sin

So yesterday I discovered the meaning of sin. Ok so you may know what it is. That is fine but check this out.

Sin - The primary Greek word rendered "sin" is "hamartia". This word essentially means "missing the mark; falling short; or a departure". The essential idea being conveyed by the use of this word is that of "a departure from holiness"; thus "hamartia" means to sin; to depart from God's standard of holiness; to become unrighteous; to fail to live up to what God requires of us. (Rom 3:23; 14:23; James 4:17; 1 John 3:4)

"Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal" (from "The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter VI, Item VI). [via]

With this said... What are we falling short of?
Romans 3:23 says: "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." [via]
So we are falling short of the glory of God.. what is the glory of God?

Honor. God’s glory demonstrates God’s unique and incomparable worthiness. It calls for the response of respect, esteem, and worship – a humble, grateful acknowledgement of God’s worthiness. God uniquely possesses this inner glory and has the divine right to be acknowledged as supreme. No other being possesses this right because no other being possesses this glory. All creaturely glory is derived. God’s glory is intrinsic and original. The glory of creatures – no matter how great – is merely a reflection of the glory of God. Our sin is that we see glory in everything else beside God! We love the reflection more than the source. This is the essence of sin: “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). [via]

So what does that mean? That means that ALL have sinned! That means that ALL have fallen short! That means that the only way that we can be saved is by repenting of our sins, and by accepting Jesus into your heart.

Now if we have fallen short (sinned) how have we done that? I point you to the Ten Commandments. Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever looked at a woman (or man) in lust? Jesus said that "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." [via] I don't know one person... including me...

Sermon over... for now.

Prayer

You know... I have a hard time praying. Most of the time I just sluff it off. Don't know what to say. After reading this article I am wanting to have a deep zeal for the lost. I want to help God win this world for his Kingdom. It is time for us to step up. It is time for us to be energetic. I would write more. But it is late. I need to pray.
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Photoshop + to much free time =

So Eric's Bro-n-law had some fun with yoda...
Just so that you all know.. his name is mike.
And he is Happy Go Lucky.

power

So last night our power went out for a couple hours. It was kind of odd really. Normally the power just flickers. But last night...it was out. My daughter didn't know what to do with the TV off. Quite honestly I didn't know what to do with no TV, no Internet. I was lost. couldn't function. We went out and stood on the front porch for a while. Then ordered pizza to replace our awesome frozen pizza that we put in the oven minutes before the electric went out. It just was weird.

So after calling the electric company and finding out that 2400 people in chillicothe were out as well and that our electric would not be on until 10:30 (at this point it was like 6:30ish). So we ordered the pizza. The pizza came. We sat down and I turned on a battery powered radio when.... The lights came on. We had power. We were happy. So happy we turned on the Incredibles and ate our pizza.

Yoda

Yoda is cool. Don't believe me? See for yourself.

With the whole starwars craze out there BK is doing something cool. If you say "make it a jedi meal please". They tack on a an extra buck and some odd cents and you get TWO TOYS. Just like the Yoda you see above. I like Yoda. And he likes this new site design.

sifr

so I have added sIFR to the headers to add a little spice to the site. I think it looks nice. I had to spice it up a bit. Just seemed to me that something was lacking. With sIFR I can use what ever font I want and it replaces what is there with flash text. If you have flash turned off then it will show up as normal. No big deal. Have a peek around.. Let me know if something is broke.

Brown

So it is late (1:37 AM) I just sort of felt like changing things. The human mind likes change. So that is what this is. There isn't anything super special here. A new header. A lot of brown. And that is it. Take a peak around. You like Brown too?

You know I have this brown pen. It is a nice brown pen.

Binary

How to count in binary....

So how cool would you be if you could count in binary? Just think of it, you could count a lot faster. Add faster, and a whole lot more. Link

Found all of that on a site called howtoons.org. It is cool. Go check it out.

UFO?

So you tell me your take. Is this a UFO? Or is it just a dirty lense on google's maps?

Looks scary to me. Anyone want to go to florida now?

Go Blogger

Well... I am glad the fixed it... sort of.. Yet now it is harder.
What? You don't know what I am talking about? Let me tell you. For many years now I have been able to send pictures from my Sprint PCS phone to my daughters website. Oh the joy. Out and about and I snap a photo, send it to the email address that I put into my blogger account. It was like eating a gallon of ice cream on a hot Sunday afternoon. Then it happened. It broke. Oh you could still send the pictures to that email address, it was just the formatting that was way off. So I looked and looked for a solution. And I found one at Flickr. Now when I send a picture it goes to my flickr account, my Photo Page and my daughters page. Now that is nice. But a little overkill. I was still looking for a way to do it a lot easier.

Enter GoBlogger

GoBlogger works like this. You send an email to go@blogger.com from your phone. It then sends you a confirmation. You login.. tell it what blog to point at.. and it forever more will post to that blog.

Well this is great.. easy to operate and everything. But... one thing not thought about is this. What if I want to post one pic to one blog and another to another blog. Well... Can't do it unless I use a different phone.

Now you can send an email using the old way... but now it just comes up blank. No image is included. So blogger has stripped it. So... a big thank you goes to blogger for making the process very simple. And a big "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING" goes to them for making sure it works on all of your blogs.

Thanks David Crowder

Can you believe it!!!! David Crowder gave me thanks!!!! I am still in awe!!! Check out the full thing here.

Technology

Has technology made our lives harder?
More and more you see people carrying around a cell phone, a laptop, a pda, an mp3 player, a gameing system. And you wonder... is this really easier? Remember when you left work and you were away from work? Do you remember when you would go to the store to get away. Now when you go out your phone rings. Right now I am writing this in my bed on my dell laptop. I am doing work while I am at home sick. Does this technology relaly help matters? Or, make it worse? You worry about missing that call, or missing that email. You are always working even when you are not working. You end up holding down 4 or more jobs even how minor they are. Wireless technology is here to make life easier but when do you turn it off? When do you let your voice mail pick up that call? When do you just stop. And take a nap. Play in the yard with this kids. No SMS messages. No Emails. No laptop. No work. Just play. I think we really need to play again. I think we really need to breathe in the fresh air. I think we really need to turn things off once in a while.
Now... Can I do it? And Can you?
What would happen to this world if we did do this?
What would happen to this world if we didn't have the internet, cellphones, pda's, iPods, gameboy's, PSP's.
Would we be healthier?
Or just happier?

The Tip

How many times do you go to a restaraunt and wish you didn't have to figure out a tip. I mean come on. People think that you have to tip 20%. But what if you didn't get a refill? What if your order was messed up? And if it was why would you short change the waiter/waitress... do you know it was their fault? This evening we had good service from a waitress. We try to tip good.. but what is good? Who wants to figure that crap out? I know that there are tip calculators out there. But do you really use them if they are standing there staring at you?

My suggestion is this. I would like to see restaraunts to put on their reciepts three suggested tip totals. These can be rated as Good/Fair/Aweful service. Or you could have fun with it. Like... Rounded(up to the nearest dollar)/Fair/No Tip.. or something fun. These would be suggested and would give you final total as well. I think if there were three suggested tips on a bill and people knew about them and why they were doing it then this wouldn't be a slap in the face. It is helping you get out of there with out a brain crap.