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- 01/05/11
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I’m generally a good dad when it comes to helping my kids understand how to manage their finances. But where it all breaks down is when they want to buy something that I wanted as a kid, but could never have. Such was the situation when my son saved up to buy one of the Lego trains. He overspent, but I just couldn’t find it in me to stop him. I’m bad that way.
Sheep - David Murray writes about the biblical metaphor of sheep. “I pastored for 12 years in the Scottish Highlands. During that time, I was surrounded by sheep: sheep on the roads, sheep on the mountains, sheep on the beeches, sheep in my yard. O, yes, and sometimes sheep in the shepherds’ fields. My study on the Isle of Lewis was 12 inches away from a field full of sheep. Sometimes at night I would look up from my computer and see many pairs of luminous green eyes staring at me through my window! I got to know sheep pretty well. What did I learn?”
Are You a Nice Christian? - Bill Mounce writes about Christian niceness.
Iranian Christians - Josh Harris writes about more than 70 Iranian Christians who were arrested over Christmas.
Ngram Viewer - This is an interesting tool from Google. It allows you to chart the number of times a word or phrase is used in a huge number of Google Books stretching from 1500-2000. By typing in challies (couldn’t resist) I found that my grandfather once wrote a book titled The Doctrine of Unjustified Enrichment in the Law of the Province of Quebec. Sounds like a page turner!
The Good of Affluence - Douglas Wilson has penned an interesting look at technology and why he is not afraid of it.
The Golden Voice - A video that’s just going viral.
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Comments (10)
Tim — that’s funny about your son and true. I always made my kids earn and save, earn and save, earn and save. And out of those earnings would come tithe, necessities and luxuries. But it was nearly impossible for the young mind to keep all of that in balance. So I would help finance the luxuries. Bad dad!
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I pray the man with the radio voice is blessed by our Lord. I talk with the homeless cardboard sign holders a lot, and this guy blew me away.Thanks for sharing that.
Re: buying stuff for your son, I think the text to turn to in this situation is a favorite of Christians, a source of inspirational strength. I, of course, refer to The Christmas Story. The scene when “the old man” gives the boy his Daisy Red Ryder and mumbles something like “uh, I had one when I was a kid…” is schmaltzy goodness. I plan on all my boys receiving a Daisy Red Ryder on the appropriate birthday. (Helps that the rifles are inexpensive!)
I have four kids, a daughter who will soon turn 21 and three boys ages 4,3 and 2. When I’m in a situation like you were in, sometimes they don’t get what they want, but sometimes — especially when I think of how God gave me things I didn’t “need” but certainly “wanted”, like my four adopted children — I think if God’s love includes splurging on me, I’ll occasionally splurge on my kids.
“the arrested complained that they are being subjected to sleep deprivation.”
“No charges have been made … There has been a gross lack of due process. The government authorities have not provided any written documents as to the reason for the arrests…”
Sound like any other government we know?
Just read that the Cleveland Cavaliers have offered a job to the “Golden Voice”. This has ‘future movie starring Denzel Washington’ written all over it.
Golden Voice follow up: Heard on CBS News this morning that the man got some work. They hired him to cut a spot for CBS as they go into commercial break. “Two minutes past the hour. Back with more in a moment.” or words to that effect. They played it this AM.
The Cavs offered him a job.
http://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-man-with-radio-voice-job-2011-1
Wondering if there will be an ESPN special with Ted declaring, “I’ve decided I’ll be taking my talents to Cuyahoga County.”
I sympathize with your weakness of kids spending their own money…I find it nearly impossible to say no to their decisions when spending their own money. Of course, their not spending mine!
That’s great this man was blessed with a job. I know homeless men, and some of them enjoy being a bum. They really do. This man seems like he wants to use his gifted voice and make a living.I hope he knows Christ, and if not I pray God would open his heart and mind, and bring Him to Christ, and to the truth. Amen.