Month: February 2011
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Early Spring Flower Blooms of Jasmine, Jonquil, and Daffodils
The photo of the day today comes from about 50 feet away from where I type this blog post. You can’t really tell from the shot but these little guys are about the size of my thumb, and while we don’t have a huge supply of Daffodils at our place we have a bunch of…
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Are There Different Degrees of Sin? The Greater Sin of John 19:11
Do you think there are varying degrees of sin? Isn’t all sin equal in God’s eyes? Lying is the same as stealing, it’s all sin to God, right? I was always under the assumption that all sin was created equal, having this drilled into my thought process for almost 40 years until I came to…
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Space Shuttle Discovery's Last Launch and the iPad NASA App HD
Yesterday the world finally got to see STS-133 launch after months of delays. It’s the 39th mission of Discovery and the 133rd flight of the Space Shuttle program, and was originally slated to launch on September 16, 2010. I went down to the cape with my Nephew in November hoping to see the launch then,…
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Space Shuttle Discovery’s Last Launch and the iPad NASA App HD
Yesterday the world finally got to see STS-133 launch after months of delays. It’s the 39th mission of Discovery and the 133rd flight of the Space Shuttle program, and was originally slated to launch on September 16, 2010. I went down to the cape with my Nephew in November hoping to see the launch then,…
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Deb on Fox Photo from March 1979 :: Throwback Thursday
My Throwback Thursday pic for today was a shot taken of Deborah and her parents in 1979. I love these old photos (cleaned up a bit color wise in the scan from the original though). They were all developed using some common film processor at the time and this was has on the back “Fox…
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Spring is Close, Cedar Pollen is in the Air
Yes, now I remember sneezing my head off last year now, it was when the Cedar trees started to put out all of that lovely pollen. The photo of the day today is from a backyard photo-walk, which includes tons of Cedar trees out here. All three of these photos were taken with my iPhone…
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Your Life is Bullet Proof Until God Calls You Home
Your life is bullet proof until the time that God is ready for you to come home. God is in control and will not let anything happen to you until that appointed time. Psalm 91:9-13
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It's a Cop-Out to Blame God for Human Irresponsibility
I have been slowly going through Dave Earley’s book called 21 Reasons Bad Things Happen to Good People, and today I re-read his original premise for the book that he states as “The Reason No One Wants to Hear”, which basically covers original sin in the human condition. Ultimately God gave Adam and Eve a…
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It’s a Cop-Out to Blame God for Human Irresponsibility
I have been slowly going through Dave Earley’s book called 21 Reasons Bad Things Happen to Good People, and today I re-read his original premise for the book that he states as “The Reason No One Wants to Hear”, which basically covers original sin in the human condition. Ultimately God gave Adam and Eve a…
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Auburn Baseball Season Opens Today :: Friday Feet
Today is opening day for Auburn Tigers Baseball, and for this Friday, it’s my Friday Feet post. It is always wonderful to see Baseball season roll around again since it usually means warmer weather is not far behind. Unlike many seasons that start in February, today it was actually in the mid-70’s and one of…
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Poisoning Toomer's Live Oaks in Auburn Senseless but Requires Forgiveness
I was quite saddened yesterday when I found out (who we now allegedly know as) Harvey Updyke from Dadeville (here on Facebook) had deliberately poisoned the Toomer’s Oaks in Auburn with a Dow Agroscience called Spike 80 DF (PDF of what this chemical is and does) “in retaliation for a 1983 event when Auburn students…
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Picnic in Parc Nautique France Summer of 1993 :: Throwback Thursday
In an attempt to keep trying to make my blog well rounded in the four categories, along with keeping a mix of light and heavy posts, I decided this morning to bring back my Throwback Thursday posts (at least for this week). When my son was younger (he is late 20’s now) he use to…
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Blue Sky and Warmer Weather is Coming, and Spring?
Photo of the day today comes from my walk around the property yesterday. The sun is out, sky is blue, and it is so beautiful outside right now but Spring just isn’t quite here yet. I love these tall long needle pines. They don’t care what the season is, no matter if it’s freezing cold…
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What’s Saint Valentine’s Day Minus Commercialization?
So it’s Valentine’s Day again, and while I would like to say I go all out on Valentine’s Day, I usually do not. Not only that, but I am also not a gift buyer for this day, and much of it specifically has to do with how commercialized every single possible holiday day has become.…
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How to Teach the Doctrine of Salvation on Sunday Morning
The God of Salvation surrounds us. Psalm 19:1 says even the heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky abovet proclaims his handiwork. (ESV) This photo just reminds me of what a great God we worship. In our society today there are probably as many personal interpretations of the Doctrine of Salvation, or how…
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