- Mac: Would you like a spot of tea?
- Dennis: MMMMMYEEESSSS!
(-It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: “The Gang Cracks The Liberty Bell”)
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Highlight(s) of the week: (1) Amanda, Giselle, and I spent some time yesterday [Sunday] with our dear friends Tim and Susan and their wonderful baby boy, Nathan. (2) Amanda let me buy FIFA 2009 for XBox 360, which I was pretty excited about. (3) I wrote five posts for Everyday Liturgy. One in particular was mentioned publicly on Emergent Village’s twitterfeed. (4) I have my own website now! (view here – if you are about to click, I must inform you that you are already there).
- Podcasts: Mars Hills “Bricks and Boards,” and Speaking of Faith‘s “Liberating the Founders,” which I recommend to help remove some of the old assumptions about America’s founders and their religious beliefs.
- Music: I’ve fallen into the trap of listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving, which I promised I’d never do
What I’ve been vegetating in front of: (1) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Office; (2) Heroes; (3) FIFA 2009 on XBox 360 – I recommend to all soccer fans who play soccer video games. (4) I’ve also been on a Law & Order kick. No sure why? May have something to do with it being the only good afternoon television besides SportsCenter.
Something(s) that blew my mind: (1) our beloved Philadelphia Eagles found a way to a tie with the 1-win Cinncinati Bengals. Wow! Super Bowl, here we come! (2) The Bible talks about “beer” – I knew it talked about wine, but beer? I never knew that! (see Deut. 29v6; 1 Sam. 1v15; Isa. 29v9, 28v7, 24v9; Prov. 31v6 – the TNIV uses the word “beer”). (3) the subscriptions in Psalms likely weren’t part of the original text and “of David” could mean a number of things other than that they were written by David. Take that, fundies! I’m just kidding, but seriously.
Job update: still not much progress. I contacted a few places, but I haven’t heard back. I’m not worrying yet.
Seminary update: tomorrow will be the second class on Old Testament poetic books. I’m enjoying it so far. I didn’t know the Psalms could be so complicated!
Looking forward to: (1) What God has in store for me. (2) Giselle to associate “Da-da” with me. (3) Finding a place to live on our own.
First, I love the new look (and I usually don’t like lighter shades of wood and still think of old Gap commercials when I see the color of khaki. lol – but I like it.
Enjoyed having you visit with us as well.
In response to your post, I feel so behind on my television watching. Haven’t watched last week’s Office episode yet and I need to watch this “Always Sunny …” show. Proud to say that I’ve never seen a full episode of law and order. Haven’t turned on the Xbox in forever and haven’t played soccer or heard the sport mentioned since the Euro Cup.
I can’t believe McNabb didn’t know that you could tie in an nfl regular season game and at first, I wasn’t sure if he was being sarcastic when he was wondering out loud that he’d hate to see this happen in a playoff or a Superbowl game. LOL!! Wow – someone tell him that you have 4 tries or “downs” to gain 10 yards from the original line of scrimmage and if you or one of your teammates crosses the plane of the endzone with the football, without penalty then you have scored what is referred to as a “touchdown”. There’s a scoring system as well but let’s not get complicated here but the object of the game is to score more points than your opponent. All this time we thought he sucked, he just didn’t know the rules.
On a serious note, I too am appreciating what we are learning in school regarding the Psalms. Later friend.