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Some very good commentary notes written by Dr. Constable are here: http://www.soniclight.com/constable/notes.htm.

 ”We want to join the battle, the cosmic struggle, and all we can find is the arm-wrestling contest.”

Be A Kid Again

1. Do a cartwheel.
2. Sing into your hairbrush.
3. Walk barefoot in wet grass.
4. Play a song you like really loud, over and over.
5. Dot all your “i”s with smiley faces.
6. Read the funnies. Throw the rest of the paper away.
7. Dunk your cookies.
8. Play a game where you make up the rules as you go along.
9. Step carefully over sidewalk cracks.
10. Change into some play clothes.
11. Try to get someone to trade you a better sandwich.
12. Eat ice cream for breakfast.
13. Kiss a frog, just in case.
14. Blow the wrapper off a straw.
15. Have someone read you a story.
16. Find some pretty stones and save them.
17. Wear your favorite shirt with you favorite pants even if they don t match.
18. Take a running jump over a big puddle.
19. Get someone to buy you something you really don t need.
20. Hide your vegetables under your napkin.
21. Stay up past your bedtime.
22. Eat dessert first.
23. Fuss a little, then take a nap.
24. Wear red gym shoes.
25. Put way too much sugar on your cereal.
26. Make cool screeching noises every time you turn a corner.
27. Giggle a lot for no reason.
28. Give yourself a gold star for everything you do today.

Allen Roth is here this week teaching a Church Planting and Growth class. The class is very challenging in that I am again thinking that I need to be much more active in spreading the gospel, and I regret that I haven’t made it more of a priority. I know that bringing Christ to the world is our most important calling, and I’ve thought this and said it before, but somehow actually doing it is much more difficult for me. It feels somewhat urgent for me now to “use it or lose it.”

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My Dancing Day… I have always loved that song but never really knew what it said until I got this sudden notion to look up the lyrics on the web this evening. Wow, what an amazing piece. Jesus is calling his true love (must be the church) to his dance. Here’s the second verse:

2. Then was I born of a virgin pure,
Of her I took fleshly substance
Thus was I knit to man’s nature
To call my true love to my dance

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That second “fleshly substance” line caught my attention cuz we’re studying our illustrious forefather Menno Simons and learning that he didn’t get everything right either. He would have disagreed with that line cuz he thought Jesus did not get his human flesh from Mary, but that it came straight from God. This is known as his “celestial flesh” view. Wonderful stuff, to think that our namesake was guilty of such a heresy. Oh well, at least he was human.