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Photos for 2024-07-21
1. Photos for 2024-07-21
2. Sunrise service about 2001
3. Kids choir about 2001
4. Parents and baby about 2001
5. Donuts about 2001
Why would someone take a picture of some donuts?
6. Gish
7. Vietnam trip talk
8. Deer crossing
Did you hear about the bear hunter?
Please bear with me. He saw a sign that said bear left. So he went home. And he barely got there as there was trouble a-bruin.
The problem with deer crossing signs is that deer can't read. At least, not very well. There is (at least) one exception.
Which deer knows that he can read?
At Christmas, Rudolf knows that his nose is, well, red. And he surely knows it! And don't call him Shirley. That's Olive, the other reindeer.
Have you ever crossed a deer? How about a dear left in stitches? How about cross-stitches? How about crass-stitches?
9. Matthew 7:13-14 Two ways
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: [kjv]
7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. [kjv]
Which way do you really want to go?
1.
wide/
broad way
2.
narrow way
Are you sure you're on the right road? Where is this sign located?
What do you do if someone changes the sign? [common cartoon antic]
What do you do if someone changes the translation? [leaven, moving mountains/definitions]
10. Matthew 7:13-14 Strait talk about narrow and wide gates
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: [kjv]
7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. [kjv]
In Matthew 7, Jesus talks of the
"straight" "gate" and
"wide" "
area". The
TR (Textus Receptus) adds the
"gate" to the
"wide" "
area". What exactly is a
"strait" "gate"? The ancient Greek word
"πλατύς" ≈ "wide, flat" and is related to the English word
"flat" and
"platypus" as, literally, "
flat feet".
How
"many" is
"many"? How
"few" is
"few"?
What does the word translated as "leadeth" mean?
What is the "life"? Is this eternal "life"?
What is the "loss" - translated as "destruction"? Is this eternal "destruction"?
[Psalm 23, He Leadeth Me (hymn)]
11. All you need is LoVE TV
Could you provide some Bible references (in context) for any claims made? What did Jesus really say?
Did you hear about the brand name value TV that had a volume control problem for which a big discount was provided?
It was a sale (sell) you could not turn down! Maybe a Star Trek hand-held phaser would be useful.
12. TV shows
What were your favorite TV shows?
Get Smart
Beverly Hillbillies
Gilligan's Island
Green Acres
Hogan's Heroes
Three Stooges (re-runs)
Dad:
Hee Haw
Statler Brothers
Grand Old Opry
13. With a little help from my friends
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and sung by drummer Ringo Starr, the Beatles song "
With a little help from my friends" was on the "
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album released on May 26, 1967.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Epicurus.
Consider Paul. No.
Not Paul
McCartney, but the
Apostle Paul.
☐ Does Paul depend on "
friends" for help?
☐ Does Paul get help from God?
What does Paul think of the "
Epicurean" philosophy of having friends, anger management, etc.?
14. Acts 26:22 Epicureans
Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: [kjv]
επικουριας ουν τυχων της απο του θεου αχρι της ημερας ταυτης εστηκα μικρω τε και μεγαλω ουδεν εκτος λεγων ων τε οι προφηται ελαλησαν μελλοντων γινεσθαι και μωυσης [gnt]
The ancient Greek word
"ἐπικουρία" ≈ "help, aid" and is used by Paul as a play on words of the Greek philosopher
"Ἐπίκουρος " ≈ "Epicurus" (341-270 BC).
Did Paul first become a "
friend" of those to whom he was "
witnessing"?
Epicurus advocated having "friends" to "help" you and being "self-sufficient".
Paul advocates getting "help" from God.
15. Ephesians 6:12 Review the opposition
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. [kjv]
οτι ουκ εστιν ημιν η παλη προς αιμα και σαρκα αλλα προς τας αρχας προς τας εξουσιας προς τους κοσμοκρατορας του σκοτους τουτου προς τα πνευματικα της πονηριας εν τοις επουρανιοις [gnt]
Summary of the
opposition (not some long ago and far away esoteric evil):
"wrestle" is a play on words with "again" and "of old".
"against" is that of "to" as in taking it "to" the opposition.
16. Ephesians 6:12 Review the opposition
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. [kjv]
"principalities" or "of old": generic evil at the start after the fall of the creation (base case)
"powers" or "lack of restraint": generic powers since the fall of the creation (step case)
"rulers" or "people power" of "darkness" in the "world": civil governments (external threat)
"wickedness" or "oppression" in "high places" or "heavenly places": religious institutions (internal threat)
[Roman times, Nazi times, modern times (e.g., certain theologians), etc.]
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