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Bible Tuesday – David Part 16

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When David heard that Uriah had not gone home, he summoned him and asked, “What’s the matter? Why didn’t you go home last night after being away for so long?” Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents,a]’> and of Abraham:

2 Abraham was the father of Isaac.
Isaac was the father of Jacob.
Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers.

Boaz was the father of Obed (whose mother was Ruth).

Obed was the father of Jesse.

6 Jesse was the father of King David.
David was the father of Solomon (whose mother was Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah).
7 Solomon was the father of Rehoboam.
Rehoboam was the father of Abijah.

16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary.
Mary gave birth to Jesus, who is called the Messiah.
Matthew 1:1,2,6,7,16

God remembered Uriah.

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Orlando Part 3

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We went to Orlando so Kevin could attend Microsoft’s Tech-Ed conference.  Being associated with Microsoft has perks and we took full advantage.  Early in the week, Microsoft hosted a party for MVP’s at Dave and Buster’s.  We planned to take the kids, get a regular table and then the kids could play while Kevin mingled with the other nerds.  We arrived to find a 90 minute wait for a table (imagine that).  The organizer of the MVP event invited all 7 of us into the private reception.  We had all the free food and drinks we could swallow.  That’s a lot in case you were wondering.  Then they gave all the kids pre-loaded game cards.  Basically each kid got the amount we would normally make them split between the five of them.  No kids in all of Orlando were happier than the furious five that night.  We left that joint overflowing with cheap prizes from the gazillion tickets the girls won plus enough T-shirts to outfit a small army…or our extended family.

On the last day of the trip, Microsoft bought out Universal Studios for the evening.  Kevin managed to gather up enough free passes to take him and all the girls.  (Ava and I stayed at the room.  We were theme parked out.)  All the food, drinks and fun were FREE.  They got to eat a meal at the Three Broomsticks in Harry Potter land and consumed copious amounts of free butterbeer.

Thanks again Microsoft!  We really appreciate all the free stuff 🙂
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God cannot exercise love and mercy at the expense of his righteousness and justice.

– Mike Horton

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Book Review – In One Person

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I wish John Irving had not written this book.  Save that, I wish, at least, I had not read it.  Ugh…

John Irving is one of the greatest novelist of the 20th century.  That’s not a gushing overstatement.  Go read A Prayer for Own Meany and then try to deny Irving’s place among the world’s greatest writers.

But this book…good grief.

First, let me state this.  I was born a female.  I have always felt that worked out okay.  I also have been heterosexual for as long as I can remember.  That has worked out less well for me but I’m not planning to abandon the whole adventure.  I say that to stipulate that I can’t imagine what life is really like for the characters in this book.  The problem is I don’t think John Irving can imagine it either.

This book is about Billy Abbott.  A bi-sexual kid who come of age in the 1970’s.  His grandfather is a closeted gay cross-dresser.  His father was a gay cross-dresser who abandons him to live in Spain with his lover.  Seriously…whatever.  Also, Billy is not transgender but he is really into men who dress as women and take hormones but are still men.  Is that specific enough for you?  He also has affairs with gay men and heterosexual women.  He’s not all that particular.  And Billy LOVES everybody.  It’s tiresome.

I’m not a prude but I honestly felt this book was obscene.  Not because it dealt with gay and transgender characters but because it dealt with all types of people as if sex is the only thing that ever happens to anyone.  It’s ridiculous.

Look, I think sex is one of the best ideas God ever came up with.  But sometimes I think about other stuff.

Like doughnuts.

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Bible Tuesday – David Part 15

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So when we last left David he was jumping off a giant cliff of stupid.  The actual text suggests that David ‘just happened’ to see Bathsheba bathing and sent his men to find out who she was.  He invited her to the castle and yada, yada, yada, she ended up pregnant.  As I told you last week, I think David had known of Bathsheba for a long time.   And as her husband and father were off fighting, David knew she would be alone.  I am not contradicting scripture here.  I am just suggesting that this is what I read between the lines.  Don’t go telling your preacher my theory or you will probably get kicked off of the VBS committee. 

And can I just admit here that that is what really bothers me about the way this story gets interpreted?  I have heard multiple sermons indicating that Bathsheba somehow ensnared David.  One preacher even said that she knew David could see her roof from the castle and purposefully went up there to shower.  I assume his point was that David could not be held responsible for his actions while looking at a naked woman. 

Stay with me.  David was the king.  I am not suggesting that he raped Bathsheba but was saying no really an option for her?  And honestly I just really don’t know what went down.  From all accounts David was hot.  Bathsheba was hot.  Maybe those two had been making eyes at each other over the mailbox for years.  I am gonna get the real story from somebody in heaven, but for now, we’ll just have to wonder.

If you are still trying to give David the benefit of the doubt here, just stop.  Because he is about to double down on this sin wagon.

Then David sent word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David. When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the army were getting along and how the war was progressing. Then he told Uriah, “Go on home and relax.I'm a mom.
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