Penguins
Jun 18, 2009 Uncategorized | Print This Post
This past weekend, I found a way to subtly remind everyone who won the Stanley Cup. If you missed it, here’s a little video for ya:
Hi, I'm Noel and I'm a recovering hypocrite. I spend the majority of my time pastoring and teaching at Riverview, surfing the internet on my iPhone, being obsessed with Jack Bauer, and hanging out with my smoking hot wife and four wildly talented children. I plan on spending the rest of my life figuring out how to vicariously plant hundreds of churches without ever leaving my church. Oh, and even though I work for Riverview, everything here is my personal opinion and nothing more.
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June 18th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I’m not sure what you were trying to say…seemed a bit subtle to me. :)
It’s been a good year for Pittsburgh sports. Go Pens!
June 19th, 2009 at 1:17 am
…and this is why I love Noel.
June 26th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Hey Noel,
Thank you so much for the message sunday. It was very timely for me-not only men have a problem with work identification these days. Not only do I aske what a person does for a living, I gauge how much they make in comparison to me. I am not interested in the money as a spendable commodity as much as it represents a level of achievement. So, say you are a lawyer, I’ll want to know what kind of a lawyer to determine the income level. A legal aid lawyer is not as successful as a high-profile corporate lawyer. Now, I am a Nurse Practitioner and work in a non-profit clinic. I mentor Nurse Practitioner students and some residents and when they go into the commercial world and start at more than what I make after practicing for several years, I struggle with (arrggh) jealousy. Yet, I love my job and can’t see myself anywhere else right now. Actually, my goal in life was to become a Nurse Practitioner (physician before that but why I did not become one is another story )specifically to work with those underpriviledged or uninsured. So I have to talk myself down and then I’m ok again; for awhile; until I hear someone else’s salary for doing something frivolous; like; dermatology. It is a burden! Worse yet, (the snob factor)for the longest I could not understand how anyone could feel happiness if they were not going to or had completed college and working at a successful job or if their kids weren’t college bound or if they, well, you must get the picture. However, I meet people daily, at the clinic, who are working hard, making hardly a living, content that their children are healthy and fed, and very well adjusted. Probably more so than myself. Worse yet, (Keith Oberlin’s worse, worser, worsest)I’ve treated people for a couple of years who are on the lowest end of the socio-economic ladder and find out that their children are college grads with very successful careers. Who would’ve known!(Then I think differently of them)I’ve been rethinking my motive as to why I practice where I do. Was it really God’s calling or a way to feel smug among people: 1: less off than myself 2: those cohorts who choose-in my opinion-a career path less righteous. Is there a little pharisee in all of this? Help!! I shouldn’t have listened to your message Sunday. It’s all your fault. Penny Downer
July 5th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Please remember when you bare youe sole on the internet who may be listening in…your boss? …your colleges …or worse yet your ex.