Saturday, March 30, 2013

Wherever You Are

Jim Elliot


                                       


Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Wonderful Words of Life


Wonderful words of life
Sing them over again to me,
 wonderful words of life, Let me more of their beauty see,
wonderful words of life; Words of life and beauty
 teach me faith and duty.
Refrain
Beautiful words, wonderful words,
 wonderful words of life, Beautiful words, wonderful words,
 wonderful words of life.
Christ, the blessed One, gives to all 
wonderful words of life; Sinner, list to the loving call, 
wonderful words of life; All so freely given,
 wooing us to heaven.
Refrain
Sweetly echo the Gospel call, 
wonderful words of life; Offer pardon and peace to all, 
wonderful words of life; Jesus, only Savior, 
sanctify us forever.



At Calvary

 A personal favorite.

Years I spent in vanity and pride,
Caring not my Lord was crucified,
Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary.

Refrain

Mercy there was great, and grace was free;
Pardon there was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary.

By God’s Word at last my sin I learned;
Then I trembled at the law I’d spurned,
Till my guilty soul imploring turned to Calvary.

Refrain

Now I’ve given to Jesus everything,
Now I gladly own Him as my King,
Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary!

Refrain

Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man!
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

The Mystery of Grace

Who shall know it.
 The Mystery of Grace —John Newton
The Mystery of Grace

In evil long I took delight,
Unawed by shame or fear,
Till a new object struck my sight,
And stopped my wild career.

I saw One hanging on a tree,
In agonies and blood;
He fixed His languid eyes on me,
As near His cross I stood.

Sure never till my latest breath,
Shall I forget that look!
It seemed to charge me with His death,
Though not a word He spoke.

My conscience felt and owned the guilt
And plunged me in despair;
I saw my sins His blood had spilt
And helped to nail Him there.

A second look He gave, which said,
"I freely all forgive;
This blood is for thy ransom paid;
I die that thou may'st live."

Thus while His death my sin displays
In all its blackest hue,
Such is the mystery of grace,
It seals my pardon too!

—John Newton


Thursday, March 14, 2013

Florida

Well here are those pictures I promised. Not very good but they will have to do.




                                                 Luke called these Cow-nosed Rays


                              Pittsburg Pirates versus Baltimore Orioles scrimage
                                          score at the beginning of the game
                                                             Sheikra
                                     400 foot drop + 90 degree angle = awesome
                                                          Cheetah Hunt = 4 g's.
                                                          Astronaut only get 3 g's
                                                                         Ibis
Cattle type thing :)
                                                            Not a bad week altogether

                                             

For all of you waiting for baseball season.

Its almost here.  Start practicing.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.  I'll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.  ~Rogers Hornsby

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Florida!!

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't posted in a while but you wouldn't believe how busy I've been(like we haven't heard that one before).Well I'm now in Florida relaxing, tanning, sunburning(ouch).My brother and I have been fishing all week and haven't caught a thing.So anyway we'll move on to bigger and better things. We'll be back in MI on tuesday so maybe I can give you more detail then. Until that time my friends.