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I’ll push it further. The very concept of “the weekend” is unbiblical. It turns Sunday into a second Saturday. Home Depot may gain, but we lose. It turns Sunday into the day we catch up on the stuff we were too lazy or disorganized to do on Saturday. It also turns Sunday into a day to ramp up for work or school on Monday. It hollows out not only Sunday but our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things. If we accept the world’s concept of “the weekend,” we inevitably end up “fitting God in” rather than centering the practical reality of our every week around him. We trivialize him, even as we allow secondary things to hijack the sacred place of centrality, we live soul-exhausted lives, and then we wonder why God isn’t more real to us, why church isn’t “working” for us, why we’re grumpy, and so forth. -Ray Orlund, Jr.

January 31, 2008

No, Michael, we didn’t. As it turns out, Dr. Elders was on another flight but sitting in the same waiting area I was. I wish I had been on her flight. I was supposed to be in Orlando at 12:30 p.m. but didn’t actually get here until 7:30. I just ate dinner and before that all I had to eat since 3:30 a.m. was one donut and 4 bags of peanuts.

I also barely missed a flight with a Journey cover band whose drummer needed Angus to break his voicebox.

I made up a fun game called “Gay or German”. You have to pick a dude to decide whether or not he’s gay or German. Could have gone either way.

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