What will my response be?

"Brethren I'll tell you this: If all of a sudden you see a brother or sister in need and your first thoughts are not: "O man, how can I get in their shoes and help bear that burden", but rather your first thoughts are: "O man, if I have to help them then I'm not gonna be able to do this, I'm not going to be able to do that". God forbid brethren! Those early Christians sold their homes to help needy Christians. So what if you have to wear old clothes or get the cable TV turned off. Brethren, listen to me: are you ready to stand before the Lord on Judgement Day and say "No Lord, I did not help my brother when I saw him in need, but Lord I had the Discovery channel, Lord I had this great big 90 inch plasma HD, I had that! I didn't help that sister, but Lord look at my i-phone, I had one of those, isn't this impressive?" Brethren, that's not impressive, what's impressive is the Macedonians, that's impressive." ~Tim Conway

The Misunderstanding of Free Will

There is...this basic failure to grasp the radical difference between the natures of two worlds. It is the habit of languidly "accepting" salvation as if it were a small matter and one wholly in our hands. Men are exhorted to think things over and "decide" for Christ...people are expected to condescend to grant Christ the right to save them, a right which they have obviously refused Him up to that time. Christ is thus made to stand again before men's judgment seat; He is made to wait upon the pleasure of the individual, and after long and humble waiting is either turned away or patronizingly admitted. By a complete misunderstanding of the noble and true doctrine of the freedom of the human will, salvation is made to depend perilously upon the will of men instead of upon the will of God. ~A.W. Tozer

Ouch!

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. ~John Piper

What are you hungry for?

"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night... For when these replace an appetite for God himself, the idolatry is scarcely recognizable, and almost incurable." ~ John Piper

This is an invasion

Hello, this is Julie's daughter Emily. I have decided that mom doesn't post enough, and have come to the conclusion that if she does not post, Blogger will delete her blog and we don't want that since I have spent hours creating her new blog design :) How do you like it? She didn't like the pink one. So this is an invasion of mom's blog. Maybe she will post now that she has an AMAZING makeover! Wouldn't want that now would we? :) Well, that's all... Bye!

Emily Joy @ Emily Joy Photography

I actually went out and looked...

... but alas, there is no sign on my roof saying "If you are a door to door salesman, please stop here". Somehow they've gotten the word though, if you can judge by the number of times my doorbell has rang today.

It had to come eventually, right?

Can you guess what this is?

Or how you get from this...

to this?Kate took pictures for me while I watched. Read the story here of one self-less little girl and her gift to others.