Archives for September, 2002
Canadian food has been under fire since the presidential elections when George W. Bush was told about how Canadian Prime Minister Poutine supported him [Cultural explanation for non-Canadian readers: poutine is a dish from Quebec. It's made from warm french fries, topped with some cheese cut in small pieces. The french fries and the cheese are mixed together. The warm french fries make the cheese melt. Then the entire mix is topped with brown gravy.] and W. excitedly accepted his endorsement [Canada's Prime Minister is actually named Jean Chretien] Now Tom Shugart is challenging my spelling of “natchos” and trying to tell me the proper way to spell it is “nachos”. In expressing my disgust over this perceived American imperialism, my wife (who is from South America) looked at me and said, “Tom’s right, it is n-a-c-h-o-s”. I stand ashamed. The good news is that in my attempts to prove Tom wrong, I found what looks to be an amazing nacho recipe. Tom, if you are ever in this neck of the woods, the nachos are on me!
“It would be tragic to live through one of the most significant transitions in the history of the world and to misunderstand it as a mere stage in the life of the young.” -Tex Sample
How to Become Poor
In his wonderful book The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto notes: “The cities of the Third World and the former communist countries are teeming with entrepreneurs. You cannot walk through a Middle Eastern market, hike up to a Latin American village, or climb into a taxicab in Moscow without someone trying to make a deal with you. The inhabitants of these countries possess talent, enthusiasm, and an astonishing ability to wring profit out of practically nothing.” It’s possible to keep such people down only if governments dedicate themselves to the pursuit of really bad policies for decades at a time.
Communion: More Than Symbol
In its fullest sense, remembering is far more than the long backward glance of nostalgia, and in its fullest sense the symbol of bread and wine is far more than symbol. It is part of the mystery of any symbol always to contain something of the power of the thing symbolized just as it is more than a mere piece of painted cloth that makes your pulse quicken when you come upon your country’s flag in a foreign land, more than a mere sound that gladdens your spirit when you hear someone speak the name of an absent friend. When in remembrance of Jesus, the disciples ate the bread and drank the wine, it was more than mere bread and wine they were dealing with, and for all the tragic and ludicrous battles Christians have fought with each other for centuries over what actually takes place at the Mass, the Eucharist, Communion, or whatever they call it, they would all seem to agree that something extraordinary takes place. Even if the priest is a fraud, the bread a tasteless wafer, the wine not wine at all but temperance grapejuice, the one who comes to this outlandish meal in faith may find there something to feed his deepest hunger, may feel stirring within himself a life even more precious, more urgent, more near than his own.
Frederick Buechner, Listening To Your Life (Harper, 1992), pp.260-261.
I purchased a copy of Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase of The Message. I have a New Testament and have really enjoyed it and binding shows it. I was going to buy a copy of it when it came out but it as $70 (CDN) and I thought that was a little steep. Lakeview Church has a book ministry and Alana was able to get it for $40 which is expensive for a hardcover a little more bearable.
I don’t know who is gouging me so badly. Amazon.ca is offering it at $46 but the local Christian ghetto’s are selling it at $70. The ghetto’s blame the publisher but whoever is to blame, $70 is absurd.
How bad is it in Cinncinnati?
This is from the team’s official website at www.bengals.com, Ibid. Somehow, the 0-4 Bengals found a new low Sunday in finishing off their third winless September in the last four years. During a punchless 35�7 loss to Tampa Bay, the sparse Paul Brown Stadium crowd cheered at such sights as the Bengals throwing a 50-yard incompletion down field and quarterback Akili Smith throwing away a pass in the end zone that ended up in the hands of a fan.
No, I think the new low is when your own team website writes that about your performance.
Rams are 0-4
or 0-9 if you count the games since the last Super Bowl. This last game was against the Dallas Cowboys! Something is wrong in St. Louis. Losing Hakim shouldn’t have made that much of a difference to this offence.
Peter King Goes to Town on Terrel Owen
It looks like the 49ers will simply have to accept the fact that they’re going to endure some silly eruptions from Mount Owens four or five times a year. The only good thing about it is that Owens is not a locker room leader, and so he won’t be able to infect many of his teammates.
Last night after Lakeview’s two services, Jeb, Sharla, Wendy, and Tamara Reimer and I went out to Alexander’s Restaurant for a fairly bad meal all around. I ordered their famous natchos and they came out burnt. After listening to the waitress say that the cooks have to cook it that way, I told her that over seven years of coming to Alexander’s, I have never had them burnt like this. The brought out a new plate minutes later with the cheese not even melted and the waitress was ticked. I picked up the tab and left a decent tip (some of the girls attend Lakeview and I have always tipped well there because they are all students) and the waitresss goes, “this is too much, the food was awful, and the cooks ruined your natchos”. Well, at least someone admitted it.
One of those odd parenting moments
I put Mark down to nap in one outfit this afternoon. When I went upstairs to get him up to drop him off at the sitters (Wendy is working today) he was wearing a completely different outfit. He had managed to pull his crib over a pile of clothes and grab some. I guess he didn’t like what I had picked out for him.
Preaching at Lakeview this weekend
I am killing some time surfing in Dean’s office tonight while the musicians finish up rehersal in time for the 5:35 service. If I am lucky, the music guys won’t scarf down a very good smelling supper before I can get some for the start of the 7:07 service. UPDATE: Doh! too late, food all gone. Full musicians all over the room.
Jeb’s New Blog
I mentioned this earlier but Jeb has a new blog at its own domain at www.chrisrunquist.com. I worked with Jeb for about two months until I finally heard him called Chris. Actually only his wife and parents call him Chris… Jeb is the media creator at Lakeview and has put together a very nice blog.
Spent half an hour search for a quote on Google only to find out I had it listed in my quote library.
Our worst sin is prayerlessnss, because of what it says about who we really think is in charge of the church and the universe. God save us from the people who would renew the church and bring justice in the world without praying. Having he appearance of godliness, but denying its power, they are more dangerous than the wrongs they would set right. They will replace old evils with new evils, themselves. — P. T. Forsyth
The World’s First AOL Computer
This computer could turn out to be a very big deal. Not so much because it�s the first under-$200 new PC to hit the marketplace or because it runs a version of Linux which can run some Windows programs � but because the idea had been embraced by the number one online service.
Our Cabin Weblog- Recently listened to music
- David Gray – Be Mine October 19, 2008
- David Gray – December October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Knowhere October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Real Love October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Last Boat To America October 19, 2008
- Recently additions to my library
- Messy Faith: Daring to Live by Grace by A. J. Gregory October 28, 2008
- Rediscovering Church: The Story and Vision of Willow Creek Community Church by Lynne Hybels October 26, 2008
- The Teeth of the Tiger, A Novel by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell October 26, 2008
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
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