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[Updates below.]

This is what happens to a publicly-posted e-mail address.

Now, let's make a few things clear:

  • The below was copied from an unsolicited e-mail with which I've never corresponded
  • It clearly isn't written in an, ah, standard English persuasive style and I doubt it was intended to be a rigorous argument
  • It was littered with sentences that had nothing to do with the bulk of the text. I've deleted these bits, probably designed to fool anti-spam logic systems.
  • There are folks can do offer arguments both more deliberate and less immediately infantile than the below

HOWEVER, I think my title holds. It, or something very like it, is one of the first things that my mind processes when I encounter someone who says things similar to the words below.

Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006
From: scent lefqeu@mv-estenfeld.de
To: sales@drizzten.com
Subject: apolitical
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God has created you with a unique SHAPE that is perfectly suited to carry out His plan for your life. When you please God, your life will be the best life it could be. Those gears represent you. The difficulty you have in serving God, stems from wrong thinking. One of the marks of a believer is that he is a servant.
God wants to use you to do great things for Him.
Here's what Jesus said to His disciples who also wanted to be great.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven.
Those apparent imperfections minimize the ball's air resistance and allow it to travel further than a perfect ball would. As you and I learn to live lives balanced with those five purpose, we will have effective, fulfilled lives as we serve God.
Here's what Jesus said to His disciples who also wanted to be great. You make the biggest impact with your life when who you are and what you do match, just as God intended. Those apparent imperfections minimize the ball's air resistance and allow it to travel further than a perfect ball would. Those five purposes are summarized in two important Scriptures that Jesus spoke, The Great Commandment and the Great Commission, which we're going to look at in more detail today. God wants you and me to have a part in making it happen. ' This is the first and greatest commandment. Serving God begins in the mind. Another definition of vision in the dictionary is "a mental image of the imagination.
It's a day to remind us of all the things we have to be thankful for. The Bible says that when someone becomes a believer, they are "born again. " I'm going to talk about how you can take your vision off of yourself and expand it to God's vision for your life.
As a church, we submit our lives to God's Word.
However, as we focus on what God's Word, the Bible says, not what we heard on television or read in the newspaper or saw at a movie, then God can begin to adjust our thinking.
Because every believer is meant to be God's messenger to tell others about Jesus.
For those who don't know my background, besides my theological degree, I also have a PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and so have the background to understand the issues.
Gratitude for the Green Bean Bake your family will enjoy. Let's see how thankful a person you are. In a similar way, God has designed you with imperfections and weaknesses. When people make a machine with gears, they always make it with a purpose in mind.
There are many therapies being researched from adult stem cells, which have no ethical concerns.
God doesn't want you to live life like that, consumed with just working, paying your bills, taking care of yourself, He has much bigger plans for you.
When you please God, your life will be the best life it could be.
They will make you the most happy and fulfilled in life that you possibly could be. Those apparent imperfections minimize the ball's air resistance and allow it to travel further than a perfect ball would. However, lifesaving cures, even if possible, must not be created by destroying other human life.
That's not so good, that's not a life in balance. So, today we're going to ask some questions about how a servant of God thinks.
You use your SHAPE to serve God in your work.


UPDATED 7/23/2008 11:10am
More spammy-ness here.

Posted by drizzten on January 13, 2007 04:45 AM |

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