There aren't many good reasons for having four silver maples, but this is definitely one...
November 21, 2015
November 20, 2015
November 17, 2015
After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
"Not that Poirot was
really looking for evidence - he wanted only to satisfy himself as to
possibilities. The murder of Richard Abernathie could only be a
hypothesis. It was Cora Lansquenet's murder for which evidence was
needed. What he wanted was to study the people who have been assembled
for the funeral that day, and to form his own conclusions about them." - Pg. 164-165
I am always amazed at how Agatha Christie is able to come up with a different approach to each of her books. In After the Funeral, she is able to develop a tale where the evidence is merely the characters themselves. There are a few pieces of traditional evidence, but by in large, she uses them as distractions. November 10, 2015
November 05, 2015
November 04, 2015
November 01, 2015
October 31, 2015
We will not be denied any good thing in Christ
"Surely if he would not spare his own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that he should, after this, deny or withhold from his people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them."
- John Flavel
"He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? "
- Romans 8:32
October 29, 2015
October 27, 2015
From the honest pen of Isaac Watts
How long wilt Thou conceal Thy face?
My God, how long delay?
When shall I feel those heav’nly rays
That chase my fears away?
How long shall my poor laboring soul
Wrestle and toil in vain?
Thy word can all my foes control
And ease my raging pain.
- Isaac Watts
October 26, 2015
October 24, 2015
October 06, 2015
The Failures of Both Pride and Self-pity
"Consider the relationship between boasting and self-pity.
Both are manifestations of pride. Boasting is the response of pride to success. Self-pity is the response of pride to suffering. Boasting says, "I deserve admiration because I have achieved so much." Self-pity says "I deserve admiration because I have sacrificed so much." Boasting is the voice of pride in the heart of the strong. Self-pity is the voice of pride in the heart of the weak. Boasting sounds self sufficient. Self-pity sounds self sacrificing.
The reason self-pity does not look like pride is that it appears to be needy. But the need arises from a wounded ego and the desire of the self-pitying is not really for others to see them as helpless, but heroes. The need self-pity feels does not come from a sense of unworthiness, but from a sense of unrecognized worthiness. It is the response of unappluaded pride."
- John Piper
From the book 'Desiring God', quoted in the book 'Future Grace', pg 94-95
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