Ted Harder sermon - church in the basement, Reedley, CA
"Covenant Family"
Saturday, October 31, 2009
a message to Judah's Kings
3 "This is what the Lord says: Be fair-minded and just. Do what is right! Help those who have been robbed; rescue them from their oppressors."
Friday, October 23, 2009
praying for lost loved ones
from Mahesh Chavda
"You have every right and authority to pray in every one of your loved ones into the Kingdom of God, without any apology. You find the model with Abraham and Lot -- Lot was totally out of the will of God...I mean, Lot was a confused Lot.
And still God said, 'Abraham, yup, we can save his posterior from judgement.'"
"You have every right and authority to pray in every one of your loved ones into the Kingdom of God, without any apology. You find the model with Abraham and Lot -- Lot was totally out of the will of God...I mean, Lot was a confused Lot.
And still God said, 'Abraham, yup, we can save his posterior from judgement.'"
Sunday, October 11, 2009
quotable day
actually, I read these a few days ago...but I still think they're funny.
taken from this article
The #7 reason not to buy a Kindle,
Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears.
I just got a kick out of the "explaining heaven to bears" analogy.
Also, this is from Ivan and Isabel Allum: Isabel explaining a story of how she got to know Ivan.
"...he used to play darts. So, I figured, I might as well learn to play darts because I have to hang out with him and get to know him. So, we started drinking coke and playing darts--I didn't drink coke yet, he drank coke. And we started playing darts together, and I got to laugh with him, and get to know him, and we started developing a friendship, hanging out and doing things...until I *beat* him at darts and we never played again."
haha, maybe you had to be there, but I was so funny when she said this on the sermon tape.
taken from this article
The #7 reason not to buy a Kindle,
Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears.
I just got a kick out of the "explaining heaven to bears" analogy.
Also, this is from Ivan and Isabel Allum: Isabel explaining a story of how she got to know Ivan.
"...he used to play darts. So, I figured, I might as well learn to play darts because I have to hang out with him and get to know him. So, we started drinking coke and playing darts--I didn't drink coke yet, he drank coke. And we started playing darts together, and I got to laugh with him, and get to know him, and we started developing a friendship, hanging out and doing things...until I *beat* him at darts and we never played again."
haha, maybe you had to be there, but I was so funny when she said this on the sermon tape.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
from the WSJ
I originally wrote this 7-19-07 on another blog, but thought I should republish it today. from the Wall Street Journal.
today I was reading an article on the state of medicaid. "Note to Medicaid Patients: the Doctor won't see you." On the contrary is the following physician, as quoted from the article,
"I don't want to pull any punches taking care of people," says Dr. Tynes, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man." In his waiting room, gospel movies play round the clock on a DVD player and patients can sign up for his weight-loss coaching.
On a recent day, 22 out of the 37 patients were on Medicaid, and another 12 had Medicare or other government-sponsored insurance. Only three had commercial health coverage. Dr. Tynes tries to make ends meet with a bare-bones staff. He has also cultivated a loyal patient base by offering specialty services such as sexual-dysfunction treatment and marriage counseling. Depending on how good business is, he tries to pay himself an after-tax salary of $500 to $750 a week to support his family of five children.
But three times so far this year, he's forgone his biweekly paycheck to keep the practice out of the red. Last year, he cut his office staff from seven to four people. "We [primary-care physicians] are the ones keeping this Medicaid system together, but we're the ones getting killed," he said.
My thoughts. A) He went to med school, he could make a killing but to actually forgo the wealth is unusual. plus, he left a salaried position (a.k.a, decent paycheck every week) to run his own clinic in Benton Harbor. also, in reference to the quote, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man," can one be both? This follows some thoughts with "the princess goes to Hollywood" post: can Christians live in Bel-Air?
B) $500 to $750/week to support a family of five! I can hardly believe that. let me state the obvious: most doctors don't think that way. Medicaid doctors should be salaried by the government, funded by taxes, the same as public school teachers since they're doing a service to society.
today I was reading an article on the state of medicaid. "Note to Medicaid Patients: the Doctor won't see you." On the contrary is the following physician, as quoted from the article,
"I don't want to pull any punches taking care of people," says Dr. Tynes, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man." In his waiting room, gospel movies play round the clock on a DVD player and patients can sign up for his weight-loss coaching.
On a recent day, 22 out of the 37 patients were on Medicaid, and another 12 had Medicare or other government-sponsored insurance. Only three had commercial health coverage. Dr. Tynes tries to make ends meet with a bare-bones staff. He has also cultivated a loyal patient base by offering specialty services such as sexual-dysfunction treatment and marriage counseling. Depending on how good business is, he tries to pay himself an after-tax salary of $500 to $750 a week to support his family of five children.
But three times so far this year, he's forgone his biweekly paycheck to keep the practice out of the red. Last year, he cut his office staff from seven to four people. "We [primary-care physicians] are the ones keeping this Medicaid system together, but we're the ones getting killed," he said.
My thoughts. A) He went to med school, he could make a killing but to actually forgo the wealth is unusual. plus, he left a salaried position (a.k.a, decent paycheck every week) to run his own clinic in Benton Harbor. also, in reference to the quote, "I'm a spiritual man, not a business man," can one be both? This follows some thoughts with "the princess goes to Hollywood" post: can Christians live in Bel-Air?
B) $500 to $750/week to support a family of five! I can hardly believe that. let me state the obvious: most doctors don't think that way. Medicaid doctors should be salaried by the government, funded by taxes, the same as public school teachers since they're doing a service to society.
Friday, October 9, 2009
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