Comments on: The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Me… http://kentonbrown.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-me/ simple observations in a complicated world Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:55:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Clinton Brown http://kentonbrown.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-me/#comment-14 Clinton Brown Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:06:33 +0000 http://kentonbrown.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-14 At first I thought it was a joke, one of my team members was playing on me. I googled "Guyana Mission" and got my entry and another one with in the same last 30 day by a Kenton Brown. Then the Seventh day was on the title as well.. Hitting too close to home. Turns out I'm a Seventh Day Baptist who just got back from a mission in Guyana. We believe the Sabbath is the rest we have in Christ and still we keep the literal commandment out of love and obedience of the Creator. Just as we don't murder literally and in our hearts we strive to love all our brothers. We don't commit adultery and aim to keep sexual immorality from our minds. etc. We'll I am glad you had a fruitful mission and pray God blesses you and your ministry. Oh, and I'm also the youth minister in my congregation.. very interesting.. ha ha. God Bless Clint At first I thought it was a joke, one of my team members was playing on me. I googled “Guyana Mission” and got my entry and another one with in the same last 30 day by a Kenton Brown. Then the Seventh day was on the title as well.. Hitting too close to home. Turns out I’m a Seventh Day Baptist who just got back from a mission in Guyana. We believe the Sabbath is the rest we have in Christ and still we keep the literal commandment out of love and obedience of the Creator. Just as we don’t murder literally and in our hearts we strive to love all our brothers. We don’t commit adultery and aim to keep sexual immorality from our minds. etc. We’ll I am glad you had a fruitful mission and pray God blesses you and your ministry. Oh, and I’m also the youth minister in my congregation.. very interesting.. ha ha.

God Bless
Clint

]]> By: David Skelton http://kentonbrown.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-me/#comment-13 David Skelton Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:20:02 +0000 http://kentonbrown.wordpress.com/?p=22#comment-13 Hey Kent. I like your comment about my dad. I often think that if somehow in life I can end up like him I'll be doing alright. I know sometimes he wishes he was more like me because my preaching reminds him of his father, but I think I would trade all of that if I could just be more like him. I also read your 7th day lesson. It reminds me of a chapter in Jon Levenson's book "Creation and the Persistence of Evil" that I turned into a sermon. Levenson points out that if you notice it does not say, "There was evening and there was morning the seventh day," like it does all the other days. This phrase distinctively ends the other days and prepares us for the start of the next one. Why does the seventh day have no end? His answer and the answer of many old Jewish rabbis was because it is not supposed to. The real point of creation is not the first, third, fourth, or even the sixth day (even though it says "good" twice). The real point of it all is Sabbath, and it is not supposed to have an end. It must extend into all facets of our lives. Every day must be the Sabbath day, i.e., the 7th day. God bless and I hope you are resting from you long mission trip David Hey Kent. I like your comment about my dad. I often think that if somehow in life I can end up like him I’ll be doing alright. I know sometimes he wishes he was more like me because my preaching reminds him of his father, but I think I would trade all of that if I could just be more like him. I also read your 7th day lesson. It reminds me of a chapter in Jon Levenson’s book “Creation and the Persistence of Evil” that I turned into a sermon. Levenson points out that if you notice it does not say, “There was evening and there was morning the seventh day,” like it does all the other days. This phrase distinctively ends the other days and prepares us for the start of the next one. Why does the seventh day have no end? His answer and the answer of many old Jewish rabbis was because it is not supposed to. The real point of creation is not the first, third, fourth, or even the sixth day (even though it says “good” twice). The real point of it all is Sabbath, and it is not supposed to have an end. It must extend into all facets of our lives. Every day must be the Sabbath day, i.e., the 7th day.

God bless and I hope you are resting from you long mission trip

David

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