So its been a pretty long time since my hair was this short.

I’ve loved how much cooler (as in the temperature) I am.

My girls say that it feels like a fuzzy bear.

I found this quote this morning about he work of Jesus on our behalf in prayer. I LOVE the images that Ryle uses in this quote, because its the exact same imagery used to talk about Jesus’ work among the congregation in worship. Jesus takes the feeble, poor words of his brothers and sisters and mingles them with his own so that they are a sweet aroma to God the Father. What PRECIOUS gift we have in worship.

This quote is from A Call To Prayer by J.C. Ryle

There is an Advocate and Intercessor always waiting to present the prayers of those who come to God through Him. That Advocate is Jesus Christ. He mingles our prayers with the incense of his own almighty intercession. So mingled, they go up as a sweet savour before the throne of God. Poor as they are in themselves, they are mighty and powerful in the hand of our High Priest and Elder Brother. The bank note without a signature at the bottom is nothing butt a worthless piece of paper. The stroke of a pen confers on it all its value. The prayer of a poor child of Adam is a feeble thing in itself, but once endorsed by the hand of the Lord Jesus it availeth much….Is not this encouragement?

I found this awesome cd the other day called The Apostles Creed.  It’s a compilation of modern Hymns by Stuart Townend and the Getty’s arranged with a band.  Some of the Hymns were familiar like In Christ Alone and O Church Arise.  But the majority of them weren’t, such as Merciful God, You’re the Word of God the Father and Jesus is Lord.

Its sometimes hard to find good band arrangements to these AMAZING songs.  So it’s cool to see a project like this working on making these songs accessible to a larger audience.  Well done Apostles Creed people….whoever you are.

Here’s the itunes link for the CD…..enjoy!