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Proverbs 26:4-5
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, 
                                          or you will be 
like him yourself.
Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in 
his own eyes.
This particular verse reminds me of Alice 
Cooper's thoughts on
Marilyn Manson. 
                                                                               
PressTimeExtra:
I put guitar chords above today's devotional verses; 
                           
I decided to put the work-in-progress online (I hope I'll remember the melodic 
line): Click Here
	I think Alice Cooper is
	an interesting study 
	from the world of pop-culture personalities 
              
	who have discovered the blessing of a relationship with Jesus. He is still 
	an entertainer. 
	
	In pursuit of personal integrity, I am curious about what God has been doing 
	in the lives of entertainers who had entertained me in my early years. I 
	remember when Randy Nolin first shared the mysterious story of a guy 
	named Alice. I was in the tenth grade at Coldwater High School. 
                                                                        
	A couple years later, I saw his live show. 
	awat.                                                                                                      
	We will read more 
	about Alice Cooper later.
 
	Invest a few minutes for future blessings: read Proverbs 
	26 . . .
 
	 
		1 
		Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool. 
		   
		2 Like a 
		fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse does not 
		come to rest. 
		3 A whip 
		for the horse, a halter for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of 
		fools!  
		
		
		4-5  Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will 
		be like him yourself. 
        Answer a fool according to his folly, 
		or he will be wise in his own eyes. 
		
		6 Like cutting off one's feet or drinking violence is the sending 
		of a message by the hand of a fool. 
		
		7 Like a lame man's legs that hang limp is a proverb in the mouth 
		of a fool. 
      8 Like tying a stone in a sling is the 
		giving of honor to a fool.  
          9 Like a thornbush 
		in a drunkard's hand is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
		
             10 
		Like an archer who wounds at random is he who hires a fool or any 
		passer-by. 
		
		11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
		
		12 Do you 
		see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for 
		him. 
		
		13 The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road, a fierce lion 
		roaming the streets!" 
		14 As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.
		
		15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to 
		bring it back to his mouth. 
		16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer 
		discreetly. 
		
		17 Like one who seizes a dog by the ears is a passer-by who 
		meddles in a quarrel not his own. 
		
		18-19 Like a madman shooting firebrands or deadly arrows 
            is a man who 
		deceives his neighbor and says, "I was only joking!"
		
		
		20 Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies 
		down. 
		21 As 
		charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for 
		kindling strife. 
		22 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to 
		a man's inmost parts. 
		23 Like a coating of glaze1 
		over earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.
		
		
		24-26 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his 
		heart he harbors deceit. 
        Though his speech is charming, do not 
		believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. 
        His malice may be concealed by 
		deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
		
		
		27 If a man digs a pit, he will fall into it; if a man rolls a 
		stone, it will roll back on him.  
		
		28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth 
		works ruin. 
		                                                                               
		Footnotes: 1verse 
		23: With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text of 
		silver dross 
 
 
	
	
	
	 The 
	Gospel according to Alice . . .
	Cooper
The 
	Gospel according to Alice . . .
	Cooper
	
	
	
	 
	As fathers of two teenagers and long-time residents of Arizona, 
	Alice Cooper 
	and Chuck Savale
	understand firsthand how desperately communities must address the needs of 
	teenagers. 
	
	
 
	
	
	           The two friends 
	envisioned a Christian non-profit organization 
                       
	solely dedicated to helping teenagers & children. 
    
	In November 1995, through prayer and planning, 
    Solid Rock Foundation began with the help of several other 
	men and women in the community.
 
	Solid Rock Foundation publishes their 
	primary goal: to honor Christ by helping to meet 
	
	the Spiritual, Economical,  Physical and Social Needs of teenagers and children within 
	their com munity and ultimately throughout the country.
munity and ultimately throughout the country.
	
	
	
	The Executive and Advisory Boards 
	are made up of Christian men and women dedicated to providing help to teenagers & children.
	
	Alice Cooper is the President.
 
 
	On the Foundation's website, they have photographs of their annual Christmas time fundraiser called 
	Christmas Pudding.
	
	It's a night of Comedy and Music. A really interesting 
	mix of folks have shown up over the years. 
	
	Well, how would you like to 
	have Alice Cooper show up for your Sunday School class? Deacon Tom told me 
	that he's looking forward to that day. Hey, it'd be great if 
	Weird Al and 
Billy Bob showed up on 
	the same day (again) at the Epicenter (hey, like Bob Duvall says something 
	like this: 
	If you thought of it, it could have happened somewhere).
  
	
                   Hey,
	check it out 
	for yourself www.srfrock.org (make sure to push the 'back' button 
	to travel back to this VirtualMoment.
Look up Alice 
Cooper's official website and you'll see that he looks basically like the 
Alice Cooper of the 70's. 
However, Deacon Tom located the following interview 
with Alice (at a site called JesusJournal.com):
Cooper said divine intervention is what broke his drinking habit in the 
mid-1980s. "I honestly think I was simply and completely healed," he said. 
"I 
guess you can call it a miracle. It's the only way I can explain it. It 
was absolutely eliminated from my life."  
Cooper has often been called the model for today's shock-rockers, including 
Marilyn Manson. While he doesn't criticize Manson for his on-stage theatrics, 
Cooper takes issue with Manson's anti-Christian stance. 
"He's very vocal about it," Cooper told KNAC.COM. "I believe [the Manson album] 
AntiChrist Superstar was pointed right directly at me. I didn't volley the first 
shots in this whole thing. His whole anti-Christian thing, and I'm like 
'Hey, I'm Christian, and I'm not going to denounce what I believe.' I can be a 
rock 'n' roll star, a Christian and Alice Cooper." 
Cooper continued, "I think Marilyn had a really bad Christian experience when he 
was younger. My guess is he got involved with some 
less-than-Christian-Christians and that really, forgive the expression, nailed 
him. You know, he's one of the greatest button pushers I've ever met. And I know 
that game because I invented that game...Manson clicked because he found 
a whole new set of buttons to push, he even pushed my buttons, which is pretty 
impressive since I was pushing buttons before he was born." 
Cooper's embrace of Christianity was more a return to faith than a coming to 
faith. "I was pretty much convinced all my life that there was just one God and 
there was Jesus Christ and there was the Devil," he said. 
"You couldn't believe in God without believing in the Devil. I always tell bands 
that the most dangerous thing you can do is to believe in the concept of the 
Devil or the concept of God, because you're not giving them full credit. 
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. 
He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over 
everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying 
his hardest to tear your life apart. If you believe that this is just mythology, 
you're a prime target because you know that's exactly what Satan wants: To be a 
myth. But he's not a myth, of this I'm totally convinced. More than anything in 
the world, I'm convinced of that." 
Cooper continued, "We have to make a choice. And everybody, at some 
point in their lives, has to make that choice. When people say, 'How do 
you believe this? Why do you believe this?' I just say nothing else 
speaks to my heart. This doesn't speak to my intellect, it doesn't speak to my 
logic - it speaks right to my heart and right to my soul, deeper than 
anything I've ever thought of. And I totally believe it. That being said, I'm 
not a very good Christian. I mean, none of us are ever 'good' Christians. That's 
not the point. When you're a Christian, it doesn't mean you're gonna be good, it 
means you've got a harder road to pull." 
Though some have questioned combining his faith in God with his rock-and-roll 
background, Cooper doesn't see a conflict. "I'm the first one to rock as loud as 
I can, but when it comes to what I believe, I'm the first one to defend it too," 
he said. "It has also gotten me in trouble with the staunch Christians who 
believe that in order to be a Christian you have to be on your knees 24 hours a 
day in a closet somewhere. Hey, maybe some people can live like that, but I 
don't think that's the way God expected us to live. When Christ came 
back, He hung out with the whores, the drunks and miscreants because they were 
people that needed Him. Christ never spent His time with the 
Pharisees." 
But while Cooper may still speak to some of his old themes, he has a new message 
today.
"I used to celebrate moral decay, the decadence of it," he admitted. "I can look 
back on what I did then and what I'm doin g now and they're two different things. 
But at the time I was the poster boy for moral decay, you know. So yeah, I've 
got a lot to be forgiven for...out of ignorance, I thought I was doing the right 
thing. I was totally in agreement that every guy should sleep with every girl 
and drink as much as they can. I don't believe that now. I don't believe in it, 
because I see how destructive it is."
g now and they're two different things. 
But at the time I was the poster boy for moral decay, you know. So yeah, I've 
got a lot to be forgiven for...out of ignorance, I thought I was doing the right 
thing. I was totally in agreement that every guy should sleep with every girl 
and drink as much as they can. I don't believe that now. I don't believe in it, 
because I see how destructive it is."
Spiritual awakening is happening around the world, Cooper believes. 
"It's obvious humanity is craving for answers directly born of awareness," 
he said. "That's the healthiest thing I've seen in a long time because there is 
something better and everybody's gotta find it in their own way. People 
aren't feeling fulfilled by how many cars they own or the size of their stock 
portfolio. 
Even the addicts are saying, 'It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not 
fulfilled. This isn't satisfying.' There's a spiritual hunger going on. 
Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will."
                                                                         
-Alice Cooper (interview at JesusJournal.com)
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 Weird Al 
and Billy Bob Thornton  
Look at the photo over there from 
Christmas Pudding. It looks like these two guys are within 
Alice Cooper's sphere-of-influence. I have a personal connection with both of 
them as well. You see, I took my whole family to see 
Weird Al in concert at the State Fair a few years back. How do I know
Billy Bob? Well, I've watched his performance in Robert Duvall's 
film: The Apostle several times. He was the guy who was gonna bulldoze 
the church and gets saved on the air. 
Bob speaks highly of Billy 
Bob's performance in that pivotal scene. How do I know what Bob 
Duvall thinks?  Ask me.
(C,  D) G            D         Em
Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
            C                 D                  G (Em) 
        or you will be like him yourself.
G              D       Em                    
            C             D       
Answer a fool according to his folly, or he 
will be wise 
C               D        Am              Bm   
        Em
in his own eyes.  Answer the fool in the 
mirror . . .
This particular verse reminds me of
Alice Cooper's thoughts on
Marilyn Manson. 
listen 
to: 
pastorob's music
at
 www.pastorob.com/audiodwnload.htm
return 
to: 
pastorob
at
 www.pastorob.com/rob’sblog.htm
Pastor Rob Patterson    653 A Street    Galt, California   209-745-4665