My Desktop Photo 9: Staying with Ducks for Another Week

Photo by Andrew Stark 

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Gas Up: May 29

I was hoping for a change (better down than up), just so I could take a new photo. But, no, the price of gas at my local station has been exactly the same for two weeks now: $1.379 per litre which works out to $5.25ish per gallon.

You should see what Elaine pays to fuel up in Northern Ireland!

What about you? Down? Up? The same? This empty space is for your report.

• Rosemary says, “Oddly enough, my gas station doesn’t even have a sign posting the prices of gas. (Are they ashamed?) But I paid $3.99 a gallon yesterday.”
• Dorothy has good news about the price of gas in her neck of a metropolitan area.
  

Update on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 8:15AM by rebecca

Larry Thompson is paying “3.85 in Fort Worth, Texas, where you can see wells sprouting up on the edge of town as we speak…”

Recommended for Listening V

I’ve been working hard to get the garden in this week, so I’ve not worked much on the study of Romans 8. I did listen to three of the messages from the New Attitude Conference while I worked .

 

• The Authority of Scripture by Mark Dever. I listened to this one because I thought it might be a useful addition to this week’s theological term post. It turns out this was indeed a fine lecture to link to for more information on sola scriptura, so I updated the post to include it.
• The Troubled Soul: God’s Word and Our Feelings by C. J. Mahaney. This is a  difficult time of year for me. My wedding anniversary is on Sunday and for the last couple of years I’ve struggled for a few weeks around this time. Other anniversaries that you’d think might be more distressing have been easy sailing, but this one brings a rainstorm. This message by C. J. Mahaney on Psalm 42 focuses on talking to ourselves when things are hard, just like the psalmist does. Can I let you in on a secret? I would not have made it through the past few years if I hadn’t kept on telling myself of God’s faithfulness, his sure promise that my difficulties are conforming me to the image of his Son, and the hope my future inheritance.
  
• Bible Q&A with Al Mohler. This is an amazing session for two reasons: None of the questions are dumb ones and Dr. Mohler handles them all easily.