Well one picture actually. Josh and I leave for Waco today, hopefully it will be an educational and wonderful time.

And here is your picture! These are some little froggies I found around our house.

As multiple of the TULIP points rely upon predestination as a basis I've decided to do a couple post on predestination.

First i'll began with more of a logic based argument.

The Bible says that man is totally depraved, that is, man is completely evil, and unable to save himself. Here is my link back to my Total Depravity post, but here are some other verses as well.  Gen 6:9, Ps. 7:11, 10:41, 51:5, Rom 3:10-18, 5:10, 12, 6:23, 8:5-8, 14:23, 1 cor 2:12, Eph 2:1-3, 5, Col 1:21-22. This list comes from my churches statement of faith, and a few of the verses I don't think directly apply to total depravity, but I decided to include them because they apparently think they do. Also, a few of those verses (Rom 8:7b for example) also directly speak to election or predestination.

So on the basis that man is totally evil, and cannot save himself, how in the world can I save myself if I am unable to, and utterly unwilling to seek after good? Somewhat of a trite, and often used analogy is how can a dead man open a present? (Based of off the often used salvation as a gift analogy) Looking at Romans 3, it is said that NO man seeks after God. (10,11) So if we don't seek God, how can we seek, and receive salvation if we don't want it? Psalm 10:4 also speaks to this. 1 Cor 2:14 says that the ways of God are foolish to natural man. So why would I chase after something that I see as foolish?  The second part of that verse says that even if man wanted to look into the ways of God, he cannot understand them. This is because to understand God, one needs a spiritual understanding, which can only come from an external force, not from ourselves before regeneration.

So basically to sum up, man is totally depraved, unable to seek after God, and have no desire to, and even if we wanted to, His ways are beyond our comprehension.

My 2nd post is going to be a list of the exact verses that speak to Predestination. 

So... I need embroidery ideas. I have a pillow case kit that I got a LONG time ago, and I figured why not go ahead and do it lol. Anyway, it has instructions on embroidering flowers on it, but I'm not really feeling that lol. So I need some ideas, thoughts anyone?

Is fantastical really a word? Well I think if it's not it should be.


At the end of September (yes I know its still a month away) a good friend and I will be going to Waco for David Crowder's fantastical church music conference. There are some speakers I'm really looking forward to, and some i'm not so much, but thats generally how it goes. It should be a really good time, if nothing else just for the two of us to get some really good fellowship in. I would appreciate prayer for safe travels, clarity of mind in determining what is good and what isnt, and for us just to have a blast. And yea I know its early, but its never too soon to get things started... :-p And who knows I might even blog about it afterward hehe.


Don't worry I will be putting up pictures of our trip to Austin soon, hopefully... Then again maybe you should be worried...

Yes, yes, I know I've been very bad about pictures especially, not just posting. I'm sure you have noticed that my 365 project kinda died. Anyway, my family and I are goin to Austin this weekend, so y'all might just get some pictures. And if anyone knows of some really good places to eat, feel free to mention em.

Yes yes I know, it's been incredibly too long since I've blogged, but such is life. I was actually somewhat reminded of this by someone completing my blog form, only the 3rd person lol.

I'm so weird because its fun, and being "normal" is incredibly boring. So I hope that answers your first question. As for Perseverance of the Saints I've actaully already done a post on that, here is the link to it. However, I also need to finish up my TULIP series which includes it, so hopefully my post will be informative, and maybe you'll find something of interest in the other ones.



So here we go.
Here is my introductory post to my series. 
TULIP is an acrostic for the "Reformed" doctrines of:
Total Depravity
Unconditional Election
Limited Atonement
Irresistible Grace
Perseverance of the Saints

I hope that my series (while perhaps being long in finishing lol) has been useful to my readers.