Read about it here.
How about simply requiring people to be honest? And creating serious disincentives for dishonesty?
What's really disgusting about the current financial situation is a lot of people PUT us here by breaking the rules.
Where is the news about firings, the jailings, and the head-rollings of those people?
Watch this video.
You know, I really hate it when people lie.
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Matthew 27:40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Matthew 27:63 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
Mark 8:31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
Mark 15:29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
John 2:19-20 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Luke 24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
Luke 24:13-35 is the story of Cleopas and a friend who were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus. Luke 24:21 is the most significant verse in the list above, because it clearly places the crucifixion events on Thursday.
I tried to buy a truck this week.
Tried.
Try one:
I bid on a truck on ebay, and was outbid. However, the reserve price had not been met. I emailed the seller, and told them that if they wanted to try to make a deal they could contact me. They did. I made them an offer I was sure they would refuse. They counter-offered. I stuck to my price. Several phone calls later, they finally accepted, so we made a deal.
That night, I was trying to get a plane ticket and had a terrible time of it. Finally I decided I'm not supposed to get a ticket, and went to bed.
Next morning, I get a call from the dealership. Uh-oh. There's been a mistake. They got VINs crossed up and they can't sell me that truck for the price we agreed on. Ok. Fine. Keep your truck. I'm sticking to my price.
Try two:
Truck auction ends at a time when I wasn't sure I could be at my computer to snipe it. So I set up a snipe in my account on www.auctionsniper.com. I entered my max bid: $15,001.10. It notified me that I couldn't enter a bid over $15,000 because that required ID verification, which had not yet been done on my Ebay account.
Ok, so how do you do that? I went to Ebay, and searched the help. Finally found the link. Filled out the form. Submitted. Uh-oh. My ID won't verify. I don't have an Italian-sound middle-name. Really. I don't. So I had to call the Equi-Fax number. Do I have a business or personal account? Business. Uh-oh. They can't help me with that. I have to talk to Ebay. Here's two Ebay numbers. Call the numbers. All the automated options tell me to click the "Live Help" link on Ebay's home page. Except that thing doesn't work on ANY of my computers. I'm thinking: This is really getting stupid. I told Charles (one of my employees) what was going on, and he tried calling the Ebay number. He started punching random 5-digit extensions - got thrown out of their system twice, but on the third random number, he got somebody! And that Miss Somebody was not happy, and wanted to know HOW WE GOT HER NUMBER?! So I told her. She didn't laugh.
And she couldn't help me. But she had a friend who might be able to, so she sent her an email. BYE.
And I got an email! I went to the link they sent me, filled out another form. Submitted it. Still waiting. And waiting. My ID is still not verified. By now I'm not sure who I really am. Dad? Mom? What's going on here?
Conclusion: I gave up bidding on the truck.
Try three:
Truck ends in 30 minutes. Nice, clean truck. Bid is at $10,000, with a Buy-It-Now of $16,995. I put in a bid of $12,500 4 seconds before auction close. "We're sorry - your bid cannot be accepted because the next bid increment would be higher than the Buy It Now price."
WHAT???
And the auction closed with the final bid at $10,000
STRIKE THREE.
I told my wife that if this was anybody else's story, I would tell them without hesitation that God was against them buying a truck.
I've had three of the strangest roadblocks this week as I tried to buy a truck. What do you think? Is this kind of thing "The Voice of God"?
Today I went to Larned, KS to finish up a server/network install in a new medical office. Snapped some pics along the way. Got to see some countryside. Was a very nice, quiet drive - Except for the 40+ mph winds.
Very funny. Only at Lowe's. I saw this last Friday night and couldn't resist snapping a pic.
When I got the skidloader, one of my plans was to build a grapple for the forks. The aftermath of the ice storm moved that up from wish to necessity. What you see below is the product of enlisting Joe Yoder's help to get the thing out of our heads and onto the skidloader.
There was a straw bale sitting in the ditch about a quarter mile down the road from our place. It must have fallen off somebody's truck. It had been there for several months, and I finally decided nobody was coming back for it. I knew I couldn't get it with just the forks because of how it was sitting down in the ditch, but it was easy with the grapple. This thing should really make brush handling easy.
Ok, here's another one. Did you know that Joseph was very likely sold to his first or second cousins?
In Genesis 37, verses 25, 27, and 28, it states that he was sold to the "Ishmeelites."
Ishmael was Joseph's great-uncle. Remember - Ishmael was Isaac's half-brother, Isaac was Jacob's father, and Jacob was Joseph's father.
I suspect the Ishmeelites knew who the Israelites were. Joseph's brothers obviously knew who the Ishmeelites were, why wouldn't the inverse be true?
Talk about family ties...
Wow. One person commented on my last post. Makes we wonder if I should even bother to blog.
The answer is in Luke 1:62: "And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called."
See that? They made signs.
Why do you make signs to a person? Yup. He was deaf, too.
Nobody ever told me that.
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