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Got this one in an email from Glen and Helen Davenport:

A Japanese doctor says, “Medicine in my country is so
advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put
it in another, and have him out looking for work in
six weeks.”

A German doctor says, “That is nothing. We can take a
lung out of one person, put it in another, and have
him out looking for work in four weeks.”

A British doctor says, “In my country, medicine is so
advanced that we can take half a heart out of one
person, put it in another, and have both of them out
looking for work in two weeks.”

The American doctor interjected, “You guys are way
behind.  We are about to take a woman with no
brains, put her in the White House, and half the
country will be out looking for work.”

And I got this from the CFF newsletter:

MINISTERING WITH GOD’S POWER
Faith, Workings of Miracles, & Gifts of Healings

April 3-6, 2008

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	WHO:	For high school graduates or age 19-30, seeking to excel to the edifying of the church.
	WHERE:	Christian Family Fellowship Ministry, 1575 State Route 571 West, Tipp City, OH 45371
	WHAT:	An extended weekend with likeminded believers wanting to grow and serve in the body of Christ.
	COST:	$130.00 includes room at the Holiday Inn, Tipp City, OH and all meals.
	REGISTRATION DEADLINE March 21, 2008.
	ARRIVAL/DEPARTURE TIMES:
	..> ..> Arrive: Thursday 4/3: 5:00 – 6:00pm 5:30 – 7:00pm 7:00pm Registration Buffet Supper Opening Session
	Depart: Sunday after lunch

*Airport pick up only available at the Dayton International Airport. FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact Nancy Banios: 937-669-3090 or cffsec@aol.com

Well, technically, my next big thing is this Fridays youth fellowship. (girls house, 6:30-9. If you’re under 30, you’re invited.) And then teaching Sunday March 9th at CFF. (Be there or be square.) And then Venezuela is next. But the POINT is, MIT is coming.

Anyways the other point is that I’m taking the SAT test this Saturday, so please be PRAYING for me to not bomb it.

(Ok, I admit it: This blog post was written entirely so that I could post that picture.)

(This is another gem from Rick Rohl)

John 10:10b
…I [Jesus Christ] am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly [perissos; superabundant].

2Corinthians 8:7
Therefore, as ye abound [perisseuo; superabound] in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound [perisseuo; superabound] in this grace also.

1. Love
2. Hope
3. Faith
4. Grace
5. Diligence
6. Utterance
7. Knowledge

Romans 15:13
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound [perisseuo; superabound] in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

I’ve been getting up at 5 am for the past couple of days to work on my teaching that I’m giving tonight in Cincinnati. You should totally come see me do it. I’m teaching on a big secret that was hidden since the world began.

But anyways, that’s not the point, or rather the points, of this post. They are (a) meat brownies and (b) pop tart sex.

So last night Nikki were basically falling asleep together, (the “snore, ZZZZzzzz” sort of seeping, not the ‘horizontal hula’ type) (or the Perpendiculat hula type) and we hear that my roommates and Aaron are cooking brownies.

Cool.

So about when the brownies finish, Nikki and I decide that they’re worth waking up for and we both go to get some. They’re pretty hot, so I take my time.

It’s worth mentioning by this point that my roommates and Aaron were playing Kingdom of Loathing before, during, and after making said brownies.

It is further worth mentioning that KoL contains and item called “Chorizo brownies.” These are described in game as such:

These are chocolate brownies with big lumps of spicy pork in them. Just like grandma used to make.
Grandma hated you.

So anyways, I’m eating my brownies carefully as not to bun my tongue. I take a little nibble. Then a bigger nibble. Mumm, warm chocolaty goodness. Then I take a big bite.

Salty.

“Hay.. meat brownies?”

Hilarity ensues for everyone who isn’t me.

Incidentally, half the people there, including Nikki, liked them. Weird.

Oh, and about the pop tarts, I bought two boxes the other day and I opened up to cabinet and saw 5 boxes today. Yea, they’re totally doing it whenever we shut the door.

And now back to my teaching! (I’ll try and get it posted online too, both here and on the fellowlaborers website.)

A hunter leaves his home, walks 10 km to the South and 10 km to the West, shoots a bear, walks 10 km to the North, and is back home. What color is the bear?

First person to answer it right in the comments wins a congratulations from me (MSRP $49.99) as well as the satisfaction of being smarter/faster than everyone else! (MSRP $0.02)

The meat of the newletter was awesome, but this here is just a couple of short amusing tidbits:

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT:
A Forever Valentine

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“For God so lo	V	ed the world,
That He g	A	ve
His on	L	y
Begott	E	n
So	N
Tha	T	whosoever
Believeth	I	n Him
Should	N	ot perish,
But have	E	verlasting life.”

HUMOR OF THE DAY:
Ambiguity

1. Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.
2. One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor…..
3. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
4. If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
5. The main reason santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
6. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, “where’s the self-help section?”
   she said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
7. What if there were no hypothetical questions?
8. If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
9. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
10. Is there another word for synonym?
11. Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all?”
12. What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
13. If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
14. Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
15. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
16. If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
17. Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
18. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
19. Why do they put braille on the drive-through bank machines?
20. How do they get deer to cross the road only at those yellow roadsigns?
21. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
22. One nice thing about egotists: they don’t talk about other people.
23. Does the little mermaid wear an algebra?
24. Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
25. How is it possible to have a civil war?
26. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?
27. If you ate both pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
28. If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?
29. Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have “s” in it?
30. Why are hemorrhoids called “hemorrhoids” instead of “assteroids”?
31. Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?
32. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
33. If you spin an oriental man in a circle three times does he become disoriented?
34. Can an atheist get insurance against acts of god?

The book of Ruth is a Love story. It’s somewhat amazing, because it was set in a time of strict cultural rules and arranged marriages, and yet, Boaz and Ruth were able to work within the Jewish culture and it’s traditions and still came out together.

It starts off with Naomi and her husband, and they have two sons, and their two sons marry two gals. One of the gals is Ruth. A famine hits the land and Naomi’s husband and their two sons all die. Naomi tells her daughters in law to go back home and that their family’s will have to take care of them.

The daughters in law are from different religious & cultural backgrounds, and it was assumed that they would go back to those backgrounds even though they had been Jews when their husbands were alive.

The one girl leaves, but Ruth stays. She says to Naomi “I will make your people my people and your God my God.” And so the two of them go back to Ruth’s home town of Bethlehem.

In their culture, the farmers left some of the crop out in the field so that the poor could go and gather it for themselves. So Ruth went out into a field to gather some corn for the two of them.

The field she went into belong to Boaz, who had been the kinsmen (brother) of Namoi’s husband.

Boaz sees her out in the field and asks his servants who she is. And when he finds out, he tells them to be extra nice to her and leave some extra harvest behind for her. Boaz talks to Ruth and tells her not to go to any other fields, just stay at his. He lets her eat with his reapers when they eat a meal.

At the end of the day Ruth goes back to Naomi and tells her what’s happened and Naomi is pretty happy about everything. They go on like this for a while and Ruth takes care of Naomi.

Naomi and Ruth both knew what a kinsmen redeemer was but I didn’t. Basically, when a woman’s husband would die, his brothers, his kinsmen, would often marry the woman and take care of her. They “redeemed” her from the life of a widow. (It was a lot worse in their culture than in ours.)

So Naomi explains to Ruth the proper way in their culture to tell Boaz that she’d like to marry him, she’d like for him to be her kinsmen redeemer, and Ruth goes and does it. And Boaz makes Ruth a promise. He tells her that while he is kinsmen there was a brother nearer than himself. Basically in their culture, the nearest kinsmen had to have to first chance to marry the widow, then if he didn’t, the next kinsmen, Boaz, was then was allowed to. So Boaz promises Ruth that if the other kinsmen won’t marry her that he will.

The next day Boaz goes into town and gets to gather the other brother (the nearer kinsmen) and a number of the elders of the town. Boaz points out to his brother that he has this opportunity to marry Ruth. And at first the brother says he’s going to do it, but Boaz talks him out of it.

Boaz points out that the brothers inheritance for his children will have to be split among Ruth’s children too. The brother decides he doesn’t like that so much, so he gives up his opportunity to marry her. Then Boaz announces in front of everybody that he will be the kinsmen redeemer for Ruth.

So Boaz and Ruth get married and have a son. A few generations down the tree, David comes out of their bloodline, one of the greatest kings ever. The book of Samuel calls David “A man after gods own heart.” And a number of generations after that Jesus Christ comes out of their bloodline.

If you’d like to read it for yourself, here’s Ruth 1 in The King James version, and here it is in the somewhat easier-to-read New International Version

The Christian Family Fellowship also sells a class by Rev. Wayne Clapp that goes into the book of Ruth in far more detail than I possibly could. I believe the cost is $35; I’m going to get myself a copy soon here.

Haplology is defined as the elimination of a syllable when two consecutive identical or similar syllables occur.
– en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplology

Like shortening “Amanda” to “Manda”, or “Four Cheese Cheese Nips” to “four Cheese Nips” (The topic that brought that word up.)

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Anyways, I’m feeling a little down today. Prayers would be most certainly appreciated.

I was reading Proverbs this morning and since I didn’t used to understand this section, I figured there might be some other folks who would be interested in it’s true meaning:

Proverbs 25:21-22
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Many American might read that and think “Yes! I can love my enemies like Matthew says and they’re still going to get burned by God!”

But that’s not the actual meaning of this verse. To gain a true understanding, one must understand the customs in biblical times. They used fires daily for cooking and let it burn at night to have for the next day. If a family awoke and found that their fire had completely gone during the night, they would go to one of their neighbors and request some coals with which to rebuild their fire.

They carried the coals on top of their head in a clay pot of sorts. It was cold out in the morning, so besides allowing them to restart their own fire, the coals warmed the carrier also.

“Heaping coals of fire upon his head” was a loving and friendly thing to do. It was neighbors being good neighbors. This is what brings the LORD to reward a person.

So I am going to be putting together another quick little website for Earl and Ben’s t-shirt shop (these are good quality shirts, not cafe press stuff) and I was poking around other sites for design ideas. Anyways, now I want this shirt: