Archive for August, 2007
99% of Failures
George Washington:
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
Pride and Prejudice
It has been a while since I have posted about what to watch. Here is one of my absolute favorites! Not only is Pride and Prejudice a great book but the latest movie based on the story is also great! This is something my girls and I have watched over and over again. It is the perfect thing to watch on a lazy Saturday afternoon or an evening cuddling with your spouse. If you are like me though, it is the absolute most perfect fit to watch when your hubby is out of town. This movie is a romantic comedy, and so it is great for a girls movie night. Being a romantic comedy though you can also watch with your husband though it may not be his favorite. But as you can see it is one of my favorites, watchable on any and all occasions!(except maybe a guys movie night when they would rather watch Rambo or something). Enjoy the trailer and then go watch the whole thing.
Dual Post- Thursday Thirteen & Train Up a Child
Today is going to be a combined posting for Thursday Thirteen and for Train Up a Child. Below is a list of Thirteen Scriptures that are useful in teaching and training our children.
- For General Obedience: Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
- For General Obedience: Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
- For Anger: Proverbs 14:29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. - For Anger: Proverbs 16:32 Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. - For Urging a Child to Confess Sin: Proverbs 28:13 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
- For Urging a Child to Confess Sin: 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- For Envy: Proverbs 14:30 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
- For Laziness: Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.
- For Lying: Proverbs 12:19 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- For Lying: Proverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
- For Stealing: Exodus 20:15 You shall not steal.
- For Tattling: Leviticus 19:16 You shall not go about as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
- For Tattling: Proverbs 17:9 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Wednesday Hero
This Weeks Post Was Suggested By Randy Thorsvig
From High Point, North Carolina
Every once in a while you run across one of those “feel good stories”. Those stories that show us just what a person can do when they really want it bad enough. And Ken Leonard has one of those stories.
In 2005, Ken Leonard left his job as a police officer in High Point, North Carolina to go to Iraq to work with a private security firm. In December of that year, Ken, along with five other men in his vehicle and six others in the vehicle behind him, was hit by a roadside bomb outside of Baghdad. “After the bomb went off, I knew exactly what had happened,” Leonard recalled. “My feet got jarred, so I knew they were hit.” While others in his vehicle were injured, he had received the worst of it. He had lost both his feet.
The vehicle behind them pushed Leonard’s to a safer area. But flames were coming out of the air conditioning vents and they had to get out. Leonard crawled from the car and fell to the pavement. “That’s when I saw my feet,” he said. “I could tell they were gone. They were still attached, but they were shredded.”
On July 19, 2007, Ken Leonard went back to North Carolina to get his job back with the police force. To do that he needed to pass the Police Officers Physical Abilities Test, which, among other things, consisted of a 200-yard run to be finished in under 7 minutes, 20 seconds. And he did just that with 24 seconds to spare.
“Somebody told me one time they said, ‘You know, what you’ve lost is just bone and muscle. You’ve still got heart, and you’ve still got, you know, what’s up here,’” Leonard said, pointing to his head.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesday Hero, you can go here.
Proud of My Husband
Being the wife of a minister is not an easy task. We are often expected to be perfect. I was doomed to fail from the beginning as anyone would be. Yet, I think that being the minister is even a more difficult task. God gives the strength but the work and the journey are difficult ones. That must be true because of its great importance. Many pastors today are beaten down and not respected. We have dealt with this in our ministry as have almost every minister we have ever talked to and known. I just want to encourage you to be a blessing to your pastor, they are there because of a great calling from the Lord and God has placed them in a position of authority. I am so proud of my husband for all of the work he has done and how even through the painful times he continues to minister. He has not compromised the Word when others had asked for the “tickling of the ears” but continues to preach the truth found in the scriptures.
I ran across a quote today which was posted on Blog & Mablog and I wanted to share it today and to tell my husband how proud I am of him!
“The work of preaching is the highest and the greatest and the most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called. If you want something in addition to that I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching” (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, p. 9).
