John MacArthur's Gospel approach to Muslim. Instead of debating which religion has more denominations, MacArthur went straight to the point: I know God personally and I know He will not forgive your sins.
With all the fear of hiring in a society that loves to sue, ex-workers suing for ill-treatment, for being fired, anything goes and the court may likely side with the one who could act sadder, perhaps it's a good idea to indicate some kind of disclaimer or under oath, that I will not sue, so feel free to test and terminate me (as long as the hiring is genuine and not some cheap trick to get a small task done for free when you have no one - I think I got tricked once, should have just deleted my "testing task" after that, those sneaky bastards, but this will all be on me, not on the company, so that the ones hiring me need not be concerning themselves with such trivial things). I prove my good, I don't need the court to be on my side. And this is how much I trust them as well.
I need to start my own specialized Psalms Entry. But perhaps not all 150 chapters in one thread. I'll just break each chapter into a single entry.
Digging old notes to transfer back here to the cloud: Craig Parton, someone Janet Mefferd interviewed once on Martin Luther and the Reformation. And apparently he's into Bach as well, considering Bach as the 5th Evangelist. May not be a major figure but he's someone to look into on these: Martin Luther & Bach.
Exodus 24:11 - An interesting note brought up by Phil during the fellowship meal at the buffet that I never paid enough attention to. God miraculously allowed certain people behold and commune with him, eating and drinking. This is a rather unique exception to the general principle - no man could see God directly without coming undone. John Calvin had no problem with this, if being made the exception. Although Keil and Delitzsch advised caution:
We must not go beyond the limits drawn in Exo_33:20-23 in our conceptions of what constituted the sight (חָזָה Exo_24:11) of God; at the same time we must regard it as a vision of God in some form of manifestation which rendered the divine nature discernible to the human eye. Nothing is said as to the form in which God manifested Himself.
Service Fee vs. Tip: Are they the same? Yesterday's fellowship meal at the Flaming Grill Chinese buffet restaurant was presented this minor but interesting dilemma. Some individual thought it they are not the same thing, while many of us (especially Asians) had taken for granted that service fee = tip. We knew that when the group exceed certain number of people, usually 6, the tip/gratuity/...ehem...service fee, is automatically charged. On the bill, it says service fee while listing the tip options with various %. So I can see how one would easily "fall" for it. I guess because the Asian culture really just don't like the tipping system, we are prone to equate these two as one and the same thing. I understand how one could justify otherwise - larger crowd, need more "labor" to deal with, hence service fee is required, tips not included. However, in any non-tipping countries, such as Malaysia, Australia, NZ, etc. we do not have restaurants that charge "service fee" for bigger crowd. So interesting when the bill's returned to be signed, Nadia told me (I was unaware) that it has changed from "service fee" to tip. So that may have explained why I heard that certain individual commented "this is very sneaky" - I didn't know why he said it at the time.
Secondly, one would justify that there's a difference between service fee and tip based on IRS/legality issue. Which I looked very quickly, but feel like it is really unnecessary to go there unless you are very happy at being legalistic and paying tax to the government thinking that you are some sort of patriotic citizen whose contribution matters more than it actually is. For example, Minnesota even levied law against pool tipping. The tip must go directly to the service member. I think this is ridiculous, this is the restaurant's own business, not something for the government to get its nose in.