Random Ramblings

kerrick wrote:

"And by "God's Word" I mean the bible, not some flavor of the day Christian self-help book"
AMEN.  My goodness how I hate how "the church" has largely devolved into this self-centered means to "your best life now" instead of seeking to glorify our awesome Creator and Savior.

It seems rampant over here on the Left Coast (especially centered around the big cities).  I'm not suggesting that those books can't be helpful to some, I just don't think that 90% of them belong in a 12 week bible study.  It looks more like "big business" to me and less like studying the bible.  I've had to read 4 or 5 of them for organized church study courses and I got very little out of any of them except for frustrated.

alldatndensum wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

alldatndensum wrote:

I've never gone to a church that used the small group model.  I've always been in a Sunday School class for adults.

I might actually get more out of that.  Seems like many of the small groups I have been to (that weren't led by the pastor) end up breaking down into a "feelings-fest" as I call them, or worse slip into something I'm almost certain is heretical.
It seems like pretty hard to find churches in our part of the country that actually have Sunday school classes for adults (the only one I have seen in the last decade was a KJVO church, and I won't be any part of that).

My church would prefer for me to be KJVO, but I actually am using the CSB.  It is the updated version of the HCSB that I used to call the "hardcore southern Baptist version" because it was put out by Lifeway.  LOL

So far, it might be my favourite English translation. Not that I'm an expert, but it seems solid.

I am enjoying the CSB.  It seems to be translated in a way that is super easy to read while being structured in a way to make it easier to follow a preacher/teacher in church that is reading from the KJV or NKJV.

Since it was so warm today and we don't have Sunday night services at the new church, I put up all the Christmas lights outside that I am going to do this year. It isn't a huge display, but it is festive!

alldatndensum wrote:

I am enjoying the CSB.  It seems to be translated in a way that is super easy to read while being structured in a way to make it easier to follow a preacher/teacher in church that is reading from the KJV or NKJV.

I have never heard of the CSB version. Is it the Cartoon SpongeBob version?

Hard to believe that Ozzy Osbourne is 70 years old 

I got a text from my mom this morning that one of her coworkers is a big Signum Regis fan!  Who would've thought that there'd be multiple fans of Christian Slovak power metal way up here in the panhandle of northern Idaho!

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Hard to believe that Ozzy Osbourne is 70 years old 

You mean it's hard to believe he's actually lived that long. 

kerrick wrote:

I got a text from my mom this morning that one of her coworkers is a big Signum Regis fan!  Who would've thought that there'd be multiple fans of Christian Slovak power metal way up here in the panhandle of northern Idaho!

Well it's not like there is anything else to do so far from civilization.  Two steps north and you will be in the wilds of Canada running from angry mooses. 

Hey now, if it weren't for the eight feet of snow, two dozen fallen trees over the unplowed and unpaved "roads," a pack of vicious wolves, and that creepy hermit Hank between here and the nearest trading post where I could barter my raccoon pelts and possum jerky for a plane ticket, I'd come out there and whoop on ya!

kerrick wrote:

...and that creepy hermit Hank...

Hank is good people.

Staybrite wrote:

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Hard to believe that Ozzy Osbourne is 70 years old 

You mean it's hard to believe he's actually lived that long. 

Ozzy, Willie Nelson, Keith Richards.  Three reasons to question everything medical science tells us.

Xid wrote:

kerrick wrote:

...and that creepy hermit Hank...

Hank is good people.

Well, he's got that underground bunker filled with canned beans and ammo.  So in case of nuclear fallout or communist invasion, he's a good guy to be friends with.

messiaen77 wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Hard to believe that Ozzy Osbourne is 70 years old 

You mean it's hard to believe he's actually lived that long. 

Ozzy, Willie Nelson, Keith Richards.  Three reasons to question everything medical science tells us.

Indeed 

kerrick wrote:

Xid wrote:

kerrick wrote:

...and that creepy hermit Hank...

Hank is good people.

Well, he's got that underground bunker filled with canned beans and ammo.  So in case of nuclear fallout or communist invasion, he's a good guy to be friends with.

If the aliens attack, though, he might kill you, cut you up into pieces, and dissolve your remains with acid.

That kind of sounds like a JJ Abrams movie plot to me. 

kerrick wrote:

Hey now, if it weren't for the eight feet of snow, two dozen fallen trees over the unplowed and unpaved "roads," a pack of vicious wolves, and that creepy hermit Hank between here and the nearest trading post where I could barter my raccoon pelts and possum jerky for a plane ticket, I'd come out there and whoop on ya!

alldatndensum wrote:

kerrick wrote:

Xid wrote:

kerrick wrote:

...and that creepy hermit Hank...

Hank is good people.

Well, he's got that underground bunker filled with canned beans and ammo.  So in case of nuclear fallout or communist invasion, he's a good guy to be friends with.

If the aliens attack, though, he might kill you, cut you up into pieces, and dissolve your remains with acid.

That kind of sounds like a JJ Abrams movie plot to me. 

Or worse yet...eat you!!  (hmm reminder to call JJ and recommend new story line for "Cloverfield Cove-Lost on Cannibal Island")

Staybrite wrote:

kerrick wrote:

Hey now, if it weren't for the eight feet of snow, two dozen fallen trees over the unplowed and unpaved "roads," a pack of vicious wolves, and that creepy hermit Hank between here and the nearest trading post where I could barter my raccoon pelts and possum jerky for a plane ticket, I'd come out there and whoop on ya!

alldatndensum wrote:

kerrick wrote:

Xid wrote:

kerrick wrote:

...and that creepy hermit Hank...

Hank is good people.

Well, he's got that underground bunker filled with canned beans and ammo.  So in case of nuclear fallout or communist invasion, he's a good guy to be friends with.

If the aliens attack, though, he might kill you, cut you up into pieces, and dissolve your remains with acid.

That kind of sounds like a JJ Abrams movie plot to me. 

Or worse yet...eat you!!  (hmm reminder to call JJ and recommend new story line for "Cloverfield Cove-Lost on Cannibal Island")

If Hank is gonna eat you, it sounds like a JJ Abrams plot mixed with a famous horror movie franchise.  Maybe they should call it:


"Silence the Cloverfield Lambs"

Hank the cannibalistic hermit with the underground bunker.  I foresee a CHM inside joke to haunt us for years to come hahahaha.

25 degrees outside this morning 

Got as low as 36 here in SoCal yesterday, but then the high was 72 - one of the only advantages to living in California still 

Today's forcasted to have a high of 34!
https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/id/hayden?cm_ven=localwx_10day

Jim, I like your new signature.  Thank God our salvation isn't dependent on our own strength!!!

Cold few couple of days here as well.  Haven't been getting out of the 30's for a few days it seems.  Especially cold for my (late) morning commute today.

MikeInFla wrote:

alldatndensum wrote:

I am enjoying the CSB.  It seems to be translated in a way that is super easy to read while being structured in a way to make it easier to follow a preacher/teacher in church that is reading from the KJV or NKJV.

I have never heard of the CSB version. Is it the Cartoon SpongeBob version?

CSB = Confederate Southern Baptist version. 

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Jim, I like your new signature.  Thank God our salvation isn't dependent on our own strength!!!

 The older I get, the more I understand that there is absolutely NOTHING I can add to, contribute, or take away from what HE did for us. And what's more, how arrogant we humans are who think there IS more.

kerrick wrote:

Hank the cannibalistic hermit with the underground bunker.  I foresee a CHM inside joke to haunt us for years to come hahahaha.

We used to have a running gag about our old mascot who was a possum.  We might as well have a cannibalistic hermit named Hank, too.