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Sorry I was gone so long today.....
Topic Started: Aug 5 2006, 08:37 PM (398 Views)
Larry
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
I had to go handle a few snakes and speak in tongues......


Of the Pokatwat Tribe

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Mikhailoh
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
You went to that contest in England, huh? :lol:
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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DivaDeb
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me too Larry...we had ice cream in a tent and sang 45 stanzas of Just As I am before someone walked the damn aisle.


:P
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Mikhailoh
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'Oh, Jesus, please let someone.. anyone.. get up there and get saved so we can go home'. How well I remember the altar calls.

Christians aren't perfect.. just forgiven. ^_^
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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DivaDeb
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(by the way...I *was* kidding...just satirizing some stupid Baptist stereotype)
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Dewey
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Gee, that's nothing like us. You know what they say the definition of Presbyterianism is: a series of committee meetings occasionally interrupted by a worship service. ^_^

"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

"Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous

"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14
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Mikhailoh
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Deb,

You mean you DIDN'T sing 45 stanzas of Just As I am?

That was a short week in my old church. :P
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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DivaDeb
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yeah...I know the drill in pretty much all the protestant denominations, Dewey. When I went to college, I sang at a Lutheran church, David sang in an Episcopal churhc. After that, we sang at a really big Presbyterian church until a while after we were married. We got married in that church. Then we did about 6 years singing at a Methodist church. Both of us were raised in Baptist churches. This morning I played for my student at a Methodist church. She sang beautifully, it was a nice service. I may sub in for their vacationing pianist next weekend.

and naw Mik...haven't sung through an altar call in years
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Mikhailoh
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I don't attend churches with the altar call anymore.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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TomK
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We Catholics don't have any Witness Trees, or Altar Calls, and maybe our Baptismal founts are just glorified spittoons, but we do have an off-off Broadway show ever Sunday in church with a guy getting up putting on a dress and singing us songs. :D
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apple
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what's an altar call?
it behooves me to behold
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Dewey
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I sat through many altar calls years ago, including the one I responded to when I was 15, but I've never seen one in a Presby church - maybe because our churches don't actually have "altars." I was visiting a new Presby church pastored by my friend/CLP mentor, a young 30-something in his first call out of seminary. He didn't do an honest to goodness altar call, but he closed the service saying that maybe there were some there that morning who felt they needed a closer relationship with God, and if there were, to pray the basic "four step" altar-call prayer along with him. I teased him at breakfast a week later that if the Presbytery office ever heard about it, he might lose his preaching credentials. ^_^ Then I patted him on the shoulder & thought it was a wonderful thing that more Presby pastors should have the stones to do.
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

"Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous

"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14
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John D'Oh
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You Christians think you've got it bad? That's nothing! Another hard fought day for me defending the left wing bastions of liberty, fraternity and that other one which I can't pronounce.

This morning I had three, count them, THREE flag burnings to attend. The second one was a complete disaster, we'd ordered some little models of Dubya to throw on a bonfire, but the local Fire Department turned up and told us that because of the recent hot weather this would be in direct contravention of town regulation 17.6.3 b) so we were instead forced to hang the little Bushes up in a tree and dance around them hurling cleverly worded insults. 'Hell no, he won't grow!' being one of the punnier ones. Oh, how we laughed.

The third burning didn't really go as planned either, as some bonehead had ordered the Confederate Flag by accident, and there was a Country and Western concert in the next town, which led to to a short but fiery altercation between a group of Massachusetts liberals and the road crew for the Texan singer. Since all the liberals had for weaponry was a family pack of Evian bottles and some environmentally friendly lighter fluid for the flag, the battle was a little one-sided. 18 of the liberals were hospitalised before someone figured out you also need environmentally friendly matches to make a Molotov cocktail, at which point most of us decided that disgression was the better part of valour and declared a moral victory before leaving for the local burns unit.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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DivaDeb
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When I was growing up, I occasionally ran into an altar call when there was a revival or a visiting evangelist speaking. For the most part, we were really boring Baptists. We mostly did Bible study, a couple hymns and the choir sang an anthem or two (another odd thing for Baptists...all classical choral, never anything cheesy or yucky). We had two women... phenomenal organist and pianist...they played together often, for prelude, postlude or offeratory music. Man...they were amazing. Just REALLY good. I miss that.

But...I like what we're doing now even better.
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sue
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John D'Oh
Aug 6 2006, 02:33 PM
You Christians think you've got it bad? That's nothing! Another hard fought day for me defending the left wing bastions of liberty, fraternity and that other one which I can't pronounce.

This morning I had three, count them, THREE flag burnings to attend. The second one was a complete disaster, we'd ordered some little models of Dubya to throw on a bonfire, but the local Fire Department turned up and told us that because of the recent hot weather this would be in direct contravention of town regulation 17.6.3 b) so we were instead forced to hang the little Bushes up in a tree and dance around them hurling cleverly worded insults. 'Hell no, he won't grow!' being one of the punnier ones. Oh, how we laughed.

The third burning didn't really go as planned either, as some bonehead had ordered the Confederate Flag by accident, and there was a Country and Western concert in the next town, which led to to a short but fiery altercation between a group of Massachusetts liberals and the road crew for the Texan singer. Since all the liberals had for weaponry was a family pack of Evian bottles and some environmentally friendly lighter fluid for the flag, the battle was a little one-sided. 18 of the liberals were hospitalised before someone figured out you also need environmentally friendly matches to make a Molotov cocktail, at which point most of us decided that disgression was the better part of valour and declared a moral victory before leaving for the local burns unit.

Uh, like hellooooo, Evian? It's S. Pellegrino this year. Your story lacks credibility now.
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John D'Oh
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sue
Aug 6 2006, 05:53 PM

Uh, like hellooooo, Evian? It's S. Pellegrino this year. Your story lacks credibility now.

Canada has always been the trendsetter with regard to liberal fashion statement. I think the more radical types have actually begun to eschew bottled water altogether. Alanis Morissette was recently rumoured to have had a 100 gallon bottle of water taken directly from the Ganges flown to her Californian squat by corporate jet, as she was so sick of multinational corporations such as Coca Cola jumping on to the spring water bandwagon.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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DivaDeb
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John D'Oh
Aug 6 2006, 02:07 PM
sue
Aug 6 2006, 05:53 PM

Uh, like hellooooo, Evian? It's S. Pellegrino this year. Your story lacks credibility now.

Canada has always been the trendsetter with regard to liberal fashion statement. I think the more radical types have actually begun to eschew bottled water altogether. Alanis Morissette was recently rumoured to have had a 100 gallon bottle of water taken directly from the Ganges flown to her Californian squat by corporate jet, as she was so sick of multinational corporations such as Coca Cola jumping on to the spring water bandwagon.

whilst bemoaning the fact that the bandwagon is not a hybrid, I suspect...
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Daniel\
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I'm a Methodist and my stepfather is Jewish. Growing up we celebrated Christian holidays and Jewish holidays with my stepfather's family. I'm sure I got many of my ideas about religious tolerance from this.

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Luke's Dad
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I missed the altar call today, as Luke was acting up and I had to take the belt to him behind the church.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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