On Thursday, my Bible Study’s time and location changed...again. This time we met at 10:30 (am) in MLM’s office. Since the church was inexplicably blanketed by preschoolers, MLM made the decision to meet in his office with the instruction, “Let’s do something different!” The irony is that we always do something different. We change our setting more often than moonshiners moved their stills to avoid revenuers. (Remember, I am from Newport.) Unfortunately, ours is the type of meeting we would not mind people finding. 10 o’clock on Thursdays will now be our tentative scheduled time. Place the emphasis on the word tentative.
The sign (pictured) in MLM’s office is very descriptive of the locale.
We spent a good deal of time debriefing on the past two weeks events, what with a mission trip and funeral to discuss. Fortunately, our Bible Study covered only one verse - a parable presented in Matthew 13:33.
He spoke another parable to them, "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened." (Matthew 13:33, NASB)
We noted that leaven can be bad too, like the “leaven of the Pharisees” (Matthew 16:11, Mark 8:15, Luke 12:1), and as such one should be careful what leaven one subjects oneself to. I saw a church sign in Gulfport with the negative inverse of this parable - “Give Satan an inch and he’ll become a ruler.” Consider yourself warned.
The always thoughtful CMU baked my family banana bread to express condolences for my grandmother’s passing. As part of my continuing effort to treat my family like royalty, I sampled it before it ever hit their lips. It was delicious. Thanks, CMU!
Congratulations to SMA as he completed his last day of law school at the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He turned in his last paper (which he was not overly pleased with) and returned to Knoxville. He will return to Birmingham May 17 for graduation.
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