QuikTrip: Great Freebies Almost Every Month

QuikTrip (QT; I've seen people on the web spell it QuickTrip) has a great discount/freebie/coupon opportunity called the QT Web Group. Just go to www.qtwebgroup.com and sign up. Every month they will email you coupons. We have gotten coupons for free hot dogs, hamburgers, drinks, and sandwiches. This one is definately worth it.

Norton Internet Security - Why I Stick With Norton

I've recently been reading a ton of complaints around the web about the Symantec Norton Antivirus and Internet Security Suite of software. The following little review has been written in response to those complaints:

How to Live in Phoenix

Sorry for posting an email forward, but this is just so true that I had to post it, especially after my friend Nate Perkins recently received a bullethole through his rear driver's-side door for his freeway driving habits.

DesiringGod Sermons: Piper Sermon .Torrents

As my quote side of this up-and-coming blog becomes more and more developed it will be obvious that John Piper has impacted my thinking and thus my life in so many ways. Rarely does a week go by that he does not challenge me to give up my comfort for the sake of God and His glory; rarely does a week go by in which he does not help me know my Lord and Savior in a more intimate way and cause me to love him more. His passion is contagious. If you are unfamiliar with John Piper and his ministry (desiringgod.org). His sermons can normally be found at the BiblicalPreaching website (A sister site to the absolutely amazing and highly recommended biblicaltraining.org website where you can take quality online seminary classes taught by many leaders in the field for free, but that is for another entry at another time I suppose. By the way the Greek class is very helpful. I'm slowly learning). Nevertheless, now to the point of this post: Shafovaloff.com has posted via blogtorrent a bunch of huge sermon series. These were only previously available through the desiringgod store. Desiring God has granted him permission to post the following sermon series: (1) Battling unbelief, (2) A God-Entranced View of All Things: The Unrivaled Legacy of Jonathan Edwards, (3) Future Grace Explained, and (4) Bethlehem Conference for Pastors 2005: Exulting in the Trinitarian Relationships of Jesus Christ. Just go to shafovaloff.com/sermons/ and download them for free. If you do not have a bitTorrent client you will need one, click here to download one.

The Fruit of Hope: Love (Quote by John Piper)

"If I am emphasizing a future- and heaven-oriented focus somebody might object and say, 'John, if you focus on that, you're going to produce a way of thinking that creates an escapist mentality. You're going to cause people to be so heavenly-minded that they're no earthly good.' We must ask, therefore, 'Is that true?' When Christians set their hearts earnestly and intensely on the hope of the Glory of God, on the hope of seeing Jesus, on the hope of being free from sin, on the hope of no longer getting sick anymore, on the hope of having an eternity of happy tomorrows--if we have our hearts set on that hope in the future--does it create an escapist mentality? Does it cause our minds to be so much in heaven that we neglect the pressing needs around us?...

"...The Bible portrays just the opposite. The Bible teaches and shows that a strong confidence in the promises of God and passionate preference for the joys of heaven over the joys of earth is precisely the power that breaks the bondage of worldly selfishness...and ends with the fruit of love.

"I don't think that the problem today is that too many people are passionately in love with the joy of heaven; name three. The problem is not that professing Christians are retreating from the world in order to read the Bible half the day and sing worship songs the other half while the world goes to Hell. That is not the problem. The problem with the Church is that professing Christians are reading the Bible ten minutes a day, earning money half the day, and spending the rest of the time enjoying and fixing what they spent their money on. It is not heavenly mindedness that hinders love. It is worldly-mindedness that hinders love."