Holly Lin

I don't even care if my husband is hot. I just care if he's godly.

-Holly Lin (13 years old)

Holly Lin, my dear dear girl, your lovely ramblings just uttered something way beyond your years.

Humorous

If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans for your life.

Excerpts from "Good Music"

Very interesting article. Not sure that i agree with all its points (i.e. Rock and roll, because I'm not even sure what exactly is classified as rock and roll plus there is soft rock, classic rock, hard rock, etc.), but other points are deeply intriguing.

The point of music is not that you have music and you want to adorn it with words, but rather that you have a message and want to adorn it with music.

But it is not humble to mumble.  Rather clarity is a service to the listener.

Often Christian music is experience-centered, man-centered, and self-centered – ‘give me, give me’.  The content is inferior, lacking sublimity, magnificence, glory, weight, beauty, skill, and theology.

 I have known people to sing themselves into a state of intoxication without realizing what they were doing.

(I feel as if I have done this before)

Just as words can rightly or wrongly represent Christianity, so also does music.

 Are they servants or stars?  Are they gathering followers for Christ or fans for themselves?  As someone observed, they are not saying, “Behold the Lamb”, but they are saying, “Behold me saying, ‘Behold the Lamb.'...They are afraid to be different from the world and are ashamed of Christ.  One Christian artist mentions the name of the Lord Jesus once in nine songs.  Some musicians are so vague that it is not possible to distinguish if they are singing about some lover or about Christ.

Again, behold the power of good music.  When Paul and Silas sang, the earth shook and the jail rattled (Acts 16).  When Jehoshaphat went out to battle, he put the singers in front of the army and God set up ambushments (2Chr 20:22).  David’s harp drove off evil spirits (1Sam 16:23).  When Elisha called for the minstrel, it invoked the hand of God and a spirit of prophecy (2Kg 3:15).  Good music pleases God, as it is written,

•  Psa 69:30  I will praise the name of God with a song … it shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

-http://illbehonest.com/good-music-bob-jennings 

New Year's Resolutions

1. Seek praise from God versus the praise of men. 
• [I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?] -John 5:43-44
2. Last year's resolution was to reply to my texts and emails (not Facebook). This years is to reply in a timely manner (within 24 hours).
3. Get all A's
4. Speak with deliberation...as if I'm Apparating 
• "The most important thing to remember when Apparating are the three D's. Destination, Determination, Deliberation"