From Always Thirsty. My answers are not in any particular order.
- Seven things to do before I die:
- Finish my book!
- Visit South America, from Macchu Pichu to Tierra del Fuego.
- Start a foundation to give anonymously
- Have enough money to give anonymously
- Go back to Israel
- Lead someone to Christ
- Sail aboard a square-rigged ship
- Seven things I cannot do:
- More than one thing at a time. (I’m a guy, okay?)
- Dance
- Be on time (I’m getting better!)
- Remember what I was supposed to pick up at the store
- Praise God enough
- Pray often enough
- Who am I kidding? I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13)
- Seven things that attract me to my wife:
- She’s seriously goal-driven
- She taught me to be social
- She taught me how to give unselfishly
- She encourages others
- She’ll save the world one starfish at a time
- We laugh at the same things
- She’s an expert in her chosen field
- Seven things I say most often:
- Stop that!
- Swkeet!
- Don’t forget your lunch (to the kids)
- Don’t forget your coffee (to Cyndie)
- Can we postpone the church business meeting another week?
- Lord, forgive me for being an idiot.
- Just a second…
- Seven books (or series) I love:
- Lord of the Rings (Tolkein)
- The Narnia series (C.S. Lewis)
- Aubrey/Maturin series (Patrick O’Brian)
- Horatio Hornblower series (C.S. Forrester)
- Haggai (Old Testament)
- John (New Testament)
- Seamanship in the Age of Sail (John Harland)
- Seven movies I would watch over and over again:
(Or would watch over and over if I had the time every few years)
- Raising Arizona
- Shawshank Redemption
- The Great Escape
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Star Wars Episode 4 (the “Han Shoots First” version)
- Princess Bride
- Spartacus
- Seven people I want to join in, too:
- Hokule’a
- Laurie
- Coop
- George
- Kurt
- Shaun
- You
How odd is it that for Christians, an object created to torture prisoners to death has become an object of great beauty? Execution by crucifixion must have been a horrendous, bloody thing.
I’m continually struck by how the things of faith make so little sense to to a dying world: Faith in a God you’ve never seen? Ridiculous. You live in this God and he lives in you? (John 15:5) Pretty stupid! You get up on Sunday morning and go to church rather than sleeping in? Forget about it!
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
(1 Corinthians 1:18-19, NIV)
(Photo courtesy of Always Thirsty and Dave at Found Crosses. This is from the Nombre de Dios mission in St Augustine.)
There’s a huge media blackout on the missile fired at American Airlines flight 621 out of LAX over the Thanksgiving holiday. Airline spokemen won’t deny the event but aren’t permitted to speak. Okay, fine. Where are the media in this?
Here’s the text of the only coverage - from Philadelphia:
Pilot Reports ‘Missile’ Fired at Jetliner Near LAX (11/28/05)FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport.
Sources tell ABC News the pilot of American Airlines Flight 621, en route to Chicago, radioed air traffic controllers after takeoff from LAX. He told them a missile had been fired at the aircraft and missed.
The plane was over water when the pilot said he saw a smoke trail pass by the cockpit.
FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that’s what it actually was.
Smoketrail from a bottle rocket at 6000 feet? Someone is smoking something, but I don’t think bottle rockets are involved.
