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Photo Equipment -

Pentax K20D

Sigma 17-70mm/2.8-4.5 DC Macro

Pentax *istDL

Pentax SMCP-DA 18-55

Pentax SMCP-DA 50-200

Pentax SMCP-F 50/1.7

Pentax SMCP-FA 28/2.8

Sigma 15mm/2.8 Fisheye

Sears Auto K-Mount 135/2.8

JCPenny 2x Teleconverter

Pentax AF540FGZ

Asahi Pentax Auto Extension Tubes

Asahi Pentax Macro Bellows

Asahi Super-Tak 55/1.8 screwmount

  

 

    

Some Favorite Quotes of mine

 

".it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." C.S. Lewis

 

Galatians 1:3 (latin) gratia vobis et pax a Deo Patre et Domino nostro Iesu Christo

 

Galatians 1:10 (ESV) For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

 

We prayed for this child and the Lord has granted us what we asked of Him.

1 Samuel 1:27

 

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NIV)

 

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20

 

“We move through life in such a distracted way that we do not even take the time and rest to wonder if any of the things we think, say or do are worth thinking, saying or doing.” - Henri Nouwen

 

"All that we call human history --money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." - C.S. Lewis

 

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot

 

"As long as Christ remains outside of us, and we are separated from him, all that he has suffered and done for the salvation of the human race remains useless and of no value to me." - John Calvin

 

"Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it." - C.S Lewis

  

"The Bible's purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible's purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome... religion is 'if you obey, then you will be accepted'. But the Gospel is, 'if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey'. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference." Tim Keller

 

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• If you center your life and identity on your spouse or partner, you will be emotionally dependent, jealous, and controlling. The other person’s problems will be overwhelming to you.

 

• If you center your life and identity on your family and children, you will try to live your life through your children until they resent you or have no self of their own. At worst, you may abuse them when they displease you.

 

• If you center your life and identity on your work and career, you will be a driven workaholic and a boring, shallow person. At worst you will lose family and friends and, if your career goes poorly, develop deep depression.

 

• If you center your life and identity on money and possessions, you’ll be eaten up by worry or jealousy about money. You’ll be willing to do unethical things to maintain your lifestyle, which will eventually blow up your life.

 

• If you center your life and identity on pleasure, gratification, and comfort, you will find yourself getting addicted to something. You will become chained to the “escape strategies” by which you avoid the hardness of life.

 

• If you center your life and identity on relationships and approval, you will be constantly overly hurt by criticism and thus always losing friends. You will fear confronting others and therefore will be a useless friend.

 

• If you center your life and identity on a “noble cause,” you will divide the world into “good” and “bad” and demonize your opponents. Ironically, you will be controlled by your enemies. Without them, you have no purpose.

 

• If you center your life and identity on religion and morality, you will, if you are living up to your moral standards, be proud, self-righteous, and cruel. If you don’t live up to your moral standards, your guilt will be utterly devastating.

 

Tim Keller, The Reason for God (Dutton, 2008), pp. 275-276, and Tim Keller, “Talking About Idolatry in a Postmodern Age,” As summarized by Paul Vanderklay

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