Monday, November 25, 2013 at 3:53PM 
Question 12. Since according to the righteous judgment of God, we deserve temporal and eternal punishment, is there no way by which we may escape this punishment, and be received again into favour?
Answer: God will have his justice satisfied. (a) Therefore we must make this full satisfaction, either by ourselves, or through another. (b)
(Click through to see scriptural proofs.)
Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 9:50PM Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things.
Give heart and mind and soul and strength
To serve the King of kings.Rise up, O men of God!
The kingdom tarries long.
Bring in the day of brotherhood
And end the night of wrong.Rise up, O men of God!
The church for you doth wait,
Her strength unequal to her task;
Rise up and make her great!Lift high the cross of Christ!
Tread where His feet have trod.
As brothers of the Son of Man,
Rise up, O men of God!
There are countless performances of this particular arrangement of Rise Up, O Men of God on YouTube. This one by the Northern Lights Chorale might be the best.
This is a different arrangement—one of only a few I found—sung by the Wheaton College Men’s Glee Club.
Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:
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Friday, November 22, 2013 at 6:35PM Another repost from a an old series of posts on a few of the author/illustrators of classic children’s literature.
Although Beatrix Potter’s upbringing might sound a little odd to us, for her time and social class, it was fairly typical. Both her mother and father inherited a fortune, and although her father was a lawyer, he didn’t work much because he had no need to earn an income. Beatrix lived a rather isolated life, playing only with her younger brother. She had no formal schooling, but was educated at home by governesses, which meant, in Beatrix’s case, that she was mostly left alone to pursue her own interests.
Beatrix was eight years old when she sketched these caterpillars It’s in her interests that she shows us she wasn’t an ordinary girl. She and her brother grew up surrounded by animals and plants—dogs, rabbits, frogs, salamanders, and more as pets, and large gardens and moors for roaming. They spent their time together studying, sketching—and even dissecting—the birds and animals and insects they found. When I was younger, I didn’t enjoy typical girl activities, either, but little Beatrix Potter took things a lot further than I thought to go. I can’t help but admire her for that.
As she grew into young adulthood, Beatrix’s passion became mycology, the study of fungi. She collected fungi, dissecting, painting, and drawing them. Her hope was that her detailed illustrations would be used in a textbook, but that didn’t happen. She also developed a theory about the germination of mold spores, and her uncle Henry, who was a noted chemist, presented a paper she wrote on this to the Linnaean Society of London. Her theory was rejected out of hand by the all-male society, because, according to every biography I’ve read, she was an amateur and a woman.