my verse for the week

James 1:2-3 "consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance."

hehe, trials.

with great wisdom comes great...pain in the gum area

so i'm teething again. it's been a while actually and i'm not really accustomed to the sensation. but it's given me a bit more of an insight into why babies scream..man my gums hurt. i need a rusk.

tell you what, though, i wish real wisdom came as straightforwardly as teeth. i'd love to just wake up one day and have little wisdoms poking through the preverbial gums of my mind. but sadly, it's just not going to happen that way.

on a totally different note, i made a discovery! sovereign grace ministies are planting a church in sydney! check out the website http://www.sovgraceoz.org/

thats all for now, exam preparation calls.. jen out.

p.s. i hope you're all going to chandler on the coast tonight :D

Methinks there is much reason in his saying

went on chandler walk in the sunshine today. he was talking about the games we play to avoid repenting when God convicts us of sin. i'm not going to do an in-depth reveiw of the whole sermon. you can listen to it here. but his closing words really stuck with me, to the point that i went back, paused it and wrote them down. and i thought i'd share them with you this evening. 

"All his commands are leading us to life and not begrudging submission to his power simply because he could command what he wanted to command...He is not trying to take anything from you but what would eventually destroy you. Even if that feels like it's impossibly woven into who you are as a person."

and that leads me into some shameless free advertising for Chandler on the coast, which you should all be at on wed 26th of August. 

thats really all for now...just a bit of a chandler plug. :D