30 October 2007

Words

Some words from one of America’s best preachers and teachers, Barbara Brown Taylor:

“…that Jesus’ ministry with the poor, the prisoners, the blind and broken victims is first and foremost a ministry of words. Jesus has been anointed to preach, to proclaim, the good news of release, recovery, sight, liberty. He will, incidentally, do those things before he is through, but from the beginning his ministry is not a ministry of doing but a ministry of saying—what God has done, what God is doing, what God will do. Everything that happens in Jesus’ ministry happens after proclamation and because of it, because the speaking of God’s word is how the world began and how it goes on beginning, nourished and healed and strengthened by the strong medicine of the gospel.

…That is how it has been working for almost two thousand years. That is how a Galilean who spent his entire life in a country no bigger than New Jersey became known around the world—all because people talk.” (BBT in Gospel Medicine)

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Speaking of words. I was trying to come up with expressions and synonyms I could conjure for “money”--what am I missing?

Money, cash, dough, chedda, change, jack, cheese, bling, Benjamins, cashola, pound, francs, yen, peso, cred, loot, and paper.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Green

Not-a-lot
TigerWoods

-Josh Ross

Anonymous said...

Lettuce, Paper, skrill (picked those up in San Fran a few years ago)

Nice comment about the churches singing during the race. I am going to steal that.

Luke

Anonymous said...

greenbacks, loot, moola, dinero, bread, cold hard cash, mint, "the root of all evil"...

jon zebedee said...

BBT is an amazing writer/speaker. Good Call. One of the links on her site lead to http://www.tcpc.org/ a great organization.

Anonymous said...

dosh, too

Anonymous said...

Coin and Change. I always like when musicians use the word change as money and to make different
I think the call that a Polysemy

Is Dosh really another word for money? I just thought it was the frusterated expression of a child with a speech impediment

Josh Graves said...

Wow. I learned a lot today.

My favorite phrases and synonyms thus far:

Lettuce
skrill
dosh (though I feel Kyle on that one)
bread

Josh Graves said...

Jon--BBT is the best. I'm hoping to have her as a prof at Columbia.

Anonymous said...

An English slang term is "readies" as in "ready cash." Dead Presidents, of course, and "dosh" is in widespread use in the UK.

Anonymous said...

Patrick beat me to it. I was going to add Dead Presidents. The US Secret Service uses the terms genuine bills or genuine currency to distinguish the real stuff from a specimen or counterfeit.