Are We There Yet?

“…even if she looks like a truck”, and Other Sage Advice

seaton garrett — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:41 +0000

8 Minutes of Wow!

seaton garrett — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:59:31 +0000

Quote- Charles M. Schultz

seaton garrett — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:17:47 +0000

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’”

Eight Brainy (and funny) Theories About Tim Tebow

seaton garrett — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:29:03 +0000

This is great stuff.

He started the season as the third-stringer, and everyone freaked out. Then he got a start and won, and everyone freaked out. Then in his second start, he played horribly and got crushed, and everyone freaked out. Then he went on a winning streak, and everyone freaked out. Then he went on a losing streak, and everyone freaked out. Then he won a playoff game, and everyone freaked out. (DJ Gallo, ESPN)

(read the whole thing)

This Made Me Laugh

seaton garrett — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:54:23 +0000

And get off my lawn!!!

Ode to gravity

seaton garrett — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:55:21 +0000

Watch this one full screen and 1080p

HT- Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys

Mother of All Hot Wheels Tracks

seaton garrett — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:04:04 +0000

From the description:

http://www.hopeforgabe.org/ Watch it in 720p/HD and in full screen mode. This is a 3 minute long video of a 2,000 feet long powered Hot Wheels track that goes up and down the stairs, through 14 rooms of a house, around the outside of the house, and a jump over a hot tub. Email us at motherofalltracks@yahoo.com . Be sure to subscribe to my channel so that you will be notified when we complete the next video.

Stick around for the end of the video to see what www.hopeforgabe.org is about.

Funny… and scary!

seaton garrett — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:28:46 +0000

Grace in Les Miserables

seaton garrett — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:16:44 +0000

Quiet Resolve…

seaton garrett — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:40:44 +0000

“Squirrel!”

seaton garrett — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:40:54 +0000

Grace- Robert Capon

seaton garrett — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:43:08 +0000

‘Grace is wildly irreligious stuff. It’s more than enough to get God kicked out of the God union that the theologians have formed to keep him on his divine toes so he won’t let the riffraff off scot-free. Sensible people, of course, should need only about thirty seconds of careful thought to realize that getting off scot-free is the only way any of us is going to get off at all. But if all we can think of is God as the Eternal Bookkeeper putting down black marks against sinners–or God as the Celestial Mother-in-Law giving a crystal vase as a present and then inspecting it for chips every time she comes for a visit…well, any serious doctrine of grace is going to scare the rockers right off our little theological hobbyhorses.’ – Robert Capon, The Romance of the Word

Parenting…

seaton garrett — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:03:27 +0000

...not as complicated as you might think.

The Genesis of All Fear

seaton garrett — Wed, 11 May 2011 16:04:47 +0000

“There’s no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it” – Alfred Hitchcock

Just read a very good post about zombies. Looking forward to the next installments. (Who knew May is Zombie Appreciation Month?)

Stuff

seaton garrett — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:40:09 +0000

Since I don’t seem to have much to say these days, and there are others who say nothing much better, or at least more entertainingly than I do, I’ll be posting mainly links to stuff that I like. Hope you do too.

“How twisted is that?”

seaton garrett — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:08:02 +0000

Here’s a good quote to start the new year from James Spiegel in his book Gum, Geckos and God. (HT- Challies)

The other day I was sitting in a faculty meeting, trying not to doze off during some committee reports. As I looked around, I mused over how much each of my colleagues understands about his or her discipline. It occurred to me that if there was a single mind that possessed all of the knowledge in that room, its intelligence would be surpassed in human history. I also considered how easy it would be to trust such a person if he or she were to counsel me on some matter. From there I extrapolated: What if that person had all of the combined knowledge of everyone in Indiana? In the United States? Of the entire world population? Even if God had merely the sum of all human understanding, he should be easy to trust. Yet his wisdom and knowledge infinitely exceed the best human comprehension. Still we struggle to trust him. How twisted is that?

Faith is essentially the practice of trust. And our routine failure to properly trust an infinitely wise God reveals something of our own perversity. We all desire to control our circumstances, and faith is a surrendering of that control. So we naturally tend to rebel against faith. But God graciously counteracts this tendency by nurturing us. Like a good parent, he consistently demonstrates his love. And we, like kids, must trust him on this basis.

“Gentlemen…”

seaton garrett — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:48:13 +0000

I loved this exchange. Perfect reply.

I’m somewhat cynical, in case you haven’t noticed

seaton garrett — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:43:31 +0000

This from The Onion (once again) cracks me up.

Dwell on This (pt.2)

seaton garrett — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:29:08 +0000

“We trust, dear sir, that you will esteem it a most blessed employment to spend your time and skill in adorning Christ’s bride for her marriage with the Lamb, and that it is work that you will do with delight.

And that you will take heed that the ornaments you put upon her are of the right sort, what shall be indeed beautiful and precious in the eyes of the Bridegroom, that she may be all glorious within, and her clothing of wrought gold that on the wedding day she may stand on the King’s right hand in gold of Ophir.

The joyful day is coming when the spouse of Christ shall be led in unto the King with raiment of linen. And angels and faithful ministers will be the servants that shall lead her in.

And you, sir, if you are faithful in the charge that is now to be committed to you, shall be joined with glorious angels in that honorable and joyful service.

But with this difference: that you shall have the higher privilege. Angels and faithful ministers shall be together in bringing in Christ’s bride into His palace and presenting her to Him. But faithful ministers shall have a much higher participation of the joy of that occasion.

They shall have a greater and more immediate participation with the bride in her joy. For they shall not only be ministers to the church as the angels are, but parts of the church, principal members of the bride…

So great, dear sir, is the honor and joy that is set before you, to engage you to faithfulness in your pastoral care of this people; so glorious the prize that Christ has set up to engage you to run the race that is set before you.”

–Jonathan Edwards, “The Church’s Marriage To Her Sons, And To Her God,” in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 25, Sermons and Discourses 1743-1758. Ed. Wilson H. Kimnach (WJE Online Vol. 25), 193-194

(HT- Tolle Lege)

Dwell Upon This

seaton garrett — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:43:39 +0000

“How heart-cheering to the believer is the delight which God has in his saints! We cannot see any reason in ourselves why the Lord should take pleasure in us; we cannot take delight in ourselves, for we often have to groan, being burdened; conscious of our sinfulness, and deploring our unfaithfulness; and we fear that God’s people cannot take much delight in us, for they must perceive so much of our imperfections and our follies, that they may rather lament our infirmities than admire our graces. But we love to dwell upon this transcendent truth, this glorious mystery: that as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so does the Lord rejoice over us.”

- Charles Spurgeon, Morning & Evening, September 21

(HT- Of First Importance)