The Desiring God blog has put up four helpful posts on prayer and the new year over the past few days, here they are:
Update: Another post on prayer from the DG blog – A List of Everything they Prayed for in the New Testament.
2nd Update: The posts keep coming:
“When a man (or woman) professes atheism, he immediately disqualifies himself to speak as a representative of science because his premise is a violation of the fundamental rule of science–“nothing created everything.””
I hope you, dear reader, are able to have an enjoyable time with your family during this Christmas season… and that through this time of rest and relaxation your affections for Jesus Christ will be kindled afresh.
Merry Christmas!
This is pretty hot… from rapper shai linne.
If you have yet to get into the Christmas season, this should help.
Today is the last day of my last semester of junior college. I just finished up my last final (it was in science)!
Woo hoo, free at last… well, at least until January, then it is back to the old grind stone – except instead of being at a junior college, I’ll be at an un-junior college… a senior college? :)
A young woman is locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby was born alive.
A film about decisions, their effects and the echos they leave behind. Based on the shocking World Net Daily article by Ron Strom, on victim’s testimonies, and real 911 calls about one of the most controversial subjects of our time, “22weeks” achieves to confront both sides of the spectrum and their perspective to the on going question: “what would you do?”
HT: Z
By pursuing worthless things one becomes worthless (Jeremiah 2:5). By pursuing false things one becomes false (2 Kings 17:15).
What one pursues defines what one will become.
“There are no detailed Darwinian accounts for the evolution of any fundamental biochemical or cellular system, only a variety of wishful speculations. It is remarkable that Darwinism is accepted as a satisfactory explanation for such a vast subject—evolution—with so little rigorous examination of how well its basic theses work in illuminating specific instances of biological adaptation or diversity.”
– Molecular biologist James Shapiro, “In the Details…What?” National Review, 19 September 1996, pp. 62–65.
HT: Comfort
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusement, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our giving does not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say it is too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our commitment to giving excludes them.”
– C.S. Lewis
HT: JT
“You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16:11).
Acts 7:55 tells us that Jesus is the unending pleasure at God’s right hand. The greatest source of joy in heaven is Jesus.
