onto a tiny necklace, which leads me to ask, why? If you cannot possibly read it, what’s the point of printing it? There’s an old riddle about a tree falling in the forest that asks if no hears it, did it really make a sound? The answer depends on your definition of sound. Unless you have a scanning electron microscope, you will not be reading that necklace. It becomes nothing more than a good luck charm. You could claim you are keeping the Word close to your heart, but again it cannot actually be read and that’s the way to keep the Word in your heart and mind. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. And this item says nothing more than “Look what I have.”
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“Party Size!” espresso ground coffee – these are people that know how to party.
This is Happy Monday #574.
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Can we talk about this? Not 2 Cor. 5:7, that’s great. That is the whole verse, not just a snippet, and then some commentary has been added. I want to talk about all the verses and quotes I see online these days with the word AMEN! tacked on at the end. The last sentence of this quote, “If GOD has been good to you.” is not even a complete sentence. They used to ask for you to type or reply Amen but lately it has just incorporated into the post. There are several issues here. One, I refuse to share that because the grammar is wrong. I posted something a week or two ago and didn’t realize it said “us” in the quote where it should have said “is” until it was too late. Secondly, If I say something you agree with and you say Amen, that’s one thing. But I am not going to Amen myself. In the case of the image I could easily have cropped the bottom off but sometimes cropping the Amen would ruin the picture. So my third gripe is I sometimes keep scrolling because the Amen ruins the pic that would otherwise have saved for Happy Monday or share on Facebook myself.
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It’s a Toby Mac quote, and we know there have been a lot of those lately. But it’s also the only image we have of coffee this week.
This is Happy Monday #573.
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There’s more than one way to read the Bible, what matters is that you are reading it. I have read the Bible through in a single year but I don’t push that on people. If there are books in the Old Testament you have never read then you need to sooner or later; even though I would agree that the New Testament speaks more directly to Christians. “All scripture is good” but all scripture is not equally useful to our daily walk.
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Google Maps will soon change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. Google’s policy regarding geographic features is to list them as they are recognized by official federal sources. Mount McKinley was renamed Denali during Obama’s second term and Google relabeled it as such. The label will now change again to reflect current federal policy. On US versions of Google Maps, the label Gulf of America will appear. On international versions of Maps both names will appear since, outside of the United States, the name is in dispute.
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The Master's Table 