Dzubinski

Just changed our look. Hope you like it. I’ll be cleaning it up a bit in the next few days.

Happy Fourth!!

The Perry Bible Fellowship Comic

I loved this comic.

Wow, that is really cool. I have an almost obsession with finding new ways to make coffee. This is one that I don’t have yet. ¿Father’s day gift anyone?

[Hat tip to Human3rror]

I am reading a book called The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community The Posture and Prcatices of Ancient Church Now. (Website here)In the eighth chapter, they are short chapters, the authors contrast some life situations with the way many folks do church today. He says:

“Do you ever wonder why a battered wife stays with her husband? Why people continue to spend money they don’t have even though they know they are deeply in debt? Why some keep jamming food in their mouths when they’re already overweight? Why do people stay in bad relationships? Why are some people still racist? Why do people still drink and drive? You’d think the response to all these things would be obvious and cause them to scream, “Duh, of course I need to change this.” Why do we keep doing church the same way even when we know it’s in critical decline? Why do paid church leaders spend so much time preparing for a 90-minute service for Christians who have heard it all before? Why do we still call our message the good news when it clearly seems to be bad news or no news to Sojourners? Why do we think Pharisees are only found in the Bible? Why is returning to a simpler form of ancient church so hard to grasp? Why don’t we change when we know we must?” p. 59

That is pretty hard to answer.

(Hat tip to Tall Skinny Kiwi)

A friend of mine in Spain, Miguel, sent me this little story about how the economy works in Spanish small towns. I thought it might give you a chuckle so I have translated it here for you.

Once upon a summer…

“It’s August in a small town on the coast in the middle of tourist season; it rained torrents and after a couple of days the town was deserted.  Everyone had bills and lived on credit. Finally, a well-heeled Russian gangster appeared and entered into the only hotel in the town.

“He asked for a room, put a $100 bill on the receptionist’s desk and went to check out the available rooms  to see if he wanted to stay there.

“The hotel owner grabbed the money and left running to pay his bill at the butchers. The butcher took the money and ran to pay his bill to the pig farmer. In his turn the farmer ran to pay what he owed to the feed store. The owner grabbed the $100 bill and ran to pay his debt to Maria, the prostitute. In times of crisis even she offered services on credit. The prostitute with the $100 in hand went to the small hotel where she took was taking her clients and handed the money over to the hotel owner.

“In that moment the Russian gangster who was looking at the hotel room came back to the receptionist’s desk. He said that none of the rooms were attractive enough for him, he took his $100 bill back and left.

“No one earned even a penny but now the whole town was without debt and looked to the future with confidence.”

The End

And there you have it.