From an interview with Bob Kauflin:
I would read Scripture. It didn’t make sense to me. It didn’t affect me. I remember lying at bed at times just reciting the Lord’s Prayer to myself over and over and over, hoping that would help. I couldn’t sleep; then at times all I wanted to do was sleep. I remember saying this early on: “God, if you keep me like this for the rest of my life but it means that I will know you better, then keep me like this.” That was the hardest prayer I’ve ever prayed.
During that time I read an abridged version of John Owen’s Sin and Temptation and Jerry Bridges’s The Discipline of Grace.
About a year into the process I talked to a good friend, Gary Ricucci, whom I am now in a small group with at Covenant Life Church. I said, “Gary, I feel hopeless all the time.”
He said, “You know, Bob? I think your problem is that you don’t feel hopeless enough.”
I don’t know what I looked like on the outside, but on the inside I was saying, “You are crazy. You are crazy. I feel hopeless.”
He said, “No, if you were hopeless, you would stop trusting in yourself and rely completely on what Jesus Christ accomplished for you.”
That was the beginning of the way out. And I remember saying to myself literally hundreds of times—every time these feelings of hopelessness and panic and a desire to ball up in a fetal position would come on me—“I feel completely hopeless because I am hopeless, but Jesus Christ died for hopeless people, and I’m one of them.”
Over time I began to believe that. And today when I tell people that Jesus is a great Savior, I believe it, because I know that he saved me. That’s where my joy comes from. My joy comes from knowing that at the very bottom, at the very pit of who I am, it is blackness and sin, but the love and grace of Jesus goes deeper.
I’ve been there too. There’s hope at the bottom, when you think, Jesus couldn’t have saved me. He wouldn’t save me. I’m too wicked. Too lost. Too despondent. And the truth is, we were too wicked us to deserve the rescue. But He did it anyway. He did it because he loves us.
(Source: thegospelcoalition.org)
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Looking at both digital memory and analog devices, the researchers calculate that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. (Yes, that’s a number with 20 zeroes in it.)
Put another way, if a single star is a bit of information, that’s a galaxy of information for every person in the world. That’s 315 times the number of grains of sand in the world. But it’s still less than one percent of the information that is stored in all the DNA molecules of a human being.
” — (Justin Taylor -> Joe Carter)(Source: sciencedaily.com)
Rondo takes on Lebron. Comical, but impressive.
From the Celtics Blog: ”Whoa, look at that girl… third row.. seat seven… wearing a Heat jersey… i need to get her number after the game. Oh, Rondo, didn’t see you there.”
He was kind of ornery the whole night, even sticking his head into a Heat on court huddle.
I think this is his victory pose. One under par. (Taken with instagram)
Daniel setting up for a straight-away. (Taken with instagram)
“Comfort your soul with three plain conclusions:
(1) Every event is the product of God’s providence…
(2) God has promised, ‘I will never leave you, nor forsake you’…
(3) God in His wisdom conceals he comforts that he intends to give you at the various stages of tour life, so that he may encourage your heart to full dependence on His faithful promises now.”
— William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor
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“To put our findings in perspective, the 6.4*1018 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in 2007 are in the same ballpark area as the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second,” they write.
Our total storage capacity is the same as an adult human’s DNA. And there are several billion humans on the planet.
” — from The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information(Source: Ars Technica)
(Source: pastortank)
“Better is the little that the righteous has
than the abundance of the wicked.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the LORD upholds the righteous.”
— Psalm 37:16-17