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Pastors are people. Nobody is perfect.  That means no pastor is perfect.  Sadly, too many people expect perfection.  To compound problems, many pastors these days are Gammas . This means their responses to imperfection can often draw more ire than the imperfection would have drawn, had the pastor dismissed and ignored . Well, one pastor got the memo. Perry Noble penned quite possibly the most alpha response by a pastor in recent memory. Folks accused him of being imperfect, therefore unqualified to be a pastor. He agreed and amplified: I Am Unqualified   An exerpt: I Timothy 3 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach,  All so often in my life I was absolutely NOT above reproach. I have, on more than one occasion, gossiped about others. There have been way too many “not so clean” jokes I’ve either told or laughed at. There is no ...

Tell me lies Tell me sweet little lies - Fleetwood Mac When a person lies, they usually have tells.   Here is a good  resource on uncovering written lies. And here are   10 Easy Ways to Recognize Liars (both spoken and written). One tried and true method of determining a lie, for both spoken and written lies, is when the liar becomes defensive. From the second link: A person who is telling a lie will get defensive. They will do everything in their power to deflect your attention away from themselves and will get angry that you are questioning their innocence. People who are telling the truth tend to go the opposite way and go on the offense.  We have watched this with President Trump vs. the #FakeNews on numerous occasions.  It's a really good tell, and it's consistent. Recently, the Rifleman came across a written lie, and called it such - and finished with the statement, given the folks who have left, it reminds me of the phrase 'the trash took itself o...

So again recently, the #FakeNews blog, Pulpit and Pen , published another article about Pastor Greg Locke.  Naturally, there were major inconsistencies with the truth. Naturally, the same exact pattern was followed as before.  But it made the Rifleman wonder... why? Why repeat and rehash the same trash? Some possible explanations come to mind... #Mancrush syndrome. Is it possible that an admin (or admins?) of PP have a homosexual crush on Pastor Locke? Perhaps. The soy-boy faces of a couple of the Gamma  admins certainly would not rule out this possibility. It is the Rifleman's understanding that closet gays do sometimes pronounce their love of another man in this manner.  Follow the money. Generally speaking, this can be a good starting point for investigating motives. Indeed, this is the assertion of one response on the publication: Somebody told you that somebody said that somebody else told them and that makes it a fact. [Admin name redacted] can't raise $...

The Rifleman had this conversation with a poor beta boy sometime back... Beta boy: I see your Facebook posts about an AR-15. I really want one. However, my wife won't let me have one. She says we don't need one. Rifleman: "Need has nothing to do with it. It's a right." Beta boy: Well, my wife still won't let me have one. You know, the kids. Rifleman: "My wife tried saying that once. I took her shooting." And the rest is history. 

From social media comes our quote of the day: The problem is that HR Departments are neither human nor a resource. They are de facto legal departments.

From a reader: I remember a job I had: My ex wife (before she was my ex) went into labor early.  So I had to call out. BOSS:  why did you call out? ME:  my son was busy being born.  He came early. BOSS:  how does this involve you? ME:  well, my son was being born. BOSS:  so you weren’t the one being born. ME:  no. BOSS:  and you weren’t the one giving birth. ME:  well, no, but...... BOSS:  so, you could have come to work if you had wanted to. There is no reason you count have come to work. ME:  the birth of my son is the reason. BOSS:  that’s not a reason. ME:  it is a reason.  You just don’t like the reason. BOSS:  ok smart guy.  Writing you up for unauthorized absence.  Writing you up for insubordination.