Joe | February 25, 2009
Last year, beginning in March 2008, our family went through some tough, emotional and ugly times. We even capped off a year we’d like to forget with the death of our three year old Yellow Labrador Retriever, Moses. Yeah, it was a lousy year that we’d all like to forget. As a result, my wife [...]
Category: 2 Corinthians, Christian Living, Persecution, Satan | No Comments »
Tags: despair, faith, hope, teenagers, trials
Joe | February 24, 2009
It’s been one of those afternoons. It’s hard to focus on a coherent blog post right now. For those who have teenagers, I’m sure you can relate. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise), so that it may [...]
Category: Encouragement, Ephesians, Parenting | No Comments »
Tags: children, Parenting, teenagers, trials
Joe | February 23, 2009
Introducing Snap Shots from Snap.com I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, MySpace profiles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you [...]
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Joe | February 23, 2009
Saturday night was movie night in our house. My wife had checked out “Fireproof.” I had vaguely heard of the movie and wasn’t really interested in seeing it. I knew it was a Christian movie and starred Kirk Cameron. But I had thought it was a “chick-flick” and well, I didn’t feel like sitting through [...]
Category: Marriage, Movies | 5 Comments »
Tags: fireproof, Marriage, priorities
Joe | February 22, 2009
In at least three specific instances, the process of self-deception leads to sin. The process itself consists of three acts of the will. Sin entered the world in three steps in the Garden of Eden. When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, [...]
Category: 1 John, 2 Samuel, Christian Living, Genesis, Joshua, Matthew, Satan | No Comments »
Tags: lust, pride, sin, temptation