December 2011
3 posts
“The plight of the 2:14 to 2:18 US Marathoner: Why do you do it? You don’t do it...”
– Sage Canaday on Letsrun.com
beautiful.advent: LUKE 21:25-33 →
beautifuladvent:
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see…
Advent: God With Us →
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
4 posts
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite...”
– C.S. Lewis
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain
August 2011
2 posts
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
May 2011
1 post
“The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
– Exodus 14:14 (via fromtheword)
April 2011
1 post
February 2011
3 posts
“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as...”
– 1 Chronicles 29:14 (via fromtheword)
“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands...”
– Psalm 90:17 (via fromtheword)
January 2011
5 posts
December 2010
9 posts
“Long lay the world in sin and error pining till He appeared and the soul felt...”
– O Holy Night
“But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under...”
– Galatians 4:4-5 (via fromtheword)
“So he got up, took the child and His mother during the night and left for Egypt”
– Matthew 2:14 (via fromtheword)
“The not yet will be worth it,” Advent whispers in the dark.”
– Rob Bell on Advent
“Have you ever played Texas Hold em’ or at least watched it on TV? If you watch...”
November 2010
13 posts
Christ Has Come
Earth awaiting. Remnant praying. Virgin bearing. Star appearing. God descending.
Christ has come.
Light unveiling. Darkness waning. Grace unfolding. World beholding. God revealing.
Christ has come.
Crippled leaping. Blind men seeing. Evil fleeing. Sinners singing. God restoring.
Christ has come.
Traitor greeting. Soldiers seizing. Court indicting. Friend denying. God restraining.
...
“The very existence of parks is a response to this debate: earlier New Yorkers...”
– My Life as a Dog by Jonathan Safran Foer
“We pray,
‘Dear God, make me a man.
Make me strong and brave.
Make me...”
– Matt Chandler on his son
“Love is a bitter fruit,
we learn to eat.
We still don’t know,
oh, where...”
– A Few Honest Words by Ben Sollee
Amazing line
dad-isms:
“You put your girl up on a pedestal…and you wait for her to fall” - Adam Duritz
Absolutely gorgeous piece of poetry!
“So, I go to be honest with you, I don’t know. And that’s probably...”
– New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on global warming
This is crazy. What creditable scientist has testified against it in recent days?
The Mountain Mail: Searchers recover body →
“In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.”
– CS Lewis
“Make the truth easy to tell and you’ll more often get it.”
“Let us always long to hear the stories of grace in others’ lives. Every...”
– CS Lewis
October 2010
22 posts
“A horse is like a bike that pedals itself.”
– Dwight Schrute
While studying for a conservation test I’ve realized how little I knew about natural resources before this class. I knew about the economics behind them, but not about nature’s true functions. Here are some basic things we should all understand:
The Four Laws of Ecology
(ecology <— explains the distribution, abundance and interactions between organisms and their...
WatchStephen Colbert on The View
This is good stuff.
“If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness,...”
– Ludwig von Mises (via purelypragmatic)
“Where you invest your love, you invest your life.”
– Mumford and Sons