Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Minnesota Memories-n-More

BugMan And His Apple.



You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet Scott!
Gimme The Keys Daddy, I'm Ready To Roll!


The New, The Improved: Baby Issac Baby Carriage!



Tired Of Thinking About All Those Diapers For Two Leah? Here's An Option For Ya - The Chinese Way: The Opening Of Convenience.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

John Piper is bad.

http://www.foolishblog.com/extras/piperisbad.mp3

TV

I just watched Studio 60 last night and it was interesting. Matthew Perry plays an hilarious character. 9:00 on NBC (right? Same channel as the Office. ).
I really hated it that since I turned on the TV a little too early, I had to watch the last five minutes of Deal or No Deal. That show is so dumb. Even when a deal is made, they still have to play out all of the choices the person "would have" made.
What do you think?

Friday, September 15, 2006

Final Family Vacation Location

I know Becky has been working really hard to find the perfect place for us to stay at, and that's why I thought I would share this with everyone. Now I know we were leaning toward a beach house, and I'm sure that would be fine but whatever we do we need to make sure we can visit The Holy Land Experience in Orlando, FL. If this doesn't scream "AWESOME", then I don't know what else does. Imagine experiencing the same sites and sounds that Jesus did, while chowing down on a Goliath BurgerTM, or maybe just a good old fashioned smoked turkey leg. I can't wait, it will be almost like heaven, only better.

Friday, September 08, 2006

Hmmmmm......

In a shocking turn of events, anti-gay activist Fred Phelps thought he looked so attractive in his new cap that he was forced to picket himself.


For more little tidbits be sure and visit The Sacred Sandwich Shop. Enter through the door with the flashing word Enter.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Leah's old!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LITTLE LEAH!

Bally's For The Mind

"What is being taught in Christendom today is this; that since we have got the New Testament canon, since we have got the Word now, we do not need these direct interventions, we do not need God to speak to us directly, as He spoke to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob and these patriarchs. We have got the Word now! Is this superior to the direct speech of God? I think we are mad! There is no other word for this. We are mad. We are meant to be in a superior position to every Old Testament saint because of what has happened in our blessed Lord and Saviour! But this teaching would have us believe that we do not need this direct contact with God now, and that all that has come to an end since the formation of the New Testament canon . . . remember that the great point of the whole teaching of the Bible, of all you can deduce from it, is to tell you that God is a God who acts. And our only hope this afternoon is that this is still true. He has not finished acting. He is going on . . . There is only one hope. That is that He is still the living and the acting God. Christ is at His right hand, and He is seated and waiting until His enemies should be made His footstool . . . ."

I have been defending the faith - and people have praised me for doing it. Rubbish! What a miserable failure it has all been! From now on I am determined to do one thing only, and that is to give God no rest nor peace, until He does prove Himself and show Himself. I have expended so much energy in reasoning with the people about this faith. We have got to do that, it is part of preaching. But if we stop at that, it will avail us nothing. But what I now am concerned about and I am concentrating on is this: asking God to show Himself, to do something, to give this touch, this manifestation of power. Nothing else will even make people listen to us . . . . Nothing is going to call the attention of the masses of the people to the truth of this faith save a great phenomenon, such as the phenomenon of the day of Pentecost, the phenomenon of any one of the great revivals, the phenomenon of a single changed life. This is something that always arrests attention, maybe curiosity - what does it matter? The people come and listen . . . .

We must not be content until we have had some manifestation of the activity of God. We must concentrate on this. This is my plea, that we concentrate on this, because it is the great message of the Bible Let us put it like this: Do we really believe that God can still act? That is the question; that is the ultimate challenge. Or have we, for theological or some other reasons, excluded the very possibility? Here is the crucial matter. Do we individually and personally really believe that God still acts, can act and will act - in individuals, in groups of individuals, in churches, localities, perhaps even in countries? Do we believe that He is as capable of doing that today as He was in ancient times - the Old Testament, the New Testament times, the book of Acts, Protestant Reformation, Puritans, Methodist Awakening, 1859, 1904-5? Do we really believe that He can still do it? You see, it is ultimately what you believe about God. If He is the great Jehovah- I am that I am,
I am that I shall be, unchanged, unchanging, unchangeable,
the everlasting and eternal God
- well, He can still do it."


Saturday, September 02, 2006

The Big Question

We found this picture in the spare bedroom the other day. Does any body know who this kid is?

Deep Thoughts by Helen

"The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodness is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have God on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous."

From Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding