Michael DiMarco

Brotherly love - splitting a liver

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:23:33 -0500

Brotherly love - splitting a liver

The challenges of truth-telling in leadership & marriage. HT...

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:37:00 -0500

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The challenges of truth-telling in leadership & marriage.

HT - Geico

The power of love

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:30:55 -0500

You can love the loveable under your own power. Only through Christ’s power can you love the unloveable. Thank God that my wife knows this.

Do it again

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:19:10 -0500

A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.

It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterson

"Confidence is being convinced that “you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your..."

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:01:54 -0500

“Confidence is being convinced that “you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength” (Mark 12:30). If your soul obsession is not yourself nor the love of a man nor your need for romance, but God, then that leaves little room in your heart or mind for insecurity, self-loathing, or fear.”

- Hayley DiMarco - The Woman of Mystery

Here’s your sign… HT Failblog

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:27:06 -0500

Here’s your sign…

HT Failblog

Youth pastors- here’s a tool from Twilight to help teach...

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:54:29 -0500

Youth pastors- here’s a tool from Twilight to help teach teens discernment in the quality of their media choices…

Becoming a first follower is actually being a leader....

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:28:00 -0500

Becoming a first follower is actually being a leader. Don’t be one of the last to get up to dance with the shirtless guy. Courageously follow.

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:27:07 -0500

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

- Lewis B. Smedes

Calling all "Twilight" fans...

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:10:16 -0500

“Nothing is so beautiful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy as the good. No deserts are so dreary, monotonous and boring as evil. But with fantasy it is the other way round. Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied, intriguing, attractive and full of charm.”

Simone Weil

(HT - Ray Ortlund)

My new physical therapy tool for my (still healing) achilles...

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:48:07 -0500

My new physical therapy tool for my (still healing) achilles tendon. Better than a stationary bike because the family can ride along! The benefits of living on a lake.

Let her go

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:41:33 -0500

Imagine raising a daughter who does not fear, can mentally and emotionally handle being alone for long stretches, and that embraces adulthood before her 20s (or 30s.)

If only we could not make idols out of our children, oh the things they might accomplish!

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” - Shedd

Heart. Melt.

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:41:52 -0500

Heart. Melt.

Withheld love - Ray Ortlund

Mon, 31 May 2010 17:23:31 -0500

In the top 100 (#55) of all Christian blogs, you need to follow the posts of our pastor Ray Ortlund. At the very least, read this one on withheld love that came out of his sermon on Proverbs 3 yesterday:

“Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.” Proverbs 3:27

The alternative translation in the ESV margin is “Do not withhold good from its owners.” If I have good I can do for somebody, then legally I own it but morally they own it. The state has no right to force me to be generous. And no one can walk into my house and start taking my things and say, “The Bible says I own it.” What the Bible says to them is “You shall not steal” (Exodus 20:15). But what the Bible says to me is “You shall not withhold.”

We tell ourselves, “I’m not doing anybody any harm.” Okay. But another question is, What good are we withholding? Withheld love is a life-depleting social environment where beautiful things don’t happen. But a culture of life is where people love each other openly and eagerly, with a sense of responsibility.

If I have the ability, then in God’s sight you have the ownership.

Withheld love vs. expressed love is a post from: Ray Ortlund

Even dogs know what to do when they meet their Savior H/T...

Fri, 28 May 2010 07:26:00 -0500

Even dogs know what to do when they meet their Savior

H/T challies

New Every Morning - Old Hickory Lake “The steadfast love...

Thu, 27 May 2010 06:07:00 -0500

New Every Morning - Old Hickory Lake

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

Lamentations 3:22-23

Down is the new up

Thu, 27 May 2010 04:58:41 -0500

Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, Thou hast brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see Thee in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision. Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells, and the deeper the wells the brighter Thy stars shine; let me find Thy light in my darkness, Thy life in my death, Thy joy in my sorrow, Thy grace in my sin, Thy riches in my poverty, Thy glory in my valley.

A Puritan Prayer- The Valley of Vision

The Bible Belt is LOST

Mon, 24 May 2010 13:17:00 -0500

What do you call a person that invests years into people’s lives only to realize they were dead the whole time? A TV watcher or church worker in the Bible Belt?

"God is the Ultimate Telemarketer. He called me at 17 and it took me almost 20 yrs to pick up. PTL..."

Mon, 24 May 2010 10:51:23 -0500

“God is the Ultimate Telemarketer. He called me at 17 and it took me almost 20 yrs to pick up. PTL for grace & the ringing in my ears.”

The only thing that makes soccer worth watching H/T - Challies

Mon, 24 May 2010 09:33:00 -0500

The only thing that makes soccer worth watching

H/T - Challies