ADVISE ABOUT SEXUAL TEMPTATIONS - Facts of the matter

The FACTS OF THE MATTER May 28 , 2002

ADVISE ABOUT SEXUAL TEMPTATIONS

Dear Andy,  

I don't know how I could be more proud of you.  You really have your act together.  You know where you are going career-wise, have a quality marriage, and are growing spiritually.  But here is a sobering fact: Better men than you, certainly better men than me, today are living diminished lives of grave disappointment.  In my wildest imagination I would not have guessed that they would have fallen.  I am talking here about sexual temptation.  I pray for myself - and for you that this will never happen; that we will remain pure.  Not a common feat in today's unimaginably permissive and undisciplined society.

I would like to make a few observations and comments to you - and reminders to myself on this subject:

#1  Women love powerful, successful men who know where they are going.  They are also attracted to gentle, sensitive, and caring men.  Because you possess these qualities, you can be sure you will encounter attractive women who will want intimacy with you.  (See Gen. 39:5-7; Pro. 7:13-18)

Song For Josiah - Keith Green

Song for Josiah

Oh my son, you were born in a world that hates you,

And I swear I will never forsake you.

But there was a father centuries ago,

Who watched his beloved son die. Oh, die.

Oh my son, I am weak and I'm trembling,

For the Lord I am always remembering.

Oh what a strong shepherd holds you in His arms.

He'll break you and make you His own.

And then take you home.

Well if I could I would protect you from what you will see.

This world will promise love and beauty, but it lied to me.

And I will show you, if you will listen.

And I will promise, to listen too.

Imhoff''s law

Imhoff's Law

The Organization Of Any Bureaucracy May Be Likened To A Septic Tank; The Biggest Pieces Always Rise To The Top.

"Imhoff's Law"

- Honesty, Republicans, Democrats, Government, Politics, Integrity,

The five points of Calvinism by WJ Seaton

Author: WJ Seaton

Date: 1970

Source: The Five Points of Calvinism

Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust

City: London

1. Free will, or human ability. This taught that man, although affected by the fall, was not totally incapable of choosing spiritual good, and was able to exercise faith in God in order to receive the gospel and thus bring himself into possession of salvation.

Theology Acronyms

1. Cognitive

a.(ATGT)- Related to Knowing, thence to what is true or False

2. Deduction

a.(ATGT)- A form of reasoning that infers conclusions from premises, as e.g. in a geometrical proof.

3. Empirical-

a.(ATGT)- dependent on experience, such as sense observations

Charles Colson February 22, 1999 from Breakpoint on Black History Month

Author: Charles Colson

Date: February 25, 1999

Source: Breakpoint

At New York's Shea Stadium, two years ago, baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced that number 42 would be retired by the major leagues forever. It was a mark of honor for the man who had worn that number-the man who broke baseball's color barrier in 1947:

Jackie Robinson.

February is Black History Month, and our kids have been hearing a lot about Robinson's quiet dignity in the face of racial bigotry on the ball field. But what many of them are not hearing is the source of Robinson's ability to turn the other cheek: It was his faith in Jesus Christ.

Robinson was born in 1919 into a culture steeped in racism. And from early childhood it drove Robinson mad. Historian Jackson Lears, writing in the New Republic, says Robinson had "a reputation as a mad brawler, always ready to smash in the teeth of any white man who insulted him." Later, at UCLA, he gained a reputation as a thug.

THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY

THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY

Copyright 1978, ICBI. All rights reserved. Published with permission from the
Dallas Theological Seminary Archives, Repository of ICBI Archives

 PREFACE
The authority of Scripture is a key issue for the Christian Church in this and every age. Those who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are called to show the reality of their discipleship by humbly and faithfully obeying God's written Word. To stray from Scripture in faith or conduct is disloyalty to our Master. Recognition of the total truth and trustworthiness of Holy Scripture is essential to a full grasp and adequate confession of its authority.

Robert Frost - The Brain

" ROBERT FROST"

          THE BRAIN IS A WONDERFUL ORGAN,

          IT STARTS THE MINUTE YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING,

          AND DOES NOT STOP UNTIL YOU GET TO THE OFFICE.

                     "ROBERT FROST"   

Calvin and Hobb's - Its Hard to Know What's Important in Life

The Resonate Series Sampler IVP

An Introduction to the Resonate Series
“The last thing the world needs,” we hear every now and then from our readers, Is another commentary series.” 
They may have a point. The world has a seemingly limitless supply of commentaries on the sixty-six books of the Bible, and the nuances between them are often so fine that they could strain out a gnat.
So what, we are left to wonder, does the world need?

The Resonate Series Sampler IVP
Paul Louis Metzger

Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back,

the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields,

and until we meet again

may God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries

James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries

(Beyond The Range- by Mrs. Howard Taylor pg 57 & 58 

It seems to be a big responsibility to be the only preacher of the Gospel within a radius of about 150 miles. I feel my weakness very much, yet the Lord seems to delight in making His power perfect in weakness, May I ask you then to remember me specially in prayer, asking God to use me to the salvation of many precious souls.

I am feeling more and more that it is, after all, just the prayers of Gods people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not.

Paul may plant and Apollos water, but it is God who gives the increase; and this increase can be brought down from heaven by believing prayer, whether offered in China or in the homeland. We are, as it were, God’s agents – used by Him to do His work not ours. We do our part and then can only look to Him, with others, for His blessing.

If this is so, Christians at home can do as much for foreign missions as those actually on the field. I believe it will be know only on the last day how much has been accomplished in missionary  work by the prayers of earnest believers at home. And this, surely, is the heart of the problem. Such work does not consist in curio tables, showing of slides, and the giving of reports. Good as this may be, they are only the fringe and not the root of the matter, solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees. What I count more than anything else is earnest, believing prayer, and I write to ask you to continue to put up much prayer for me and work here in Tengyueh.

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity - Jonathan Edwards

An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/trinity/files/trinity.html

JONATHAN EDWARDS

IT IS COMMON when speaking of the Divine happiness to say that God is infinitely happy in the enjoyment of Himself, in perfectly beholding and infinitely loving, and rejoicing in, His own essence and perfection, and accordingly it must be supposed that God perpetually and eternally has a most perfect idea of Himself, as it were an exact image and representation of Himself ever before Him and in actual view, and from hence arises a most pure and perfect act or energy in the Godhead, which is the Divine love, complacence and joy. The knowledge or view which God has of Himself must necessarily be conceived to be something distinct from His mere direct existence. There must be something that answers to our reflection. The reflection as we reflect on our own minds carries something of imperfection in it. However, if God beholds Himself so as thence to have delight and joy in Himself He must become his own object. There must be a duplicity. There is God and the idea of God, if it be proper to call a conception of that that is purely spiritual an idea.