A prayer

I don’t want to be remembered
As a man of great riches,
But as a man who suffered
the loss of all things
and was rich towards God.

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
Maker of heaven and earth.

Sanctification continued

A few posts ago I asked why the sanctification process seems to be so slow and arduous. This is a follow up thought to that post.

Before my wife and I were married, she had the nerve to confront me on an issue. I did not enjoy being confronted at all, but she was right. It was an area about which I had been completely blinded and unaware. After she pointed it out to me, I was able to begin working on it and asking God to conform me to his image.

Hebrews and Q

Dave Black is willing to think “outside the box.” He is challenging the famous Q theory and affirming the Pauline authorship of Hebrews, all within a matter of 40 minutes. Read about it here.

Thanksgiving workers

Here’s part of the crew that provided meals for the underprivelidged on Thanksgiving day

The bumpy process

The counseling department in college caused a stir one time by asking this question: “Why is sanctification such a seemingly slow, bumpy process?” With their cam-corders in hand, they soon compiled a very interesting assortment of theories and answers. They asked all sorts of people, from the Bible and theology profs to the freshman students.

The answers were numerous; “Because we care so little about it,” “Because we are not truly surrendered,” “Because satan is a roaring lion.”

By God’s grace I was not filmed in their query.

Steady alignment

I have an old car. For being a 1990 Toyota Corolla (almost 20 yrs old) with 220,000 miles, it still runs pretty well. All I have to do is change the oil and occassionally put in a new alternater. My one complaint about the car is its alignment. No matter how often I rotate and balance the tires, get them aligned, keep the right air pressure, the car always seems to pull slightly to the left. Even after putting on new tires recently, it still had that faithful old pull.

But in a way, that is how we are supposed to be as followers of Jesus. Ecclesiastes says, “The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but fool’s to the left” (10:2 NIV). We will not be perfect in this life. We will sin and fail to obey God. However, this verse reminds me that a lifestyle which is continously disobediant and willfully sinful is out of place in God’s kingdom. The steady, predictable drift of our lives is to be one of obediance. We just keep comming back to God’s amazing goodness and can’t help but follow after Him!

Winterized

Yesterday, the guys winterized our windows, and the gals baked.

This is a picture of us with our battle gear on. By putting the window treatments on each winter we save hundreds of dollars on our utility bill.

Nothing tastes as good as pumpkin pie made with home canned pumpkins.

And we had a wonderful sunset to finish off the day

Who caused the crash?

The Atlantic asks, “Did Christianity cause the crash?” This article is particularly interesting since it features Charlottesville, my home town.

Jam Session

Hannah Joy led us last night in a singing.