August 17, 2004
Brandtson... "brand-T-son"
I just sent a mass email newssletter out and after I sent it, I looked over the schedule (to pick a band I want to interview live on CMradio's streaming coverage of the festival) and I noticed that Brandtson is spelled wrong. Oops! I shouldn't have pasted that incorrect spelling. I always remember that band's spelling by saying, "brand" followed by "T" followed by "son," kinda like a brand name (T) and someone's son.
I'm trying to get a solid schedule for a daily quiet time going.
I picked up a Collegiate Devotional Bible while cleaning out my garage bookshelf recently. I figured it would be a nugget-sized devotional like a Daily-Reading type Bible, with certain passages (both from the Old Testament and New) chosen for each day. This one is set up like a normal Bible, but the helps section has some tips for devotional reading. Some of their tips include:
-Decide to begin meeting with God daily.
-Set aside a time and find a place that will be free from distractions.
-Decide on a plan so that you will know how much you will read each day.
-Use a notebook or journal to record your thoughts and observations.
Those are good tips. I'm going to try to use this thing. It has a devotional for each day of the week (starting at Genesis), and with passages to read for that day, taking me through the Bible in a year.
I just finished a book, called Blood, Money, and Power, which is about how LBJ killed JFK. Interesting read. It's written by a former attorney of LBJ's and tells how the attorney/client privilege was used to help "superlawyers" stay above the law in a renegade wild west sort of way. Apparently, a guy named Mac Wallace hired Oswald and "Junior" to be the shooters. Wallace was on the sixth floor of the School Book Depository and after Oswald's shot missed, hitting Governor Connaly, Wallace hit Kennedy in the head and was prepared to fire again when Junior's shot from behind the picket fence hit its target and it was obvious JFK was dead. He high-tailed it out of the room, leaving Oswald to supposedly shoot it out with the cops when they arrived. Interesting. I don't buy it, but it's fascinating nonetheless. I hope up in Heaven we get to have "History Nights," where God shows us footage (super high resolution images reflected off the clouds, of course) of mysterious historical events, giving us the truth of what happened in various settings.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at August 17, 2004 12:36 PM