"Ten Thousand Miles" free mp3

Sandra McCracken's song "Ten Thousand Miles" is available for free download at her website.

Your sponsors love you!

Hee. :)

Valentine's Day cards for those who didn't pick them up on Friday are going out in the mail soon.

Two little tangents:
1) I got all the sponsors to wear red at our sponsors' meeting the day we took this picture, but when we actually took the picture, I was the one who forgot to take my blue sweatshirt off to show my red undershirt! Ironic. Oh well.

2) This picture is on my desktop at work. It's a GREAT photo! :) You too can download it and put it on your computers by clicking on the picture above.

Free 1 Cor. 2:1-2 Scripture song!

Over the past few months, the Altrogges have been giving away some of their Scripture songs. Well, today they released 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 as a free Scripture song, too!

Speaking of these Scripture songs, I love them! They've been a great encouragement to me this past week. I've come to know and love God's promises better through them.

For example, I had an opportunity to share the gospel with a group of people at work recently. Some people weren't very happy with me because of that.

But the Scripture in the 1 Corinthians 1:18 song (available here) encouraged me: "For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." 1 Corinthians 1:18-30 was a comfort to me.

Have these songs helped you, too? Feel free to leave a comment as to how they have! (If these songs have helped you, it would be nice for you to also leave a comment on the Altrogges' blog The Blazing Center to encourage them.)*

*I don't feel the need to leave a comment on their blog because I think Stephen Altrogge will see this. Hi, Stephen! :) :) Thanks for your partnership in the gospel and for your service to us! :)

Happy birthday, Abraham Lincoln!

Today I don't have work, so I'm blogging during the daytime! Thank God for Abraham Lincoln's birthday! :)

Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, World Magazine recently posted an article about the relationship between Lincoln's changing attitude toward God and Lincoln's actions as a politician and President. It may read somewhat scholarly, but I found it to be a moving story of redemption.

(FYI, the last paragraph of the article sums it up pretty well.)

Piper's "How To Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God"

On Friday we learned about how God wants us to honor Him in everything we do, and we learned more about how to do this.

So how do we honor God in drinking orange juice? John Piper's article "How To Drink Orange Juice to the Glory of God" can help.

"Let Your Kingdom Come" free mp3

We introduced the song "Let Your Kingdom Come" at TIGS tonight.

The songwriter, Bob Kauflin, uploaded it for free download, and he also posted the lyrics and some of his thoughts on the song.

We really hope that as you sing it, you long for Jesus to be known and honored all over the world. As we read in Psalm 67 tonight, God wants all the ends of the earth to praise Him: "Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!"

So we hope that from the bottom of your heart, you would be able to pray along with the Puritans:

I adore Thee that Thou art God,
and long that others should know it, feel it,
and rejoice in it.

Tips on watching the Superbowl to the glory of God

I must confess, I'm not too much of a sports person (although playing sports and watching friends playing sports is fun). But if you're watching the Superbowl tomorrow, C.J. Mahaney has a very helpful post about how to honor God as you watch the Superbowl.

Josh Harris gives a nice summary.

How to tie your shoes to the glory of God

The Bible commands us to honor God in everything we do. So how do we honor God in everything we do--tying our shoes, doing homework, saying hi to friends? Good question, huh?

Well, Kim will be giving a talk on it this coming Friday (February 8). I'm looking forward to it! I think it'll be practical, helpful talk that'll aim for the glory of God in all our lives.

"I actually heard, 'hey, dave!'" :)

I shared the content from the previous blog post with Alicia, and this is an excerpt from her response:

you know, it's funny. I actually heard, "hey, dave!"

i was surprised too. i thought that someone called me by accident.

you can put that on your blog too.

kind of funny. :)