http://www.blog.oldredhat.com Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:17:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our vacation was over Sunday night. In nine days we drove 3,000 miles through seven states seeing four national parks. Of those nine days, we spent six nights in a tent, three of them really cold, one really rainy, and one oddly really windy. It was a fast and furious vacation. ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=822 Last April I developed a toothache. I tolerated it through the month of May. In early June I had had enough misery and went to the dentist. I knew I would need a root canal, and a painful root canal was what I got. I knew it would be expensive, and ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=820 Sometimes it is hard to mentally or emotionally work through the mysteries of God. It can be heartbreaking and mentally confounding. It is the mystery of God, though, that makes Him bigger and wiser and deeper than us. And we need that. A small, fully understandable God isn’t the God of ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=818 In Christ, His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. (2 Peter 1:3) Life is uphill. Sometimes it’s easy and sometimes it is quite hard. The goodness of God sends us uphill to ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=815 We hope to see this, or something like this, in a month or so. For our vacation this year we’ll be visiting Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and Zion National Park. We’re gonna do it in seven days spending each night in a tent. That’s part of the plan. The other part of ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=812 There are some places that are hallowed and sacred. This picture is of people looking out onto Ground Zero.  And Ground zero is such a place and rightly so. There are also some relationships that hallowed and sacred. Marriage is one. Parent-child is another. Such relationships are always to be well-guarded ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=810 Honor, duty, faithfulness. All virtues we esteem. Our journey through life, as Christians, takes many turns. Some of them rather common and a few rather exhilarating. Steadiness and consistency may seem boring, but they are actually quite hard to do. For example, to be consistently patient towards those who drive us ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=808 “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” Sometimes it is easy to have idle hands. At other times we find out hands quite busy. We have to be careful of doing things that give us and others the appearance of being busy, but in effect have very ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=805 Lizards, like all creation, reflect the glory of God. At first glance, their just another scaley creature. Perhaps a scarey creature too. But upon some thoughtful observation a lizard will clearly reveal his divine Maker. How so? Well, we gotta slow down and move past a first glance and into thoughtful observation. That wont ... http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=803 Some see grand things and are wowed by nature. Others see grand things and are wowed with what God says about Himself through nature. Jesus is behind this because of Colossians 1:16-17 and because of Hebrews 1:3. Photo Credit.  See this BIG.  See many more. http://www.blog.oldredhat.com/?p=799