If I were a Time Lord, I’d only have one heart left now; the other one I’ve left in Highland with all of you.
Thanks for taking in a stranger, showing him such care and love, and even so graciously accepting him as part of the GCBC family for a season. I don’t know how [...]
This is funny in a sad sort of way: imagine Garfield from Jon Arbuckle’s perspective (remember, he can’t hear what Garfield is thinking). It’s actually depressing to read these comics, even though I know somebody (ahem) who owned all the older books and I remember most of the early ones. It gets [...]
From C.H. Spurgeon:
“Salvation is of the Lord.” — Jonah 2:9.
Salvation is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul “dead in trespasses and sins,” and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both “Alpha and Omega.” “Salvation is of the Lord.” If I am [...]
The list of things that offend Muslims. Better start learning them.
More of the same, yes, but it’s a little better than usual:
Week of:
Weight
Delta
Notes
1/1
236.5
1/8
227.5
-9.0
1/15
223.0
-4.5
1/22
221.0
-2.0
changed to Diet #2 next day
1/29
218.0
-3.0
2/5
220.0
+2.0
2/12
214.5
-5.5
2/19
213.0
-1.5
2/26
209.5
-3.5
Which brings my average loss to over two pounds per week now.
Someday I’ll get back to spiritual blogging, but at the moment I’m just thanking God that the numbers continue to drop.
This winter is apparently one of the worst in modern meteorological history; in other news, there may be more to ice cap melting than just ozone depletion. (Hello, wind effects on ocean currents! Didn’t anybody else learn that part of the reason people who aren’t from Iceland can live in Great Britain is [...]
As you can see, I stopped doing weekly updates after Week Four or so. It had pretty much just become more of the same. Overall, I have lost weight every week, and according to the scale, as of this morning, I have lost exactly twenty-five pounds since the beginning of the year.
Only once [...]
Doggone it Charlie and Tracey! I love Doctor Who now. It’s seriously my fave TV show these days. You guys stink.
Last night at Patrick’s birthday dinner:
X described to us the feeling of sleeping in a rice paddy during his military service, and being told that there was a very large spider hanging over his head.
Y [arachnophobe]: “Wow. I’d have to change my sheets.”
Z [X's wife]: “Sheets? You’d have sheets while sleeping in a [...]
From TJIC (slight but obvious editing mine):
I usually hate my the government, but I almost always love my country.
I mean, dang, we put men on the moon, gave birth to Mark Twain, created the Blues, created the Internet, sent British soldiers packing, split the atom, kicked the *sses of the Nazis and the Imperial [...]
The following has been excerpted from Jerry Bridges’ book, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts:
God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.
Our lives are cluttered with a lot of “if onlys.” “If [...]
My friend Dave is a father.
Lamentations 3:19-24:
Remember my affliction and my wanderings,
the wormwood and the gall!
My soul continually remembers it
and is bowed down within me.
But this I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my [...]
Carolyn McCulley has written a good post for today.
Joe Kittinger is the first man to break the sound barrier… without being in any sort of vehicle. Fascinating stuff from my friend Matt.
I got my middle initial from this man, who died on my birthday. I hope to make it down there for a viewing, but this flu thing going around has returned to my family so I guess we’ll see.
This is truly a sign of the times: an MP in Britain is being called an Islamophobe because he had the unmitigated gall to suggest that marrying first cousins is genetically a bad idea.
First, Rom. 8:28 as translated by the NIV:
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
We should stress that Rom. 8:28 is only for those whom God has called to himself, by granting them the grace to repent of [...]
Fred Sanders and the faculty at the Torrey Honors Institute have compiled a list of “the Top Twelve Theology Books of Christian History.” Additional recommendations or other thoughts are welcome.
D.A. Carson on God’s holiness:
God is holy. Isn’t that a hard word — “holy”? What does it mean? God is “moral”? When the angels around the throne cry “Holy! Holy! Holy!”, are they simply saying, “Moral! Moral! Moral! is the Lord God Almighty”? Some people say “holy” means “separate.” Are they simply crying, “Separate! Separate! [...]
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