The Gospel Crier

Here is a wonderful website that Just launched this week!

The Gospel Crier

It is sponsered by our former Church whom we still love so, so dearly and miss greatly! These people are seeking to be a glorifying light in the midst of a hard won place in the midwest! Knowing the apathy they face on a daily basis they are following in obedience in many ways that are hard because of their local! I hope you will often visit this site and enjoy the information and the godly teaching that is found there!! Share their site with anyone whome you may think will benefit!!!

While My Husband was Reading My Favorite book....

He came across this stellar passage....

Suffering has to be endured in order that it may pass away. Either the world must bear the whole burden and collapse beneath it, or it must fall on Christ to be overcome in him. He therefore suffers vicariously for the world. His is the only suffering which has redemptive efficacy. But the Church knows that the world is still seeking for someone to bear its sufferings, as so as it follows Christ, suffering becomes the church's lot too and bearing it, it is borne up by Christ. As it follows him beneath the cross, the church stands before God as the representative of the world.

Say What??

"So I didn't want to say anything to Kace, because he tagged in our car, but the picture he drew were really good! It was like this circle design and it popped!" .......Daddy.

8 years...WOW!

2009

Photo Round Up: Silas Is Six

Two years ago my biggest man was turning six years old! Can't believe it's true, but it is! We are now nearly 8 and ready for everything and anything!

We need your Help amongst the Christians

"Have we told you how much we need your help for the work among the heathen; but often we feel we need it almost as much for the work among the Christians. Over and over again it is told, but still it is hardly understood, that the Christians need to be converted; that the vast majority are not converted; that statistics may mislead, and do not stand for Eternity work; that many a pastor, catechist, teacher, has a name to live, but it dead; that the Church is very dead as a whole--thank God for every exception. We do not say this thoughtlessly; the words are a grief to write. We humble ourselves that it is so, and take to ourselves the blame. It is true that the corpse of the dead church is dressed, just as it is at home, only here it is even more dressed; and because the spirit of the land is intensely religious, its grave-clothes are vestements. But dressed death is still death."

--Amy Carmichael

Crazy Artists

Kace
stained glass window

A Marvel and A Miracle...

O my Father, it is of Your compassions alone, that I am not consumed!...The pillar of Your presence has guided me through many a perplexing path! Your love has smiled through many a threatening cloud! Your restraining grace has arrested me in many a slippery way! ....I am truly a marvel and miracle of Your preservation, patience, and mercy!

"Hold me up--and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117

---John MacDuff

www.gracegems.org

Kace Art

even though Kace had no grand parents for his first gp day, he did an awesome job on this tree!!

According to Kace: How much can you eat, Daddy?

"You can eat a lion, huh, daddy?"....Kace.
"No way, kace, a lion is huge!"....Daddy.
"An elephant, then?" ...Kace.
"No, son, an elephant is bigger than a lion!" .....Daddy.
"A hippo?" ....Kace.
"Jeese!"....Daddy.
"A baby lion?" ....Kace
"No, Kace, a baby lion is big too."....Daddy.
"I know, a baby koala!"....Kace smiling, daddy shaking his head!

What Shall I Do?

So then, what shall I say to those who have thus bespattered me? Shall I threaten them? Shall I chide them? Shall I flatter them? Shall I entreat them to hold their tongues? No, not I. Were it not for that these things made them ripe for damnation, that are the authors and abettors, I would say unto them, 'Report it, because 'twill increase my glory.'

Where in the Us Have the Crazies Been???

I guess the real question is, where will we go next??