Faith in the power of metaphor

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May 232007
 

It’s a big one. Feel up to it? As metaphors go, this one is as mighty as the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and about as stretched as Stretch Armstrong. Let’s do it…

What is “God’s GPS” all about? Today, sophisticated golf courses provide golfers with GPS systems on their golf carts to allow each golfer to know where they are on the course, in relationship to the pin. This of course allows them to choose the proper club, because the GPS system gives them the exact distance to the cup.

Colossians 4:5 instructs us to be wise in the way we act toward outsiders, so that we can make the most of our opportunities, to advance God’s Kingdom. Much like the game of golf, effective evangelism starts where people are in relationship to God not where we would like for them to be. Different folks, need different strokes! In the game of golf, club selection is everything! If you are looking for a spiritual GPS system to help you engage the different kinds of folks you meet on your day to day “golf course” check out GodsGPS by clicking on the link below.

Here’s that link, just in case you’re a 9 iron short of the “green”. Watch that “bunker”!

Mmmm. Bacalao.

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May 232007
 

Just how queasy do you currently feel? Not queasy enough, I fear. If you really want to feel the bile rise, click here to watch a properly sick video. (You might need to repeat it a couple of times before vomiting).

It’s the heavy breathing in the background that really gets to me.

Please observe a minute’s silence before reading this.

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May 202007
 

And afterwards, of course. And about halfway through would be appropriate too.

We’re all doing our bit for Madeleine. My friend, the cow-lady, is keeping her eyes peeled.

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This ‘no stone unturned’ business. Leave no recently dug ground unprodded. Is it just me, or has the whole Madeleine thing eerily become like a giant game of Masquerade – the hunted for the buried golden hare…

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Whoa – hang on – is that Madeleine? No. I’ve checked the eyes. Similar, I’ll grant you, but that child in the spangled trousers is a bit too – what’s the word? – above ground.

How much fun is rope?

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May 172007
 

This much.

How much fun is a hot tub?

Roughly this much. These Playaz seem like interesting chaps. I may have to hang out in their tubs, see what’s what.

Yesterday, I rested my eyes

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May 032007
 

Yesterday, in the afternoon,
I rested my eyes, and saw
A man with hair inside my room,
He said the number “4″
And pointed at me, in my room,
And said again the number “4″.
And touched his hair, and left my room.
And that is all I saw.

That’s the statement I gave to the police. I sat for a while with the police sketch artist, and we came up with a reasonable likeness:

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I remain on the look-out.