Sermon highlights

In the morning MP stopped and said he was going to get into trouble for saying this. He said listening to talk shows was problematical. So many of the talk show hosts were jerks. They got listeners by riling people up. So now I am thinking, why is this so especially controversial? Is it? If so how? And does it directly effect me?

Now at the time all I could think of was political talk shows. I was getting sensitive and trying not to feel defensive. But hey, I figured, if he is talking about me he's got me wrong. I don't listen to political talk shows. But I am still defensive about Rush Limbaugh, I like what he does but find it too boring to listen, certainly for three hours a day. Sometimes if I am traveling I might listen for fifteen minutes. For me Limbaugh is not annoying, I agree with most everything he says. No he keeps repeating himself, that's why he is boring. So I figure I get out of this one.

But the jokes on me. I mention this at lunch at the Chinese buffet. My wife and daughter immediately thought of sports talk shows. Oops guilty as charged. I listen to them at home and the girls have the noise pollution. Often they listen more closer than I do, I keep it on for background noise. They immediately pointed out what jerks the talk hosts are and how they are working to rile people up. They manage to succeed with me. So the sermon point hits me square. I was thinking along the wrong lines. Leave it to my loving family to point out the truth.

Daughter mentioned that for the things I agree with I don't listen to. Limbaugh is like that for me. At first he was fresh. I listened for a few years. But now I can go months without ever hearing his show at all.

At night we have Greg Buffone for preacher. He discussed the Greek concept of disciple which is not found in the Old Testament culture. For example Elisha is never described as anything other than a servant to Elijah. He had a couple of other examples but I have forgotten them. The word that we often translate as disciple he said was "aceite". I think that is how he pronounced it, I'm not sure the spelling either in English or in Greek. That word is what we describe as disciple or maybe more accurately apprentice. He spent a lot of time speaking of examples of apprenticeship, that Abe Lincoln did not go to school to become a lawyer, he apprenticed under another lawyer who assigned him books to read. But nowadays even trades, such as carpentry and electrician are taught in trade schools. We have almost totally gotten away from apprenticeships. Anyway that was the important idea I got out of the evening service.

Neither of these points was the main points of the sermons. Maybe I can grab my notes and cover that some other time.