i heart herschel

kind of to answer Herschel's question--

so i realized that i don't enjoy playing with code for my template all that much. since it's not something i really like to do, i decided to stop putting all the graphical type stuff up. some people really enjoy learning about code and stuff for blogger. I am realizing i'm not one of those people.

call me lazy or whatever you like, but i felt like i was just doing it for attention. sorry about that.

had i enjoyed putting the stuff up, i think it would've been different. so yes...enjoy the graphical goodness of blogs that are run by people who have a genuine interest in computers and the internet. Matt and Drew have some really cool blogs as I'm sure most of you know. check those out if you haven't by now!! they're quite cool. i'll definitely continue to post but i can't promise very much of the flashy stuff.

this is really random but was a pretty interesting tidbit:

"For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." Hebrews 10:14

"We trample the blood of the Son of God under foot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins. The only explanation of the forgiveness of God and of the unfathomable depth of His forgetting is the death of Jesus Christ. Our repentance is merely the outcome of our personal realization of the Atonement which He has worked out for us. "Christ Jesus . . . is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption." When we realize that Christ is made all this to us, the limitless joy of God begins in us. And wherever the joy of God is not present, the death sentence is at work.

no matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ. God does this, not because Jesus pleads with Him to do so but because He died. It cannot be earned, just accepted. All the pleading for salvation which deliberately ignores the Cross of Christ is useless. It is knocking at a door other than the one which Jesus has already opened. We protest by saying, "But I don't want to come that way. It is too humiliating to be received as a sinner." God's response, through Peter, is "there is no other name...by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12). What at first appears to be heartlessness on God's part is actually the true expression of His heart. There is unlimited entrance His way. "In Him we have redemption through His blood..." (Ephesians 1:7). And to identify with the death of Jesus Christ means that we must die to everything that was never a part of Him."

-Oswald Chambers

challenging and good stuff.
have an awesome day guys.
good luck with finals!!
-dave