December 2011
2 posts
“We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no longer...”
– Martin Lloyd-Jones
Isaiah 28:20 - Read through the Bible Thought
“For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.”
Our efforts to provide comfort are like a too short bed, and a thin, narrow blanket. Only God can provide what weary souls need.
June 2011
19 posts
Anthony Weiner meant to bear God's moral image.
J. I. Packer- “As rational persons, we were made to bear God’s moral image—that is, our souls were made to “run” on the practice of worship, law-keeping, truthfulness, honesty, discipline, self-control, and service to God and our fellows. If we abandon these practices, not only do we incur guilt before God; we also progressively destroy our own souls.”
Knowing...
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Lest we forget - Amnesia produces Apostasy
…Amnesia produces apostasy. That is why Scripture is so frantic about the church not forgetting what Yahweh has done for us (see Deut. 4 and 6). So Jeremiah diagnosed faithless Israel: They did not say, ‘Where is the Lordwho brought us up from the land of Egypt,who led us in the wilderness,in a land of deserts and pits,in a land of drought and deep darkness,in a land that none passes...
Glorious in our sight now
“If you would joy in Christ’s glory hereafter, He must be glorious in your sight now. Is He so?”
Charles Spurgeon
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Salvation - a vicious violence by which Christ...
That was Israel’s condition. ‘When the judge died, they turned back and acted more corruptly than their fathers’ (2:19). Why did they always do that? Why could they not break that pattern? It is mysterious; but Judges does teach us that that is the tragic tyranny of sin. Sin is not simply an action you do or fail to do, that you can choose to do or not to do. Sin is a power that holds you in its...
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Pragmatic Success and Christian Failure
The picture Judges 1 gives us is of an Israel in substantial control of Canaan, a people clearly successful though certainly disobedient. Pragmatic success and spiritual failure—a strange but possible combination. So Israel is dominant if not obedient; she enjoys superiority even if she does not maintain fidelity. (Judges 1) …carries its admonition for God’s people in any age. For one thing,...
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Christian Unity
In Judges, Israel’s unity is slowly disintegrating. D.R. Davis makes this point when talking about the importance tribal unity played in Judges 1:
“The Lord’s people thrive on mutual assistance; God has given us one another as channels of his help and strength. Indeed, the apostle prayed ‘that you, having your roots and foundation in love, might have the strength to grasp together...
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“That obedience which is not voluntary is disobedience, for the Lord looketh at...”
– Charles Spurgeon
5 Books All For Under $10
joeholland:
From joshuaesc:
The following books are discounted for Kindle devices or devices such as iPad’s, iPhone’s, Computers that run the Kindle software/app.
Affirming the Apostle’s Creed - JI Packer = $.99
What is the Gospel? - Greg Gilbert = $.99
Church Planter - Darrin Patrick = $2.99
Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God - John Piper = $2.99
On Who is God - Mark...
What's on my iPad - Weather and Work
Last in series - Part 11!!!
Weather
Weather (I’m a bit of weather nut - I like these apps, plus lots on the bookmarks on the web that I access from my iPad)
SkySafari - If you like stargazing, these apps are the best.
TideData - My family loves to fish, kayak and boat - we live and die (literally) by the tides. I’ve tried a number of tide apps, but like this one best.
WeatherBug...
What's on my iPad - Travel and Utilities
Part 10 - Travel and Utilities
Travel
Travel (If you hate travel…)
Tripit - Core travel app. My husband and I both use the Pro version of the web app. You simply forward any travel confirm (flight, hotel, limo, rental car, etc.) to Tripit and magically it creates an itinerary. Everything is in order, with confirms, simple to read, accessible from anywhere and shareable. In addition -...
What's on my iPad - Shopping and Social Networking
Part 9 - Shopping and Social Networking
Shopping
Shopping (Hmm, I must not be much of shopper:) Actually, most shopping, price comparison type apps are on my iphone. iPad is too big to carry to stores)
Amazon.com - Mobile version of Amazon. Couldn’t be more convienent.
i-nigma - This is a QR reader. You see QR codes everywhere now. In magazines, in the mail, in newspapers, flyers and...
What's on my iPad - Productivity, Reference,...
Part 8 - Wow - I’m not even covering all 106 apps. I’m surprising myself at how many apps I have.
Productivity/Reference/Search
Productivity
Productivity
TextExpander - honorable mention. I keep meaning to use this app, but don’t. I use TE on all my Macs. It saves snippets of text I retype all the time. It would work well on my iPad, particularly in email, you send directly...
What's on my IPad - Photo/Video
Part 7 - Now that the iPad has a camera:)
Photo and Video Apps
Photo Apps (skipping video - haven’t had time to play with iMovie yet)
Lots of photo apps on my iPhone. Frankly, I don’t think I’ve taken one photo with my iPad. It seems too big and awkward. But, I faithfully copied these few apps over to my iPad just in case I decide to take photos. I particularly like these...
What's on my iPad - News and NewsReaders
Part 6 - News and NewsReaders (just the best apps)
News
News
FoxNews for IPad (not shown - on my HomeScreen) Finally! An iPad app for Fox. Have been playing with it for just a little bit. Looks nice. Still TBD if it stays on my Home screen. Use it for Breaking News.
Wall Street Journal - the most expensive app on my iPad. The subscription is pricey. But I read the journal daily so...
What's on my iPad - Notes/Drawing
Part 5 - Notes/Drawing
First, let me start with briefly with Navigation. I use Navigon on my iPhone and also put it on my iPad. If you really need to see a map, you can’t beat the huge iPad screen showing your turn-by-turn directions.
Notes/Drawing
Notes/Drawing - not drawing in an artistic sense, but as in charting or brainstorming. I certainly am not an artist!
Noteshelf - LIke a...
What's on my Ipad - Games and Music
Part 4 - This is going to be short. I’m not much of a game player, and I prefer playing music to listening.
Games
Games (Pretty boring, huh?)
Pinball HD - for children who want to play with my iPad. Good for all ages.
Scrabble - my husband and I play each other. I usually win:) I like to play by myself sometimes as well. If I’m forced to watch golf, it’s always good to play...
What's on my iPad - Food and Wine apps
This is Part 3 - continuing with Food and Wine apps
Food/Wine/Dining
Food - Wine - Dining (favorites only)
Urbanspoon/Yelp - I use both apps to find restaurant options. I like the serendipity of Urban Spoon. You shake it and it finds a selection of restaurants based on your location. Kind-of a slot machine effect. Lots of fun, and have found some good eats. Yelp - love the reviews....
What's on my iPad - Christan Apps
Continuing my posts on iPad apps. Decided to take it by category as my 106 apps!, even pared down to the “highly recommendeds” is too long for one post.
Christian apps (not the best name, but more than just Bible apps)
Bible/Catechism/Memory Apps
ESV Bible - Love it, use it for all my Bible reading. Don’t use in church, I’m still old school. Somehow an iPad Bible in a church...
What's on my iPad
In the spirit of Andy Naselli’s post, I thought I’d share what is on my iPad.
I have 106 apps. I can’t believe it! I will only highlight the ones that I find particularly useful.
Starting with the Home Screen:
Recommended apps:
Calcbot - it has a tape, perfect for lots of calculating.
1Password - secure, individual passwords (I have over 700) that are shared across my Macs,...
November 2010
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God is for us! - Karl Barth
What can and should and must be done by the man to whom the Creator and Lord of heaven and earth has stopped down from his eternal and inaccessible majesty in inconceivable goodness and overflowing majesty to take man to Himself by taking his place and bearing his curse and burden? What can and should and must be done by the man to whom it is given in the quickening power of the Holy Spirit to...
September 2010
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What no shrimp??? Just lots and lots of mud.
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June 2010
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PCA General Assembly from Home
Here is my setup. Folding laundry, reading and tweeting all while listening to the live stream of the PCA General Assembly. Posted via email from Chris Dattilo’s Posterous | Comment »
May 2010
1 post
The Gospel for Christians
“I once assumed the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order to be saved, but after they believe it, they advance to deeper theological waters. Jonah helped me realize that the gospel isn’t the first step in a stairway of truths but more like the hub in a wheel of truth. As Tim Keller explains it, the gospel isn’t simply the ABCs of Christianity, but the A-through-Z.The...
March 2010
1 post
The central truth
Union with Christ is the central truth of the whole doctrine of salvation. All to which the people of God have been predestined in the eternal election of God, all that has been secured and procured for them in the once-for-all accomplishment of redemption, all of which they become the actual partakers in the application of redemption, and all that by God’s grace they will become in the state of...
January 2010
2 posts
iPhone App Photo Experiments
Tried out some new IPhone Apps on some photos taken with my iPhoneBostonPhotogenie iPhone App GingerbreadPolarize iPhone App BostonPhotoshop Mobile (PS Mobile) iPhone App Eye on BostoniPhone App Experiment ColorSplash Christmas DecorationsiPhone App Experiment TrueHDR Gazebo in SnowTrueHDR Experiment with iPhone App Winter BenchiPhone App Experiement - PS Mobile Christmas Decorations with...
REAL Gingerbread House
60,000 pieces of Candy I think the gumdrop chair might be a little uncomfortable! Even the snow is cotton candy Merry Christmas - Ritz Carlton Naples lobby Posted via email from Chris Dattilo’s Posterous | Comment »
November 2009
10 posts
Rainy Afternoon Chicken Soup
This is where it starts - pastured raised organic Chickens Old laying hens, Chicken feet & necks, Water, Veggies and all day - makes a great stock Freeze lots of stock and then thaw as needed in hot water Add some diced vegetables Save bones and scraps for next bone broth or stock making day Add chicken and veggies to rich chicken stock Here it is - 30 minutes later. A delicious,...
Mixed up Christmas Cactus
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Christian Understanding of Work
“What is the Christian understanding of work? I should like to put before you two or three propositions arising out of the doctrinal position which I stated at the beginning: namely, that work is the natural exercise and function of man — the creature who is made in the image of his Creator…..The first, stated quite briefly, is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to...
Awe and Intimacy
“The gospel means (as Luther said) that we are simul justus et peccator, that is, in Christ we are simultaneously righteous yet sinful. If we have a more antinomian view of salvation, believing that we are all accepted because God is vaguely loving, then we may be existentially aware of God’s love but not of his holiness. There will be no awe. That can lead to the exclusively warm,...
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Perfect Love, Perfect Justice - Meet at Calvary
But the God of Christianity is a God of both perfect love and perfect justice. The two meet, embrace, coalesce, at Calvary.
R. B. Kuiper, The Bible Tells Us So, p. 107
The Cross is the Tree of Life
He hangs in the place of death, yet thence He gives life. He delivers from death by dying. Life streams out, like rivers of water, from that center, the cross. The cross is the tree of life.
Horatius Bonar, Studies in the Gospel of John, p. 20
Foot of the cross, shrinks us to our true size
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, “I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.” Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary.....
Power of the Cross of Christ
And from these two great enemies, the power of the world and the power of self, nothing can deliver us but the Cross of Christ. Andrew Murray, Aids to Devotion p. 28
Prayer of Covenant with God
I usually don’t make comment on the quotes I post, but in reading this quote I was struck with the thought that ‘this is a prayer’! I’m glad God’s grace covers my inadequacy in prayer and pray that I may learn from saints who have gone before.
“O Blessed Jesus, I come to thee hungry and thirsty, poor and wretched, miserable, blind and naked, a most loathsome...
Calvin on Loving the Whole Human Race
“We ought to embrace the whole human race without exception in a single feeling of love; here there is no distinction between barbarian and Greek, worthy and unworthy, friend and enemy, since all should be contemplated in God, not in themselves. When we turn aside from such contemplation, it is no wonder we become entangled in many errors. Therefore, if we rightly direct our love, we must...
June 2009
4 posts
Ethics drawn from the Cross
Our ethics must be drawn from the cross and begin and end there. We have not so much to declare what men ought to do, as to preach the good news of what God has done for them. C. H. Spurgeon, The Mourners Comforter p. 23,24
Church needs people who...
The church needs people who, in listening to their pastor, listen for the message of Christ, and pastors who, in labouring among the people, look for the image of Christ. Only when pastor and people thus keep their eyes on Christ will their mutual relations keep healthy, profitable and pleasing to almighty God. J.R.W. Stott, Only One Way, p. 119
Perfect Church Service
The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God. But every novelty prevents this. It fixes our attention on this service itself: and thinking about worship is a different thing from worshipping. A still worse thing may happen. Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly...
Our works do not obligate God
Divine blessings flow from God’s mercy rather than from our merit. Thus we cannot guarantee that His care will flow according to our plans simply because we conform in some degree to biblical standards. Our works do not obligate God to care for us in the way that we think is best. We cannot put God on a leash through our goodness, nor obligate Him to our wishes by our won deeds. God blesses...
May 2009
10 posts
Literary Darwinism, all things Darwin
“It is all too easy to foresee a future for literary criticism of MRI machines and statistical charts. (Finally, something the rest of the university can relate to!) English departments will turn themselves over to brain scans just as they turned themselves over to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When that future arrives, what will the classroom look like? Will it be a new gaudy lecture room where Brian...
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Education that corrupts moral and civic virtue
I see everywhere immense institutions where young people are brought up at great expense, learning everything except their duties…. Without knowing how to distinguish error from truth, [your children] will possess the art of making them both unrecognizable to others by specious arguments. But they will not know what the words magnanimity, equity, temperance, humanity, courage are; that sweet...
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Idle men of letters
These vain and futile declaimers go everywhere armed with their deadly paradoxes, undermining the foundations of faith and annihilating virtue. They smile disdainfully at the old-fashioned words of fatherland and religion, and devote their talents and philosophy to destroying and debasing all that is sacred among men.
Rousseau - Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
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Holiness a gift of Christ
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ which enables us to cling to him and to follow him.
John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life, p.13
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Holiness, conscious peace
Holiness is not austerity nor gloom; these are as alien to it as levity and flippancy. Nor is it the offspring of terror, suspense or uncertainty, but of peace, conscious peace; not future or probable or possible peace, but present. And this peace must be the consequence of our having ascertained, upon sure evidence, the forgiving love of God.
Horatius Bonar, God’s Way of Holiness, p.37
Speak with a Great Voice
In this present life, the church of Jesus Christ should be extolling God’s glory with a great voice. But all to often we only hear it speaking very softly. If we listen with great care, we can just barely hear praise being given. But our calling is to speak forth by faith with a great voice! In certain periods the church has spoken with a great voice. Now we long for it to speak this way again....
God and Providence
The greatness of God is a glorious and unsearchable mystery. ‘For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth’ (Ps. 47:2). The condescension of the most high God to men is also a profound mystery. ‘Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly’ (Ps. 138:6). But when both these meet together, as they do in this Scripture, they make up a matchless mystery....
Founder and Foundation - Christ’s relationship to...
The relationship of Christ to the church is so varied and rich as to defy adequate description. To name but a few of the numerous aspects of this relationship. He is both its founder and its foundation, its savior and is owner, its preserver and its hope, its lover and its beloved, its righteousness and its holiness, its head and its King. R.B. Kuiper, The Glorious Body of Christ, p. 91