HT: Justin Taylor

I actually pulled this book off the shelf a couple of weeks ago with the intention of working back through it again, so I’m very happy to get the audio version free.

For other pictures of us with Tarantulas, see my earlier post.

Here’s another video of my buddy, Matt Wilkinson, holding the same spider.

some basic rule’s of grammar to which we would all Do well to adhere, to:

26 Golden Rules for Writing Well

1.Don’t abbrev.
2.Check to see if you any words out.
3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct.
4.About sentence fragments.
5.When dangling, don’t use participles.
6.Don’t use no double negatives.
7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.
8.Just between you and I, case is important.
9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
10.Don’t use commas, that aren’t necessary.
11.Its important to use apostrophe’s right.
12.It’s better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive.
13.Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object.
14.Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop
15.Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase.
16.In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.
17.Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language.
18.Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
19.Avoid unnecessary redundancy.
20.A writer mustn’t shift your point of view.
21.Don’t write a run-on sentence you’ve got to punctuate it.
22.A preposition isn’t a good thing to end a sentence with.
23.Avoid cliches like the plague.
24.1 final thing is to never start a sentence with a number.
25.Always check your work for accuracy and completeness.

In this passage Jesus says that unless:

1. I hate my family and myself,
2. take up my cross and come after him (on the road of suffering), and
3. renounce all that I have…

. . . I cannot be his disciple (3x).  Powerful.  Sobering.  Radical.  Scandalous.  Reckless.  Dead serious.  And very different from the Christianity that I was nurtured in the first 30-some years of my life.  I think I have a long way to go before I really understand the implications of Jesus’ ultimatum.

While we’re on this subject, if you haven’t been there yet check out Jesus is Worth it .com.

Few preachers I’ve heard echo the sentiment of Jesus’ words in this and other passages better than John Piper.

Here’s another one along the same lines:

Maranatha!

HT: Justin Taylor