Category Archives: Giveaway

>Our New Winner is….

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The winner of Christina’s giveaway is:

Melissa, your book, The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel, will be on its way to your home soon!
Congratulations from all the ladies in the Kitchen!

Becky


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Have you signed in for Trisha’s great giveaway (perfect for moms with little ones!)?
If you haven’t go over there., read her post and leave a comment to enter the drawing. (click here) 

Don’t forget to check the resources’ page and sign in for the giveaway at the end of the month. (Including a Systematic Theology)

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>A Book Goes to the UK

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Dear friends, Diane at Theology for Girls, hosted a wonderful giveaway of the book The Attributes of God by A.W. Pink and it is our joy to announce the winner:

Thank you, Diana for participating. What a joy is to have you as our friend in this wonderful Kitchen!
And just in case you missed it, Diane Bucknell wrote a wonderful post on The Love of God, that you really don’t want to miss.
And Diana, who blogs at Waiting for Our Blessed Hope,  wrote another one that moved us to tears as she shared about the glorious doctrine of Christ (Christology) entitled, My Eyes Were Lifted Up.
Remember, ladies, that we still have more giveaways:
* Christina is giving away the wonderful book The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel, to enter the drawing, read her post entitled, Why I Love the Doctrines of Grace,  and leave a comment there. (click here)
* You can also enter the drawing of a Systematic Theology  (choose from either Horton’s or Grudem’s) that Monergism Books is hosting. To enter leave a comment here or follow us on Facebook.
*  On our resources page, you can enter the “big” giveaway that will be held at the end of the month. We are posting new resources each day that correspond to the daily posts. And at the end of the month we will randomly choose four winners who will be able to choose one resource from the list. If you wish to have your name thrown in the “mixing bowl” leave a comment on the page (click here).
Thank you for visiting us, we are grateful for you!
Under His sun and by His grace,

>-P2R Week 8- How to Memorize the Scripture and a Giveaway-

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Week 8 :: Philippians 2:12-18

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed,
so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who works in you,
both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
14 Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God
without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation,
among whom you shine as lights in the world,
16 holding fast to the word of life,
so that in the day of Christ
I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
17 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering
upon the sacrificial offering of your faith,
I am glad and rejoice with you all.
18 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
What a joy, what a blessed joy, it is to know that once the Lord calls us and justifies us, He doesn’t leave us on our own! After we are justified He is still at work in us for His good pleasure (not my life ideal!).
He wants us to obey, but He gives us the power to obey. He commands us to be holy just as He is Holy, but He sanctifies us.  So in our daily walk with the Lord we are called to obey and at the same time we can rest assured that our Salvation doesn’t depend on our performance.
MacArthur says,

“In Philippians 2:12–13, Paul presents the appropriate resolution between the believer’s part and God’s part in sanctification. Yet he makes no effort to rationally harmonize the two. He is content with the incomprehensibility and simply states both truths, saying, in effect, that, on the one hand, sanctification is of believers (v. 12) and on the other hand, it is of God (v. 13).”

One of the things we must do daily to work out our own salvation is as “simple” as stop complaining!

Read carefully verse 14,

“Do all things without grumbling or questioning”



When we live in discontentment we are definitely more prone to grumble all day and question every thing that comes to our lives. 

When we stop giving thanks to God we start to look at all the circumstances around us with a bittered spirit and we then stop growing in grace; and instead, we start to grow more impatient with our husband, children, parents, etc.


The next verse ties this up with strong cords… 

What is OUR MOTIVE for not grumbling and questioning everything around us? 


The only acceptable motive is this: A strong desire to please a Holy God; to be blameless and innocent before Him.


Seems like an impossible thing?  Yes, it is impossible for the unregenerate, but the children of God have hope; we can pursue a life without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation. We have hope because God is still at work in us, and because when everything around us seem to be shaking and falling apart we can hold fast to the Word of Life and not perish. What a wonderful news this is! O how, my heart leaps for joy!


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Now I want to share a few notes to ENCOURAGE you to memorize a whole book of the Bible…

1. It takes time, but NO more than you would think; no more than the time it takes you to visit few blogs, or check facebook… so, if that is what you need to leave on the side in order to pursue this great blessing, do it!

2. Carry it around. It is great to have the book you are memorizing printed and pasted in a Moleskine because you can carry it around all day, everywhere. Timmy Brister has put together Philippians and Ephesians for this purpose.

3. Write it down. My friend Anne, who is also memorizing Philippians suggested this to me, and it has proved to be a great help. I have a journal fr that purpose and I try to write from memory several times the verses or chapters several times. (at least once a day).

4. Mutter it all day long. While cooking, folding laundry, driving.. fill your mind, your heart with the Word; meditate on it day and night and you’ll see how much your speech and thoughts will change!

5. Study it. This is a very important and profitable thing to do; buy a commentary of the book you will be memorizing and study it along. I study the comments on the verses I will be memorizing that day as part as my devotions. This not only helps me to get the most of the book, but it also helps me remember the verse. As I repeat it during the day, word by word, slowly so I won’t skip a word here and another one there, I know the meaning of those words, I understand the context and the purpose of those verses more clearly. For this purpose I bought the Journible that corresponds to the book of Philippians, and I copy the verses I have memorized and on the left  pages,  I jot down the notes from the commentary I am studying. (Read more of the Journibles here and  here)

6. Be transformed by it. Let the Word change YOU!
 

Because I really want to encourage you to start this wonderful discipline of memorizing whole books of the Bible; I want to give away the Journible for you to start copying and jotting down your study notes.

What you need to do?

*Just leave a comment here and be willing to DO IT (memorize any epistle, or any other book that has a Journible to accompany it see the options here just mention which Jounible you would like to have).

* Please, don’t sign in if you plan to put this in a dusty bookshelf 🙂 (Only US, Canada and Mexico, please. If you live in a different country than these, and you own a Kindle, you can participate also… I will give you something else but related!)

* If you are already memorizing Philippians and would like to participate, you are more than welcome to do so!

* You can invite friends you think might be interested in memorizing the Scriptures  to participate in this giveaway. Feel free to pass the voice around!

I will choose a winner next Saturday, March 5… be sure to come back then!

Under His Sun,

 

>Joseph and Mary an Advent Scene -and my gift to you-

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>Isn’t is wonderful? Just look at them! I wonder; how was that journey like? One full of expectation, full of joy, full of weariness and I am sure one full of uncertainty too; after all, Joseph and Mary were humans, bound to their flesh, just like you and I.

May our journey to the manger be full of expectation!

The Baby Jesus was being formed in Mary’s womb; nine months of waiting…  I think of my own life. I pray that daily, on my way to heaven, Jesus may be formed in me too.

The journey is the same, full of joy, expectation, promises,  and weariness too.

But He is in me. I shall not fear.

I am reading this book, Songs of the Nativity; Selected Sermons on Luke 1 and 2 by John Calvin, and I would like to share with you few quotes from the first sermon:

“Our happiness is bound up with faith and faith itself is full acceptance of the promises of salvation contained in the gospel. On what, precisely, do these promises depend? On the fact that God forgives our trespasses and recognizes us as righteous, miserable sinners though we are”

“how is it possible for us to rejoice in God? The Virgin Mary supplies us with the answer when she says ‘in God my Saviour’. That is where our joy begins -with the assurance that God is for us a Saviour. The word “Saviour” does not mean that he comes to our aid once and once only, but that He will always take care of us and of our salvation until He has brought it to fulfillment. We may, indeed, be replete with all kinds of goods, and yet be powerless to rejoice in God. Just to feel joy is simplicity itself. That is what the children of this world do all the time. But to rejoice in God is impossible until we experience the love He has for us, and until we know that He will not desert us but will lead us on to the end… So however many troubles and trials may beset us, whatever sorrows and vexations we may feel. God’s peace is bound to prevail. Nothing should stop us; rejoicing in Him”

Dear friends, thank you for sojourning with me! I love each one of you and I am grateful for you!

Thank you for coming, for reading my words, thank you for your comments, and most of all,; thank you for your friendship.

My little Christmas gift for you, dear readers, is this; I took a series of beautiful pictures of Mary and Joseph on their frail journey to Bethlehem; and, well, you can download them and use them as you wish! You can print any of them, or use them on your blog entries, or as desktops, etc… You can find the whole series at my photography blog, My Daily Journey-through my lens–

May His grace abound as we journey daily on our way to Heaven!

>Saturday, We Have a Winner!

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>Welcome, to a wonderful Saturday!

This morning I have some delicious cranberry-apple muffins in the oven and coffee ready (Starbucks Christmas Blend is here!). Yummy!

I want to announce our winner for  this week‘s giveaway:

How did I do this? Following the old-time way of doing fun things. I wrote down numbers 1-10 on 10 little pieces of paper, then I  put them in one of my bowls and picked one: Comment number nine!

Congratulations, Emily! Please drop me an email or a message on fb with your mail address, so I can send you your gift.

Now, talking again about the muffins in the oven…

Don’t think that I have always done this, waking up early on Saturday mornings to bake for my family. It has been something I have learned to do this past year. I always wanted to be “that kind of mom” but I always wished for that to happen, until one day, in prayer, I asked the Lord to help me serve my family in better and practical ways.

The next thing: I woke up earlier and started doing it!

Today I am grateful that I can serve my family in simple ways such as baking for them.

P.S I am enjoying our Philippians Study a lot! (We are already on week six, what a joy it has been!)