http://www.sbl-site.org/Newsletter/02_2003/Mitchell.html

Margaret Mitchell says, whichever is earliest. In this case, the documents win. And, by the way, the James ossuary is of interest because of the text written on it. A good case she makes.

There's no time like the present, don't we say?
Though, truly, there's no moment but today.

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Earlier, I was writing a post on discipline for a forum and then turning that into an article for Forthright Magazine. At one point I wrote, "No time like the present, don't we say? Actually, there is no time BUT the present." Hmm, then I felt a couplet coming on!

Make today the day you get started with whatever it is you need to do to put yourself within the will of God.

Blessings,

Randal

Copyright © 2003, Randal Matheny

I like to offer quirky, interesting intros when I jump into a forum or site. Here's one I did today for a Christian message forum, along with a couplet.

Since 1984 Brazil has claimed my family and me, as I serve the Lord through the written, spoken, and virtual word. The tropical heat has me sweating, but otherwise I'm cool, calm, and collected (but my desk is a mess).

I've come to join your ranks and pleasant chat,
And search with you for holy Ararat.

Author John Maxwell* wrote, "When Goliath came up against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, He's so big we can never kill him. David looked at the same giant and thought, He's so big I can't miss."

You may have a Goliath staring down at you. What are you thinking?
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*John Maxwell, The Winning Attitude (Nelson, 1993), p. 41.

Picked this up off a quote list today.

In the "dynamic" religion that we are being promised for tomorrow, no ascetic discipline or special humbleness will any longer be required. It will be a hot-water bottle kind of piety with none of that gritty old morality it in. It will be a brand of faith that has been synthesized, vitaminized, homogenized, and capsulized, and it will be as ready-made for effortless consumption as that magically bleached, cottony, crustless, already sliced white bread which is the symbol of the modern American's massive superiority over the pagan bushwhacker. —Curtis Cate, God and Success