The Pond

 The Pond Episode is a fairly decent episode. The first one starts off with Bill the Duck attempting to learn how to sing, and ends with a lesson on Spiritual Gifts. Here are some ramblings about the content in the episode.  Bill wants to learn how to sing, so he can win a prize.  

    Floyd the turtle says that you learn to sing in the shower over the course of 2 showers a day = singing in 15 years and 30 if you are a once a dayer. He says it you shower once a week it to forget about it. Well I did some calculations and found out that you would need 10957.5 showers. (about 5478.75 days in 15 years multiplied by 2) Then I did the calculation that if you did it once a week that would be 10957.5 showers divided by 52 weeks in a year. Or you could do 15 weeks times 14. This came out to 210.721153846years. This means that it would take 210 years to learn to sing if you shower once a day. This was an interesting tidbit. 

    In another scene Tony the Frog attempts to sing and finds out he sings really well. He then cannot teach Bill to sing because he thought he sang badly, he does not know why he sings goodly. Bill then corrects him on his grammar, which is unusual because Tony is usually the grammar expert. When Bill says you sing well (correcting his grammar) Tony takes that as a compliment. 

Tony then displays his singing to his friends until they all leave because of his singing, and even the trees walk away. Tony then learns a lesson about being himself and not being prideful and not being a showing off. Methuselah the Alligator then uses his spiritual gift of Singing which is amazing he has a deep voice and a girl voice while singing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot." He even splices in a little bit of Bills singing into the song. The story ends with Bill winning the Chomp mobile. 

                                        Plot Points/Inaccuracies

• Bill says that he wants to learn to sing to learn a chomp mobile
• Methuselahs singing is never brought up again, but he goes to church with the same type of singing. 
• Bill memorized the void where prohibited fine print and recites it really quickly to Tony the Frog, but he does not read/remember the fine print that says that  all entries are accepted with the inclusion of 15 Box Tops.
• Bill wins without entering because Methuselah  secretly records him and submits on his behalf.
• This show is meant for smaller children, and Methuselah says the work exhorts, I know when I was 5, I did not know what that word meant. 
• The trees move away to go to a quiet place when Tony is singing. This is foreshadowed by Bill asking the trees for help with singing.
• Bill was the only one disturbed by the mangled lyrics of 'Singing in the Rain'        
• Tony gets prideful in the episode with a song lyric that says (referencing singing) 'because I can and you cannot'  
• Tony says for a spiritual song (I'm singing in the Pue) 
• This is one of the episodes where the Narrator does not say something three times in a row. 

Come back later to see if the 2nd episode will be posted here. 

2nd episode 

Bill learns an interesting lesson about forgiveness. 

    In this episode, the voices sound off like this was the first episode. The plot is a person maned Mr. Axel was an old bully of Bill when he was in that flock. (Bill came to The Pond after the flock) There are some Bible verses recited with the animals telling their favorite Bible verses. (Floyds is Luke 3 24-38) Look it up it is funny. 

    Bill then learns he has to love his enemy and does thing he hates to learn (sitting in mud, cleaning up his room and cleaning it again because Tony "helps" by messing it up) There is a joke about Floyd making an agreement with veggies to make him bid and strong, and how he should have asked for something more. When Mr. Axel come he calls the animals names, calling Bill 4 eyes, and Tony "Hoppity." The animals do not appreciate the name calling and even Methuselah (who was called Grinder) wants him gone. (Bill invites him to dinner.)  They come up with some sad excuses, but Bill sees that Mr. Axel is insecure. This is interesting because it starts out as a lesson for Bill, but ends up for a lesson for all the creatures.    

                                                                         Jesus Loves You 

    Sin doesn’t go away on it’s own. Somebody has to pay for it. Who could it be? God knew there was only one choice: His own Son Jesus. Jesus came to earth and did something we could never do: He obeyed perfectly. He never messed up. He never even had a bad thought. But He still took the horrible punishment for sin by dying on the cross. God put all of His anger on Jesus. Jesus didn’t deserve that! Why did He take the punishment for something He didn’t do? He did it so that you and I don’t have to. You mean we don’t have to pay for our own sins? Now that’s GOOD NEWS! 

    Jesus didn’t stay dead. After three days He rose again to show everyone He has the power to give eternal life. If we trust in Him, God has no more punishment for us. Instead He offers us eternal life in heaven. When Jesus takes the sin out of our hearts He puts something else in it’s place: His perfect life. God sees Jesus’ goodness in us instead of our badness. Jesus’ good days cover all of our yucky days.

   
He takes our bad out and puts His good in. Do you still mess up sometimes? Me too. But now we can have something we didn’t have before: forgiveness! Pray and ask God to forgive your sins because of what Jesus did. Instead of being guilty you’ll be forgiven. Now that’s not just good news – that’s the BEST news! Do you know how to look up verses in your Bible? Give these a try to read more about the best news ever. 

    John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Romans 10:9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Accept Christ today by admitting you are a sinner. Believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose again. Choose Jesus as your Lord and Savior. You are now a new Christian!!