Making a Difference

2010 February 9
by joshuaesc

I’m not advocating all of what Andy Stanley does or offers, but here’s a good quote from his book, Next Generation Leader: 5 Essentials for Those Who Will Shape the Future

The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover the portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.

Figure out what makes a difference and DO THAT‼!

(ht: Matt Perman)

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Warm Wash Cloth …. Before and After

2010 February 9
by joshuaesc

Pray for Grace

2010 February 8
by joshuaesc

Parents: Imitate Christ For Your Children

“Take care what you do in front of your child. It is a true proverb, ‘He who sins before a child, sins double.’Strive rather to be a living epistle of Christ, such as your families can read, and that plainly too. Be an example of reverence for the Word of God, reverence in prayer, reverence for means of grace, reverence for the Lord’s day. Be an example in words, in temper, in diligence, in temperance, in faith, in charity, in kindness, in humility.

“Do not think your children will practice what they do not see you do. You are their model picture – and they will copy what you are. Your reasoning and your lecturing, your wise commands and your good advice – all this they may not understand, but they can understand your life!”

~ J.C. Ryle

The Upper Room, “The Duties of Parents”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1970], 312.

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Parent’s New Kitchen

2010 February 6
by joshuaesc

Prayer & Humility – John Owen

2010 February 4
by joshuaesc
“A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, and the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more” (John Owen).

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The Permanence View of Marriage – Voddie Baucham

2010 February 3
by joshuaesc

GIVE ME A BOOK, an article about reading

2010 February 2
by joshuaesc

GIVE ME A BOOK, an article about reading, http://ow.ly/12VSx

A Phenomenal Video of Steve Jobs’ Adjectives

2010 February 2
by joshuaesc

Waking Up to Find This – Pendleton, SC

2010 January 31
by joshuaesc

Reverence for the Sabbath – Author Unknown to me

2010 January 30
by joshuaesc
Having lived not without habitual reverence for the Sabbath, yet without that attention to its religious duties which Christianity requires, [I resolve]: 1. To rise early and in order to it, to go to sleep early on Saturday.
2. To use some extraordinary devotions in the morning.
3. To examine the tenor of my life, and particularly the last week; and to mark my advances in religion, or recession from it. 4. To read the Scripture methodically with such helps as are at hand.
5. To go to church twice.
6. To read books of divinity, either speculative or practical.
7. To instruct my family.
8.To wear off by meditation any worldly soil contracted in the week. (PRAYERS & MEDITATIONS, a devotional classic).
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Timms Mill’s Beaver Trail with the boys. Yes it is icy!!!

2010 January 30
by joshuaesc
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Timms Mill (Pendleton, SC) Producing the Finest Grits in the Southeast

2010 January 30
by joshuaesc