DISQUS

lazrus2 · 1 year ago

Good thoughts.
So, I guess this means I should cancel my order for the 160GB Apple TV I was going to get you for Christmas =}?

D-

ckroboth · 1 year ago

Our pastor interupted the sermon series last Sunday to talk about the current economic and political landscape, and how a Christians we should respond. It was extreamly well done. I will post a link here for any one who cares to listen. Need to get to my computer though.

Christian · 1 year ago

Other people must be feeling the same way. Just look at the popularity of the book "How Starbucks Saved My Life". It's just a little book but a runaway best seller and now Tom Hanks has picked it up for a movie. The author was born into privilege, went to Yale and landed a great job because of family connections made tons of money and lost everything in his fifties. He did find his dignity in a job - sweeping floors and cleaning bathrooms - because the people he worked for treated him and his position with dignity. Some businesses, institutions and societies (Like Starbucks, the Marines and the Japanese) understand that a person's worth is not tied to material rewards, rank or promotion.

Jesus tended to look at things from the 'bottom' up as well.

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inworship · 1 year ago

D, I'd hate to have you take that back. That's hassle. go ahead and pass it along and I will find a good use for it :)

Carl, let us know when you find it.

C, I think his story will be a good one. America is so success driven. But, I think we've defined success wrong. I think he found dignity not in his job, but in being a productive person. And I would have to say that coffee barista is probably one of the most important jobs out there :)

lazrus2 · 1 year ago

Oops, too late for the TV. Actually I have a better suggestion for you or anyone who would seriously take your post to heart.
Here's the website for a catalog I got in the mail the other day:
https://giving.samaritanspurse.org/c-7-gift-cat...

I'd say it's sort of 'putting the money where our mouths are', if we think we can get past others' expectations from us for Christmas gifts ={?

Thanks again for your help today. It may have been 'no problem' for you, but it was appreciated in more ways than just the 'surface' favor.

D-

jan owen · 1 year ago

I'm afraid we've become a nation of consumers, a church of consumers as well....

ckroboth · 1 year ago

Here ya go...

http://www.southeastchristian.org/sermons/?id=808

Play the one called a country in Crisis.

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Christian · 1 year ago

Brent, I get your point. But he could've been a productive person in any number of businesses that have a culture that is not so healthy. I know, I've been there myself. It's hard to maintain your dignity if part of your job is riding rough shod over your staff or ripping off your customers.

Do they dring coffee in your neck of he woods? :)

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Christian · 1 year ago

If not they should. Dringing is so much more fulfilling than drinking.

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Christian · 1 year ago

But only in the he woods. Those who can't dring may as well hang out in the she woods.

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inworship · 1 year ago

Carl, thanks for the link.

C, what's coffee?

:)