Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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"But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a..."
Ray Davies for The Kinks, 1970
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Some, uh, really,
uh, more than some, people are in sore need of reality checks.
I just watched a
news report featuring McCain, Cantor, Hillary, and BBPBHO in which all of 'em
lamented nobody trusting America's elected leaders anymore.
Hellooooooo!
Help me, Jesus!
@#$%
My wife told me
why I don't have the 10K to add to my 1.5K in the bank to...
Plastic sins
coming back to haunt me.
Hellooooooo!
Help me, Jesus!
@#$%
1 John 1:5-10.
The reality
check.
Thank You, Jesus!
@#$%
I'm reminded of a
friend near St. Louis who just fired a youth worker for watching porn on a
church computer.
The youth worker
blamed my friend to
anyone who would listen and there were many who did because...for
telling him about it and
then firing him for it because of resistance to the restoration offered in 1
John 1:5-10 without being sensitive enough to his...
Hellooooooo!
Help me, Jesus!
@#$%
Closer to home, there's
an old guy and old lady - not related - running around town and telling anyone who will listen and there
are...that I fired...
Aside from both
of 'em obviously not understanding our particular polity that does not afford
me prerogative to do anything apart from picking hymns, deciding what to
preach/write about, and determining how long to grow my facial hair though "they" try to control
that too, they're just lying to cover up somebody else's sins
including their...
Everybody's a fan
of Vince when it comes to a good offense being the best defense.
I've learned
pewsitters and pulpiteers will lie just like McCain, Cantor, Hillary, BBPBHO,
and too many others if they can't get their ways and means by the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help them...
Hellooooooo!
Help me, Jesus!
@#$%
Harold comes to
mind.
He left the mob
because he was converted to Jesus and then called to pray and undershepherd avec moi.
That was a long
time ago in Pennsylvania; before I was a geezer like the old man and old lady
who are running around town and...
Yet I still
remember what he said to an irregular, irascible, and irreconcilable that has
stayed with me over the years and helped me to address people who think I'm
thinking about 'em when preaching or writing or...
A notoriously
irregular, irascible, and irreconcilable woman who portrayed herself as the
victim of everybody else's irregularity, irascibility, and irreconcilability
with so many similarly bizarre rationalizations as the youth worker, old man,
and old lady so that she never had to deal with the reflection in her
soul's mirror while pointing out everybody else's sins to distract from her own
confronted Harold in front of several people in a public setting, "You
targeted me in last week's sermon!"
Calmly yet
pointedly, Harold responded, "It takes a great deal of arrogance for you
to think that I think so much about you and that I would preach a sermon just
for you...but if the shoe
fits..."
@#$%
It's every
messenger's plight, plague, and poison.
Anyway, because
I'm not thaaaaaaat much
different from others like me despite my protests/prayers, a few people think
that way whenever I preach/write about...
Psst.
Don't tell 'em
because we don't want 'em to know what we know when they say we're
preaching/writing just for/about 'em buuuuuuut
their complaints/contentions/criticisms/condemnations only expose
'em as...guilty as not
charged but exposed by their own bantering and moaning about it.
Duh.
Nuns in Maryland:
"If you're right, you don't need to argue about it; and if you're wrong,
you can't afford to argue about it."
Eleanor
Roosevelt: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Me with no
apologies to the grammar police who care more about jots and tittles than
really communicating: "If you is, you is and know you is even if you don't
want anybody tellin' you that you is though you know you is."
Or something like
that.
Go back to Harold
and his miscreant.
Hellooooooo!
Help us, Jesus!
He does.
1 John 1:5-10.
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Blessings and Love!
2 comments:
If we're honest, we'll agree with Pogo (paraphrasing the sagacious opossum): "We have met the guilty, and he is us!" One of the keys is, if we honestly offer a deserved "Mea culpa" is to accept His forgiveness and get over ourselves/sin, and move on. Otherwise we fall into the trap of the Fraternity of the Publican, who rather than going home justified spent his life not getting beyond being a sinner, though God offered to put all his sin/guilt as far away as East is from West.
Well said, mon ami...BTW, when it comes to firing folks, which both of us know is not our prerogative in mainline franchises, I had an interesting comment for someone who said ___ was upset because she/he had been fired by me: "Friend, while I did not because I could not fire ___, it seems a person who complains about being fired tends to draw more suspicions about just why they were, uh, fired. It's like someone crying, 'O.K., please spank me!'" Annnnnnnd both of us know that, except for pastors who are the easiest to dump in mainline franchises because their bureacracies don't wanna upset the gravy train of dues and donations, somebody has had to just about literally sleep with the devil to get fired in churches these days. Enough on that. Yeah, Pogo was/remains right. Check out Matthew 15. :0!
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