“If a man should give me a diamond worth one hundred thousand dollars, I think I would make bold to ask him for a little piece of brown paper to carry it away in.”

D.L. Moody, after speaking of Romans 8:32 (“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”), and that “When God the Father gave Christ, the Son of His bosom, He literally gave up all that heaven had. He gave the richest jewel that heaven possessed. And if He has given us His Son, is there anything too great for us to ask? If a man should give me a diamond…” (Moody, “The Eighth Chapter of Romans,” in Moody’s Last Sermons (Chicago: Moody Press), quoted in The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything, by Fred Sanders, chapter 3 (Don’t know page number—how can you with the Kindle version?). Great book so far by Sanders...

Adventures down at the ocean...

I sure miss the crisp, fall season of the Midwest --but it is great to be near the Creator's handiwork of the Pacific Ocean!