M10 show week #90

 

Say, if'n this is week 90, that means week 100 will be just before Christmas!  We should throw a party like the good ol' days!

Well, somebody's in a good mood!  Did you get enough pizza?

Yeah- c'n hardly believe ya saved me some!

We hardly did!  If you remember, a Christmas party is a LOT of work- and we'll need a theme...

I'll get right on it!  What year'll we be doing by then?

Um, lemmee see... I think 1970...

Christmas 1970... got it.

Anyway, back to today's adventure, which is taking us to features from 1959, along with 3 M10 debuts and a new #1!  Best get started on the new music...

This first 'un kinda surprises me from you....

Me too- I love how they play an existential crisis song off a song being sung by a doll...

Exis-who?  I dunno about that, but this'n's from that Barbie movie, and a first M10-er for Billie Elish, at #10...

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Not sure I get the video...

Not many I do anymore!  Anyhow, It's time for our #1s in the world/Song I wouldn't turn off feature in 1959.  I picked out 4 songs- and I'm gonna share all four of them!  All of them were top tens in all three nations- one of them was #1 in all three!  I've been delaying picking my favorite, because it's whisker-thin margins here, and...

Hey windy, while you get done tellin' yer story, here's the debut at #9, so's yer fans don't get bored!  No stranger here, it's Duran Duran...

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All right, Mr Rude!  I'll go on and get right to both at once- you'll see why in a moment!

My fourth pick is at #1 on Cashbox this week- also in Canada, while Australia peaked it at #5.  Bobby Darin's Mack The Knife!

My third pick is Cashbox's #4 this week- it had already hit #1 here- and also in both Canada and Australia!  The current Australian #1 in fact- The Browns and The Three Bells!

My second pick is at CB's # 3- it peaked at 2 here, 3 in Canada, and 10 in Australia- Santo and Johnny's Sleepwalk!

And my top song I wouldn't turn off this week- a future #1 here and in Canada, at #8 this week, and a #7 hit in Australia...

...The Fleetwoods and Mr Blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gretchen had the hots fer me...

Oh, I'm sure she did... anyhow, our big debut at #7- and it's got a huge bullet!  New from Talk....

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Man, that there rocks!  What else we got?

Just the rest of the ten...

8- Up one spot for Amira Elfeky and Coming Down...

6- trading spots with #5, Dan + Shay's Neon Cowgirl...

5- Buck Meek with Didn't Know You Then...

4- Fresh from a 2-week run at the top, Whitney and Kansas...

3- Back up one spot, Smash Mouth and Underground Sun...

2- and holding, Aiden Bissett's Ultraviolet...

And now at the top once again...

...Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with Save The World!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next time, Lord willing!

Wednesday Bible Study: God in Proverbs IV

 

Last week, you got the meat of the story of Understanding/Jesus in Proverbs, so this week might seem a little scattered and light, but it brings out details about Him and His relationship in the Godhead we might otherwise miss.

I think first in understanding this is the term "Godhead".  This has always seemed very simple to me, despite the many fools out there who say, "Do you worship one God, or three?"  Step one, God is God.  He made the world's most efficient motor in the tail of a microbe, and He made blast furnaces called stars thousands of times bigger than our planet.  Whatever we understand, it is small compared to the totality of Him.  Step two, we were made "in our image, after our likeness" (Gen. 1:26).  Step three, WE have a mind that guides and commands, a body that does, a soul that inspires- just so, God is Father In Command, Son who does, Spirit that inspires. The mechanics of that in ourselves is largely a mystery, do you think we can dial God all the way in?  Whether there is a Father/Son relationship as WE know them, or it's a fleshly term used so that we might have a tiny grasp on things, God knows, but it is enough.

Next, I noticed something in the word translated in KJV as Understanding.  When used in the idea of Jesus-as-understanding, it is this:

בּינה bı̂ynâh (bee-naw')

From H995; understanding: - knowledge, meaning, X perfectly, understanding, wisdom.

Which is what I spent time on last week.  However, understanding as grasping a concept uses that other word mentioned:

בּין bı̂yn (bene)

A primitive root; to separate mentally (or distinguish), that is, (generally) understand: - attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill (-ful), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand (-ing), view, (deal) wise (-ly, man).

So there is your difference between Jesus-as-understanding and me understanding something- Jesus IS understanding, while the other is man's attempt to comprehend.

Third, I want to bring up the ramifications of THIS verse...

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 

That is not the version that indicates, "don't make up your own meaning", it is the one that indicates, "Do not make up your own JESUS".  Sadly, the world is full of made up Jesuses.  The Jehovah's witnesses has one who died on a pole, and apparently has been living hidden living in Brooklyn for some time (I am told).  The Mormons have one who was a created being, a brother to Satan.  The Catholics have one whose sacrifice didn't quite get all your sin taken care of, so book a trip to Limbo.  The Muslims have one who got pulled off the Cross at the last second and replaced with Barabbas.  LGBTQ have one, I saw in Twitter the other day, that never said anything about homosexuality being sinful- never mind that He said, "not one jot or tittle of the Law will pass away" (Matt. 5:18), and the Law says such sins are an abomination (Lev. 18).

Then, don't wait for Jesus to come to you.  This was something I had to face myself the other day.  I've mentioned before about using our company's 6 S's as a prayer to start the day, but I had been praying it like, "Lord, sort me out, Lord, set me in order", etc, when I noticed that these were a list of DOs for me.  I wasn't supposed to sit back and let Jesus do the work.  Hence Proverbs 4:5 and following....

Pro 4:5  Get wisdom, get understanding; forget not; nor turn away from the words of my mouth. 

Pro 4:6  Do not forsake her, and she shall preserve you; love her, and she shall keep you. 

Pro 4:7  Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding. 

There is something to be said about the fact that only the Spirit can lead you to faith in Jesus.  It's more than just the connection of the Godhead as discussed earlier.  Remember how initially the Apostles received the Holy Spirit from Jesus? 

Joh 20:21  Then Jesus said to them again, Peace to you. As My Father has sent Me, even so I send you. 

Joh 20:22  And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. 

THAT is an intimate connection!  Read here...

Pro 8:12  I, wisdom, dwell with sense, and find out knowledge of discretions. 

Pro 8:13  The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth. 

Pro 8:14  Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength. 

Let us wrap this week up with once more, the clear choice:  Fools saying there is no Christ, and Wise who follow Christ to their reward...

Pro 9:6  Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding. 

Again, that is "998" Understanding... Go in the way of Jesus and live.

This week's pictures

 Start off Tuesday night...

Sun going down...

Aha, our friend is back down the road he ain't supposed to go down, doesn't know his way out is blocked by a cop...

Now he does...

"Licence and registration, please..."

"Is that marijuana on your breath, sir?"

Later, with light fading and the camera all but useless, we headed back up the paved trail, only to have Misty pull me off to one side to see three bucks.  The boss hissed and they went into 'scatter mode'.  It was rather funny to watch them try to scatter down the same narrow path!  Still later, Misty nosed up and chased not one, but two toads, within about 20 feet.  The second one made her mad enough, you should have seen the look she shot me when I made her let it go.  Didn't figure she'd like actually biting one...

Let us leave this sad scene for Thursday night...

Trying to catch the yellow skipper mid-left

Misty was keen on shade, not so much on the heat

Not much green to the Green Hole

Friday we were back to mornings...

Thought this was a deer- strike one

And that- strike two.  Eyes weren't good.

Now THAT is a deer!

This is where we saw those deer.  They were trying to "scatter" behind the fence.

Misty HAD to stop and say hello to this gentleman watching the sunrise

Misty's favorite drinking hole is open

Chasing a chipmunk

First puffballs sighted

And that brings us to a disappointing Saturday...

The weatherman would call these skies, "unsettled"...

Time for fall gear.  BOOMER!

It starts to spit

...and then to rain

Abandoned less than a mile covered.