My Lips are Burning!: June 2006

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Vote

I voted for the first time in Utah Tuesday. Against the school bond and for L. Nate Pierce for the Republican primary of a Weber county commission seat. I ended up 1 for 2, as the bond won big, like 60-40 or something. Pierce and his opponent said exactly the same thing from what I could tell (not much), but he added something about protecting green space; plus he lives in Ogden near me instead of some far out west random town like Ms. Opponent.

The Space Shuttle is scheduled to launch on Saturday. I get to come in to work that day. But due to weather, there's only a 40% chance of it going that day. So I may get to come in again Sunday, when there is again a 40% chance.

Sunday, June 11, 2006

The Church

I'm studying through Acts (and other parts of the NT) now with a view towards observing what the early church was like and attempting to translate that to what the modern church should be like. So far I'm just doing the observing. We'll see if anything comes of the concluding later.

Here's what I got from Acts 2:

The church (disciples) became filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Gospel to all kinds of folk

They preached Christ. To Jews, Peter spoke of Him as the promised one, greater than David, since they would relate to the Old Testament. He preached repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Spirit, and the calling of God.

People converted.

They were continually devoting themselves to:
- apostles’ teaching
- fellowship
- breaking of bread
- prayer

They were together with all in common, sharing with and serving one another, continuing with one mind

They were Praising God

They had favor with all the people (Jews?)

The Lord added.

In other news, Reed remained quiet and not needing to be fed through all of church and Sunday School today for the first time. Maybe that means he's saved now....