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.
When I was a child, times were hard, money was sparse, and I had lots of bills to pay. Those factors combined to create the “perfect storm.” Because I needed money I worked many different jobs, just tryin’ to make ends meet. Below are a few of my favorite times of employment.
The first was fencing, and while I enjoyed it, it was awful dangerous. That combined with low pay caused me to leave.
Just when I decided I couldn’t make a life time career out of fencing I heard that Barry had retired and the Lions were looking for a replacement. So I played running back for Detroit for a season.
Though I led the NFC in rushing yards and touchdowns, I just didn’t find the personal satisfaction in football that I had when fencing. Noting that Deon Sanders and Bo Jackson played two sports, I figured I would try that out as well. After working out a good contract, I finally signed with the Mets.
Realizing I only had a few years left of being in my prime, I left sports to pursue a life long dream of mine… putting the muscles I had built up over the years to good use, I became a strong man in a traveling circus.
After lifting many cars in the circus, I began to have a growing interest in how they were put together. This led to a temporary position at an auto repair shop where I worked on cars, bikes, and trikes.
Again feeling discontented, I sought out a position with more personal interaction (I was tired of staring at the bottom of automobiles – they weren’t as complex as I had originally thought they were). Since I had acquired my pilots license while playing for the Lions, I thought commanding a small aircraft would be a pleasurable pursuit. I took a job as a chauffeur for a family residing in Ohio. Much to my surprise, I ended up driving my little sisters around in their private jet.
This was a good choice though, since to this day it is still my main occupation.
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? :)
