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December 28, 2006
No Day Like Tomorrow
John Edwards was in Des Moines this evening for his campaign launch, and did a beautiful job of clogging up traffic out of downtown. On one of the streets by the capitol building, there was a guy holding an Edwards sign that read "Tomorrow begins today."
Now, let's pause to consider this statement, since it is one of the first of Edwards's campaign. Today can not, by definition, be tomorrow. Because if today was tomorrow, then it would be tomorrow, not today, and if tomorrow were today, then today would be today, because, by definition, tomorrow is tomorrow and today is today, and, by definition, it can't be today tomorrow or tomorrow today.
What's more is that Edwards is a re-run of '04, which means today seems a whole lot like two years ago. Not only that, but I bet that in a little less than two years, Edwards will be telling you that tomorrow begins on Election Day of '08, which means that tomorrow might not begin until two years in the future.
Way to kick off the road to '08, John -- lie to the American people in your campaign slogan.
Posted by Megan at 09:12 PM | Comments (17)
December 17, 2006
Sermon Notes (Omaha church)
Earth's Desperation
In those days Caeser Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. -Luke 2:1
During this time, Israel was captive to Rome. The census was being taken so that Rome would be able to tax the Israelis. God had been silent to Israel -- in 400 years there had been no prophets -- so Israel was fearful.
Heavan's Declaration
But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will bee for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord." Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." -Luke 2:10-11
The Hebrew for peace for Shalom, which translates more specifically into "fullness of life." This proclamation was one of deliverance, restoration and reconciliation with God, forgiveness of sins, and eternal life.
Earth's Celebration
Today we are fearful of many things and captive to sin in our fallen condition. We put our trust in the wrong things. But the message of deliverance and restoration can be as real today as it was at the birth of Jesus. Not because of our desperation, but because of his amazing grace.
Posted by Megan at 05:44 PM | Comments (1)
December 13, 2006
Band Goes Bowling
Kleinke's Good Luck Dance
Dustin
Kory
Anton
Goin' a little nuts with the camera
Bolwing shoes are flippin' sweet
Posers
Pretty Colors
The Rock Band
Posted by Megan at 07:36 PM | Comments (6)
December 11, 2006
Where have all the comments gone?
It seems that some comments are disappearing from my blog. Not sure how or why this is happening, but please rest assured that I'm not censoring them intentionally.
Posted by Megan at 11:16 PM | Comments (4)