In six words (originally posted here):
Born in Europe, again in Christ.
Sinful rebel, prodigal son, unlovable Untouchable.
Detestable, ungodly, evil, hopeless, powerless, dead.
Deserving God’s wrath, begging his mercy.
By the cross, forgiven and redeemed.
Once a diseased, leprous, unclean foreigner.
On my face, in the dirt.
With my tears, wiping his feet.
At Jesus’ feet, giving sweet thanks.
My life is all of [...]
Wisdom is something you get right after you most need it.
I have posted my sermons from the last two weeks at the GCBC website, if you care to listen to them (Psalm 122, Psalm 88). Sorry, the Psalm 122 one was a bit of a mess. My fault for trying something different.
Calvin’s dad is da bomb.
Ask Calvin’s Dad
Calvin’s dad answering questions, quoted from various Calvin and Hobbes books by Bill Watterson.
Q. Why does the sun set?
A. It’s because hot air rises. The sun’s hot in the middle of the day, so it rises high in the sky. In the evening then, it cools down and sets.
Q. [...]
Apparently we have a new poll. Check it out.
Not to be confused with Hammer time.
Anyway, yeah, I probably have a sick sense of humor, but I think a lot of the DespairWear t-shirts are hilarious.
As I do the rest of the Despair, Inc. website, too.
Is it wrong to find humor in despair? I don’t know. It probably depends. But here’s [...]
There are spoilers. Oh, boy, are there spoilers. I would be sore about the spoilers, but I’m just too gobsmacked by what I saw here. Every Doctor Who spinoff (SJA, Torchwood) comes together here.
Following is the trailer for “The Stolen Earth”:
From Jerry Bridges:
[Regarding] Hebrews 13:5: “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” The Puritan preacher Thomas Lye remarked that in this passage the Greek has five negatives and may thus be rendered, “I will not, not leave thee; neither will I not, not forsake thee.” Five times God emphasized to us that [...]
I just had a scary thought: what if the hokey pokey is what it’s all about? *shudder*
Well, I dunno what that’s supposed to mean! I’m an English major. You do the math.
I haven’t shown anybody, and I do mean anybody, my NaNoWriMo novel yet. It needs a lot of work. But I did Wordle it, if you’re curious.
[Melody here.]
How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds
In a believer’s ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast;
’Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary, rest.
Dear Name, the Rock on which I build,
My Shield and Hiding Place,
My never failing treasury, filled
With boundless [...]
I make a few quick points about Christians watching R rated movies.
In the next eleven days, I am:
Leading the kids’ lesson at Bible study tonight
Leading the adults’ lesson at Bible study tonight
Filling out some bank forms
Fighting with another financial institution or two over a lost receipt
Preparing and teaching adult Sunday School
Preparing and preaching Sunday’s sermon
Serving the Lord’s Supper
Making up for lost Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days with [...]
This is the most graphic thing I have ever watched about abortion. I hesitated (and still do) in posting this. But sometimes we need to stop talking about abstracts and deal with reality. Sometimes politics are important… and sometimes politics are shaped by the cold, hard truth.
Just like a person could support [...]
So, we decided to be gloriously lowbrow for a night, and check out Celebrity Circus, mostly to see Peter Brady garf it. (In fact he, or Christopher Knight I should say, was the best thing we saw on the show.) We didn’t know it was a full-blown reality show; we figured it would [...]
Just in case you forgot what the point was, this November.
(Hattip: Homeschool and Etc.)
I was caught off guard yesterday and found that I needed to prepare the kids’ lesson for our Wednesday night bible study. I came up with something that seemed to be helpful, and I thought I’d share it.
I cut out 32 pieces of paper, each about 3 inches by 3 inches. On one [...]
