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too much of it and we are using it for too many things i submit that there are three types of health care primary care this is the normal health care that we receive it is doctors visits for routine physicals and immunizations or when you get the flu or a cold i don t believe that insurance should cover this type of care covering primary care is like asking your car insurance to pay for oil changes or tune ups catastrophic care this consists of things that are rare but expensive when they happen examples could be specialized tests or surgery or trips to the emergency room or catastrophic illnesses like cancer these cannot be planned for on an individual basis chronic care this consists of chronic diseases such as diabetes or asthma or even some mental illnesses maintenance care for these diseases is necessary and relatively inexpensive but it can grow to be very expensive and if the maintenance care is not received the chronic disease will turn into a catastrophic one some form of payment sharing should be done by insurance because both parties have a strong interest in avoiding the costs of catastrophic care my next post will concern other impacts to the costs of delivering health care such as defensive medicine and legal fees as well as the friction costs of insurance and how we can reduce them ybic phil snyder posted by plsdeacon at 10 54 am 2 comments monday january 18 2010 the confession of st peter today is the feast of the confession of saint peter the apostle today we remember peter s confession you are the christ the son of the living god matt 16 16 his answer comes to the most important question we will ever face but who do you say that i jesus am to put this in a bit of context jesus starts by asking what seems to be a theoretical question who do people say that the son of man is jesus is not directly about himself here he seems to be asking what appears to be some coffee hour question when the son of man comes what are people expecting the various answers are john the baptist elijah jeremiah or one of the prophets the people were expecting some form of strong and forceful person as the son of man after listening to what the people were expecting jesus asks but who do you say that i am this is where peter inspired by god answers now what did peter mean by you are the christ the son of the living god well i don t think he fully understood what he was saying i believe that peter was still thinking in terms of a traditional messiah christ who would throw out the hated romans reform the jewish state and restore the kingship of david for evidence of this simply read the rest of the gospels and look at how often peter puts his foot in his mouth heck right after saying this he goes so far as to contradict jesus when jesus says that he will have to die and then be raised on the third day matt 16 21 24 so who do you say that jesus is the church answers this question with two words savior and lord jesus is our savior americans don t like to hear that we have a savior let alone that we need one we are the people of the self made man we are the people that pulled ourselves up by our boot straps we are the people of john wayne and gary cooper at high noon we are the rugged individualist if pelagius lived in the 20th or 21st century he would be an american but we need a savior we cannot save ourselves no matter how hard we try jesus is that savior he saves us from the power of sin and death by submitting to the ultimate that sin could dish out jesus defeats sin and death and we participate in that victory through our baptism and our life in jesus christ we need jesus like we need oxygen or water jesus asks you who do you say that i am i pray that you answer you are my savior i need you jesus in our lord if americans don t like to hear that we need a savior we even less like to hear that we need a lord after all we are all little lords in our own homes it seems that our national motto is you aren t the boss of me witness tec s answers to the anglican communion if we admit that we can t save ourselves we also must admit that we cannot make the decisions in our lives that lead to salvation or lead to union with god through jesus christ we need direction we need someone to help us know what to do when to do it and how to do it we need a lord this does not mean that we live an escapist life where we make no decisions a large part of the christian life is coming to know god so well that we make the right decisions by habit and by nature we can only have god s law and will written on our hearts if we let god do that by our fallen nature our hearts are inclined away from god we need a lord to bring our hearts and our wills back to the state that god desires jesus asks you who do you say that i am i pray that you will answer you are my lord i will follow you jesus is our savior and our lord he saves us from sin and death and leads us to know the will of god and provides us direction in our lives to know god s will and the strength through grace to do it ybic phil snyder posted by plsdeacon at 10 35 am no comments tuesday january 12 2010 j i packer and catechesis i had a wonderful godincidence a coincidence that can be attributed to god this weekend dr j i packer the author of knowing god and other books came to town for the bishop stanton lecture normally this takes place in november but this was how the schedule worked out anyway dr packer s latest crusade is for improved catechesis instruction in the faith this is something that the episcopal church has done poorly for several decades we seem to operate under the notion that everyone is already a christian and they don t need instruction this is something that i feel very strongly about we don t seem to care about christian education particularly for adults we operate as if the catechism class is where you graduate and you don t have to be in sunday school any more now one of my duties at st james is to teach our catechsism class every year i normally do a combined youth and adult class and i refuse to talk down to the young people the class is about 1 2 lecture and 1 2 small group discussion with adults and kids sitting in the same groups the godincidence is that my catechism class started last sunday jan 10th the day after dr packer s lecture anyway here is what we cover in the class 1 who is god the father 2 who is god jesus the son 3 who is god the holy spirt and the trinity 4 who are we 5 what is our goal to live a life filled with and powered by god s grace 6 where do we live the life of grace the church 7 how do we live the life of grace by faith 8 what is this faith the baptismal covenant 9 what is this faith the nicene creed 10 how do we grow in faith and grace prayer 11 how do we grow in faith and grace study 12 how do we grow in faith and grace ministry 13 how do we grow in faith and grace sacraments 14 what obstacles can we expect in our life sin and overcoming obstacles 15 sin and virtue apeslag and fhl time for prune juice 16 how is the parish and church structured anyway that is my basic outline i will be teaching the class from now until trinity sunday when our bishop will come to confirm please pray for me and for the class ybic phil snyder posted by plsdeacon at 7 00 pm no comments thursday january 07 2010 perception and reality one of the phrases i loathe in today s business and social world is perception is reality today matt kennedy published a story on stand firm about the definition of faithfulness and it brought this problem to mind one of the tenents of post modernism is that every person has their own meaning for words and so the only thing that really matters is what the reader or listener understand the meaning to be that the author s intent should not be attended to or it should be secondary to the listener s reader s understanding the first part of that statement is true we all have because of our experiences our own shading on the meanings of words particularly words with religious significant such as faithfulness however the second statement that the author s intent should be seconded to one s understanding does not follow the author s intent and meaning should be what drives the conversation not the reader s understanding i believe that this is a problem that comes up from perception is reality thinking it is true that we act on our own perception of reality but that does not mean that our perception is reality reality is reality and our perception is always faulty in religious terms the difference between reality and our perception is commonly called sin if i perceive that marital faithfullness is not broken unless i have sexual intercourse outside of marriage and i then have several female friends where we perform oral sex on each other then i do not perceive that i have sinned but i still have sinned my perception did not match reality even if my wife agrees with me i still have sinned i submit that the majority of our sins are committed because we truly do not and cannot perceive reality but we still sin so how do we come to perceive reality more truly some submit that this is a problem of knowledge we simply need to be instructed in what the right is and then we will do it some submit that this is a problem of our nature and we should just accept that we are all just human and we should support and bless those who are being faithful to their perceived reality i say that it is a matter of our will and not our minds our wills are so twisted that we cannot know reality even when we are educated about it our will reject reality in favor of our perception the way to solve this is not just education although education can be a part of it we need to have our wills destroyed and remade this is the process of sanctification or theosis this is the process of developing our conscience with knowledge and submission of our wills to god s will so how do we know god s will well as individuals it is very hard to know god s will god s voice sounds an aweful lot like our own when we are by ourselves we have to listen to what god has said in the past scripture and tradition and listen to what the church says now reason the second answer just accept that we are sinful and then bless people when they are being true to their perception denies that there really is sin it makes jesus sacrifice on the cross meaningless and empties the resurrection of its power we cannot bless sinful behavior no matter how well meaning the behavior is perception is not reality reality is reality we need to pray and study and submit so that we can see reality more clearly changing our perception to match reality is not so much a problem of the mind it is a problem of the will we need to die daily to sin so that we can perceive reality ybic phil snyder posted by plsdeacon at 10 27 am 1 comment thursday november 12 2009 more about plano schools here is an update about the plano isd school situation i m sorry it is so late in coming the school board had a very difficult task in the end they did not opt for any of the six plans for school feeders in the east side the created a new plan that was very similar to one of the economically balanced plans i believe this is a major victory for the latino community in plano and for the parents in the east side where most of the poverty is located pisd even had its first public input session in spanish at a school with a large latino community the fact that they asked for and listened to the opinions of our latino brothers and sisters is a major victory so what is next well next on my radar is the organizing and launching of what i am calling the homework clinic one of the problems in elementary k 5 and middle school 6 8 in some of the poorer communities is that the teachers don t hand out as much homework as gets handed out in more affluent schools this is a problem because the kids don t get the much needed reinforcement that homework provides i am proposing that we have a nightly homework clinic at the schools where people from the larger community will come to the school cafeteria every evening from 4 30 to say 6 30 or so and be there as a resource to help the kids with homework i am trying to organize the leaders at different churches and the ptas and the school administration to get this accomplished please pray that i will find the time necessary to do this and that the way will be opened with the school administration for us to accomplish this ministry and that people will volunteer and that parents will have their kids go to the clinics ybic phil snyder note actually published on jan 7 2010 posted by plsdeacon at 10 09 am no comments wednesday november 11 2009 plano schools re segregation note blue is williams magenta is mcmillen it s been a while since i ve written anything i know i ve been busy with work and with a local school project plano independent school district has a unique way of dividing its grades elementary school runs from k 5 middle school is 6 8 high school is 9 and 10 and the senior high school is 11 and 12 in the east side of plano there is currently one senior high school and one high school pisd is building another the problem comes out with how do we divide the middle schools between the high schools east plano has a very wide mix of economic status in old plano there are a lot of latinos and a lot of african americans in far east plano including the suburbs of parker and murphy there are many wealthy families that live in homes that are 500 000 or more 5k square feet there are currently six plans that the school board is considering three plans that have the biggest support among the school board will put the two newest middle schools into the new high school these are located in the richer part of town and the two older middle schools to the old high school the problem is that in doing so over 90 of the latino students in east plano will be sent to the old high school also over 92 of the economically disadvanted students in east plano will be sent to the old high school and just under 8 of them will be at the new high school the new middle school is equidistant from the two high schools so this isn t really about neighborhood schools to me this is an issue of justice to segregate the schools either by race or by economic status is just plain wrong the image above shows the breakdown of latino students and economically disadvanted students under plans e456 and under the most balanced plan e3 click on it to get a bigger picture when i spoke at the public hearing i said that to concentrate this much poverty at one school while alleviating the other school of almost all poverty is morally reprehensible when i said that at the public hearing i got boo ed i have had people ask me how i can call myself a christian minister and still make statements like that i wonder how people can call themselves christian and support that level of segregation how can i be a deacon in christ s church and not call 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