Happy Reformation Day!

"Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying 'Repent,' intended that the whole life of believers should be repentance." Martin Luther, Thesis 1

Posting

I am not posting anything original. 

I am simply a link peddler. 

I need to generate some original content before my copy and paste buttons wear out. 

Whoa...

Go here to see a counter that updates just how fast social media, and web based communication is happening. Crazy stuff:

http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/#more-1734

HT: Challies

CONTINUAL REPENTANCE

O God of Grace,

You have imputed my sin to my substitute, and have imputed his righteousness to my soul, clothing me with a bridegroom's robe, decking me with jewels of holiness. But in my Christian walk I am still in rags; my best prayers are stained with sin; my penitential tears are so much impurity; my confessions of wrong are so many aggravations of sin; my receiving the Spirit is tinctured with selfishness.

I need to repent of my repentance; I need my tears to be washed; I have no robe to bring to cover my sins, no loom to weave my own righteousness; I am always standing clothed in filthy garments, and by grace am always receiving change of raiment, for you always justify the ungodly; I am always going into the far country, and always returning home as a prodigal, always saying, "Father, forgive me," and you are always bringing forth the best robe.

Every morning let me wear it, every evening return in it, go out to the day's work in it, be married in it, be wound in death in it, stand before the great white throne in it, enter heaven in it shining as the sun.

Grant me never to lose sight of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the exceeding righteousness of salvation, the exceeding glory of Christ, the exceeding beauty of holiness, the exceeding wonder of grace.

"Continual Repentance," in The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, ed. Arthur Bennett (Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust), 136-137.

FRIDAYS ARE FOR FACIAL HAIR

If I grew a beard I would hide out for a few months until it looked as good as this. That is some superb facial hair.

Ray Lamontagne

Yep.

"This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea (I think St. John of the Cross called God a sea) and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash."

C. S. Lewis, "A Slip of the Tongue," in The Weight of Glory, page 187.

INSANE

A friend of mine sent me this today. Anytime it is linked to I have to watch it. 

Sports are unpredictable, but I have to say that it's unlikely you will ever see anything like this again.  I mean, people haven't even thought of stuff that preposterous to put in movies.  It's just insane. Enjoy: