God, Thank You For...
New Seasons
New Blooms on the trees and flowers
Weekends

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New Xanga-er
Seraph has XANGA --- Dyxierose
Go sign her guestbook!!!

My Beautiful MOM
Today is my MOM's BDAY!!! :) She's still young and as beautiful as ever!!!!

Mom Pictures
Beachin' It
Christmas 2001
Mom and Brandon
Fourth of July

She's the BEST mom EVER!!! :)

Happy St. Patty's Day!
Oh my, I forgot to wear green! I've already threatened that if ANYONE pinches me, I WILL write them a detention!!!! haha! (it pays to be THE TEACHER!)

Encouragement Today
This morning on the way to school I listened to Erin's Bible on CD Romans 5-8. Here's part of Chapter 5.

Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory...
...For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. -NLT

Also I have been reading a new book called Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala. So many good testimonies of God's provision in this book thus far (just finished chapter 3)! Many of the testimonies have brought tears to my eyes. Today I was reading it while my students were taking a test, and I kept having to put it down in the middle of reading a testimony to gain composer so that my students wouldn't wonder why I was crying. The testimonies are just such an awesome witness of God's love poured out into hearts! Definately worth a read if you haven't read it!

Amazing Love
Amazing Love, How can it be
That you my King Would die for me?
Amazing Love I know it's true
And it's my Joy to honor YOU
In all I do, I honor YOU

New Website
My friend Dale has a NEW SITE! And check out the COOL picture of he and Jonalyn (his wife) HERE in front of Trevi Fountain in Rome.

The comment under the picture was funny:

We sent this picture out with our annual Christmas card and letter at the end of 2003. The review was mixed. The positive comments were made to us. The negative comments were made to others who made them to us. And whatever shall we do?

Oh, and He finally updated his Blog.

Great Pic!
I can't remember if I have posted this before, but even so, it's cute enough to post again! This has to be one of my favorite pics of my little brother!

Check it out HERE!

The Cross
The following are from the notes of the message that Randy (my pastor) gave yesterday on the 'Revelation of the Cross'.


"But God forbid I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Galatians 6:14

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
-John Stott

God's Glory Displayed in the Cross

But Jesus answered them, saying, ‘The hour has come, that the Son of Man should be glorified. Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
John 12:23,24

Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him. If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and glorify Him immediately…where I am going, you cannot come.
John 13:31-33

For in the cross of Christ, as in a splendid theatre; the incomparable goodness of God is set before the whole world. The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross…If it be objected that nothing could be less glorious than Christ’s death…, I reply that in that death we see a boundless glory which is concealed from the ungodly. -John Calvin

Four Pictures of God’s Glory from the Cross

The Justice of God
Romans 3:21-26

·If God did not judge sin He would be ‘unjust’ to Himself.
·The cross demonstrates with equal vividness both His justice in judging sin and His mercy in justify the sinner.


The Love of God

Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:5-8

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.I John 4:10

Three marks of false love:
·limitations (something is withheld)
·control (manipulation)
·detachment (self-sufficient and self-protected)

Three marks of authentic love
·Limitless self-giving
·Risk-taking with no certainty of acceptance or success
·A vulnerability that is easily hurt

·The cross can be seen as a proof of God’s love only when it is at the same time seen as a proof of His justice.


The Power and Wisdom of God
I Corinthians 1:17-2:8