tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28770438903839346222024-02-07T05:48:03.633-08:00ReflectionsJennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02047888346974008318noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877043890383934622.post-56240944109179235652012-03-04T10:22:00.001-08:002012-03-04T10:25:15.425-08:00one year down! :-)<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Newlywed Advice"><img src="http://global.thenest.com/tickers/tt1324a9.aspx" alt="Anniversary" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I'm so happy to have Brandon in my life & to have had such a wonderful first year of marriage!!!Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02047888346974008318noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877043890383934622.post-29080056460704926972010-12-16T11:02:00.000-08:002010-12-16T12:07:00.656-08:00Hallelujah!Whenever I think about what God has done through Jesus, I'm overwhelmed with awe. He is an awesome God & worthy of honor. As we hear songs like "Silent Night", "O Holy Night", "Away in a Manger", & "Joy to the World", let us use this to worship Him in our hearts. It's because of Him that we have life eternal in heaven & joy here on earth.<br /> <br />I just bought Dave Barnes's Christmas album. It's my new favorite for this season. :-) I particularly love the song "Mary and Joseph". The lyrics really help me picture the event of the incarnation (the coming of Jesus to earth) aka what we celebrate at Christmas. Below is the last half of the song: <br /><br />The angel scared her half to death<br />She would've screamed but she lost her breath<br />On a midnight there in the middle of May<br />He said "Oh Mary don't be afraid<br />You'll bear a son that the Lord has made<br />Name him Jesus, He'll light the way."<br /><br />She packed the clothes, he made the plans<br />They had to go to Bethlehem<br />But there was nowhere left to stay<br />So in a barn she gave birth<br />To the King of Kings the Lord of Earth<br />Just a little bitty thing sleeping on the hay<br />Sleeping on the hay<br /><br />The story's too long to tell<br />But he walked on water and lived through hell<br />Killed on a cross and rose from the grave<br />We got a King they got a Son<br />Mary and Joseph were the only ones<br />There on that very first Christmas day<br />There on that very first Christmas day<br /><br />Let's praise God for Jesus - every day! And in case you're wondering WHY Jesus came to die, John's Piper's book "The Passion of Jesus Christ", now called "Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die" addresses just that. Piper gathered from the New Testament 50 reasons/purposes for the crucifixion & below are those purposes. <br /><br />1 To Absorb the Wrath of God<br />2 To Please His Heavenly Father<br />3 To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected<br />4 To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead<br />5 To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners<br />6 To Show His Own Love for U<br />7 To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us<br />8 To Become a Ransom for Many<br />9 For the Forgiveness of Our Sins<br />10 To Provide the Basis for Our Justification<br />11 To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness<br />12 To Take Away Our Condemnation<br />13 To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation<br />14 To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful<br />15 To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect<br />16 To Give Us a Clear Conscience<br />17 To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us<br />18 To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness<br />19 To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him<br />20 To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age<br />21 To Reconcile Us to God<br />22 To Bring Us to God<br />23 So That We Might Belong to Him<br />24 To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place<br />25 To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God<br />26 To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become theEternal High Priest<br />27 To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest<br />28 To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry<br />29 To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin<br />30 That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness<br />31 So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God<br />32 To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves<br />33 To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting<br />34 To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him<br />35 To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning<br />36 To Create a People Passionate for Good Works<br />37 To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love<br />38 To Create a Band of Crucified Followers<br />39 To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death<br />40 So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death<br />41 To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead<br />42 To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities<br />43 To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel<br />44 To Destroy the Hostility Between Races<br />45 To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation<br />46 To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World<br />47 To Rescue Us from Final Judgment<br />48 To Gain His Joy and Ours<br />49 So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor<br />50 To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good<br /><br />Hallelujah! (Praise the Lord!)Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02047888346974008318noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877043890383934622.post-74707761122187425642010-06-24T07:38:00.000-07:002010-06-24T07:44:15.490-07:00my new blogThis is my new blog. I hope to keep this one for awhile. It's nice to know I can write on it whenever I want. My previous blog was primarily centered around my internship, and that url is www.turkeyinternship.blogspot.com <br /><br />That's it for now. I hope to write more soon (when I have time). Blessings!Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02047888346974008318noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877043890383934622.post-39289709207380181592010-06-23T10:13:00.000-07:002010-06-23T10:16:23.460-07:00CandleHere's an awesome quote that I've seen at school. I put it to the background of a random picture I found on flickr. It's one of the quotes that convicts me to get involved with mission work & to let my light shine where He has placed me.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SLw2K4wz5Xau38x9-qwJvuHO75LEY-5vsSNlfOUIgWa0yDD6a_8a171fFMU4WGBk9Jg8BQwIbVOHeLe-DubNn21lygOWjEox5KJogG7ZwCDeOWNF-LKo9Eid-9VvOgm7-HEs9KnwVyZg/s1600/Candle.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9SLw2K4wz5Xau38x9-qwJvuHO75LEY-5vsSNlfOUIgWa0yDD6a_8a171fFMU4WGBk9Jg8BQwIbVOHeLe-DubNn21lygOWjEox5KJogG7ZwCDeOWNF-LKo9Eid-9VvOgm7-HEs9KnwVyZg/s320/Candle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486018524326341906" /></a>Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02047888346974008318noreply@blogger.com0