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"I believe one the the greatest crutches in the church is the nursery. Parents who have neglected to train their children have very little encouragement to do do when there is a place to hide them. The father who should be up in arms by the time he gets home from church because of the embarrassment to which his child subjected him ends up going home with a clear conscience while the nursery worker takes a handful of aspirin." Voddie Baucham

The Fire

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Bible Give Away!

Well, you have to enter, and if you win the KJV wide-margin in goat, that's what the Ram has been wanting for awhile!

Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check out Logos and see how it can revolutionize your Bible study.

We Do

The Two Js

Josiah

We are Moving

Praise the Lord! The Ram was unanimously called to pastor Higgins FBC in NE Texas. We are very excited about the ministry before us and looking forward to life in a small country town. We are trying to get everything packed up so we can move this week so it may be a little hectic around here, but with the Lord's strength, we will persevere and shine!

Josiah Luke

He was born on June 14, at 11 lbs, 10 oz. and 23 inches long. We are all so in love with him as he is so cuddly! On arriving home, my computer will not read my camera card, so no pics to upload, however, I did manage to get a few loaded to my facebook page while in Houston. Everyone here is doing well and enjoying God's goodness and mercies.

Hugs

Lily is such a cuddle-bug, and she loves Big Granny!

Five Waiting for Sixth

Museum Scenes

Baby Cake

Not yet, but soon!

Young Eagles

A little too young to actually fly. One landing, one taking off!

Some of the lambs had the opportunity to fly in (and actually control) a few small planes this past weekend. Here are some pics of them in their planes, and then with the pilots. Smiles all around!

Others May, You Cannot

OTHERS MAY, YOU CANNOT

by G D Watson

G.D.Watson (1845-1924) was a Wesleyan Methodist minister and evangelist based in Los Angeles. His evangelistic campaigns took him to England, the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Korea. He also wrote several books.

If God has called you to be truly like Jesus in all your spirit, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility. He will put on you such demands of obedience that you will not be allowed to follow other Christians. In many ways, He seems to let other good people do things which He will not let you do. Others who seem to be very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires, and scheme to carry out their plans, but you cannot. If you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent. Others can brag about themselves, their work, their successes, their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing. If you begin to do so, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works. Others will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money, or having a legacy left to them, or in having luxuries, but God may supply you only on a day-to-day basis, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, a helpless dependence on Him and His unseen treasury. The Lord may let others be honored and put forward while keeping you hidden in obscurity because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade.God may let others be great, but keep you small. He will let others do a work for Him and get the credit, but He will make you work and toil without knowing how much you are doing. Then, to make your work still more precious, He will let others get the credit for the work which you have done; this to teach you the message of the Cross, humility, and something of the value of being cloaked with His nature. The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch on you, and with a jealous love rebuke you for careless words and feelings, or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over. So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign and has a right to do as He pleases with His own, and that He may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you. God will take you at your word. If you absolutely sell yourself to be His slave, He will wrap you up in a jealous love and let other people say and do many things that you cannot. Settle it forever; you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue or chaining your hand or closing your eyes in ways which others are not dealt with. However, know this great secret of the Kingdom: When you are so completely possessed with the Living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven, the high calling of God.

Fishin' in the Bay

Yes, they were delicious the next day thanks to Uncle Billy and Aunt Nicole!

New on Sermon Audio

Voddie Baucham is now on Sermon Audio! Happy Mother's Day to me! If you have never heard this man speak, go listen now. Really, go ahead, you will not regret it! We were blessed to attend worship with them for about a year and he is an awesome proclaimer of God's truth. Thank God for servants willing to proclaim truth, no matter the opposition from the world.

Afraid?

From Tim Challies:

The poem, entitled "Afraid?" was written by Presbyterian missionary E.H. Hamilton following the recent martyrdom of one of his colleagues, J.W. Vinson, at the hands of rebel soldiers in northern China. A small Chinese girl who escaped from the bandits related the incident that provided the inspiration for Hamilton's poem.

"Are you afraid?" the bandits asked Vinson as they menacingly waved a gun in front of him.

"No," he replied with complete assurance. "If you shoot, I go straight to heaven."

His decapitated body was found later.

Afraid? Of what?
To feel the spirit's glad release?
To pass from pain to perfect peace,
The strife and strain of life to cease?
Afraid? Of that?

Afraid? Of what?
Afraid to see the Saviour's face,
To hear His welcome, and to trace,
The glory gleam from wounds of grace,
Afraid? Of that?

Afraid? Of what?
A flash - a crash - a pierced heart;
Brief darkness - Light - O Heaven's art!
A wound of His a counterpart!
Afraid? Of that?

Afraid? Of what?
To enter into Heaven's rest,
And yet to serve the Master blessed?
From service good to service best?
Afraid? Of that?

Afraid? Of what?
To do by death what life could not -
Baptize with blood a stony plot,
Till souls shall blossom from the spot?
Afraid? Of that?

E.H. Hamilton

A New Site!

I am so excited to introduce our new site for missions: SGTs for Christ. SGT stands for Sing, Give and Tell, some commands God gives us in Psalm 96. We are sergeants in the Lord's Army as we seek to obey and follow His commands. This new site will showcase the work God is doing through these broken vessels named Barcak on the mission field.

Submission...As Unto the Lord

Submission. I know, it's not a popular term. I mean, who really wants to give up their wants desires so someone else can have their way? But our goal should not be to live as we see as right, but to see how God would have us live. Scripture tells us in Ephesians 5:22:

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

We are submitting to God by submitting to our husbands. Let me rephrase that, by not submitting to our husbands' authority that God has placed over us, we are being disobedient to God. By not submitting to your husband, you are in sin. OUCH!

But I hear you saying, "But what if he wants Burger King and I want Shrimp Fried Rice, after all, I am the one 35 weeks pregnant." Okay, maybe that was my voice, not yours. You are probably not as rebellious as me. But you get the idea, it is still sin. If you husband asks you to do something, you do it, as unto the Lord. Would you gripe and complain if God asked you to do something? He put your husband in authority over you. Now, clearly, if your husband asks you to sin, you obey God and not man, but we are talking about non-sin issues here.

Here are a few questions from Doorposts' publication As Unto the Lord that you may want to ask yourself today:

• Did I submit to God and His plan for me by humbly respecting and submitting to my dear husband (dh)?
• Can I, without shame, give an account to God for every word I have spoken to my dh?
• Is God pleased with the way I have treated my dh? Have I shown Godly love, patience, and forgiveness?
• Have I earnestly prayed for my dh today?
• Have I shown proper gratitude to God and to my dh for the headship that has been provided for me?
• Am I aware of my dh's good qualities?
• Have I chosen to cheerfully obey my dh's commands today? Have I openly rebelled against his authority?
• Am I being loyal to my dh and his leadership? Have I treated him with pride or scorn?
• Have I supported and built up my dh as the leader of our home?
• Can my dh delight and be proud of my attitudes and actions?
• Have I been negligent, lazy, or resistant in fulfilling my duties toward my dh?
• Have I been discontent or angry today under the God-ordained headship of my dh?

How far do you go in your submission? What if it makes you uncomfortable? What if it leads to physical harm or even death? Who is responsible? God's Word clearly indicates that He puts the husband in the position of authority. Your dh will have to answer to God for his actions, just as you will have to answer to God for your actions. Were you submissive, as unto the Lord, even unto death, as Christ was submissive unto the Father, even unto death?

Lest you think otherwise, this is an issue I struggle with as a Christian wife. Die to self? For Christ, okay, I am fine with that. But for my dh? What about equal rights? Remember, Adam was created first, then Eve, to be his helper.

Conviction is painful, but I thank God that He continues to mold me to be more like His Son.

Diapers, diapers, diapers

I love using cloth diapers. They are so soft and cuddly! And really, not that difficult to care for. It is so much easier (and cheaper) to do a load of laundry than run to the store if you run out of diapers! Some have asked what we need for the newest blessing, and it would be cloth diapers in size small.

This is a pic of Fuzzi Bunz diapers. They are pocket diapers (about $18 each new) and are so fun and easy to use on baby. You use just like a disposable, but wash instead of throwing away. These are our favorites as anyone can change a diaper. Awesome! You can find them all over the internet, even Amazon, or at The Young and Restless over on Ella. I love that store as they have new and used cloth diapers.

Can you tell my nesting instinct is kicking in?