Titus 2:1-8
Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine. Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behavior. Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives.
But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching, your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around.
I am sitting home on Friday night. Bothered by the news I heard from Brandon Flowers. I think that honestly in my life, the idols are these...
Iggy Pop
Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny Cash
Russell Simmons
This is all significant because in the next week Mr. Simmons will be in Wausau. America's first black billionaire. The founder of def jam. The creator of hip hop culture. The brother of Run.
Tomorrow is Charlize Theron and Russell Crowe's wedding. I did not get invited. So it goes.
Russell Simmons is going to be in town. How is that even possible? It is my intention to see him. I just want to see him. To know what he looks like. I have nothing to offer a man like that, but I want to see him.
My friend Bill Danforth is talking to me more and more about Moleskin notebooks. I cant do that. I cannot in good faith to the ideals I created so long ago buy a notebook for 12 bucks.
Can you?
Posted by Radiofree at September 10, 2005 12:52 AM | TrackBack