blogging from class #3

definition of a little boy…

running noise with dirt on it

blogging from class #2

straight from the prof…

You can’t make turtles fly!! 

world crumbling…shadows overcoming… dismayed…what am I to believe now?!?!?

thought for the moment

True Christian character is produced in the believer, but not by the believer.
– Lewis Sperry Chafer, He That Is Spiritual

dem’s fightin’ wurdz

I want to deny these words, but sadly I often find that there is little proof to counter the accusation…

But what is the average Christian experience? Church members typically think and behave very much like morally upright non-Christians. They are decent enough, but there is nothing supernatural about them.
J. Robertson McQuilkin, Five Views on Sanctification

Trip Photos

Okay, I finally got some pictures online…then I’ve been messing with trying to embed a slideshow on the blog, but haven’t been able to get it to work. Determined, I figured my html skillz were shot…probably still are…but I checked the support pages to discover that wordpress doesn’t allow embedding flash…bummer!

Well, we took a “few” pics, so peruse at your leisure!  It was an awesome trip!!

Guatemala Trip (click here)

 

Christian ethics should be viewed from a positive perspective rather than from that of negativity. A corollary of this position is that the main thing in our Christian life is not that we have died to the old way of life, but that we have been born again for the new way of life. All too often Christians look at morality from the negative viewpoint. Christian growth does not come from what we don’t do. It is rather a product of what, in our daily lives, we actively do. The Christian ethic is a positive ethic, and the Christian life, as an expression of that ethic, is a positive, active existence.

– George R. Knight, Philosophy & Education: An Introduction in Christian Perspective

comestibles

breakfast was a couple of hours ago…lunch is a couple of hours away…you’re hungry. So you dig out your snack, a nectarine. It’s juicy. It’s good. What’s tha…? Your co-worker walks by with a fresh omelette and bacon…a side of toast. Jump ‘em or keep sucking the nectarine…..

 

Quote for the day (from movie Raising Helen)
“Did you just discipline the unborn?!”
“It’s never too early to start.”

Quotables

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God’s idea of me, and my whole life is an offtering to Him of all that I am and all that He wants me to be.”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

Quotables

Friday nights often offer the best and purest form of entertainment. I think it is a combination of many factors: long week, overall tiredness, growing sarcasm, uninhibited speech with friends, good disposition, late hour, etc. As the night wears on, the speech is more free flowing and the laughs quickly follow. It is in this context that friends offer quotables, those “witty” phrases that are often regretted later, though they may simply be gut busters. I doubt they can really be portrayed to those not present, for the entire context is missing. Nonetheless, here is one from this weekend:

“I feel really aggressive…I just don’t know what to do! Honey, strategize for me.”
  — Brad (while playing Settlers of Catan)