Entries from July 2008

July 21, 2008

Wanting God to Keep Us Informed of All The Details

After a week to recover from my trip to Romania and then another week on vacation with my wonderful family, I think I am ready to get back to blogging.  I will try to put together something about our week of vacation, however, I wanted to share this short article from John Piper about why [...]

July 14, 2008

Discernment and Criticism

Discernment reveals things to people about other people.  Sometimes that leads to criticism of what is revealed about that person…
“God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.”
Oswald Chambers.
The way I read that quote is that God gives us discernment so that we may intercede on behalf of [...]

July 8, 2008

Temptation

This is something that I think of often, temptation. On my trip it was at the forefront of my mind, being miles away from anyone that could hold me accountable, being in a country that is on a different moral compass and naturaly having a predisposition to not do the right thing.
This morning Tim Challies [...]

July 7, 2008

Home

The things I love about being home…
I am back with Nicole… life without her is just not the same!
I am back with Jake and Paige… these two bring me so much joy, I love there smiles and laughter!
I got to sleep in my bed… Nicole had freshly washed sheets (this is not to mean that [...]

July 1, 2008

Blogging Plagiarism… Best Friends.

I read Abraham Piper’s (yes, the son of that Piper) blog 22 Words, it stays true to it’s name and each of his posts are, well, 22 words.  Today’s post has special meaning to me since I have spent the last 10 days away from my wife…
Friends and wives are very different, and we need them both.
By [...]