He is Sufficient

Thanks (I think) to Gary Zimmerli for the link… Update: evidently after making a few more posts today, I’ve managed to pull my site’s ranking down. Go figure…

This “song of the day” was inspired by a post on Kevin Sam’s blog, Word Alone, about Hebrews 12:1-2 and how we need to look away from everything that distracts us from Jesus and refocus or re-fix our eyes on Him. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus Words and music by Helen H. Lemmel (1922) O [...]

Thanks to all of our friends who came over on Saturday to compete in the chili cookoff. We put the fuses and circuit breakers through a good workout with all the crockpots, but in the end had lots of yummy chili to choose from. Congratulations to Depauli, Danette and Tegan for their prize-winners! There are [...]

Steve at Undeception posted a number of worthy articles last week (that I’m just getting around to fully reading after a week’s “vacation” working on various house projects) related to full preterism and his experience accepting and wrestling with this minority view of eschatology and overall Biblical history: Are you getting tired of this yet? [...]

Suzanne has added two more posts on her discussion of the various translations of El Shaddai: Psalm 68: Shaddai cont. — Suzanne includes some of my earlier comments on the “God of the Mountain” and “God of Shaddai” possibilities, then quotes from the Jewish Encyclopedia.com on the exegesis of “He is sufficient”: “It is conjectured [...]

Open the Eyes of My Heart Music and Lyrics by Paul Baloche Open the eyes of my heart, Lord Open the eyes of my heart I want to see You I want to see You Open the eyes of my heart, Lord Open the eyes of my heart I want to see You I want [...]

The boys got their “fall” haircuts today without too much fuss. Sam sits well for it; Ben still needed Mom to hold him. Here’s Ben’s after photo; we didn’t get a good shot of Sam’s “do” – maybe tomorrow.

… so let Daddy do it. So began the 2007 pumpkin seed reclamation project. After the goop was extracted, Sam was happy to start giving advice on what “Jack” should look like. So he and Mom set out to design and carve away at the empty pumpkin while Dad gooped his way to a pile [...]

Happy Halloween, from Spider-Man Sam and Ben the Lion:

In the comments to his post on The Millennium and the Resurrection of the Dead, Steve commented that: “I think that’s the task of the New Jerusalem Church: our deeds, how we deal with sin and problems in society, whether we take our restored Genesis 1 mandate for dominion seriously — this is Kingdom living. [...]