word.

Desire and delight have this in common: Neither is the Object desired or delighted in. God is. I make this obvious point because all of us from time to time speak loosely and say that the aim of our pursuit is joy. Or we say that we want to be happy. Those are not false or evil statements. A Christian means: I aim to pursue joy in God so that the infinitely valuable objective reality of the universe, God, will get all the glory possible from my life. “I want to be happy” may be Christian shorthand for “I want to know the One, and the only One, who is in himself all I have ever longed for in all my desires to be happy.”
—John Piper, When I Don't Desire God

Make My Day - 2010

Make My Day - 2010 has moved to Nashville!
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Nehemiah 9

An awesome picture of who God is.

Nehemiah 9
The Israelites have just spent time listening to Ezra read the Book of the Law of Moses and realized that they are way off the mark where God wants them to be. They have been sinning and dishonoring God like no other. So here they gather in sackcloth and put dust on their heads, confessing their sins and the wickedness of their fathers. They spent a quarter of the day reading the Book of the Law of the Lord their God, and then another quarter of the day in confession and worshiping God.

Here is what stands out in their praise to the Everlasting:

v. 5 Blessed be your glorious name
v. 6 You alone are LORD
v. 7 You are the LORD God
v. 8 You have kept your promise because you are righteous
v. 17 You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love
v. 19 Because of your great compassion you did not abandon them
v. 25 They reveled in your great goodness
v. 27 In your great compassion you gave them deliverers
v. 28 In your compassion you delivered them time after time
v. 31 In your great mercy you did not put an end to them or abandon them, for you are a gracious and merciful God
v. 32 O our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love

Blessed. Glorious. God alone. LORD God. YHWH. Righteous. Forgiving. Gracious. Compassionate. Slow to anger. Abounding in love. Delieverer. Merciful. Great. Mighty. Awesome.
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i want one in TN.

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What I'm missing in Kansas



Marley was rescued from the animal shelter in Manhattan, KS on May 16, 2009.






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