Roman candle

We don't watch exhibition games, so for our purposes, this is the first time he ever wore a Sixers uniform.

So I've got HGTV, Roman Candles, and Grapefruit.

And we will combine all of these things together, and we are going to cut and run is what we're going to do.

So A, as they say over at the Union Pacific Railroad Yard, LeBron James is no longer the steam engine.

That's what you all tell me, that Fanatics is not very good in terms of the quality of the product and the overcharging, which I think happens quite a bit in professional sports.

Anyway, listen, so LeBron's in bed with a business partner of the NBA called And it's all just a remarkable coinkydink, all of this stuff, right, that the guy that runs Fanatics used to own part of the Sixers, and I'm sure that's just all water under the bridge, all water under the bridge.

So Adam Silver's gone full naked gun here, standing in front of the exploding Roman candles at the firework shop there and saying, nothing to see here, please disperse, nothing to see here, that's it.

And so we've seen more convincing investigations.

The taking of Namur, 1695, was celebrated by a display in St. James's Square, and on the same site two years later, the celebrations for the Peace of Ryswick.

This latter is depicted on a fine engraving given the following list of fireworks used on the occasion: 1,000 skyrockets from four to six pounds weight, 200 shell, 2,400 pumps with stars, Roman candles, 1,000 cones, 7,000 reports, 15,000 swarms, 400 light balls, 23 rocket chests, each containing 60 rockets from one to four pounders.

John Evelyn, in his diary, says, "The evening concluded with illuminations and fireworks of great expense." The display cost £12,000.

There seem to have been no fireworks in London at the coronation of either Anne or the first two Georges, although on the former occasion, rockets appear to have been fired from the fleet at Spithead.

As the pyrotechnist was behind time, Peter Simple and his friends took it upon themselves to fire the display.

"In about half a minute off they all went in the most beautiful confusion.

There were silver stars and golden stars, blue lights and Catherine wheels, mines and bombs, Grecian fires and Roman candles, Chinese trees, rockets, and illuminated mottoes, all firing away, cracking, popping and fizzing at the same time.

It was unanimously agreed that it was a great improvement on the intended show." Undoubtedly the gardens best remembered at the present day are Vauxhall and Ranelagh, neither of which were early in the field in presenting firework displays to the public.

I want you to imagine your job is to be a firefighter in that region of the country, and I want you to imagine that in previous years of your life you have seen friends lose their lives because of the fires that raged during these dry seasons in these forests.

Question: If your vocation was a firefighter, and you were wandering through the forest one day during one of the driest years in history in that region, how would you handle someone that was playing around with Roman Candles, aiming them at trees? You know those fireworks that we used to turn into like bazookas? [laughing] How, b- how would you handle somebody who's playing in the middle of a historic drought in a forest that has killed several of your friends because the fires raged so wildly? How would you handle somebody playing with fireworks in that forest? Would you just walk up and go, "Oh, I love fireworks, too"? [laughing] Or would you tackle the person and say, "You're under arrest"? Question: Why would we protect a forest from fire with more diligence than we would protect God's family from division? Paul says we are to maintain the unity of the Spirit, the unity of God's family.

As we reverse engineer this, how do we maintain the unity of the Spirit? What does Paul say? Bear with one another in love.

Now we're going backwards, but what's the best way to maintain the unity of the Spirit? Bear with one another in love.