February 2011
28 posts
January 2011
31 posts
Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a...
– Heb 11:10
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking...
– Thucydides
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
– Cicero
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The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking...
– Thucydides
Does someone know this song? “(right hand) da da da, (left hand), do do do, (both hands up) yea!”
Thoughts on faith
Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing
-Stephen Hawking
I just don’t have that much blind faith… For me, the lack of viable alternatives, the convoluted and contradictory evidence to naturalistic undirected evolution, and the improbability of life as we know it, and human life in particular, happening by chance, in fact statistically impossible,...
Wealth & honor come from u alone 4 u rule over everything. Power & might...
– 1Chron 29:12
Without oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest.
– Prov 14:4
Deut 19:15-21
There is a balance and justness to the Bible that is strikingly beautiful, and should be modeled in life.
Winter wonderland in Troy, IL
…the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him...
– Deut 19
I went skiing at Hidden Valley and my boot cracked open… Bummer!!!
Do you understand what you’re reading?
– Philip — Acts 8:30
…man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
– 1 Sam 16:7
…as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him…
– Col 2:6
Ed Stetzer giving some significant data on “Indicators of Positive Spiritual Outcomes in Young Adults.” Having created way to measure successfully spiritually mature young adults (people in their 20s) Stetzer here presents the top 7 things that were done (or not done) in that group who have the positive outcome (I’m paraphrasing, and putting them in reverse order - building the...
The Bricklayer's Accident Report
Sometimes we think we’re having a bad day, we complain to God about how things are going, but there is always worse, and there will always (if you’re a Believer) be better one day… Listen to a “Bricklayer’s Accident Report” and hopefully you’re having a better day than him ;-)
“Dear Sir:
I am writing in response to your request for additional...
When he saw the crowds, he felt deep concern for them. They were beaten down and...
– Matt 9
So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is...
– Matt 7
There are four lights
– Picard
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I...
– Gen 7
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
– Genesis 6
You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit...
– John the Baptist (Matthew)
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
– Elisabeth Elliot
…this is his commandment , that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus...
– 1John 3