RECALL NOTICE

The manufacturer of all human beings (God) is recalling all units manufactured, regardless of model or year, due to a serious defect in the heart of mankind.

This malfunction was observed in the original prototype units code named Adam and Eve, resulting in the reproduction of the same defect in all subsequent units. This defect has been technically termed "Sub-sequential Internal Non-morality," or more commonly known as S.I.N., as it is primarily expressed.

Some of the symptoms include:

1. Loss of direction

2. Foul vocal emissions

3. Amnesia of origin

4. Lack of peace and joy

5. Selfish or violent behavior

6. Depression or confusion in the mental component

7. Fearfulness

8. Idolatry

9. Rebellion

The Manufacturer, who is neither liable nor at fault for this effect, is providing factory-authorized repair and service free of charge to correct this defect.

The Repair Technician, JESUS, has most generously offered to bear the entire burden of the staggering cost of these repairs. No cost for this repair is to be required.

The number to call for repair in all areas is: P-R-A-Y-E-R.

Once connected, please upload your burden of S.I.N. through the REPENTANCE procedure. Next, download ATONEMENT from the Repair Technician, Jesus, into the heart component.

No matter how big or small the SIN defect is, Jesus will replace it with:

1. Love

2. Joy

3. Peace

4. Patience

5. Kindness

6. Goodness

7. Faithfulness

8. Gentleness

9. Self control

Please see the operating manual, the B.I.B.L.E. (Believers' Instructions Before Leaving Earth) for further details on the use of these fixes.

WARNING: Continuing to operate the human being unit without correction voids any manufacturer warranties, exposing the unit to dangers and problems too numerous to list and will result in the human unit being permanently impounded. For free emergency service, call on Jesus.

DANGER: The human being units not responding to this recall action will have to be scrapped in the furnace. The SIN defect will not be permitted to enter Heaven so as to prevent contamination of that facility. Thank you for your attention!

Please assist where possible by notifying others of this important recall notice, and you may contact the Father any time by 'Knee mail'.

Out Of Time

Tragedy generally strikes without any warning what so ever.  One of the reasons it is so import for us as Christians (no denomination here!  You either are one or you are not!) to reach those we love and know.

Of course, I am thinking of Michael Jackson.  I never have liked his music, his antics nor the roll he played in the press.  However, he was a long time friend of one of my friends, since their grade school days.  Her family was Baptist, his Jehovah Witness, but they still managed to get along.  In the end, I guess she had little impact on his spiritual search.

So many I have known, my father included, have made statements along the lines of, “I will decide before I die….” Or “I just have not found what I am looking for….”  Of course, most people have no clue when they are going to die, it sort of sneaks up on them.  And then, that is assuming you still have your mental faculties’ intact to even make any kind of decision!

As for Michael Jackson, well he was a human created in God’s image, he did have at least one Christian witness in his life, I feel really terrible for his inability to have “chosen wisely”.  More so for his family and children.  And for my friend’s loss of one of her childhood friends.

I really do hope his family will open their Bibles and reconsider Martin Luther’s discovery of Grace Alone being the lone requirement for anyone’s salvation – while there is still time…..

Peer Pressure

Saturday, as I was setting up for the firearm’s bourse I was selling my collection at, I saw a tee shirt manufacturer setting up.

Are you like me and like to wear bizarre tee shirts?  Some of my favorites through the years has been one from Hawaii with a shark picking his teeth and saying, “Let’s do lunch!”  I loved that shirt.  I have dozens of such shirts which make me smile and often put a chuckle on the lips of others.

So, I looked through the hundreds of designs this guy had and found a shirt I really liked: a copy of the “Intel Inside” logo from the front of almost all PCs only this one read, “Jesus Inside”.

Sunday I wore this new addition to my wardrobe to the bourse.  And the reactions were really surprising!

Lots of hateful stares, which I found quite interesting as most of those came from people around my age.  A few snickers, some finger pointing – lots easier to take than ugly looks.

One man told me he liked my shirt, the maker commented he had never seen someone actually wear it!  But, he liked it.

Then the ultimate: a young man, maybe 17 with a spiked Mohawk and wearing a tee shirt with a huge skull on it.  Yeah, something beyond emo-reality.  He stood there for a while and finally said, “I like your shirt, in fact I would like to have one of those.” 

I gave him a surprised look, pointed to where he could find one and off he trotted.

I hope he is a Christian if he wears that shirt and if so, I am happy to see interest in not being embarrassed to say you are a Christian by Dutch youth (in this case).

Being the nerd and outcast throughout my entire youth, I never was affected by peer pressure.  You have to have peers first off – something I never suffered from.  Because of this I have no problem wearing shirts that say, “Which one of the commandants do you not understand?” or another of my favorites, “Don’t make me come down there! … God”.

As for this young man?  Something clicked in his mind at that moment.  And I was very please to see him helping several older men whom had gotten tangled up in a table with the barrels of their long guns.  In fact he was almost like a boy scout going around helping people Sunday afternoon, wearing his new shirt.

Cool.