Bookshelves are Beautiful - 2

I been compiling some more photos of awesome looking bookshelves. If you have a book collection you are particularly proud of, why not email me a photo and you can have your own personal post!? Or perhaps there is a way you store or organise your books that you think is pretty unique, which again you could share with blogdom...

Bookshelves are Beautiful

7 amazing bookshelves...

This is excellent incentive for me to continue buying books...despite my inability to keep with reading them all.

Valley of Vision - 3

Another excerpt from Valley of Vision.

One thing I wish this book is missing is a reference for each prayer, at the moment each one is anonymous with a long list of sources at the end. Anyway here goes...

"Herein is wonder of wonders:
he came below to raise me above,
born was like me that I might become like him.

Herein is love:
when I cannot rise to him he draws near on wings of grace,
to raise me to himself

Herein is power:
when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
he united them in dissoluble unity, the uncreated and the created

Herein is wisdom:
when I was undone, with no will to return to him,
and no intellect to devise recovery
he came, God incarnate, to save me to the uttermost,
as man to die my death
to shed satisfying blood on my behalf
to work out perfect righteousness for me."

Indeed our salvation won on the cross was not something done before God in His presence, but actually something done in His very being. It was not just something done by His divine approval but in His divine will. It was not something merely done for Him by another person or servant, but made complete in Him very self.

Praise God for our salvation not just by Christ, but in Christ.

Steffen Schackinger

I don't normally listen to this sort of stuff, but it has a cool vibe to it. Plus, you have to recognise talent when you see...this guy can sure play.

Enjoy.

Valley of Vision - 2

I feel compelled to share more quotes with you from this great book. I shall continue to commend it to all people that happen to read this blog, however it needs no more preamble from the me...

''Infinite wisdom cast the design of salvation
into the mould of purchase and freedom;
Let wrath deserved bye written on the door of hell
But the the free gift of grace on the gate of heaven
I know that my sufferings are the result of my sinning,
but in heaven both shall cease;
Grant me to attain this haven and be done with sailing,
and may the gales of thy mercy blow me safely into harbour.
Let thy love draw me nearer to thyself,
wean me fron sin, mortify me to this world,
and make me ready for my departure hence.
Secure by thy grace as I sail across this stormy sea.''

Oh my...

People who play like this, shouldn't be playing on the street...

Valley of Vision

After finishing work today I was overwhelming frustrated with just everything...and I have finally come to admit I am one of these persons who become very easily frustrated. However, thanks to this great little book I just purchased, 'Valley of Vision', I was able to gain a bit of perspective on my very small troubles and trivialities.

I would certainly reccommend this collection of Puritan Prayers; its a wonderfully unique and simple book. This quote speaks with such clarity and forth rightness...

''O Lord God, who inhabitest eternity
The heavens declare thy glory,
The earth thy riches,
The universe is thy temple,
Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life, and communicated
happiness;
Thoust hast made me what I am, and given me what I have,
In thee I live and love and have thy being,
Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation,
and wisely administers all my affairs.
I thank thee for all thy riches to me in Jesus.''