Dear Mom,

Mother’s Day is just around the corner so I was thinking about you. I started thinking, I love you but why? So I began pondering over the course of my life and the things that you have done. There are so many things that I can point to. For example, now that I have my own children I realize what you did before I can even remember, the countless nights awake feeding me and cleaning up from my various messes. And then I was able to walk and run, you were always there tending to my wounds and watching out for the dangers that I didn’t even know existed. Next I went off to school, everyday making me a lunch, giving me what I needed to grow physically. Every night reading to me from the “Keys for Kids” book and the Bible, giving me what I needed to grow Spiritually. You would pray for me, that I would love Jesus. And then came puberty, oh the dreaded and never forgotten years of puberty. What I wouldn’t give to erase that from my brain. Yet you were there, loving me with an endless and unconditional love that I had no understanding of. Thank you, Mom. Read the rest of this entry →

Have you been looking for a Bible to read to your children or to get your children so that they can read?  The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name by: Sally-Lloyd Jones is by far the best children’s Bible that I have come across.  Sally-Lloyd Jones does an amazing job of pointing each story to the person and work of Jesus, that is what the Bible is all about and finally there is a children’s Bible that does this.  Not only would I suggest this book for people with children but I would suggest that any christian would benefit from reading it.  You can get it in various formats: Just the Book, The Deluxe Edition (includes a bookmark ribbon and 3 audio cds, they are good), or the Spanish Edition.

A few months ago I wrote about a new songs that Misael and I wrote, that we also sang in church. Here is a demo mp3 and also the chord sheets. Note that Read the rest of this entry →

We recently song a new song in church that Misael Acosta and I wrote.  We adapted the text from a puritan prayer “The Great God,” from the book “Valley of Vision: A collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions” by Arthur G. Bennett. This is a great book to pick up, the prayers are all one page long and also very thought provoking.  Great if you want to be able to read something that you can think, pray, and meditate on throughout the day.

This particular prayer is very humbling.  Recognizing that we are sinful and helpless apart from God and it is He and He along that can Read the rest of this entry →

I have been thinking about the upcoming election quite a bit later.  Seriously how could you not?  Have you not watched even one TV program or visited a web page, the ads are everywhere.

As a Christian I have to decide who I am going to vote for, and here in Michigan the other big thing on the ballet is proposal 2.  Proposal 2 would expand the use of human embryos for any research permitted under federal law subject to a few limitations.  There seems to be so many different issues and all of them appear to be of the utmost importance, how do we determine which ones we can sacrifice on when we vote and which ones we can’t?  I have done some reading and found a few articles and links that have been very helpful to me in thinking through these issues.  Please read these before voting next Tuesday.

Piper Article

Randy Alcorn’s Blog

Proposal 2

Blog addressing Proposal 2