The Allen Family Blog: July 2010

Matthew Allen Smith, II was born Saturday at 4:37 this afternoon which Katherine attended as Brianna's birth doula. This little boy is a testimony to the goodness of the Lord and gives us great hope for the future. Pray for Matthew and Brianna as they seek to raise this little man in the fear and admonition of the Lord to be a mighty warrior for Christ.

Famous/Noteworthy Quotes

''Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.'' -Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788

''Be religiously careful in our choice of all public officers... and judge of the tree by its fruits.'' -Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress

''It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.'' -George Washington

''Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.'' -Albert Einstein, German Scientist

''Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.''
-Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer, theologian

''It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.'' -John Witherspoon, signatory of the Declaration of Independence

''Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.'' -Thomas Edison

''A man with God is always in the majority.'' -John Knox, Scottish Reformer

''Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.'' -RC Sproul, American Calvinist theologian

''If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.'' -Abigal Adams, 2nd First Lady

''Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.'' -Samuel Rutherford, Scottish Theologian (b.1600-d.1661)

''I cannot live without books.'' -Thomas Jefferson

''No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.'' -AW Tower

''All who are content with a humanistic law system and do not strive to replace it with Biblical law are guilty of idolatry. They have forsaken the covenant of their God, and they are asking us to serve other gods. They are thus idolaters, and are, in our generation, when our world is idolatrous and our states also, to be objects of missionary activity. They must be called out of their idolatry into the service of the living God.'' -RJ Rushdoony

The Allen Family Blog

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Katherine's 19th Birthday

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Our New Little Cousin

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Floatin' Down the Guadalupe

Wonderful Friends

At the Baby Conference

Monday, July 12, 2010

A Panel Discussion: Real Families Discuss the Joys and Challenges of Raising a Large Family for the Glory of God

Four Sisters

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Daddy and Joey

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Beauty

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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