Something thats bugging me now that Thanksgiving is tommorrow. The lack of respect business' have for holidays or Sunday in general. Maybe we've forgotten that Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. I remember when stores were all closed on Sundays.
But as for tommorrow, I have just found out that the store I work for is having a 6am-12 midnight sale tommorrow. Maybe I should say the lack of respect is for families and time together, because what are they doing besides trying to minimalize family time together? Everybody done eating???Good, hurry and throw the dishes in the sink we'll do them later, we have to get to the big sale today!!! Never mind sitting down and enjoying your family for a few hours some you may not have seen for awhile. What is particularly galling is the image this store tries to put forth as being a family store. Whose idea of family are we using? And people wonder how things got to be so bad.

This is my first blog, so how do I start? Where did I get this idea from? From the good folks over at HSC, Dry Creek, Walker Mtn., et al. I am still trying to find time to type out my notes from the Chosen by God Ligonier conference in Northville, well lets just say Detroit, for a freind of mine who was at the last conference, but couldnt make this one due to having had minor surgery recently. It is always a joy and a blessing to get to hear RCSR (the less handsome?) and RCJR(or was it him?) preach the Word of God. I dont think I could ever get tired of it. I wish, however, that I had finished watching "Kingdom Feast" videos before the conference, as I might have had a few more questions, and had access to the Keith Mathison interview that was on the Ligonier website before hand too. The Lords Supper is a very special subject to me (as I am sure it is to most Christians), and it seems to me that it all comes down to the use of the words physical or spiritual as far as real presence goes. I guess the most important thing to me is that a real presence is acknowledged, and the Supper is not made out to be just some empty ritual where people eat a square cracker, drink grape juice and look somber. And endless, repeated sacrafices, like our Catholic friends like to believe. I will be getting Dr. Mathisons new book on the Supper, my appetite having been whetted by that interview. I can only echo the words of John Calvin,"If anyone asks me about the process, I do not mind admitting that it is too high a mystery for my mind to grasp or my words to express. I feel rather than understand it. I can rest safely in the truth of God and embrace it without question. He declares that his flesh is the food, his blood the drink for my soul. I give my soul to Him to be fed with such food. In the Lords Supper, he bids me take, eat and drink his body and blood under the sign of a bread and wine. I have no doubt that he will truly give and I receive........Amen, brother.