Free Will

Here is a pretty good post on the Free Will of God. "Does God Have a Libertarian Free Will? by J.W. Hendryx"

Chickens

I like this one too. lol

Puritan Quote of the Week

"Remember the perfections of that God whom you worship, that he is a Spirit, and therefore to be worshipped in spirit and truth; and that he is most great and terrible, and therefore to be worshipped with seriousness and reverence, and not to be dallied with, or served with toys or lifeless lip-service; and that he is most holy, pure, and jealous, and therefore to be purely worshipped; and that he is still present with you, and all things are naked and open to him with whom we have to do. The knowledge of God, and the remembrance of his all-seeing presence, are the most powerful means against hypocrisy."
RICHARD BAXTER

Which Polyhedral Are You?

Take the quiz at dicepool.com

ok if you say so

That man will never be a proud man!

Humility may well be called the 'queen of the Christian graces'. To know our own sinfulness and weakness, and to feel our need of Christ, is the very beginning of saving religion.
Humility is a grace which has always been the distinguishing feature in the character of the holiest saints in every age. Abraham, and Moses, and Job, and David, and Daniel, and Paul--were all eminently humble men. Humility is a grace within the reach of every true Christian.
Would we know the root and spring of humility? One word describes it. The root of humility is right knowledge. The man who really knows . . . himself--and his own heart; God--and His infinite majesty and holiness; Christ--and the price at which he was redeemed;that man will never be a proud man!
He will count himself, like Jacob, "unworthy of the least of all God's mercies!"
He will say of himself, like Job, "I am vile!"
He will cry, like Paul, "I am chief of sinners!"
Ignorance! nothing but sheer ignorance! ignorance . . .of self, of God, of Christ, is the real secret of pride! From that miserable self-ignorance may we daily pray to be delivered!
He is the wise man who knows himself! And he who knows himself, will find nothing within to make him proud.
(J. C. Ryle, "The Gospel of Luke" 1858)

Savage Chickens

Weird Friday

The Theology of kissing

Here is a link about the theology of kissing I found it at nelmezzo. Check both links out, they both have pretty good quotes on the Kiss.

Purpose Driven Message Bible

Here is another great parody from the Sacred Sandwich

The Language of Patience

Patience consists of a willing submission to the dispensations of divine providence. When Job said, "Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble? " (Job 2:10), that was the language of patience. "The cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?" (John 18:11) was the supreme example of this grace. It is the ready acquiescence of the soul to whatever God sees fit to lay upon it. It is the calm enduring of provocation and persecution, especially trial which comes unexpectedly. It is a steady and thankful bearing of all troubles, however grievous and long protracted, mortifying the opposite passions of fear, anger, anxiety, inordinate grief; refusing to be overwhelmed by those troubles, persevering in the discharge of duty to the end; finding relief by faith and in communion with God: resting in His love, leaning on His arms, and encouraging oneself by the certain expectation of that eternal and blessed glory which awaits us after our appointed race is run.
(A.W. Pink)

My friend Bill and his new Baby Audrey

Bill and his new Baby



Bill's mother and the new baby



Bill and I and his new baby



They even let me hold the Baby!

8-ball

This is awful. But kind of funny.

Happy Valentine's Day!

HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION

by John Rippon

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!
What more can He say than to you He hath said,
You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?

In every condition, in sickness, in health;
In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth;
At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea,
As thy days may demand, shall thy strength ever be.

Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand
Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.

When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow;
For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

Even down to old age all My people shall prove
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love;
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.

The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.

Puritan Quote of the Week

"None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full."
THOMAS WATSON

"Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell."
THOMAS WATSON

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages."
THOMAS WATSON

How Weird Are You?

You Are 20% Weird

Not enough to scare other people... But sometimes you scare yourself.

How Weird Are You?

ok if you say so

The Hobbit

Rolling Stone interview Peter Jackson last December and this is what he said about the making of The Hobbit

"And what's the status of The Hobbit?

New Line have the rights to produce a film of The Hobbit, but it has to be distributed by MGM. If you remember, about six or eight months ago, MGM was bought by Sony, which was frustrating, because it looked like Time Warner [New Line's parent corporation] was going to be the buyer -- and then all the rights would've been in the family. But now Sony and New Line will have to talk to each other. I keep asking about it, just out of interest, but they haven't sat down yet. Hopefully someday the phone will ring -- "Hey, let's do The Hobbit" -- which I'd be perfectly happy to do."

Idolatry of the heart

IDOLATRY is the sin of the entire human race. When we speak of idolatry we need not think of blocks of wood and stone, and men bowing down before them; for our native land swarms with idolaters. Neither need you go into the streets to find them: stay where you are, and look into your own hearts, and you shall find idols there. This is the one easily besetting sin of our nature-to turn aside from the living God and to make unto ourselves idols in some fashion or another; for the essence of idolatry is this-to love anything better than God, to trust anything more than God, to wish to have a God other than we have, or to have some signs and wonders by which we may see him, some outward symbol or manifestation that can be seen with the eye or heard with the ear rather than to rest in an invisible God and believe the faithful promise of Him whom eye hath not seen nor ear heard. In some form or other this great sin is the main mischief in the heart of man; and even in saved men this is one of the developments of remaining corruption. We may very easily make an idol of anything, and in different ways. No doubt many mothers and fathers make idols of their children, and so many husbands and wives idolize each other. Equally is it certain that many a thoughtful man makes an idol of his intellect, and many another makes an idol of his gold, or even of that little home wherein he enjoys so much contentment. Anything, however holy, which comes between us and the personal dealing of our soul with God, as he is revealed in Christ Jesus, by faith and love and hope, becomes an idol to us. – C.H. Spurgeon

"...we may gather that man's nature…is a perpetual factory of idols" (Institutes I.xi.8).
-John Calvin

It Mom and I

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Not that I would recommend this movie but here is a few of my favorite quotes from this movie


Joel: random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

Joel: Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?