Well, Jen,

Happy birthday then.  I made a mistake, however, and Sandy let me know that
we have been married for 36 years and not 37 as I suggested earlier.  I
guess it just seems like 37 years.

Phil.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenifer Gilley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:22 PM
Subject: phill and sandys anniversary!


> Hey phil!
>
> You and sandy got married on my birthday!  How cool is that!  Or, i should
> say, i was born on your anniversary!  lol!
>
> Jenifer Gilley
> Christ came that we may have life everlasting!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 4:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Give Me, Give Me
>
>
> Although Sandy and I have almost been married for 37 years, well,
> as of January the eighth of next month that is, I have just about
> had it up to here with e harmony dot com advertisements.  The
> other day, while watching something on a satellite channel,
> another one of their commercials came on.  As I listened, I asked
> myself, why don't they run a bunch of commercials of people who
> got married, then divorced, or people who got together through
> their online services, and then split up.  Don't they know, or
> don't we know, that it is often the case that opposites match and
> not those who are 29 dimensions of compatibility?  I mean, how
> many years have these e harmony commercials been running?  Three
> maybe?  Four?  By the way, I have done a little research and
> talked with singles who have logged on to e harmony looking for
> someone compatible.  One guy I pray with found a lady locally,
> they dated a few times, and broke up.  Another lady I pray with
> from Indiana said some of the questions she had to fill out would
> have classified her as a nut so she gave up and never did answer
> all the question.  Another lady in Arizona, who was living with a
> man who was deeply into online and print pornography and weirded
> out on dumb video games as a grown man, broke up with him because
> she realized Jesus should be more important to her than what this
> guy was doing for her, and to her, and guess what?  He isn't even
> a Christian, well, he says he got born again in high school, and a
> chicken has lips, too, and he joined e harmony and is now dating a
> gal locally.  I wonder if e harmony has a question that asked,
> "Are you addicted to pornography and video games?"  Somehow, I
> doubt it and besides, if a man was so addicted, do you honestly
> think he'd admit to it when filling out the 29 dimensions of
> compatibility report?  I wouldn't, that's for sure, and I'm not
> even addicted, to porno that is.  Anyhow, I just wonder about such
> things like this when watching some of these mega ministry shows,
> and I used the correct word, shows, on TV who read all these
> glowing reports of people who sent in their last 50 dollars and
> got 5,000 dollars in return within 24 hours.  I think, "Why don't
> they read the letters of people who went bust after sending in
> their last 50 dollars or who have written back and said, I want my
> money back because you didn't make it work?"  I know, I think
> backwards about such things but maybe we should think about the
> other aspects of such things, especially since e harmony is
> supposed to be run by a Christian guy in the first place.
> Wouldn't you think churches should be putting people together
> instead of a freaking website making millions of dollars in the
> first place or what?  I was listening to a Christian network TV
> show, there's that word again, the other day and the man and
> woman, I didn't recognize who they were, were talking about how to
> be blessed financially.  Their suggestion, no, their divine
> revelation, if you please, was based upon 200 freaking dollars.  I
> didn't even have 20 at the time so I was a sub standard Christian
> apparently.  However, they were reading dumb letters and telling
> even dumber testimonies about people who sent in their last 200
> dollars and how they were getting thousands of dollars in return
> within a day or week.  They were, of course, recommending you do
> the same and not to your own church but to their ministry.  No big
> surprise there.  I wanted to call their hot line for Jesus up and
> say, "Hey, why don't you send me, and all your 5 million
> listeners, 200 dollars a piece and let God bless you instead?
> What is this, give me, give me, give me, theology you keep
> preaching.  Ain't you ever heard of giving?"  I figured they'd
> just hang up on me without sending me 200 dollars in the first
> place so I skipped calling them.  I think I told the story of my
> mom calling me years ago, she is passed away now, and she and my
> step dad, were attending the largest church in Denver.  This
> church, by the way, was one of the churches where, in their branch
> ministry, a couple of people were shot and killed in recent weeks.
> Anyhow, mom was really confused and had worry in her voice when
> she called.  She told me that this church, the previous Sunday
> morning, passed out sealed envelopes, following a very passionate
> sermon that was preached.  People were asked not to open their
> envelopes until they were instructed to do so.  The sermon, of
> course, was about financial blessings we can receive from God if
> we are generous.  It was probably, you go first, type of preaching
> but that is just a cynical suggestion on my part.  Anyhow, the
> members, of which there were about 5,000 in attendance that
> morning, when told to open their envelopes, each were given a 20
> dollar bill.  They were told that the church just wanted to bless
> them financially and that they could return the money in the
> offering next Sunday, if they liked, take their family out to
> eat, by some ice cream, or do whatever they desired with the
> money.  If they think you can take your family out to eat for just
> 20 bucks, they have rocks in their head but I digress.  I asked my
> mom what she and my step dad were going to do with the money?  She
> said, "Well, we are going to give it back.  What else?"  Guess
> what the offering was next Sunday?  Mom told me that, based upon
> the number of adults, and remember, out of 5,000 people in the
> auditorium, there were lots of children, too, the total amount
> the adults were given 20,000 dollars.  Yes, indeedie.  They done
> announced this dollar amount from the pulpit.  No, I have no idea
> why they made such an announcement.  I thought the Bible said not
> to let the right hand no what the left hand is doing when it came
> to money but maybe I have never understood that theology in the
> first place.  So, the next Sunday, the offering is taken and
> quickly counted.  The total was 30,000 dollars.  Ain't that nice?
> Mom said they put extra money in that next Sunday, too, besides
> the 20 bucks they each got.  Why?  Well, shoot.  Everyone wants
> God to bless them financially.  right?  Anyhow, this is my way of
> starting out the new year.  I want everybody to send me 200
> dollars.  If you don't have that, I'll take 20 dollars.  If you
> don't have that, I'll take 2 dollars.  If you don't have 2
> dollars, I'll take a dollar.  If you don't have even that much,
> forget it.  God won't bless you if you are that cheap.
>
> Phil.
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