Nelson's Complete Book of Bible Maps and Charts, 3rd Edition

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This is an amazing Bible reference book. When I ordered it I thought that it was going to be more of just a book of maps, but was very impressed when I received it. It contains so much more than just maps. It has actual photos of historic Biblical sites, charts and outlines of many different things, like events in the life of Jesus, the Tabernacle in the Old Testament, etc. It even has summaries of all of the different books of the Bible.

You can also download full color pdf versions of many of the maps and charts. I give a lot of presentations and talks on the Bible and this book is now one of the ones that I use the most!

I would recommend this book to anyone, it's easy to use and comprehensive!

Quotes To Share & New Blessings To Announce

I [Steph] read two interesting quotes recently that I’d like to share with you. The first is by Ruth Bell Graham. She says; “as a mother, my job is to take care of what is possible and trust God with the impossible.” The second is by a man named Kin Hubbard and goes something like this; "The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing." I’m happy to announce that both of these quotes now apply to my life, and that while at least in my case the second quote might be just as true as the first!

Yes, God has blessed Ryan and I with our first little bundle of joy! We are due the first week of October. It’s hard to believe that soon our family pictures will include one more! I can’t begin to tell you how excited we are to have this precious gift from God! Maybe you caught on to this high level of excitement by the excessive amount of exclamation points in these first two paragraphs!

As we begin to make room in our house and our lives for this precious new addition we are continually awed by God’s love and provision for us and for our new baby. Please join us in praying and thanking God for this great gift; and also please pray for Ryan and I and for the baby. That we would have faith and wisdom in parenting and that our little one would be healthy and would come to know Jesus early in life! Thank you for these and all of your prayers, we appreciate you so much!

My Goal For The New Year

Alrighty, so Ryan and I came up with our little blog about this time last year. Well, we came up with the name for it this time last year and I had a new year's resolution to have a blog. As you can see I didn't get too far; not even one post.

So, this year I have set out again and made a 2010 resolution to be a blogger. Mostly after being inspired by the movie Julie and Julia. Incidentally, great flick you should snag a copy out of the red box. Anyway, I just spent about fifteen minutes finding my blog again (Ryan really liked the old name), another twenty minutes or so spiffing it up with a fun little template, another five to ten finding a good picture of us, an additional one or two getting our welcome message text right, and now here I am around 45 minutes later and remembering why this was so hard last year: I hate blogging!

What does one write about on these things? Most of my friends write about their kids (which is awesome!), but alas all we have is our cat Ranger. And Ryan made it very clear that I was not allowed to do two things: put Ranger on our Christmas Card or write about him on our blog. I think he has some sort of deep rooted fear that "the masses" out there that read our until now non-existent blog, might get the impression that we're over the top cat people. I dunno.

So now I'm back at square one...maybe I'll think of something later...or maybe something exciting will happen today and I can tell you all about it tomorrow! Here's hoping!

Oh, PS - I thought I should maybe set the bar low. So, my 2010 goal is at least one post a week. Keep your fingers crossed!