Unity Contest
Posted on February 16th, 2006 by Reformed Pope into the Lawsuits & Logo's categoryThe Big Bible Logo Battle continues…the scorecards are in and WE won round 1 (My letter was way better than theirs), but don’t start celebrating yet. There are still 11 rounds to go.
I really hate to see our two churches fighting over something as silly as a logo. That is why I have decided to hold a UNITY Contest. We shall now begin the CITY "B" CHURCHES LOGO CONTEST. The winning entry will be used by the church who loses the rights to our current logo.
Here are the rules:
You must create an original logo* which properly reflects the image of both churchs. The logo must be emailed to tightingisgood@citybusinesschurch.org. This contest is open to both members of City Business Church and City Bible Church. The winner shall receive the standard "Blessing from God" prize given by CBC.
To get things started I shall submit the first entry:
With great pride I give you:
“THE RECEIVING TREE”
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February 16th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
I am glad we are back to the funny.
And that is funny.
February 16th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
My thoughts exactly…funny
February 16th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
You creative genius. I love it.
-Frank
February 16th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
Cat and RP i heard that PF wants to go hunting with the both of you. Keep your heads on a swivel, hate to see you guys “peppered”.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:41 pm
. YOUR GOOD SPIRIT.
Nehemiah 9:20
Common, too common, is the sin of forgetting the Holy Spirit. This is folly and ingratitude. He deserves better from us, for He is good, supremely good. As God, He is good essentially. He shares in the threefold ascription of “Holy, holy, holy” that ascends to the Triune God. He is unmixed purity, truth, and grace. He is good benevolently, tenderly bearing with our waywardness, striving with our rebellious wills, quickening us from our death in sin, and then training us for heaven as a loving father trains his children. How generous, forgiving, and tender is this patient Spirit of God. He is good operatively. All His works are good in the most eminent degree: He suggests good thoughts, prompts good actions, reveals good truths, applies good promises, assists in good attainments, and leads to good results. There is no spiritual good in all the world of which He is not the author and sustainer, and heaven itself will owe the perfect character of its redeemed inhabitants to His work. He is good officially: Whether as Comforter, Instructor, Guide, Sanctifier, Quickener, or Intercessor, He fulfills His office well, and each work is filled with the highest good to the church of God. Those who yield to His influences become good; those who obey His impulses do good; those who live under His power receive good. Let us then act toward Him according to the dictates of gratitude. Let us revere His person and adore Him as God over all, blessed forever; let us own His power and our need of Him by waiting upon Him in all our holy enterprises; let us hourly seek His help and never grieve Him; and let us speak His praise whenever occasion occurs. The church will never prosper until it more reverently believes in the Holy Spirit. He is so good and kind that it is sad indeed that He should be grieved by slights and negligences.
Devotional material is taken from “Morning and Evening,” written by C.H. Spurgeon,
February 16th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
Do we still have to refer to him as Pastor Frank or PF if he is no longer our pastor? Can we just call him Frank or Damazio Shamazio. Oh and can we chew gum in the sanctuary again?
February 16th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
I call him Frank. He loves it. Makes him feel like “one of the guys”.
After all, you don’t go to work and call your head honcho “CEO Bob”, do you?
Or “Executive Vice President Mark”?
February 16th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
How about this one funny guys, do you still call Jesus your Lord, Beautifull one, Precious, Savior? Or is it OK to call Him your friend who doesn’t care about how you spend your leisure time blogging. Do all yall ( Cat, RP, ect.)think that Jesus will say in heaven “well done good and funny servant”. Please don’t humor yourselves to lukewarmness if you haven’t already.
February 16th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Did Anonymous 4:11 just compare Frank Damazio to Jesus?
February 16th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
This is 4:11 and Frank is not Jesus. Frank is a pastor and is just a man, he sins daily and struggles like we all.
February 16th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
hey blessings everyone (financially, of course),
It looks like WWJD is back…with more of his crap. Buddy got dumped on so bad from his last mediocre blogs that he decided to go anon. I imagine this kid to be 26, a few fries short of a happy meal, single, extremely bored cuz he can’t hold down a job; tried YWAM d.t.s. and got even more screwed up down there. Now he wants to be a missionary to Utah, where he fits in cuz he wears the same outfit every day of his life like half of Sulphur Lake…I mean Salt Lake.
I think we should nickname him Buster, like from Arrested Development.
I’m surprised you guys haven’t turned the gun on JiminyCricket yet. She’s like the love child of a sea-otter and a wounded dog that just won’t shutup, what with all that nonsense. Somebody pull the cord to her citybusiness life-support, and do it tonight.
So i’m pretty excited about all the new community group commercials on Sunday mornings. I didn’t know Walter Madison started City Bible!
February 16th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
FB, I am not WWJD but go ahead and ignore my “crap”, didn’t know you were alergic to it.
February 16th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Franksizzle
February 16th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
I like JiminyCricket.
Even though she can be long winded.
February 16th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
You should make the logo into a peacock. Colorful to symbolize the blog, egotistical to symbolize CBC.
February 16th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
to anonymous 4:11
Do I think Jesus has a sense of humor? Yes I do. Is he able to poke fun at
a religious group? Yes. Does he laugh? Yes. I don’t think any one person here is being laughed at. Rather we are enjoying watching a fake image
being exposed for what it is.
February 16th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
After dozens of very expensive tests and weeks of hospitalization,
the rich old man was told he had only 24 hours to live. He immediately
called his pastor and his lawyer to his room. He asked his pastor to stand by one side of his bed and his lawyer to stand by the other.
After standing for some time, the pastor asked “What do you want me to do?” “Nothing. Just stand there.”
A while later, the lawyer asked “What do you want me to do?”
“Nothing. Just stand there.”
As the hours wore on, the pastor and the lawyer watched the man
weaken. When his time had almost arrived, the pastor and the lawyer
again asked, “Why are we standing here?”
“Well,” said the old man, “Christ died between two thieves, so I
thought I’d do the same!
February 16th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
“Jesus, for one, was witty, unpredictable, fully alive, and a person who delighted in, celebrated with, and was open to surprise. It is safe to say that divorcing humor from religion is potentially destructive of true religion. Even when the separation is done with the best of motives, or in ignorance, the results are disastrous because we rob ourselves of the lightness and freedom necessary to notice and then to adore God.
“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness. ” — G.K. Chesterton
February 16th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Has anyone seen www.tithingfoundation.org? Check it out…
February 16th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Two men are flying over the ocean when their plane crashes. Both survive, and they get to a small island, with nothing on it. One of the men is very pessimistic and says,”We are going to die out here.” The other one says, “No, we won’t, I earn $100, 000 per month”. Again the first man becomes very pessimistic and says, “We will starve to death out here.” The second one replies, “No we won’t, I earn $100, 000 a month”. Very disgusted, the first man than asks, “What good will your money do us, when we are stuck here in the middle of the ocean, on an island with not even a tree?” So, the second man replies, “I tithe every month, and no matter where I am, my church will find me!” AMEN.
February 17th, 2006 at 8:14 am
No Anonymous,
YOU should make the logo into a peacock. Colorful to symbolize the blog, egotistical to symbolize CBC.
Why do we have to do all the work around here?
February 17th, 2006 at 9:40 am
This is 4:11. oinvu4urqt, appreciated the Chesterton quote, I do beleve that Christ has a sense of humor, I’m just observing that this blog is one big joke and that good times, great times, or now that is funny, seems to be the measuring bar of what is good input. What would Jesus do is a great question to ask ourselves, but is deemed to “churchy” of a question, and might interfear with peoples amusements.
What would Jesus blog? I know , I know who the freak cares, it wouldn’t be as funny and would get no responses because it would speak to the heart. It might get responses like “your mom” or “moooooooowww”, please if you are a christian represent Christ a little better. “When I became a man I put away childish things.”
February 17th, 2006 at 9:54 am
you are boring, and not much fun i might add
What would Jesus do? Good Question.
He would run away from home at age 12.
He would turn water into wine.
He would argue with church leaders.
February 17th, 2006 at 10:05 am
the difference is He was about His Father’s business; He was operating with Divine purpose. You’re stuck on the same things the Pharisee’s were–the outward appearance.
John 2 is both mystic and pragmatic. The symbolism of the book of John is above you.
Jesus didn’t argue…He spoke the Word of God and performed miracles, which silenced His accusers. I’d like chapter and verse on “argue with church leaders” (and let’s not forget his silence before the Sanhedrin)
Run away from home is a slight exaggeration. I won’t even touch that. He lived at home until He was 30. (For which I argue He was Italian)
nice exegetical job, numbnuts (way to be thorough)
You are boring (but yer a lot of fun)
blessings (financially, of course)
February 17th, 2006 at 10:14 am
say what you want, FB, but i’m not the one attending a non-accredited bible college.
maybe, it’s not me who’s the nutjob.
February 17th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Are we missing the point of this post ? The Receiving Tree is freaking hilarious.
February 17th, 2006 at 10:29 am
“You’re stuck on the same things the Pharisee’s were–the outward appearance”
Such as…plasma screen tv’s, brand new carpet, coffee shops in the lobby, logo’s…
“John 2 is both mystic and pragmatic.”
It’s a good thing we can take Malachi literally.
“Jesus didn’t argue…He spoke the Word of God and performed miracles, which silenced His accusers.”
Yes, and when Catalyst finally figures out how to turn water into wine, he won’t have to argue either.
“I’d like chapter and verse on “argue with church leaders””
Try looking up THE BIBLE. Find words in red. (Mathew 12 for example)
“Run away from home is a slight exaggeration.”
So is YOUR MOM.
February 17th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Can’t we just use the picture of Evangeline Lily as our logo? We wouldn’t have to put a Starbucks in the lobby because of the enormous revenue generated by selling logo-imprinted merchandise like wallets. The bonus is that tithing would go way up because everyone would be itching for a reason to take their new City Business wallet out of their pocket.
February 17th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
You guys need to leave Frank Damazio alone… he is an awesome man of God with a servant’s heart, a much more respectable man then any of you will ever be…Your guys’ blog is nothing but a huge sign of ignorance and inability to interpret the Word of God… you guys should just stop trying, because by doing what you guys are doing everyday on this blog is a shameful act
February 17th, 2006 at 1:59 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAahahahahhahaahahahaaaa.
Reformed Pope is pure genius. If you ever write a book of insults, be sure to let the rest of us know, sensai.
Young Grasshopper
February 17th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Frank Damazio? Servant’s heart? East is not the west..vice versa, dear anon.
February 17th, 2006 at 2:02 pm
…Your guys’ blog is nothing but a huge sign of ignorance and inability to interpret the Word of God…
Would you mind elaborating????
Let me help (answer these 2 questions):
1. In what way have we failed to interpret the Word of God?
2. In what way are we ignorant (I actually know the answer to that question, but I’m curious why you think so)?
By the way, I’d like to thank you for not calling us bitter. “Shameful act” is much more appropriate anyway.
February 17th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
if i had photoshop i’d make an awesome logo.
too bad i dont.
February 17th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
anon 1:51
Don’t take the bait.
February 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
That’s right Anon 1:51,
Don’t you dare explain yourself.
Continue to throw out ridiculous claims and don’t back them up, that will teach them.
Anonymous, you are so much more respected then the “Moron boys” will ever be. Don’t stoop to their level by backing up your claims with facts.
Just because they have facts to go along with their comments doesn’t mean that you need to.
February 17th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
the road to hell is paved with those who do not tithe.
February 17th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
The road to hell is paved with those who do tithe.
February 17th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
“Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre (and now, John-Paul Morton)
February 17th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
I wonder if PBC has some kind of ban on the blog. Do you think they track to see which students are visiting?
“Umm… I’m afraid I’m going to have to give you a D- on this paper about “‘Leadership In The Church Today’.”
“But why? I worked really hard on it and did research and EVERYTHING.”
“Umm…. yes.. but um..our records show that you visited http://www.citybusinesschurch.org/blog 92 times over the last 2 days.”
“What does that have to do with my paper?”
“Ummm….. uh… well, we also noticed you aren’t tithing.”
“I give cash. To a different church.”
“Ummm…..ok, well, I didn’t want to mention this but you quoted ‘Reformed Pope’ in your paper.”
“So?”
“Ummm…… uh….. er…. uhhhmmmmm…… I have to pee.”
February 17th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
PBC students.
just think imagine how many starving children you could feed with all the money you are blowing on a college that does’nt matter. I guess it’s different if you parents are cutting the checks.
February 17th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Hey, Anonymi/ous:
Just imagine how many doughnuts you could stuff in your face hole if you weren’t so busy crying like a little girl about a church that matters more than you do.
February 18th, 2006 at 2:26 am
CL,
So let me get this right…..the church is more important than a person? The body is more important than its members? Paul would be so disappointed. I Corinthians 12:12-31. I understand that you’re just lobbing an insult to get under someone’s skin, but even so…. If you’re such a great Christian, even when you’re doing something completely unkind, shouldn’t you at least bother to be accurate? Jesus was accurate. At age 12. But then again, Jesus wasn’t cruel to people to make himself feel better, either. Sorry, guess your behavior really doesn’t make sense one way or the other. Never mind. Carry on. I understand that you might feel sensitive where your alma mater is concerned, and it wasn’t so nice for someone to say it doesn’t matter. I understand, really. However, saying that the edifice doesn’t matter, but people do is a lot more in line with our buddy Paul than saying that a person doesn’t matter, but the edifice does. If PBC counts in the end, its truest form IS the people it has served and helped. Sorry, CL….even just in manufacturing that insult, you’re showing your ass.
February 18th, 2006 at 8:12 am
jiminy
Jiminy is so dedicated to puting people down that she is willing to post at 2:26 am after her dungeon and dragon tournament
February 18th, 2006 at 9:08 am
Jiminy is living in Hungary….it was 11:26am here (GMT + 1).
There were no put-downs, no name calling….just a description of behavior. It really astounds me how anyone who disagrees with WWJD or CL or Master Story Teller is a name caller or they’re bitter or they’re putting people down, regardless of the fact that there’s usually no personal attack involved. I said nothing about CL’s person (in the same way that I’ve said nothing about WWJD’s or MST’s person…that kind of labeling is, for me, completely unproductive), I said something about CL’s words, the faulty reasoning inherent in those words, and the way that I perceive that faulty reasoning. That’s all part of fighting fair, if that sort of thing means something to you. I’ve kept my gloves on….regardless of the fact that all three of the aforementioned characters have had theirs off for quite some time.
Have I mentioned that I think the “Receiving Tree” is great, but I think it needs some spotlights or neon signs….or “touch cards”….does anyone else remember “touch cards”?
February 18th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
I love Jimney Cricket, her comments give us a little credibility.
That said, I totally laughed out loud at the dungeons and dragon comment.