A Strange Way To Save The World

To mark December 1 I am going to do a Christmas song but it's not one of the traditional ones! :) Some of my favorite Christmas songs are ones that are more contemporary. Ones that I actually think about listening to throughout the year because the message goes beyond the Christmas season.

Come to think of it, the message of Christmas goes beyond the Christmas season. And it is a strange message if you think about it. A baby sent to save the entire world? The entire human race? WHAT?!? And yet, that is exactly what God did - he sent a baby to save this world and only he could have thought of something so crazy and made it successful. I love this song, I love the wonderment behind it. What a strange way to save the world.

Think you don't need saving? Think again. We all do. There is not one person exempt from needing a Savior. What holds you back from accepting the free gift of salvation from your depraved self? Pride? Shame? Ignorance? I challenge you to take a step back from yourself and examine the ways in which God has been and continues to reach out to you. And he started it with a baby and a poor Israelite couple.

What a strange...and WONDERFUL...way to save the world!

A Strange Way To Save The World

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

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