Abby and The Dellows and The Nuzzis 🙂
15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said.
16 And they *sent their disciples to Him, along with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and defer to no one; for You are not partial to any.
17 Tell us then, what do You think? Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?
18 But Jesus perceived their malice, and said, Why are you testing Me, you hypocrites?
19 Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax. And they brought Him a denarius.
20 And He *said to them, Whose likeness and inscription is this?
21 They *said to Him, Caesar’s. Then He *said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”
22 And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving Him, they went away.[1]
Who were the Pharisees?
The Pharisees were separatists (Hebrew ‘persahin’ from parash, ‘to separate’).
They wanted to be separate from the pagan/gentile type practices that were
being adopted in the culture since Israel was no longer a free nation.
There were two other major parties at the time: The Essenes and the Sadducees.
The Essenes were similar to the Pharisees, but were more mystical in their
approach to theology.
The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection and would only believe
doctrines from the Pentateuch.
It is obvious that they were against Christ, but major reasons would be:
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This is the title of a book.
Not just any book, but a book that has changed my life.
Not as extremely as the Word of God, but its a good book by worldly standards.
In fact, I recommend it to every web developer I meet.
At work we’re working on a new version of our website and the company that is
doing the graphics and layout design,
Holmes-Millet,
got that book recommendation today.
I hope that they read it and learn a lot, its a fabulous book on how to
design web pages.
I suppose that most of the folks who read this care very little about web
standards on the surface, but I would point out that web standards are
what make your browsers work.
But without getting all philosophical, let me just say that I’m glad that
you’re reading this, and if some day (if not already) you find yourself
working on a web page, check out the book, its the way to go.
Oh, and one more thing: I got some more pictures of Abby that I will try to
put up ASAP, some even tonight.
Just check out the Media pages.
Seated with Christ (Colossians 3),
Randy Peterman
We got the ‘Two Towers’ DVD
last night.
We in no way could attempt to watch all of the content on the video.
It’s something like 10 hours of video(that’s a guess).
The movie itself is almost 4 hours long.
Four hours.
That is like half a days work watching a movie.
To put it in perspective, I could probably fix up to 5 bugs in that time at
work.
I might be able to go to dinner and a regular length movie in that time
period.
I could wash one of our cars and clean it all out and start on the other and
maybe finish it in four hours!
And to top it all off, Jessica suggested we watch the movie last night.
So we started it but only watched about 30 minutes.
Speaking of which, one of the worst special effects parts is when they
approach the burning pile of orcs and there is an orc head on a spear.
The orc’s head has its tongue out as if its making a face.
True, heads usually make faces, and heads aren’t much without a face, but
still it seemed rather out of place.
It was as if Bozo the clown had stepped in while Peter Jackson wasn’t looking
and tweaked it a little.
It makes the paranormal tracking of Aragorn seem a little silly with that
face out in the open as it is (I listen to rocks for clues of things going
on miles away, but don’t pick up on horses going after the same group).
Anyway, I won’t pick it to pieces as it is a fun movie and heck, I could be
one of millions of people who bought the movie making Wingnut and Jackson
just a little richer.
You do realize that they’ve made enough money from the first movie
to cover mostly all of the expenses so whatever profit there is from #2
and #3 is profit.
They should make The Chronicles of Narnia next.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Orc Head Critic” Peterman
We’re going to my parent’s this weekend to see them and my sister My
(AKA Becky).
This is a good thing overall and I’m greatful for the oportunity to see them.
What is so spectacular is this: it is their thirtieth anniversary next week.
¿Can you believe that?
It’s cooler than a Denver Christmas.
Speaking of cooler in Denver its suppose to be a high of 27°.
That’s approximately two-thirds less than what we’re used to here in Texas
right now.
I’ve also been learning somewhat about a new trading strategy using the
CCI.
I’m not completely familiar with how it works but using that with some
filters my uncle and dad have both had zero (0, none, zilch, nada) losses
with their option trading.
Oh, and they’ve not just traded once each.
I actually turned a 15% profit as well.
As I learn more about it I might write some articles about it here.
Jessica was not feeling well tonight but was a good sport.
I did my best to help her be able to rest, but Abigail is sure a busy body.
I love both my ladies and am glad that I’m maried to one and a Daddy to the
other.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Great Bowels of Fire” Peterman
This weekend we had the Nuzzi’s over again.
As you would expect we had a good time.
We really enjoyed the kids together (Abby and Josh and Davis are so cute
together).
I got pictures of it all and hope to have them back from being developed by
Thursday.
Jessica and I are tired, as I imagine Tony and Erin are, because we stayed up
so late after the kids went to bed.
We did church at home because the church we’ve been going to for the last
couple of months (rather off and on, really) is just so dull and drab.
We studied Matthew 22:15-22 and it was good.
That passage really hit me because it reveals God’s image being reflected in
His creation, man.
I was glad to have lead because I really like to talk about spiritual things
with Tony and Erin.
There was a time when our conversations with them were not so relaxed because
I was a fiery non-charismatic.
I praise the Lord He’s tempered me there and that I have a greater grasp on
His word.
Tony is a great friend, he and I went out on Friday night and talked about
all sorts of things at Denny’s (our ‘official’ hang-out when visiting).
I’d tell you what we talked about but that would violate a trust that I
treasure too highly.
If Tony and I ever start a business together (something which we’ve talked
about for years) it will be a scary thing because we’re going to have to
actually work rather than just joke and laugh.
Erin and Jessica seemed to have had a good time as well, which I treasure as
well because Jessica and Erin have been friends for about as long as Tony
and I have (mostly because we got to know one another as couples).
Anyway, I’m going to bed soon, I’ve got a busy week ahead culminating in a
trip to Denver to see my parents!
I’ll write more later, I promise.
Resting in Him,
Randy “Hell-fire and damnation” Peterman
I should have seen it coming.
There was no other reason to see this movie other than I find Jamie Kennedy’s television show amussing.
The trailor looked dumb, but I thought, “This guy is funny.”
He is, he really is, but one can only handle so much white-man-plays-black comedy.
Of course he’s helped out by two black-men-playing-white.
There are a few funny scenes – but not enough to prop the movie up.
Dye-a-log was almost completely missing – I say almost because words came out of peoples mouths, but they weren’t valuable for much.
Jamie’s rapping is intentionally bad, but it wasn’t even a ‘good’ bad rap thing.
And the constant reference to ‘shiznit’ (which happens to be a cloaked prophanity, but that’s the word they use) is pretty sad.
In the end we watched the whole movie because we could, not because we had to.
I have made it a personal crusade to save the world from renting or watching bad movies – I’m doing it by watching one bad movie at a time – and then telling you about it.
-Randy
* Ratings are from 0 to 1, this is a fractional scale. Odds are You won’t see me ever give a ‘1.0’ on any occasion, however, it could happen.
Eddie Murphy.
Owen Wilson.
Two seriously funny guys who have both done some different films get together and make a fun action-comedy.
I’ll warn you that I did not see the whole movie, we skipped (I LOVE DVD’s) to the next scene at one point where Owen and his female counterpart Famke (can’t think of the gals last name) started to behave in ways that looked like they should only happen in a marriage (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Say no more).
Over all the plot was light hearted and fun with Eddie Murphy playing a boxer with an attitude (can you say Tyson?) and Wilson is a secret agent with envy of a smooth agent that gets all of the cool toys.
Murphy is called in by G.W. (The President) to help Owen to get into a special party where they’ll do some recon.
Things go crazy there’s a leafy bug scene, crazy running from ‘bad guys’ and the whole works.
Its fun. If you like to laugh and just have a good time with your logical self turned off, this is a great catch.
Due to the language I would say that there may be some folks who get offended and you’ll want to watch out for that.
I’m not keen on profanity in movies and this one pushed the limit a couple of times.
There is one point in the movie (right before I skipped ahead) where Eddie Murphy is feeding Wilson song lyrics and Wilson dead-pans them.
We laughed hard, it was a hoot!
If you’ve got the money, and you have a rental store near you and you’ve got some time, you may want to rent this.
It REALLY outdoes Ballistic.
-Randy
* Ratings are from 0 to 1, this is a fractional scale. Odds are You won’t see me ever give a ‘1.0’ on any occasion, however, it could happen.
I don’t know about you, but I have a pretty vague recollection of my first hand full of dirt.
I know that most people dont’ spend a lot of time dwelling on dirt, they have come to take it for granted.
I remember that dirt, its grittiness, the way it felt cool in my hands, the way it tasted as I haphazardly placed it in my mouth.
That was dirt, and I didn’t know I wasn’t supposed to eat it.
I’m sure my parents at some point in time told me, “… don’t eat that.”
I’m sure that they said it was bad, gross, or some other adjective.
I’m also sure that I had a perfectly rational reason for cramming dust,sand and small rocks in my mouth.
That reason is logical: How on earth could my parents know that dirt tasted bad if I never saw them eat it?
It’s this very sort of reasoning of course that got Adam and Eve in trouble in the garden.
It’s not recorded, but it is possible that the snake also said to Eve, “Hey, you don’t see God eating that fruit, how could He know?”
The amazing thing about kids is that they have a reall short amount of memory for important things – things like, “Don’t touch that, it’s hot!” are easily forgotten.
I also must have forgotten that dirt wasn’t all that tasty because I know that I ate some more.
The thought that must have gone through my mind was, “This doesn’t look like the dirt at home…[open mouth – insert dirt].”
And I’m certain that that dirt tasted just as bad…
When I got older I ate some more dirt, I would eat dirt when I crashed on my bicycle.
It was just as gross and gritty, but then I remember the dirt embedded in my skin (assuming that I had skin left on those parts[ouch]).
And in all of that I learned an important lesson: I’m going to die.
Fortunately when I die my body’ll get to be dirt.
And maybe some day, if God waits long enough, some little kid will eat some dirt and that dirt…
that dirt… that dirt will be me 🙂
Yeah, I know that’s gross, but it could be true. And besides, it beats watching Ballistic.
Have fun…
Randy
Wow.
I should write about porn more often.
I’m currently ranking in the top ten in Google for “Women of Walmart”,
“Walmart Playboy”, and various other combinations of the two for my
article a few days ago.
I’ve gotten more hits based on that (as far as referrals from Google are
concerned) than any other post to this site.
I suppose that on certain levels it’s good because people will see that I’m
disgusted, however, I don’t think that’s going to turn the tides on the
fight against online pornography.
I’ve also gotten fun referrals from MSN for my recipes.
Makes me feel like I could be contributing to the delinquency of some cooks
:).
OK, back to the weekend with the Nuzzi’s, I’ll write more later!
Randy “Referral” Peterman