Dream House

So Nina and I came across a house for sale that seemed to good to be true. It was nestled in a old neighborhood at the very top of a hill in San Clemente. It has 3 bedrooms, a 2 care garage, and amazing view of an empty canyon overlooking the ocean. It is also the cheapest house in all of Orange County. I told you it sounds to good be true. The listing said the house needs geological work. Well when we got there we noticed the house was also falling of a cliff. The pictures show the amazing view from the backyard, they also show that the house that was once next to it no longer exists as it has fallen off the cliff already. You can see that the backyard is already going over the cliff as well as the master bedroom. Stupid cliff. Other than that it is our dream house.

Election

We have been working through the doctrine of election here at Grace and have been having some really good discussions. Here is a Spurgeon quote to ponder on the subject. 

"Do not imagine for an instant that I pretend to be able thoroughly to elucidate the great mysteries of predestination. There are some men who claim to know all about the matter. They twist it round their fingers as easily as if it were an everyday thing; but depend upon it, he who thinks he knows all about this mystery, knows but very little . . . I think that if we kept more simply to the teachings of the Bible, we should be wiser than we are; for by turning from the heavenly light of revelation, and trusting to the deceitful will-o'-the-wisps of our own imagination, we thrust ourselves into quags and bogs where there is no sure footing, and we begin to sink; and instead of making progress, we find ourselves sticking fast. The truth is, neither you nor I have any right to want to know more about predestination than what God tells us. That is enough for us. If it were worth while for us to know more, God would have revealed more. What God has told us, we are to believe."      - From Charles Spurgeon's sermon Jacob and Esau. You can read the whole sermon here.