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last night i got slowly decimated in Risk. But that is only becuase I was betrayed by my “ally”. The betrayer and the other fought against me for nearly 20 rounds. Their combined forces outmatched mine from the beginning. Fighting a 2 front war did not go well. They took away Europe.. they took away Africa…. I fled to North America, where I made my last stand. It is very sad to fight a war in which you are hopelessly outnumbered. By all rights I should have won, but I did not.

The betrayer will pay.

Oh yes, he will pay.

On a completely different note….

I read this book called When God Interrupts a few years ago, and I decided to read it again because I remember it being really good. Anyway, having nothing better to post on (as is obvious from my rant about risk), I thought I would post everything that I felt was worthy of highlighting out of the chapter I read last night… so here you go:

“When the sheep get ugly, and they will, we’ll quit if we’re doing it for any reason other than our love for Jesus.”

“If the call is truly from God, it does not go away. As Jesus was relentless with Peter, so he will constantly remind us of our mission.”

“When Christians really believe they need a savior, they are not as tempted to try to be the savior for others.”

“There is nothing as secure as slavery. Freedom scares us. When we are free, all we know is that we are on the way. We don’t know if we will get there. We certainly don’t know how we’ll get there.”

“The challenge of people of faith is to learn how to follow. Central to that task is giving up the expectation of knowing where we are going.”

“One of the most frustrating things about Jesus is that he just won’t settle down. He is constantly moving us away from places where we would prefer to stay…”

“Jesus will not settle for our watered-down dreams that accept life the way it is. He keeps pushing us toward a promise we cannot yet see.”

“When we realize that the madness of God is more sane than a life without passion, we are ready for the call.”

“The most important thing we do in responding to the call of God is to show up. We don’t have to be certain. We don’t have to be the best. We don’t even have to want to be there. All that would matter if we were responsible for making changes. But we aren’t. That’s the life we had to abandon when we started following God’s call. Now we are just responsible to show up with a vision of what God is doing in the world.”

“That vision is so powerful that it can shape the future. According to Jonah 3:10 it changed the mind of God, who decided not to destroy Nineveh after all. Change the mind of God? We can do that only if somewhere along the way, maybe in the belly of a fish, we learned how to pray.”

“Even Christians prefer the message that you get what you deserve. It’s a harsh message, but at least we understand it, and it assures us that justice will come in the end. What we don’t understand is God changing his mind. Ironically, that is what the whole story of Jesus Christ is about – God changing his mind about our sin having eternal consequences. We forget that part easily however,preferring to think of God as the one who will eventually even the score with this world that has been so cruel to us. Abandoning our desire for vengeance is about as hard as it gets in following our God who is “ready to relent from punishing”.”

There ya go.