The Allen Family Blog: October 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Reformation Day 2010!

Pastor Breagy giving a lecture

A nice turnout!

Katherine, giving a speech on the Scottish Covenanters in costume

Sam & Sam

Allie and Krissy with our dear grandmother

Sarah and Brianna, chit-chatting over lunch

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Joshua Wins A Photo Contest!

Pictured above is the photo that won first place, a $75 cash prize,
in the middle school category of the
Touchstone Energy Cotton Photo Contest.

Great job, Josh!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Our Annual Backyard Basketball Game with Old Friends and Family

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Fun in the Car

What Joey will look like when he's fifty...

Friday, October 22, 2010

A Taste of the Mountains

Brothers engaged in a game of checkers at the Mast General Store

Fresh mountain apples

Two dear sisters, Allie and Mary

Writing in Pappy's guest book of the goodness of God

Monday, October 18, 2010

Shooting Narration for the Documentary

Starting at 8am and ending at 4pm, we
completed the first shot of the documentary with
the five boys -- a total of 2 minutes film time.

An intense day!

Dominion Productions Studio blog link, click here.

Kat and Sam

Off to interview Dan Horn for the film project!

Friday, October 15, 2010

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Monday, October 4, 2010

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

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