Marriage

...Considering all the young men I know who are wanting to take safaris in Africa or trips through the Amazon rain forests rather than engage in the great adventure of marriage. When will they wake up and see what they are missing?

Ultimately, the ability to choose what I will feed my 3 trillion intestinal flora and fauna is the final freedom. Who cares how much gas is in the car when I have no food choice? What good is religious liberty when I may attend church having only eaten irradiated, genetically prostituted, amalgamated, extruded, reconstituted, flavor-added, MSG-laden, nitrate-stabilized, Archer Daniels Midland pseudo-food? - Joel Salatin

Good bye... on to Virginia!

A friend just sent this to me and I had to share it...

What is it that sustains me from day to day? At the end of each day is my glory found in my doctrinal stances, or is it in my relationship with the Father, and the love shared with brothers and sisters in Messiah? I choose the latter. I am not trying to imply that doctrine is not important, but it is not the greatest.

Well I'm in the last 24 hour count down before leaving for Virginia. I'm running around finishing up projects and last minute packing. I'm a little nervous and not looking forward to the airports at all but also excited for what's ahead in Virginia. I'll be flying out of Seattle tomorrow morning early and returning on the 1st of June.

For those who haven't heard, I'll be working with some good friends at Buxton Farms which is a Joel Salatin style farm now being run by our good friend Joe Murphy. I'm also going to have the privilege of meeting Joel and touring Polyface Farms. Much of what I'll be doing is odd jobs, remodeling, and building to get Buxton Farms into efficient running condition as it was quite run down. 

I'm excited to go work hard on a farm and hopefully learn lots. I'm also very excited to help out and share this time with the dear Murphy family. It'll be a pleasure! I'm looking forward to the good discussions we'll have and playing with the children in our spare time.

I'll probably not have time to post on this blog while I'm gone but will save that for when I return. I am bringing my camera and hope to document the trip well. I will be giving short updates via facebook so please look me up on there if you haven't already. Here's the link to my page: http://www.facebook.com/bigjonthejon

Goodbye my hometown friends! I'll miss you much! 

Jon

Scripture Alone...

 "It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the definition of what we should believe. The authority of the scripture means that all the words in scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God." - Dr. Wayne Grudem

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

The Gun

 
The gun has played a critical role in history. An invention that has been praised and denounced… Served both hero and villain alike… and carries with it moral responsibility. To better understand the gun is to better understand history.

Government can take away my land, force me to have a national ID, force me to have healthcare, take away my rights, freedoms and liberty. But they'll NEVER take away my love for serving Jesus!

Bill Bryson

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."

Jim Elliot

 

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."

Abraham Lincoln

"Things may come to those who wait…but only the things left by those who hustle."

Albert Einstein

 

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

God has Blessed Us!

" 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph. 1:3A.S.V.). If you run over in your mind and find one single blessing with which God might bless us today, with which He has not already blessed us, then what He told Paul was not true at all, because He said, 'God Hath.' It is all done. 'It is finished.' Goth hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies! The great pity of it all is that we are saying, 'O God bless us, bless us in this, bless us in that!' and it is all done. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies."


L. L. Letgers

Winston Churchill Quotes

"A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her" - C.S. Lewis

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill