The Allen Family Blog: September 2011

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Peanut Butter Passion

Made with cashews, dates, and coconut oil...

Our Williamsburg Style Country Rental House in Virginia

From the outside this house looks so lovely, and it was, but it wasn't without its quirks. First off, one of the kids got stuck in bathroom when the lock fell off the door. We laughed so hard we cried. The Lord has a way of giving you just what you need at just the right time. Then we discovered we lacked cell service and only had sporadic Internet connection. Oh well, so much for that! And to top it all off the back door didn't lock. It was quite the adventure surviving this house... Oh, did I forget to mention the dead mouse?

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

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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bowling with the Fam

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Peanut Butter Passion

Our Williamsburg Style Country Rental House in Virginia

Monday, September 12, 2011

Rejoicing in God's Goodness