the3inone

February 29, 2012                 Whenever my kids want something they do need or doesn’t belong to them, we threaten to sing (the other six of us, as a choir) The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. There is a great deal of spiritual truth in that simple chorus. It also makes a great title for a blog entry that really isn’t about that song. Do Not Covet                 That’s the simple way to say it. Let’s be honest, no one says “thou shalt not” and if they do we look at them like they have three heads or are just entirely too_________ for their own good. Somewhere in that sentence there’s another whole blog about letting go of 1611 language so people have a chance to understand what Jesus and His message are all about, but that’s not really what I sat down to write about. I digress. Often. But that’s another story. ...

February 12, 2012                 Start here.                                Read the post while it plays. OK- Here’s the thing. This idea of choice and consequence is chasing me this weekend.  Some of the reasons: Tonni and I have been teaching a class @ The Gathering on Sunday mornings, Walking The Bible. The last few weeks have focused on the soap opera of Genesis 12-50 where we find the story of Abraham and Sarah and Ishmael and Issac and Jacob with his two wives and Joseph’s bad boy brothers and even Lot and his daughters (yuck). At every turn, people make bad choices with consequences haunt us to this day. One of my favorite bad choices is in chapter 25. Goes like this: 29  Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country famished . 30  He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that...