Rob's Internet Hoard. http://rbj.posterous.com Using it to save cool crap I find online. posterous.com Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:40:27 -0800 Game Day! http://rbj.posterous.com/game-day http://rbj.posterous.com/game-day

First game of the season.

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Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:17:00 -0800 12 Amish Plead Not Guilty In Hair-Cutting Attacks : NPR http://rbj.posterous.com/12-amish-plead-not-guilty-in-hair-cutting-att http://rbj.posterous.com/12-amish-plead-not-guilty-in-hair-cutting-att

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January 11, 2012

Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio have pleaded not guilty to beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in a feud over church discipline.

The seven original defendants and five more added in an indictment returned last month entered the not guilty pleas to federal charges Wednesday in a crowded Cleveland courtroom.

Judge Dan Aaron Polster refused a defense appeal to release the suspected ringleader and his son on bond.

A feud over church discipline allegedly led to five attacks in which beards and hair of both men and women were cut, which is considered deeply offensive in Amish culture.

The seven-count indictment includes charges of conspiracy, assault and evidence tampering in what prosecutors say were hate crimes motivated by religious differences.

Beard cutting. Very offensive.

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:03:31 -0800 My first Amazon purchase. What was yours? http://rbj.posterous.com/my-first-amazon-purchase-what-was-yours http://rbj.posterous.com/my-first-amazon-purchase-what-was-yours
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Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:47:42 -0800 A new family fun obsession. http://rbj.posterous.com/a-new-family-fun-obsession http://rbj.posterous.com/a-new-family-fun-obsession
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Lindsay and I have been playing some new board games with the family. We cannot get enough of Settlers of Catan.

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Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:39:52 -0800 Pre-Dinner Course for the family. http://rbj.posterous.com/pre-dinner-course-for-the-family http://rbj.posterous.com/pre-dinner-course-for-the-family
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One grape with mature, English Cheddar cheese atop a piece of Cabernet Sauvignon infused salame with a hint of Juniper berries.

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Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:58:00 -0700 Cousins! http://rbj.posterous.com/cousins http://rbj.posterous.com/cousins

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They look more and more alike each time they are together.

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Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:17:30 -0700 Games Workshop Grand Opening http://rbj.posterous.com/games-workshop-grand-opening http://rbj.posterous.com/games-workshop-grand-opening

I took Ethan to a hobby shop specializing in a table top hobby game called Warhammer. Have a look.

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Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:20:24 -0700 Preparing for a bike ride. http://rbj.posterous.com/preparing-for-a-bike-ride http://rbj.posterous.com/preparing-for-a-bike-ride

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Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:31:38 -0700 Ethan's First Day of School http://rbj.posterous.com/ethans-first-day-of-school http://rbj.posterous.com/ethans-first-day-of-school

Kids grow too fast. My baby is a little boy.

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Sun, 07 Aug 2011 08:55:07 -0700 A Story of Love and Acceptance http://rbj.posterous.com/a-story-of-love-and-acceptance http://rbj.posterous.com/a-story-of-love-and-acceptance
Here is a story I received from a sister in Christ. Her name is Patricia, and she gave me permission to share. Enjoy.

We have lived in same place for 25 yrs.   When NY put a 5 cent deposit on all bottles & cans some years ago it became fashionable to dumpster dive for cash.

Around that time we noticed a guy (age undetermined - not old not young) came around a couple of times a day.    Both mentally & physically challenged.    He got pretty good at getting the discarded cans & bottles so we started to pack ours up and leave for him.  And so it continues.

Now we see him several times a week very vocal about say hi & thanks.   His name is Tommy and we believe he lives in a group home.   We give him stuff - a warm winter coat that Richard no longer wears, shirts, etc.    And every once in a while he disappears for some time but always comes back,with a beat up face, once with stiches on his head.   Apparently "people" pick on him - beating the you know what out of him take his money (and even the coat we gave him) but still marches on.   A few weeks ago he told us (once again at the top of his lungs) that he goes to church service every day but twice on Sunday....amazing.

Any a bit of background   Yesterday I was taking some downtime sitting on my porch reading hoping it wouldn't rain.   The Bottle Boy which is what he is known as by all comes walking up yelling I got something for you,I got something for you.   He walked up to me with box that contained 1/2 sheet cake from local supermarket - with it inscribed To My Friend.   He had several more in his cart (for other friends I assume)  the price tag was $20.99.    He gave me the cake and said you & your husband are my friends and are very nice to me.   And goes on to tell me I can't do this all the time I only get $200 in food stamps a month but I will do it again soon.  And he walked (more like limped) away muttering to himself about his friends. 

My reaction was OMG look at this man, challenged in life, no family that you could tell and he spends his money on cakes for his "friends" .  Made me think to myself maybe my attitude of no good deed goes unpunished doesn't work here.

God is good God is great.

Have  good week bro.

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Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:23:00 -0700 It. http://rbj.posterous.com/it http://rbj.posterous.com/it

It isn't about the brand of your notebook.
It is about what you write in it.

It isn't about Husky or Craftsman.
It is about what you build.

It isn't about the make and model of your car.
It is about the car getting you there.

It isn't about what you say you do.
It is about what your doing says about you.

The translation doesn't matter.
Read it!

Mac, Windows, Linux?
Doesn't matter. Just compute something!

Think about how much you take in.
How much do you give out?

Think about what you take in.
Think about what you give out.

Love God, love others.
Don't stop before you get there.

I stop at so many points.
I take pride in the method of it.
I need to stop.
I need to get going.

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Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:51:00 -0700 God Will Provide http://rbj.posterous.com/god-will-provide http://rbj.posterous.com/god-will-provide
And Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father!" And he said, "Here am I, my son." He said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.


Gen 22:7-8

I cannot tell you how often I worry that God will not provide.

But He does. He does!!

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Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:29:48 -0700 Serving with my Northland family. http://rbj.posterous.com/serving-with-my-northland-family http://rbj.posterous.com/serving-with-my-northland-family

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Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:40:35 -0700 Bonds of Brotherhood http://rbj.posterous.com/bonds-of-brotherhood http://rbj.posterous.com/bonds-of-brotherhood What is needed in the church is a kind of familial relationship that is a brotherhood and a sisterhood. It can be learned in part outside of the church in other endeavors, such as the world of sports or even the battlefield. But the deepest knitting together of human beings for a common cause, a common faith, and a common Lord exists in the church of Jesus Christ.

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/bonds-brotherhood/

From Ligonier Ministries and R.C. Sproul. © Tabletalk magazine. Website: www.ligonier.org/tabletalk. Email: tabletalk@ligonier.org. Toll free: 1-800-435-4343.

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Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:57:00 -0700 Is your faith enough? http://rbj.posterous.com/is-your-faith-enough http://rbj.posterous.com/is-your-faith-enough

I started listening (audio book) to The Road, by Cormac McCarthy again.

There isn't much of a plot to the book. There is a man, and a child. And a few other side characters.

You can easily look up the premise online, so I won't cover it in detail here.

Here is the affect the book has on my psyche: it utterly destroys any ideas of earthly treasures. Picture a time or place where you have no earthly joy.

Is your hope or faith in Christ enough to keep you going?

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Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:44:04 -0700 Some Wisdom for Today http://rbj.posterous.com/some-wisdom-for-today http://rbj.posterous.com/some-wisdom-for-today
Prov. 11:12    Mean-spirited slander is heartless;
quiet discretion accompanies good sense.

  

Prov. 11:17    When you’re kind to others, you help yourself;
when you’re cruel to others, you hurt yourself.

  

Prov. 11:29    Exploit or abuse your family, and end up with a fistful of air;
common sense tells you it’s a stupid way to live.

  

Prov. 12:16    Fools have short fuses and explode all too quickly;
the prudent quietly shrug off insults.

  

Prov. 12:19    Truth lasts;
lies are here today, gone tomorrow.

  

Prov. 12:20    Evil scheming distorts the schemer;
peace-planning brings joy to the planner.

  

Prov. 14:3    Frivolous talk provokes a derisive smile;
wise speech evokes nothing but respect.

  

Prov. 14:17    The hotheaded do things they’ll later regret;
the coldhearted get the cold shoulder.

  

Prov. 15:18    Hot tempers start fights;
a calm, cool spirit keeps the peace.

  

Prov. 15:4    Kind words heal and help;
cutting words wound and maim.

   

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Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:33:00 -0700 Guitar Exhibit at OSC - Come with us! http://rbj.posterous.com/guitar-exhibit-at-osc-come-with-us http://rbj.posterous.com/guitar-exhibit-at-osc-come-with-us

Lindsay and I are going to take the kids to the Orlando Science Center (http://www.ocs.org) this coming Sunday. Care to join us?

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Thu, 12 May 2011 10:04:00 -0700 Cell Phones are Killing Bees http://rbj.posterous.com/its-official-cell-phones-are-killing-bees-inh http://rbj.posterous.com/its-official-cell-phones-are-killing-bees-inh
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Cell phones are killing bees. Will this be the start of Armageddon?

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Fri, 06 May 2011 09:09:00 -0700 Do we know much of love? | BRIC House http://rbj.posterous.com/do-we-know-much-of-love-bric-house http://rbj.posterous.com/do-we-know-much-of-love-bric-house

I was having a conversation recently with someone and the topic of love came up. We talked about how the world has many meanings for love. But as a Christ follower, what do we know of love? The Bible gives it to us plainly:

[4] Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant [5] or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [6] it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. [7] Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. [9] For we know in part and we prophesy in part, [10] but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. [11] When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. [12] For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. [13] So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:4-13 ESV)

So there you have it. Love. Explained. Here are a couple of other verses:

[28] And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” [29] Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. [30] And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ [31] The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” [32] And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. [33] And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” [34] And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions. (Mark 12:28-34 ESV)

Now look at the introduction to the above versus:

[13:1] If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [2] And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. [3] If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1-3 ESV)

Makes me wonder how much of love do we really know? Love will be the topic of our next few weeks at BRIC House.

 

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Tue, 03 May 2011 10:48:00 -0700 Another Look: It’s OK…to Just Be a Christian http://rbj.posterous.com/another-look-its-okto-just-be-a-christian http://rbj.posterous.com/another-look-its-okto-just-be-a-christian

By Chaplain Mike

I thought this post from last year (4/19/10) was worth another look. I hope you will too. It’s a bit of a riff on the question asked by the prophet Micah: “What does the Lord require of you?” (Micah 6:8) In the light of last week’s discussions on “radical” and other adjectives we apply to Christianity, these words came back to my mind. I’ve made a few minor editorial changes to the original post.

 

I hope this will come as a bit of good news to you today. Maybe it will help you stop beating yourself up unnecessarily. I hope it will help us all to that end.

What I have to tell you is…

It’s OK.

It’s OK to just be a Christian.

It’s OK to just be a person who knows and is thankful that God loves you and gave his Son for you.

It’s OK to just be a person of the cross, to know that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose again for the world’s salvation.

Really, it’s OK.

 

It’s OK to be someone who only really cares about trying to love God and love your neighbor.

It’s OK to think that the Apostles’ Creed is a comprehensive enough statement of faith for you, and that you are willing to have fellowship with other people who think the same.

You don’t have to be a certain kind of Christian. Adjectives like “reformed” or “conservative” or “emerging” or “missional” or “radical” or “passionate” or any number of denominational or theologically constricting labels are not necessary.

It’s OK just to love Jesus and be thankful for what he’s done for you.

You don’t have to go to a “cool” church with a name like “Revolution” or “The Rock” or “Journey” or “The River,” though it’s certainly OK if you do. Your plain ol’ First Presbyterian or First Baptist or First United Methodist will work just fine too. It’s also OK if you attend St. Peter’s and your pastor waves incense around, or St. Basil’s, where intriguing icons invite your contemplation.

It’s OK if you don’t listen to Christian music, shop in Christian stores, wear Christian t-shirts, go to Christian conventions, become a Christian homeschooler or send your kids to Christian schools, patronize Christian businesses, participate in Christian causes, read Christian books, or identify yourself with Christian organizations. You can be a Christian without all that, it’s OK.

It’s OK if you don’t have a big library of theological books or Bible commentaries. It’s OK if you struggle reading through the Bible, because you can’t even make it past Genesis 5—you can’t pronounce that long list of funny names. A great multitude of believers over the centuries never even saw a Bible, except maybe up front in a church somewhere, and even then they couldn’t read it. Guess what? God knew them and they knew him anyway. How about that?

It’s OK if you have no idea what it means to “engage the culture,” or “have an impact in the world.” You may not really understand what “social justice” is all about. If you’ve never been in a small group or taken a missions trip, never had your spiritual gifts inventoried, never tweeted the pastor during a message and wouldn’t know a PowerPoint sermon if it bit you, it’s OK.

I don’t think it really matters if you know John Piper from Piper Laurie, N.T. Wright from the Wright Brothers, YEC from NAACP, or Willow Creek from Nickel Creek.

You are OK if you stay out of the culture wars. Culture wars? You’re too busy visiting your neighbor who’s in the hospital, taking some food to the family, coaching that little kid who doesn’t have a dad, writing a note to a friend who’s discouraged, making coffee for the congregation on Sunday morning, volunteering at the school, mowing the lawn of a shut-in. Fact is, you’re smack dab in the midst of the real battle, the one those who do all the talking often avoid like the plague.

Oh, by the way, it’s OK if you say, “I don’t know” when people ask you about the burning issues of the day. It’s OK if you don’t have a strong opinion on gay marriage or stem cell research or global warming.

And it’s even OK if you are a bit fuzzy on your theology. If you can’t give a precise formulation of the doctrine of justification by faith or distinguish between the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed teachings on sanctification, you’re still gonna be OK. If you think “rapture” is what you felt on your wedding day, and have no idea of its theological meaning, that’s OK.

It’s OK to say, “I don’t know.” Doesn’t make you less of a Christian.

Baptized as an infant? OK. Dunked in the creek as a young teen? OK.

Love to receive communion because you meet Jesus there, but have no idea how to explain it? In my opinion, that’s OK.

Because you trust in Jesus.

You know in your heart that you’re broken and need fixing.

It’s clear to you that he is the only one who can forgive your past, enliven your present, and guarantee your future.

And in response you have found simple ways to worship the One who means everything to you, with others who feel the same.

That’s what you know, and that’s who you are.

You’re just a Christian.

And that’s OK.

By the way, if you know someone like this, you might want read this post to them, because I have an idea they have no clue what the “Christian blogosphere” is, and they will probably never find my words.

That is perfectly OK with me.

This was taken from the Internet Monk's website: http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/another-look-its-ok-to-just-be-a-christian

Is it OK?

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