Since I have been driving back and forth to Columbia, I thought I'd compile my top pet peeves of those other drivers around me. Please feel free to comment on them and add ones of your own! If you actually do one or more of these I will pray for you. Seriously.
1. If there is a cop car with blue lights on you do NOT have to slow to a stop and gawk at it.
2. If you are going the EXACT same speed in the left lane as the car in the right lane either a. speed up and pass them or b. slow down and get behind them.
3. Do not ride down the road with your blinker on. It makes you look inept and I don't know- Is he changing lanes, is he not changing lanes?
4. If you are an 18 wheeler, don't pass. Ever.
5. Don't ride 2 feet from my back bumper. Someday you may catch me in the right mood and I'll slam by brakes on.
6. If there is NO ONE in the right lane and you are going slow ........PLEASE move to the right lane. Don't make me pass you on the right. Seriously.
7. And lastly, if you cannot manage to a. talk on the phone, b. eat, c. mess with your radio without running me off the road. Don't. Just don't.
8. If I am passing a car, and not going as fast as you would like to go, please don't flash your high beams at me. Rude.
9. Ok, this person is opposite of #3, you don't look cool when you use no turn signals at all.
10. To the people who go 5mph slower than me when in front of me, then I pass you and now you're going 5mph faster than me... Really? I have my cruise set on the same speed, we're not in a race. There's no prize at the end of the road waiting for you. Just work.
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
HE SAID WHAT??
Ok, normally I don't comment on every TV evangelist I watch. On Sunday mornings there is a particular Pastor I like to watch to see what ridiculousness he is spewing each week. Some things I actually agree with and some I do not. Today was particularly disturbing because 1. the size of his congregation listening to this and 2. he is on television and has I think a responsibility to be accurate.
His rant was in regards to Jesus' turning water into wine. It seemed a bit I would say even painful for him to read the verses. I would guess because it looked like Jesus advocated the drinking of wine. Then that's when the rants started. First, using "what was wine back in Jesus' day"? The case made was disturbing at best. All he has at his disposal is to make an argument because as every other person knows and understands that this is a heart issue. You can't guilt people into doing the right thing. It doesn't work that way. Or at least for the majority of the population it doesn't work that way. When he got to the point of contradicting himself I think I threw up a little in the back of my throat.
Like seriously dude?
Jesus drink "wine" that was really condensed jelly/jam that was reconstituted with water to create a "grape juice", not wine?? Good Lord! Then, as an attorney would do, he saved the best zingers for last. "Well, if you still aren't convinced, then you should come to the ER with me when a child is struck by a drunk driver or do a funeral for a teenager who was killed in an alcohol related death and THEN you'd change your tune". Really? Well, using that line of logic I guess we should stop owning guns because they kill people or eating food because you could become obese.
Legalism is a slippery slope. It starts with a good principal: self control, but goes to the point of making a "God tells us to do/not do this thing" when clearly it does not. Wow. I am astonished that this is allowed to happen in churches today. Why? BECAUSE WE ALLOW IT!!
My challenge to myself and anyone who reads this blog: Read scripture and actually determine what the writer meant. Not make up your mind and then make it fit. Amen!
His rant was in regards to Jesus' turning water into wine. It seemed a bit I would say even painful for him to read the verses. I would guess because it looked like Jesus advocated the drinking of wine. Then that's when the rants started. First, using "what was wine back in Jesus' day"? The case made was disturbing at best. All he has at his disposal is to make an argument because as every other person knows and understands that this is a heart issue. You can't guilt people into doing the right thing. It doesn't work that way. Or at least for the majority of the population it doesn't work that way. When he got to the point of contradicting himself I think I threw up a little in the back of my throat.
Like seriously dude?
Jesus drink "wine" that was really condensed jelly/jam that was reconstituted with water to create a "grape juice", not wine?? Good Lord! Then, as an attorney would do, he saved the best zingers for last. "Well, if you still aren't convinced, then you should come to the ER with me when a child is struck by a drunk driver or do a funeral for a teenager who was killed in an alcohol related death and THEN you'd change your tune". Really? Well, using that line of logic I guess we should stop owning guns because they kill people or eating food because you could become obese.
Legalism is a slippery slope. It starts with a good principal: self control, but goes to the point of making a "God tells us to do/not do this thing" when clearly it does not. Wow. I am astonished that this is allowed to happen in churches today. Why? BECAUSE WE ALLOW IT!!
My challenge to myself and anyone who reads this blog: Read scripture and actually determine what the writer meant. Not make up your mind and then make it fit. Amen!
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