2 PETER 3:8-15: Jennifer Hansen - Saint Mark United Methodist Church - Atlanta, Georgia

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2 Peter 3:8-15

King James Version 

(KJV)

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

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Hello Jennifer,

Interesting sermon you gave today.  Compared to the other pastors, I was able following your sermon with relative ease; that is, compared to other pastors. But still I will always have trouble following lectures and group discussions; never made to feel a part of them.

I've always said, where my hearing impairment is concerned, that there were two types of people: those who catch on to my needs as a hearing impaired person very quickly and those who never will...

"Jim Ed.  Have you noticed that I repeat everything twice?"

~(My Mother:  Hell Betty Jo)~

"No mother.  I do not notice that you repeat...EVERYTHING...twice!"

~(Simply Jim:  One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~

"Jim Ed.  You don't work enough!"

~(Hell Betty Jo)~

"Mother!   I...HAVE...three jobs!  My job as a veterinarian.  Your job as the homemaker.  My brother's (five years older and still living at home room and board free) job of lawn maintenance of a small yard. 

 I WORK PLENTY ENOUGH!"

~(Simply Jim:  Confirmed bachelor my fate if not my choosing)~

"I believe what we are doing is called an intervention."

~(Hell Betty Jo)~

"Mother.  Believe it from from me you first heard that word.  Remember?  I was the one who told you, first,  I had a drug addiction; the reason you are here unwelcome in the first place.  No. No. No, mother.  

You can not do an intervention on top of another intervention.  It just does not work that way."

~(Simply Jim:  Crackhead)~

"Jim Ed...
I wish you would work in your yard again."

~(Hell Betty Jo)~

My crystal meths addiction had become a daily habit since roughly 1999.  All of this yard work would not have been possible for me without the "Tina".  Then it reached a point where it became counterproductive; and extremely expensive.  Couldn't even start a  normal day without it.  I would guess around a $10,000.00 yearly habit.  But here's the kicker...the medications Georgia Regional Hospital wanted to "try" me on for my supposedly "bipolar" problem would have cost me $20,000.00/year out of my own pocket.  And this was just for one of the two medication.  And these meds were only supposed to help me think clearer.  And they never, actually refused, explain to me where it was they thought I wasn't thinking clearly to begin with.  Nor what were we expecting to begin happening when I started thinking  clearer.  In other words, how were we supposed to know when this medication,  which could take months in some cases, was beginning to work?  And I most certainly did not approve of Dr. Parker referring to my bunny ears as psychic features.  Had she never heard of a ribald sense of humor?

"Mother...  
there are things I wish about you too.  
Obviously it doesn't work.  Can we give it a break?"

~(Simply Jim: Mature Methodist Crackhead)~

And I'm finding you Methodist pastors to be no different;  of a different reason, but to the same effect.

Apparently it is true;  we've got to make up the difference somewhere, somehow, eventually. Now I understand the difference between those who fear god: and :the difference between those who fear nothing else.  And this is not a mistake; there is a difference between the two.  This...is where the the illusion of  believing, even if  truly not, of us having human free will. 

"OH! JUST LISTEN TO YOU!" 

 This came from  a young female named Jane alone with one fair bit older named Kim; both Jehovah Witnesses who had rung my doorbell.  All I just did was chastise them for not voting; this only be delegating their votes to the winning team...THE SINNERS!   But just before this explosive outburst from Jane turning around with Kim falling in behind as they headed back down the steps leading up to my front door bell;  they thought it funny with Jane having just taken a picture of me with her cellphone;  wearing my interpretation of Easter Bunny Ears having knife through the head. 

RUDOLF THE RED NOSE REINDEER 

The same as with the animals; if you are going the other way,  you...HAVE... made a choice.  This... be a lesson I've learned to be true because of not one... BUT TWO...eight point stars from  rear entrance to my home. They told me so themselves;  for they...did not run away.  They were patient with me, for a good short while, as I'm taking pictures.  They knew I was there.   For they saw me this I know to be true.  But still, it didn't take too long before one begins getting nervous enough straying the other way;  but not in a hurry.  The other one, eventually, but also not in hurry; drifting... in the same directions? 

And this is...NOT...a good sign.  This is evolution; maybe, even legit devolution.  It appears now,  I've the proofs, we now have two even three species of deer yet still one the same.  Those we have no choice but to share our country with them; and those who have decided no choice but to share Metro-Atlanta with us. 

OBVIOUSLY CONTROLLED HUNTING WILL NEVER BE LEGALIZED INSIDE PERIMETER? 

And this I COMPLETELY understood.  Although... I WAS... on their side completely but only up to a point;  I ...COMPLETELY...understood why the second one chose staying closer with one of his own kind instead of befriending me. 

Yet... we keep invading their territories more and more; and them, having less and less as we all go along minding our own ways.  And...I couldn't help but notice how one kept reacting, looking up at me, to the len cap tapping on the wood of my deck; having crawled up to it edge low on all four.   There were cars going by my home I could hear, and, an airplane overhead I heard;  in addition to the constant clicking of my camera with each shot.  As I'm hearing impaired, can only assume...THEY... heard more?  Yet it was only the lens cap hitting the wood of my deck it seemed having made one of these two nervous; me having crawled up to it's edge on all four. 

Is it possible one brought a friend he was visiting outside the perimeter, back inside with him? 

 Where would Faline be, then?

Anyway...
did you know that our sun the same as any other stars making up our universe has only a finite amount of fuel to burn?  That toward the end of this burning as it begins running low on this fuel, our sun will actually begin expanding first?  Incinerating everything in it's path?  That life as we know it, everything, will be completely erased as if we never existed in the first place?  Then our sun begins to collapse and going dark having run out of it's fuel?

Just met a young college age female canvassing my neighborhood promoting awareness, and seeking donations, for a project saving as well as  maintaining strips of wilderness parks along the Chattahoochee River running through the Metro-Atlanta area; suffering from neglect because of drastic spending cuts. 

She caught me completely by surprised when asking me, "You remember how they kept telling us the baby boom peaked so and so year?"   

I hesitated  answering. 

"Yeah...?"  

Already this wasn't sounding right for some reason as she was quite a good bit younger than me.  Although I barely missed the end of what's considered the baby boom years,  my brother helped made the year it peaked.
 
"Why didn't they also...TELL US... that the population kept on increasing...ANYWAY?!" 

 She just recently found out. 

"Well.....I honestly don't know what to tell you," I began speaking after a few stunned quiet seconds.  It began feeling as if she seriously was wanting an answer. 

So I continued on.   

"Except... maybe it will help letting you know, that we also know our sun the same as any other stars making up our universe, has only a finite amount of fuel to burn.  And...in the process of running low on this fuel toward the end of this burning,  our sun will first begin expanding;  incinerating all of this.  All life on earth as we know it...EVERYTHING... will vanish;  completely erased as if we had never existed in the first place.  Then our sun collapses as it goes dark; having finished  off the last of it's fuel." 

 But this is billions of years from now I tried explaining.  Obviously we're goners long before even the need worrying ourselves with this as a problem.  However,  that it was still something needing to know, as it would  actually help us navigate through current problems facing. 

I even tried explaining why, although not the main one, also a reason I refuse letting a God of any kind dictating what my moral should be: 

apocalyptic vision being just too easy.

I was thinking all this, wondering about approaching you after the service and asking if you were aware of this?

And, I was as actually looking up toward the ceiling when the light bulb exploded;  it's extremely hot fragments landing halfway between the pulpit and me.

E = MC3

We have entered a new realm where money has life of it's own this digital age.

Are you aware, everywhere you look around you and see straight lines, that's evidence of anything man-made in his image?  Straight lines do not exist naturally in nature.  God house truly is middle of our street and not inside churches or even online.

Remember that day after service when I was asking you for the most liberal interpretation of John 3 that you were aware of?  How you went straight for John 3:16?  That's John speaking, not Jesus.  I believe a more important part came earlier.

12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

He was talking natural parturition; that we saw the kingdom of God the first time around the day we were born.  That we were already in the kingdom of God; that the bronze snake lifted up by Moses nothing but a placebo...distraction.

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/12/rod-of-asclepius-wikipedia-free.html

What a crafty mother fucker Jesus was.

FIRST TO THE JEWS, THEN TO THE GENTILES

"Quality of a good leader is one able disappointing his own people at a rate they can absorb."

I've already told this to Beth, if she even took the time reading a printed copy of one of my blog article handed her at the beginning of a Sunday service few weeks ago:

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/we-all-share-common-interest.html

"There must first be a common interest before there is a conflict; something different before there is an advantage.  We all share the same common interest, all of it, animal, vegetable, and mineral.  We all compete for the same space we've no choice but to share.

"...and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up."

But this is not what I'm worried about.  It's how...with our people of faith...there seems to be something missing from this equation that's seriously fucking it up;  driving us straight through
HEAVEN RIGHT INTO HELL ON A MASS SCALE.

ITS NOT THE FALL THAT KILLS YOU; IT'S THE CHANGE IN THE RATE OF DECELERATION!
THINK 9/11 JUMPERS!

And this could very reasonably be during our life time.  Screw the second coming of CHRIST.

And until you people come back to the middle of the road first...there is no incentive for the rest joining us.

We're all sinners, remember!

"I can of my own self do nothing:  as I sense(the sixth sense), I judge:  and my judgement is just not because I seek my own will but the will of thy father (collective unconsciousness) which has sent me."

WWW.MINUSFLESHEQUALSWATERANDSPIRITS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Tell Beth I'm still wanting a meeting with her and two others from her congregation.

Best in every one's interest to just gut it up and get it over with.

Also tell her that her profile still read as if her Father had been slighted...the one from St. Joseph.  Being married with two children, she Lord of Host of Four Lords.  But considering that these two children are fraternal twins, I'll lighten up on her a little bit and let these two split the difference making it Three Lords instead of Four.

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Staff - Saint Mark United Methodist Church - Atlanta, Georgia: As a second-career minister, Jennifer also draws on her experience in her career in finance and accounting which she began as a CPA with Ernst and Young and then worked her way up through various corporate roles to a position in senior management as a financial executive. She changed career paths in 2007 after feeling called to seminary and to service to others in the area of outreach and missions. While in seminary, her interests led her to special studies related to missions, sub-Saharan Africa and a concentration in church and community leadership.

Jennifer earned two degrees from Emory University, a Masters of Divinity from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 2010 and a Masters of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School in 2002. She is a graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelors of Science in Accountancy.

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Today at Saint Mark

"I can honestly tell you that I have never tested positive.  
The decision to assume I'm negative is your's alone.   
Bottom line...
I will not go beyond a level of risk I'm comfortable with; 
I will not go beyond your's if you don't let me."
~(Simply Jim)~

AIDS Testing Today In honor of World AIDS Day (December 1), free and

confidential AIDS testing provided by AID Atlanta will be offered in the parlor

today from 9:30am to1pm.

Faith Seekers class series: Revelation You are invited to join the class for their

new 6 week study of Revelation, facilitated by Glenda Joiner. The study will

explore Old Testament prophesy about Christ’s first coming and New

Testament prophesies about the second coming. We will approach

Revelation from our generation’s perspective, looking toward the future and

celebrating our hope in Christ Jesus. The class meets each Sunday at 10:10 in

room 205 with special Advent refreshments prepared by class members.

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(Found this painting beside the road one night; being thrown away by a neighbor of mine.  Even went back the next day making sure they were throwing it away; that I  had it if they wanted it back)

Matthew 25:31-46

King James Version 

(KJV)

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Gospel Lesson
Matthew 25:31-46
Beth LaRocca-Pitts

SERMON
“Read the Second Part Too” Beth LaRocca-Pitts

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/11/st-mark-umc-amos-prophet-wikipedia-free.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/dear-beth-from-st-joseph-to-st-mark.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/dear-pretty-boy-sunday-divisions-in.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/staff-saint-mark-united-methodist.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/08/tyger-tyger-u-lamb.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/10/yard-signs-non-violent-protest.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/12/rice-krispies-snap-crackle-and-pop.html

http://www.twistedpurplecow.blogspot.com/2014/07/dear-sister-beth-jesus-had-his.html

http://www.twistedpurplecow.blogspot.com/2014/07/can-you-boil-it-down-for-me-crystal.html

http://www.twistedpurplecow.blogspot.com/2014/07/stepping-away-from-god-is-this-even.html

http://www.twistedpurplecow.blogspot.com/2014/07/she-fakes-golden-calf-how-development.html

http://www.twistedpurplecow.blogspot.com/2014/07/human-unday-not-on-wedneday-she-aint.html

Listened to this sermon this evening.  Couldn't help but find it somewhat amusing.




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Subject:	SUNDAY SERVICE AT ST. MARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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Date:	Tuesday, December 9, 2014 6:19 PM

Hello Jennifer,

CLICK THIS JUMP FOR EXPANDED VERSION OF SAME EMAIL.

(Already sent this email to Rev. Jennifer through their website. Would have sent this email to all the pastor of this church if they had not been removed when switching over to new website)

Interesting sermon you gave today. Compared to the other pastors, I was able following your sermon with relative ease; that is, compared to other pastors. But still I will always have trouble following lectures and group discussions; never made to feel a part of them. I've always said, where my hearing impairment is concerned, that there were two types of people: those who catch on to my needs as a hearing impaired person very quickly and those who never will...

"Jim Ed. Have you noticed that I repeat everything twice?"
~(My Mother: Hell Betty Jo)~

"No mother. I do not notice that you repeat...EVERYTHING...twice!"
~(Simply Jim: One Pearl, Total Pig, Anti-Christ)~

"Jim Ed. You don't work enough!"
~(Hell Betty Jo)~

"Mother! I...HAVE...three jobs! My job as a veterinarian. Your job as the homemaker. My brother's (five years older and still living at home room and board free) job of lawn maintenance of a small yard. I WORK PLENTY ENOUGH!"
~(Simply Jim: Confirmed bachelor my fate if not my choosing)~

"I believe what we are doing is called an intervention."
~(Hell Betty Jo)~

"Mother. Believe it from from me you first heard that word. Remember? I was the one who told you, first, I had a drug addiction; the reason you are here unwelcome in the first place. No. No. No, mother. You can not do an intervention on top of another intervention. It just does not work that way."
~(Simply Jim: Crackhead)~

"JIm Ed. I wish you would work in your yard again."
~(Hell Betty Jo)~

"Mother. There are a lot of things I wish about you too. Obviously it doesn't work. Can be give it a break?"
~(Simply Jim: Mature Methodist Crackhead)~

And I'm finding you Methodist pastors to be no different; of a different reason, but to the same effect.

Anyway...
did you know that our sun the same as any other stars making up our universe has only a finite amount of fuel to burn? That toward the end of this burning as it begins running low on this fuel, our sun will actually begin expanding first? Incinerating everything in it's path? That life as we know it, everything, will be completely erased as if we never existed in the first place? Then our sun begins to collapse and going dark having run out of it's fuel?

I was thinking all this, wondering about approaching you after the service and asking if you were aware of this? And, I was as actually looking up toward the ceiling when the light bulb exploded; it's extremely hot fragments landing halfway between the pulpit and me.

E = MC3:

We have entered a new realm where money has life of it's own this digital age.

Are you aware, everywhere you look around you and see straight line, that's evidence of anything man-made in his image? God house truly is middle of our street and not inside these churches or even online.

Remember when I was trying to ask for the most liberal interpretation of John 3, you went straight for John 3:16? That's John speaking, not Jesus. I believe the more important part came earlier:

12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

He was talking natural parturition; that we saw the kingdom of God the first time around the day we were born. That we were already in the kingdom of God. The bronze snake that was lifted up by Moses nothing but a placebo.

What a crafty mother fucker Jesus was.

FIRST TO THE JEWS, THEN TO THE GENTILES

"Quality of a good leader is one able disappointing his own people at a rate they can absorb."

I've already told this to Beth if she read copy of a blog article I wrote:

"There must first be a common interest before there is a conflict; something different before there is an advantage. We all share the same common interest, all of it, animal, vegetable, and mineral. We all compete for the same space we've no choice but to share.

"...and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up."

But this is not what I'm worried about. It's how...with our people of faith...there seems to be something missing from this equation that's seriously fucking it up; driving us straight through HEAVEN RIGHT INTO HELL ON A MASS SCALE.

ITS NOT THE FALL THAT KILLS YOU; IT THE CHANGE IN THE RATE OF DECELERATION!
THINK 9/11 JUMPERS!

And this could very reasonably be during our life time. Screw the second coming of CHRIST.

And until you people come back to the middle of the road first...there is no incentive for the rest joining us.

We're all sinners, remember!

"I can of my own self do nothing: as I sense(the sixth sense), I judge: and my judgement is just; not because I seek my own will but the will of thy father (collective unconsciousness) which has sent me."

http://www.minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/

Tell Beth I'm still wanting a meeting with her and two others from her congregation.

Best in everyone's interest to just gut it up and get it over with.

Also tell her that her profile still read as if her Father had been slighted...the one from St. Joseph. Being married with two children, she Lord of Host of Four Lords. But considering that these two children are fraternal twins, I'll lighten up on her a little bit and let these two split the difference making it Three Lords instead of Four.