Hodge-Podge of Great Stuff!

Here are some things to check out, watch, read, and ponder this weekend!

-"Every single thing that happens to us expresses God's love to us, and comes to us for the furthering of God's purpose for us. Thus, so far as we are concerned, God is love to us--holy, omnipotent love--at every moment and in every event of every day's life. Even when we cannot see the why and the wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always, even when, humanly speaking, things are going wrong. We know that the true story of our life, when known, will prove to be, as the hymn says, "mercy from first to last" -- and we are content."

-J.I. Packer, Knowing God p. 123 (thank you Girl Talk for posting this!)


-I came across a blog a couple of weeks ago, spent some time going back to read the last month of posts to get a feel for it and walked away encouraged, teary, blessed, rebuked and so excited to pass it on to you in case you have not found it already. It's the "True Women" blog (all on Biblical Womanhood)...a ministry of Revive our Hearts (Nancy Leigh DeMoss). Right now they are in the middle of a conference...so the blog posts are about the conference...they are worth reading and so is anything else you dig up from the archives!!!!

-If you are looking for a movie to watch with your kids, I'd highly recommend "The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry" a christian film that is just precious! And, if your kids are like my kids, you might just want to go ahead and buy it because they will want to watch it more than once!:)

-"Life is full of hidden rocks, sudden violent winds of circumstances lying in wait for the believer. Every single one of them is embraced in James' word it. There is no trial, no great calamity or small pressure, no overwhelming sorrow or small rub of life outside that plan of God, whereby it is a stepping stone to glory. And it is for this reason that our settled conviction must be to appraise it as all joy, not because it is joyful in itself (for 'all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant' [Heb. 12:11] when it is in full flood), but because 'later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness' (Heb. 12:11). In James' words, it is the only way forward to become perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." Alec Motyer
(Thanks again Girl Talk blog for posting this one too!)

Happy Friday!

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