When Abram heard that his nephew Lot had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men who had been born into his household. Then he pursued Kedorlaomer’s army until he caught up with them. . .and attacked during the night. . .Abram chased them. . . Abram recovered all the goods that had been taken, and he brought back his nephew Lot with his possessions and all the women and other captives. (Genesis 14:14–16)

Special Forces version of Abram:

Side view

Look at that sucker

#Sourdough

The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: . . . Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.” (Jonah 3:6–9)

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent. And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”  (Jonah 3:2–4)

And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land. (Jonah 2:10)

“The very fact that a bird can get as far as building a nest, and cannot get any farther, proves that he has not a mind as man has a mind; it proves it more completely than if he built nothing at all. If he built nothing at all, he might possibly be a philosopher of the Quietist or Buddhist school, indifferent to all but the mind within. But when he builds as he does build and is satisfied and sings aloud with satisfaction, then we know there is really an invisible veil like a pane of glass between him and us, like the window on which a bird will beat in vain. But suppose our abstract onlooker saw one of the birds begin to build as men build. Suppose in an incredibly short space of time there were seven styles of architecture for one style of nest. Suppose the bird carefully selected forked twigs and pointed leaves to express the piercing piety of Gothic, but turned to broad foliage and black mud when he sought in a darker mood to call up the heavy columns of Bel and Ashtaroth; making his nest indeed one of the hanging gardens of Babylon. Suppose the bird made little clay statues of birds celebrated in letters or politics and stuck them up in front of the nest. Suppose that one bird out of a thousand birds began to do one of the thousand things that man bad already done even in the morning of the world; and we can be quite certain that the onlooker would not regard such a bird as a mere evolutionary variety of the other birds; he would regard it as a very fearful wild-fowl indeed.” —Chesterton

AG1, coffee, feed the bengals, p2p sat exchange. off to a good saturday.

"A monkey does not draw clumsily, and a man cleverly; a monkey does not begin the art of representation, and a man carry it to perfection. A monkey does not do it at all; he does not begin to do it at all; he does not begin to begin to do it at all. . . art is the signature of man.” —Chesterton

exactly.

well i'm a pastor...so i get to read more than the average guy. and my kiddos are a bit older now. if yours are real young, be patient.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. (Jonah 1:7)

But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. (Jonah 1:3)

i've proabbly read 50 books in 2023. entire books. i've probably read parts of 200 books.

this does not include the bible.

Saylor reading Saif

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.” (John 8:47)

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. (John 8:43)

So Jesus said. . . “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31–32)

"Unless you believe that I am [the Christ] you will die in your sins.” (John 8:24)

Jesus answered, “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” (John 8:19)