Called By The Will of God

I'm going to do my next study of on 1 Corinthians. Why? Not really sure. I did learn something about skipping over the greeting at the beginning of Paul's books, because there is even depth there. 1 Corinthians starts out with Paul's introduction of himself as "called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus".

For some reason, this is as far as I got today. "Called by the will of God" struck me because we use the word "called" often without thinking about the will of God. Paul's understanding of grace was so far beyond mine. He recognized he was called because it was the will of God. This understanding should lead us to a deeper commitment to live lives that please God.

Understanding the Amount of Forgiveness

Today I read a passage that I wrote a note about a few Sunday's ago at my church. We have such an amazing pastor. His teaching style and knowledge are very rare, in fact I've not ever heard someone that can be deep and simple at the same time.

But enough about him. My note says, "Who loves Jesus more? The one who is forgiven more. This is an understanding of the amount of forgiveness, not an actual amount of sin committed." The passage that was taught and caused me to write this note, and that I read today is Luke 7:36-50.

Jesus was invited to the home of a Pharisee, where a "woman of the city" followed Him to wash his feet with her tears and hair, and anoint them with an ointment because she knew who he truly was and that he could offer forgiveness. The Pharisee didn't understand it because he didn't realize his need for that forgiveness.

We all have sinned. We all need the grace of God. We all need to understand that need. No one is good. The Pharisee was not any better than the prostitute. In fact, he was most likely not saved from his sin because of his unbelief in Jesus and his lack of understanding of his need for the grace of God.

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Here Again

Well, here I am again. I woke up early, read my Bible, and still have so much to do to get my spiritual life back on track. This is, I hope, the start to a re-kindling of my studies. It is really the only way to learn and grow in understanding of God's grace, which is the only thing that can truly save me from my sin.

This is short and sweet and to the point because I haven't decided what I'm going to read and study. I read 1 Corinthians 1 today, but if I decide to stay in Corinthians, I will break it down the way I did with Romans.

The Coolest HTML5 Interactive Music Video

This is truly amazing. This website creates a music video using Google Maps, Google Street View, and Google Earth to embed images from an address you enter.  This requires Google Chrome, HTML5, and several browser windows do open, but this is really cool.  Here is mine based on my high school.

Try it out here.

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So Much To Say, No Time To Say It - Part 3

I really need a better way to blog. This is the third time I've posted a list of things I want to blog about but just don't have the time for. Part 1 and Part 2 are also interesting.

Twitter is close to what I need, but there isn't really an app that allows me to save all my thoughts and links to a central location for easy access and formatting for the blog. Someone needs to write an application that allows all of the Internet links and stories, as well as, all the other information we read or hear about to come together in a central place for later formating and editing. These days, Husband and Daddy duties trump my ability to freely blog. I've been wanting to write about the following topics, but I haven't had the free time. I still need to find a grant or something that would allow me to pursue my desire to write this thing, without having a job. Maybe then I could edit and correct me spelling and grammar issues before publishing.

The Topics
The September 1st Apple Event

The iPad with iOS 4.2 finally makes the iPad look interesting to me

The iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1

Pepsi should go after Hansen's market share with Sierra Mist Natural

Mr. Rogers

Steve Jobs' personally ownership in Disney, more stock than Eisner?

Dodge-ball is illegal in school, a.k.a. we are raising wimps(NSFW). Part of the on-going story of "The government want to tell you what to do". This is not really news but getting worse.

Soda Company's breakdown

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