Sunday Praise:

"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O Lord my rock and my redeemer"

Psalms 19:14

Pure and Holy Passion...

"Give me one pure and holy passion. Give me one magnificent obsession. Give me one glorious ambition for my life, to know and follow hard after You. To grow as Your disciple in the truth. This world is empty, pale, and poor compared to knowing You my Lord. Lead me on and I will run after You."

"One Pure and Holy Passion" Mark Altrogge

These were the words we sang this morning in worship. I was so humbled as I read the words on the page. Before I was able to sing along in worship I went over the words praying them as my heart's cry not just words sung in a service. What a glorious life that would be if I would allow Him to totally consume my life and "I" stop getting in the way. That my desires and passions were His not my sinful and selfish ones. So often we get side tracked and become content with our lives that we no longer  are passionately pursing Lord. Whether it is family, school, kids, or our jobs we get so caught up in our day to day we miss the bigger picture. I want to live a life of passionate pursuit of God and to know Him the way He desires me too. His gospel is of infinite value, a treasure above all others. Nothing here on earth can compare to knowing and pursing Him. He is my life, my all in all. It is my desire to have a pure and holy passion, a glorious ambition, to grow and know my Lord. It is my prayer that the Lord gives you this passion as well. He is so amazing. I am so thankful for His redeeming love. I hope you have had a blessed Sunday today. Please know that you are prayed over sweet blog reader. If I can ever pray for you specifically please do not hesitate to  let me know! 

Oh to Grace How Great a Debtor.....

Happy Sunday Y'all. We had a wonderful morning of worship, teaching and fellowship at NCF Raleigh this morning! The Lord is so good! I am so thankful for grace and the gospel! This morning we sang and old hymn that I love and I thought I would leave y'all today with the last verse of the song. It was such a reflection of my life and the cry of my heart!

"O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be!

Let Thy goodness like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee

Prone to wander Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love

Here's my heart Lord, take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above"-

- From the Hymn Come Thou Fount

All Praise to Him Alone,

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Sunday Night with the McIntyres

We had a wonderful day today. It started with a wonderful morning of worship at New Covenant Fellowship followed by a great lunch. Tonight we had the McIntyre's over for dinner. I made buffalo chicken pizza and Pioneer Woman's chocolate sheet cake.

Josh and Jess loved the pizza, but nothing compares to the cake's amazingness (yes I know that is not a word but there is just not words to tell you how good this cake is). I love this sheet cake!

Pioneer Woman has a perfect recipe. I love recipes from scratch. You must try it. Be on the lookout for the recipe on my cooking blog this week! We had a great time of fellowship and Izzy was so excited to have friends to play with. She loves Josh and Jess!

It was a great night. I just love nights like tonight.

She is such a sweetheart!

Well it is bedtime for us! Night Y'all!

Lead Me....

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Blessed Sunday..

He is worthy of all honor and praise!

Hope you had a blessed Sunday.

Photo Credit: Kaitlyn Lamb taken in Greece

It is coupon day...

I love Sundays. I love waking up with a cup of coffee and my bible eager to spend time with the Lord. I love that time is set apart specifically for us to worship our Savior with other believers. I love that no matter what a Sunday afternoon nap is always in order. I even don't mind doing laundry on Sunday. One of the things I also love about Sundays is the Sunday paper. Now when I was younger it was because the Sunday paper contained the comics, in my teenage years it was the sales papers filled with things I was convinced I needed, in college it was the Wal-mart salespaper to see what deals I could score and of course the wedding and engagements section. Now it is the coupons. I have been intrigued by all the stories I am hearing of cutting your grocery bill in half, paying practically nothing for things by working the coupon system, and even getting things for free. So I have been doing some research, I want to save money too! After reading many blogs and notes I found that truly making this coupon business work for you is going to take a little bit of practice but I am up for the challenge. There is a lot to learn but I am trying. Even last week we saved some money by just having some coupons handy on items we needed. So today I am excited that it is coupon day. A few weeks ago I was really excited it was the paper with the P&G money saver, I use lots of P&G products (gotta support my "Uncle" Matt). Of course don't forget about reading all of the grocery store sales papers because Wal-mart will match any competitors price which save you the hassle of driving around to get the best deal. So do yourselves a favor why not give it a try too, we could all use a little extra money in our pockets.

Some resources I have found:
http://www.couponmom.com
http://www.pgeverydaysolutions.com
http://2thesimplelife.blogspot.com/2009/01/saving-money-with-coupons.html
http://krazycouponlady.blogspot.com
http://moneysavingmom.com
http://hotcouponworld.com
http://ppgazette.com

Check out this video it will make you want to clip too!!