How the Early Church Took the Lord’s Supper
Finally, the most famous early text concerning the Lord’s Supper was Malachi 1:11, “For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to My name, And a pure offering; For My name shall be great among the nations,” Says the LORD of hosts.” The church used this passage because they referred to the Lord’s Supper as the purest of sacrifices in contrast to the bloody sacrifices of Judaism and Roman paganism.
- Micromanagement is a failure to lead.
- Micromanagement is a failure to self-evaluate.
- Micromanagement is a failure to recognize the gifts of others.
- Micromanagement is a failure to trust others.
- Micromanagement is a failure to trust God.
Five Characteristics of a Quality Man
- They take Jesus seriously.
- They invest in others for the sake of the Lord.
- They desire to be authentic and genuine as they relate to their wives and children.
- They are more concerned about the reality of their lives than their image.
- They speak well of others instead of being cynical and suspicious.
How to Respond to Mistakes in the Game of Life
The same is true of life. You learn to play the game of life by playing. And in the playing there will be mistakes. There’s no question that each of us will make mistakes. There is a question as to how each of us will respond when we strike out.
Cuba Has a Lung Cancer Vaccine—And America Wants It
Although President Obama has used his executive power to lift some restrictions against medical and research equipment, Congress must lift the Cuban embargo before collaborative research can ramp up. Johnson hopes to see Cuba embrace more entrepreneurialism in science, and see the US soak up more creative approaches to medical research. Constrained by politics, the Cuban researchers had to innovate in ways the US and Europe did not. Now maybe they’ll be able to teach their colleagues what they learned.
“The Rule of Seventeen” – If you Want to Get Your Message Across & Accepted, Repeat, and Repeat and…
Ed Savage, EdD, is Manager MID Training & Development at L-3 in Greenville, and a regular participant in the First Friday Book Synopsis. He is full of wisdom and insight on a host of topics. Recently, we were discussing just how difficult it is to get a message really heard throughout an organization. (and, yes, within a family, and anywhere else messages matter). He told me of “The Rule of Seventeen: Communicating the Change Message Requires 17 Repetitions.” Though aimed specifically at communicating a message of change throughout an organization, it applies to all communication challenges. This rule states that one must repeat a message 17 times to get it through, fully accepted, and then acted upon by a listener.
The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
If you spend enough time on the road, accidents will happen whether you’re in a car or a self-driving car. Over the 6 years since we started the project, we’ve been involved in 11 minor accidents (light damage, no injuries) during those 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving with our safety drivers behind the wheel, and not once was the self-driving car the cause of the accident.
Rear-end crashes are the most frequent accidents in America, and often there’s little the driver in front can do to avoid getting hit; we’ve been hit from behind seven times, mainly at traffic lights but also on the freeway. We’ve also been side-swiped a couple of times and hit by a car rolling through a stop sign. And as you might expect, we see more accidents per mile driven on city streets than on freeways; we were hit 8 times in many fewer miles of city driving.
@_FloridaMan Beguiles With the Hapless and Harebrained
His style is deceptively simple. Nearly every Twitter message begins “Florida Man.” What follows, though, is almost always a pile of trouble. Some examples:
Florida Man Tries to Walk Out of Store With Chainsaw Stuffed Down His Pants.
Florida Man Falls Asleep During Sailboat Burglary With Gift Bag on His Head; Can’t Be Woken by Police.
Florida Man Arrested For Directing Traffic While Also Urinating.
Florida Man Impersonates Police Officer, Accidentally Pulls Over Real Police Officer.
Florida Man Says He Only Survived Ax Attack By Drunk Stripper Because “Her Coordination Was Terrible.”