Stephen Green ambushes Bill Whittle and Scott Ott with strange news of the week, including a guy who ate free at KFC every day for a year by pulling a clever caper, and a famous atheist who came to Christ.
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KFC Caper: Man Eats Free for Year (plus Famous Atheist Comes to Christ)
Stephen Green ambushes Bill Whittle and Scott Ott with strange news of the week, including a guy who ate free at KFC every day for a year by pulling a clever caper, and a famous atheist who came to Christ.
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Sometimes we are so overwhelmed by our failures and our faults that we cannot find the door to peace and safety.
Often in life, the burden of guilt is the cross that we shun and we cannot help but stumble under its weight, as we also refuse to let it go. There is a mystery to life, that we are a reminder to ourselves, but also a sign to others. The belief in Christ Jesus is not always the release of a burden, but the capacity, even inside the deepest of our darkness, to find the door at the end. That is the grace that is free. But if we can manage to overcome our difficulties and master our shame, to carry on despite the bitter cold, we not only are granted to recognize where the door is in our struggle, but to call out to those are deafened, to stand in the doorway of light to the weak and darkened eye.
Be of the second kind, because not only do you save yourself, but also those who hear you, and even those who are not even aware they are at the very gates of rest, but are left to fumble in the dark.
All Christians make a choice. The first is the recognition of self-defeat. Then, if love is with us, we cease to be our own worst enemy and befriend those who come by that same road and turn them aside from sleeping outside.
Really… you should warn people. I nearly choked on my tea when Bill mentioned Jared. Hah!
Jared started his career the way he ended it. Trying to get into smaller pants.
Ohhh… I want to laugh, but then again, not.
Stephen: As to your closing, I can only offer, “Right you are if you say you are obscurely”
Does anyone wonder why Scott had a roll of TP at his desk?
It is a good way to write secret messages that need quick disposal!
Cheap way to blow your nose, especially during allergy season when you go through a lot of tissues.
Scott. You’re steampunk. You just don’t dress the part.
Isn’t everyone who accepts Christ an atheist before they accept Him?
Not necessarily. I think atheism implies an active disbelief in God / Christ, whereas some people are undecided. Some people believe in a “Higher Power” but don’t want to name that HP. Some believe in God, but not in Jesus Christ as anything more than a really cool prophet. I dunno… it’s complicated.
What I don’t understand is people who can look around and see how organized the universe is, how complex life is, and say it all came from Nothing. To me, there’s some intelligence behind that. Nothing comes from nothing. There had to be a Creator.
It’s like building a house. You have to plan it and execute the construction a certain way. If you just took all the materials it takes to build a house (wood, concrete, pipes, electrical wire, drywall, toilets, carpet, etc.) and threw them up in the air and let them fall where they may, how many times would you end up with an organized, functioning house? I can’t imagine it would happen once in a quadrillion times. So how did our universe and bodies get formed so wonderfully?
It takes a lot more “faith” to believe in Nothing than it does to believe in Something. (And this, coming from a former atheist.)
I would agree. Atheism is active disbelief. I have a friend who doesn’t believe in God, but she has been open to the idea when I have spoken to her about it. I wouldn’t consider her an atheist. Agnostic is a better word, which literally means “one who does not know.”
I remember a great line from the movie “God’s Not Dead” where the student tells his professor, “you aren’t an atheist. You’re anti-theist.” That’s another important distinction I think we should draw. There are some people who can’t stand the idea of someone else believing in God, and those people are a step beyond atheist.
Another great point of the self-building house analogy is that the materials will never come down and make a house. It’s physically impossible. Power outlets cannot be screwed in by falling just the right way. In the same way, not only is accidental life astronomically unlikely, it’s actually impossible.
I loved my old manual typewriter. It was my grandmother’s, and I taught myself to type with it using a how-to book from the library when I was about ten. And then I really loved my mom’s electric typewriter. Both machines were considered portable and had carrying cases and a pretty small footprint, no whistles and only the one bell. They worked so well, and somehow using them was more satisfying than using a computer keyboard. Perhaps because of the more tactile quality, or perhaps because they were so well-made and solid. I really loved them.
Scott, was that typewriter you held up the same one that Les Nessman used to write the article that won him the coveted Silver Sow award?
I’ll be praying that your wife comes to Christ, Steve. God bless you man.
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Awesome rip, thank you!
Bill…your first story reminded me of this story (not sure if it’s true):
Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant carrying a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7). This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn’t turn up for work.
“Oh well”, said Bristol Zoo Management – “we’d better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant…”
“Err … no”, said the Council, “that parking lot is your responsibility.”
“Err … no”, said Bristol Zoo Management, “the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn’t he?”
“Err … NO!” insisted the Council.
Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain , is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to a couple of millions… The funny part? No one even knows his name.
Wow. I know I shouldn’t but on some level I admire people who pull off cons like that and get away with it.
Scott…your reference to performing funerals reminded me of this story I once heard:
In a small town, there were two brothers who, over the course of many years, cheated, swindled, robbed and generally stole from everyone that they ever did business with.
The entire town and surrounding community reviled and despised these two brothers as everyone was aware of just how disreputable and dishonest they were.
One day, one of the brothers mysteriously died.
Although they had never attended church, the one remaining brother went to the local pastor and offered vast sums of money if he would come to the funeral and say the appropriate words, AND, a large bonus, but ONLY if he would – during the course of the eulogy -refer to his brother as “a Saint.”
The pastor was troubled by the request, however, it was a very poor church and the church desperately needed repairs.
The Parishioners had heard about the pastor’s dilemma and were curious as to what he would do.
The Funeral began, the church was packed, and the pastor started with the usual prayers and followed the rites and traditions as required by the churches teachings. In closing, after referring to the man in the box, he paused and turned to face the remaining brother.
He began, “As you all know, the departed was an awful individual who robbed, cheated, swindled and stole from everyone he ever did business with.
However, compared to his Brother, he was – “a Saint!”
Wait… Why are we breaking with tradition? I guess I’ll have to say it. “You’re killing me Larry!” It just isn’t the same without that line. 😉
I wasn’t going to say anything, but yeah! Larry was missed. 😀
I guess Larry finally killed him. About time.
Unless he’s like Kenny who came back episode after episode.
Please don’t shoot the messenger…
This was Lightning Round XX.
Even if progressives have bigger brain capacity than conservatives, what good does it do them when they fill up on so much garbage!
It’s not the volume of the vessel but the quality of the contents that counts. If I’m trying to feed a man a one pound sack of rice and beans beats a sack ten times the size filled with cotton candy all day every day.