My little "Cutie Pies"

I have to add a picture of my little girls all dressed up for Halloween this year.  Adrianna is Minnie Mouse  and Shayna is "Angelina Ballerina"...a cute little costume she got from Grandma Sharee.

Having fun being "creative"

Little wall decorations I made for our baby boy's room and the girls' room.  I found stuff around the house and printed the quotations from my computer.  It was fun and didn't cost a dime! 

Why the Bible?

The Bible in and of itself has no “owner” here on earth. The sole purpose of the Bible is to point people to Jesus. It doesn’t point to any specific institution, church or mortal man. The same things cannot be said of any other book. Even if another book speaks of Christ, the rights of that book belong to only one specific institution and in the end, point people to that particular establishment. Many people like the thought of receiving holy writings from God by some mystical singular event. It’s appealing to the flesh. However, God has shown that He works over time, through real, historical, actual ways, and from real, historical, actual people and places. Just think about it, God doesn’t “magically” deliver a full-term baby out of thin air and yet the real ways, real people and real time He chooses to create a child is still a miraculous event. God worked the same way when He delivered His Word to all mankind. The Bible contains sixty six different books, written by over forty different writers, who lived on at least three different continents, and spoke in at least three different languages.  They wrote over the course of no less than a time span of one thousand five hundred years. What’s even more amazing is how the separate writings support each other. Many of the writers didn’t even know one another, which made a conspiracy to deceive impossible. God doesn’t tell us to search, test and prove truth (Deuteronomy 13) and then leave us with no evidence. No, through the Bible He has left us a mountain of evidence to search, test and prove. Does the divinity of the evidence we find come down to faith? Yes, that’s the same scenario found when Thomas doubted the resurrection of Jesus and when Simon Peter professed Jesus to be the Christ. Jesus told Thomas: “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed”. But, let’s not forget that right before Jesus said that to Thomas He had allowed him to feel the prints in his hands, feet and side. Thomas was genuine in his request for proof (unlike the scribes and Pharisees in Matt 12) so Jesus granted his request, but it was the unseen Spirit that witnessed to the divinity of the evidence Thomas was seeing that made him believe. Same thing goes with Simon Peter. The Messiah was standing right in front of him when he confessed that He was the Christ, but Jesus said “flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” Evidence alone does not witness of divinity, the unseen Spirit does and God uses both (Romans 1:19-20). Jesus said: “no man has seen God at any time…” (John 1:18) So, faith in God (divinity), himself is what we believe without seeing. Thus, we walk by faith in the unseen God. This is not the blind faith that any other religious book asks of its reader. Blind faith is dangerous because just like the dangers of feelings (Jeremiah 17:9), anything goes. Search the Bible, test it and compare what you find with any other religious book and you’ll see that it is incomparable. Will you find things that scholars and scientists disagree on? Yes, but the evidences that are proven and agreed upon by reputable scholars and scientists (both secular and religious) will blow your mind. When you decide where to put your faith remember that, “The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.” (Proverbs 14:15)

"My grace is sufficient for you: " Restoration or Jesus?

• "Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man [Jesus] is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:  And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." Acts 13:38-39

• "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."  Galatians 2:16

• "And by him [Jesus] all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses." Acts 13:39

• "Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Romans 4:4

• "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?" Romans 11:35

• "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness." Romans 4:5

• "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." Galatians 2:21

• "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." Galatians 5:4

• "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:   Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

• "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;" Colossians 2:14

• "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" Romans 3:24

• "Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Romans 3:20

• "And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." Romans 11:6

• "Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith." Romans 3:27

• "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." Romans 3:28

• "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6

• "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12

• "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Romans 9:9

 
Who are we going to believe, Jesus Christ or men that say His shed blood was insufficient to guarantee eternal life with God by saying MORE needed to be done?  The need for a "restoration" mocks what Christ did and denies the sufficiency of His sacrifice.

• "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: " 2 Corinthians 12:9

• "It is finished." John 19:30