A new book meme is circulating and its rules are these:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
And my results are:
“That goal lies beyond history.”
– Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
Yours?
“It made me feel like a stranger”.
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent
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I find this to be, quite possibly, the most “contextless” activityI have ever engaged in. I can’t actually believe that I’m participating, but nonetheless, because I like you Pat….
“The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar.” From Numbers 11:8, and no, I’m not trying to be “super-spiritual” here; it just so happens that the Bible was,/i> the book lying next to me when I read this post.
Peace
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Andy! Bill Bryson is awesome! I just discovered him myself (The Lost Continent), and haven’t read this one.
Arlen, I remain unconvinced and think you’re faking it. Either that, or you got sidetracked when you realized that the “Better Homes & Gardens” magazine near your computer didn’t go to page 123 😉 (joking, really…)
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Vayikra (Leviticus) 13:34
“On the seventh day the cohen (priest) is to examine the crusted area; and if he sees that the crusted area has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin around it, then the cohen is to declare him clean; he is to wash his clothes and be clean”
Complete Jewish Bible, translated by David H. Stern
the closest reading material was a small book of poems by women who have been homeless…without a page 123 to offer, the bible was the next option.
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The closest think I could consider a book was my journal. So I counted to pg 123 and…
Line 5:
“Service is submission put into action.”
I am sure that is a quote from someone other than me..just don’t know who.
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Using law to motivate Christians to godly behavior is actually counterproductive. (What God Wishes Christians Knew About Christianity – Bill Gillham
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