Monday Bullets: Lovable Bear?

• My good friend from Norway, with the fashionable Stetson hat, is now embracing the title Deputy Dawg. That video has me imagining that bear breaking into Deputy Dawg's rural Norwegian mansion as the Deputy is stunned during his afternoon nap. During this nap, the Deputy has trained his mind to be hard at work maintaining law and order, according to Romans 13. The Deputy assumes it is a relative or neighbour looking for a beer and nachos and goes back to sleep...

• In general: Is the basis for rejection from an employer, for one job, the basis for acceptance from an employer, for another job? 

• In general: Is the basic for rejection from one type of romantic partner, the basis for acceptance from another type of romantic partner? 

• In the both cases, the answer is more so in the negative. In general: It is the strengths of the person involved that serve as reasons for acceptance. Hmm...something to ponder on.

• Overall in life: Should a person promote his/her negatives, accepting the results, or should a person promote his/her strengths? I think it better to promote strengths and work on weaknesses.

• Back to the Deputy. He states on Zoom (paraphrased) 'I do half the work required in twice the time needed'. Please do not judge him negatively. With the Norwegian sunset and sunrise being only a few hours apart this summer, this comedy genius is actually hard at work, asleep, awake or sort of awake, creating new comedy material as the Norwegian Benny Hill.

• Our Zoom meetings featured a discussion on strange tattoos, and our personal disinterest. 

• By grace through faith, seeking to suffer obediently in God's perfect will, can actually lead to a greater understanding of problems of evil, as one grows in character through Jesus Christ and the triune God.

Romans 5: 1-5 

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

5 Therefore, having been justified by faith, [a]we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and [b]we exult in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only this, but [c]we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

1. Romans 5:1 Two early mss read let us have

2. Romans 5:2 Or let us exult 

3. Romans 5:3 Or let us also exult

Arne has started the hat trend on Zoom.