Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Phil Stacey

I do not watch  American Idol, but I did love this song by one of the finalists in the 6th season on there: Phil Stacey:      



               

Phil Stacey You're Not Shaken Lyrics

Songwriters: INGRAM, JASON / BRONLEEWE, MATT / STACEY, PHIL / FROMM, ANDREW
I am sinking in a river that is raging
I am drowning, will I ever rise to breathe again
I want to know why I just want to understand
Will I ever know why

How could this be from Your hand
When every little thing that I have dreamed would be
Just slips away like water through my hand
And when it seems the walls of my belief are crashing
Down
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/phil+stacey/youre+not+shaken_21038027.html ]
Like they're all made of sand
I won't let go of You now, because I know You're not
Shaken
I'm trembling in the darkness of my own fear
All the questions with no answers still grip me while

I'm here And I may never know why I may not understand
But I will lift up my eyes And trust this is Your plan
When I am in the valley of the shadow of death
You're not shaken, You're not shaken

You're right here beside me and
You have never left
You're not shaken, You're not shaken     

You're Not Shaken lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYAWq2gJ5o To hear the actual song or just Google it.

You might catch me listening to this with my MP3 while stranded in a bookstore.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Genesis 24........

This blog is about books, missing people.... and the bible. I think I have yet to lay a real bible study out there. Will attempt this today and in later posts.

Now there are 67 verses in chapter 24 of the first book in the bible, Far too many to tackle in one sitting. So I will break the verses down into short increments. I will also be using the authorized version of the bible since I did not want to deal with many missing verses that any other version might have.

Genesis was written by Moses in or around 1400 BC.

I found some great information here and actually learned some new stuff as a Genesis overview. ( My forte is not the history and background of the word of God, but the verses and words themselves, so a lot I do not know concerning this.)

Overview and survey of Genesis.

The above link contains the information if you want to look at it.

From the link above a brief summary of the book is as follows:      Brief Summary: The Book of Genesis can be divided into two sections: Primitive History and Patriarchal History. Primitive history records (1) Creation (Genesis chapters 1-2); (2) the Fall of man (Genesis chapters 3-5); (3) the Flood (Genesis chapters 6-9); and (4) the dispersion (Genesis chapters 10-11). Patriarchal history records the lives of four great men: (1) Abraham (Genesis 12-25:8); (2) Isaac (Genesis 21:1-35-29); (3) Jacob (Genesis 25:21-50:14); and (4) Joseph (Genesis 30:22-50:26).


 Purpose of Writing: The Book of Genesis has sometimes been called the "seed-plot" of the entire Bible. Most of the major doctrines in the Bible are introduced in "seed" form in the Book of Genesis. Along with the fall of man, God's promise of salvation or redemption is recorded (Genesis 3:15). The doctrines of creation, imputation of sin, justification, atonement, depravity, wrath, grace, sovereignty, responsibility, and many more are all addressed in this book of origins called Genesis.

Many of the great questions of life are answered in Genesis. (1) Where did I come from? (God created us - Genesis 1:1) (2) Why am I here? (we are here to have a relationship with God - Genesis 15:6) (3) Where am I going? (we have a destination after death - Genesis 25:8). Genesis appeals to the scientist, the historian, the theologian, the housewife, the farmer, the traveler, and the man or woman of God. It is a fitting beginning for God's story of His plan for mankind, the Bible.


Here is an easy simple chart to look at and a take in at once overview:


http://www.biblicalscholarship.net/ten.htm

.A longer summary and great list. I love this one . So much awesome stuff here: Genesis bible survey.

So on to chapter 24. A summary of this chapter is:  Abraham commands that Isaac shall not marry a Canaanite—The Lord guides Abraham’s servant in choosing Rebekah as a wife for Isaac—Rebekah is blessed to be the mother of thousands of millions—She marries Isaac.

Well that makes it seem pretty drab and boring, but we will see it is not at all as we dig deeper on my next post.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Christian Fiction-Covers,Most Beauitiful

Sunday I spent several hours on Good Reads book site. I had fun voting on the prettiest and most attractive Christian covers. Hard to choose.

I do not like a lot of the lists of Good Reads, but in case you wish to check out this feature of the site: here is the main link http://www.goodreads.com/list. The link to the list I am centering my post on today is: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5353.Best_Christian_Fiction_Book_Covers




These were the 7 covers I voted as the best.






There are about 400 more on there.  I  am not sure if you must be registered on the site to vote, You probably do, but it is easy to register and the books are true rejoicing of beauty to look at.

What one do you like?

Many can be found when stranded in a bookstore.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Missing children and strategies to keep safe links

Maybe I stated
Timothy, Auroras Illinois to Wisconsin Dells In WI.Age now 6. Was with mom who was found deceased..
 this before, but a big passion of nine is praying and helping in small ways to find the lost and missing of this earth. I do not have much time to devote to this, but the cause means a lot to me. Pray with me for these cases: 
Here are  links on Pinterest to find out more. Each pin will take you to the individual cases. http://pinterest.com/jadelyn1224/the-missing/      http://pinterest.com/rslady/amber-alert/

I found the 2 informative sites linked below on the amber board above. These are very important articles on keeping from becoming a missing statistic or rape victim, etc. I am going to go over them with my kids.http://www.checklistmommy.com/2012/02/09/tricky-people-are-the-new-strangers/


http://sorenthan.tumblr.com/post/26113337415/larrystylinsoneternal-opal-leaves-through



Here is a link on Pinterest to find out more. Each pin will take you to the individual cases.          Stay Safe.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Books, books and more books.

If you love-like me, love  to look at libraries or different ways books are arranged,  I have the site for you. The name of this site is not to my liking but I ignore that since the pictures on this site are so cool if you like books like I do. Many styles of books on here displayed.

books on display

Suitcase

Stacked
A bookstore to be stranded in
3 examples of pictures on this site. Only 3 of a 100 or more of the never ending beautiful book displays, books shelves, libraries, etc. on this link.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Brandilyn Collins

Brandilin Collins is about the greatest author of suspenseful christian books. I follow her on FB and get her bi monthly email. She has several wonderful series. These are hard to put down and scarey creepy reading  especially at night. Her trademark is "Seat belt Suspense."

Series she has put out:

Hidden Faces

 

Kanner Lake

 

She also has put out several by themselves book.

This last one 's subject is based on the Lyme disease she fought and God healed her of.

She also has written a great series with her daughter for teens called the Rayne Tour series.

 Someday maybe I will get to them all.

Perhaps while stranded in a bookstore.

Blog link to author: http://www.brandilyncollins.com/index.html

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Where is Lindsay Baum?

A missing child from my home state close to my heart, I have prayed often to find what happened to

http://www.findlindseybaum.com/index.html this is the official site for the family. Just imagine this was your  sweet heart disappearing  without a trace at 9 years and now she would be 14 and you do not know. it cannot happen to me or I do not want to be bothered. You could at least pray. there are a lot of missing people and children, not many are stranger abductions, but 1  is too many.