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March 28, 2009
Have You Left A Tip?
Though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor. —2 Corinthians 8:9
The practice of tipping is commonly accepted in many countries. But I wonder: Has this courtesy influenced our attitude toward giving money to the church?
Many Christians regard their financial giving as little more than a goodwill gesture to God for the service He has rendered us. They think that as long as they have given their tithe to God, the rest is theirs to handle as they please. But the Christian life is about so much more than money!
The Bible tells us that our Creator owns “the cattle on a thousand hills” (Ps. 50:10). “The world is Mine,” God says, “and all its fullness” (v.12). Everything comes from Him, and everything we have belongs to Him. God has not only given us every material thing we have, He has also given us His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who provides our very salvation.
Paul used the Macedonian Christians as an illustration of what our giving should look like in the light of God’s incredible generosity toward us. The Macedonians, who were in “deep poverty,” gave with “liberality” (2 Cor. 8:2). But “they first gave themselves to the Lord” (v.5).
God the Creator of the universe does not need anything from us. He doesn’t want a tip. He wants us!
Whatever, Lord, we lend to Thee,
Repaid a thousand-fold will be;
Then gladly will we give to Thee,
Who givest all—who givest all. —C. Wordsworth
Greetings all it's time for the Friday Flyby. Tonight is Sopwith Night here on the Flyby with a quick look at a couple of the other aeroplanes that the Sopwith Company manufactured in WW-I. So on with the pics...
First up the Sopwith Pup. The Puyp was developed from Sopwith's chief test pilot's, Harry Hawker, personal aircraft. First flight was in early 1916 and the Pup proved to be an agile fighter that was superior to the current crop of German Fokker, Halberstadt and Albatros fighters. The light weight and generous wing area gave the Pup an outstanding rate of climb., Ailerons were fitted on both wings which gave the Pup great agility. The Pup was able to outturn the Albatross D. III at a rate of two to one. But witht eh good news comes the bad and the Pup was longitudinally unstable. One pilot remarked "It was so light to the touch, if you sneezed, you looped."
Another drawback was that the Pup was fitted with only one machine gun versus two on most of the German aircraft. The Upu served with several Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps Squadrons until replaced by the Sopwith Triplane and the Camel in 1917.
First up a static picture of a Sopwith Pup.
A fine picture of a Pup in flight by Glenn Alderton fills the #2 spot tonight.
The Triplane was development of the Pup. The fuselahge and empennage of the Pup were used but designer Herbert Smith used three narrow chord wings to give the piulot a better field of view. Ailerons were fitted to all three wings which gave the Tripe outstanding agility. The appearance of the Sopwith Triplane sparked a flurry of triplane designs from German designers.
An interesting aside is that the Sopwith Triplane was used only by the Royal Naval Air Service with the exception of one squadron of the French Naval Air Service. Thr Tripes comabt carrer was short lived only about 9 months. While a robust and agile fighter the Tripe had the same drawback as the Pup, only one Vickers machine gun was fitted. The other drawback was that the Triplane was a difficult aircraft to repair. Even relatively minor repairs required the Tripe to be sent back to a rear area repair depot. Wiitht he appearance of the Sopwith Camel in late 1917 the Tripe was relegated to advance pilot training duties.
Next we have reproduction Triplane. The aircraft is painted to represent Dixie II, serial N6290, of No. 8 Naval Squadron and is from the Shuttleworth Collection.
A nice side view of "DixieII"
With all this talk of Sopwiths and Fokkers how about a couple of Snoopy and Red Barron pics, well sort of:-)
Curses foiled again says Snoopy...
Well that all for tonight. We are expecting a major winter storm here in Kansas City with 5 to 10 inches of snow expected by this time tomorrow night. Ain't Global Warming wonderful, yee haw. Y'all take care now and hopefully we will be back tomorrow night.
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
