"My Personal DNA"

Reserved Analyst

This is my "Personal DNA" from a personality test on internet. It was very interesting. I think some of my Biblical views of depravity affected my empathy and trust in others. Maybe I do need to grow in those, but I also think that my base beliefs of the incorrectness of "everybody is honest" and "everybody is good" might affect that a little bit in the test.

Pierced by the Word - a prayer

Oh, how we love Your Word, Father!
It is precious beyond all earthly treasures.
Incline our hearts to this Word,
and break our bondage to other things.
Let us see wonders in it.
Pierce through our soul and waken spiritual life.
Confirm the marrow of our faith and make us real,
through and through. Forbid that we would be false to Your
faithfulness, and make us mighty in the Spirit.
Through Christ, we pray. Amen.

God is the Gospel

Jonathan Edwards:

The redeemed have all their objective good in God. God Himself is the great good which they are brought to the possession and enjoyment of by redemption. He is the highest good, and the sum of all that good which Christ purchased. God is the inheritance of the saints; he is the portion of their souls. God is their wealth and treasure, their food, their life, their dwelling place, their ornament and diadem, and their everlasting honor and glory. They have none in heaven but God; he is the great good which the redeemed are received to at death, and which they are to rise to at the end of the world. The Lord God, he is the light of the heavenly Jerusalem; and s the "river of the water of life" that runs, and the tree of life that grows, "in the midst of the paradise of God." The glorious excellencies and beauty of Godl will be what will forever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast. The redeemed will indeed enjoy other things; they will enjoy the angels, and will enjoy one another: but that which they shall enjoy in the angels, or each other, or in anything else whatsoever, that will yield them delight and happiness, will be what what will be seen of God in them.

- excerpt from "Pierced by the Word" - Ch.2 God is the Gospel

Sunset, Pt II

Sunset 1
Originally uploaded by Josh Blinson.

Again, more or the brilliant skies.

Sunset, Pt I

Sunset 2
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Beautiful Sunset taken from our visit to Topsail Island in late October during our honeymoon.

Waves

Waves
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The scenic beach at Topsail Island