The Allen Family Blog: May 2011

Joshua worked hard today as he set up two new hives for his business (JD's Old Fashioned Honey). We should have some honey later this summer.... Stay tuned for the inside scoop!

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

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Eschatology and the Future of the Church of Jesus Christ

Sunday, May 22, 2011

A Spring Sing

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Southern Peach Cobbler

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Faylite

Honor, Honor, Honor -- Always Honor

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Application

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Allen Boys

Saturday, May 14, 2011

A Call to Remembrance

Friday, May 13, 2011

Cousins Working Together on a Project

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Music Practice

Dominion Duties

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

1930 Travel Air

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Headline News: Ecomony Surges as JD Hires 10,000 Employees

Driving a Dump Truck

Friday, May 6, 2011

Still Waters of Stedman