tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343995242024-03-07T00:52:26.056-05:00BoanergesMar 3:17 And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-89438673801230755212010-01-23T16:35:00.000-05:002010-01-23T16:36:19.625-05:00Truth spoken at the Emmy's<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AGi8jSGpr5U&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AGi8jSGpr5U&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-36098264600197978272010-01-20T20:46:00.001-05:002010-01-20T20:46:49.813-05:00What Joe is doing in OregonBy PARIS ACHEN<br /><br />Mail Tribune<br /><br />A group of parents who homeschool their children submitted an application Wednesday to found a public charter school for homeschoolers in the Medford School District.<br /><br />Logos Charter School organizers said they want the K-12 school to serve as a guidance and resource center for parents of homeschoolers.<br /><br />“The submission of the proposal started a 15-day clock,” said Rich Miles, Medford schools elementary education director.<br /><br />The district administration, which governs the 12,000-student district, has 15 days to review the application to determine it is complete according to Medford School Board policy, Miles said.<br /><br />If the application is complete, the board has 60 days to hold a public hearing on the proposal.<br /><br />If the School Board agrees to sponsor the charter, the school would debut in the fall with up to 200 pupils, said John VonDoloski, one of the school’s organizers.<br /><br />Students and their parents would continue to orchestrate their education at home but would be expected to meet weekly with a licensed teacher who would help plan and schedule lessons and monitor students’ progress, VonDoloski said. Each teacher would have a case load of 25 students or less.<br /><br />“They have access to a credentialed teacher, and it doesn’t cost them anything,” he said.<br /><br />The curriculum would be based on state standards, and students would be required to take the same state and local academic assessments that other Medford pupils have to take. On-site classes such as music or foreign languages could be made available at the school based on student demand, VonDoloski said.<br /><br />“The concept is personalized learning,” he said. “The teacher sits down and does an assessment and personalizes the program specifically for the student.”<br /><br />Students would have a $1,000 voucher each year to use toward their education, VonDoloski said. They could use the money to rent a laptop from the charter school, take a music lesson or enroll community college class, for example.<br /><br />“It gives parents choices but also structure,” VonDoloski said.<br /><br />He said he also expects high school students who haven’t thrived in traditional high school settings to seek out the school.<br /><br />VonDoloski and his brother, Joe, came up with the idea after meeting a family whose children had attended the Visions in Education K-12 School, a charter school in Sacramento, Calif. Joe VonDoloski has worked as a school administrator and teacher in Texas and Michigan, while John VonDoloski has been a substitute teacher. John VonDoloski, a father of seven, and his wife homeschool their three eldest children, ages 7, 6 and 5.<br /><br />“I work with other families who homeschool,” John VonDoloski said. “We are just trying to offer a school so that homeschoolers have a school where there is accountability and resources are available.”<br /><br />Logos is modeled after Visions and the Alliance Charter Academy in Oregon City near Portland, which offer similar services. Logos organizers have been in close contact with administrators and teachers at Alliance and plan to visit the campus next week, VonDoloski said.<br /><br />The brothers and other homeschool families started planning the charter school in September and received a $56,000 Oregon Charter School Planning Grant in December from the Oregon Department of Education.<br /><br />There are about 1,000 registered homeschoolers in Jackson County, according to the Southern Oregon Education Service District.<br /><br />Students who graduate from the charter school would earn a regular diploma from the Medford district rather than a GED, as some homeschoolers do.<br /><br />As a public charter school, the program would be open to all Oregon residents without an inter-district and would be free of charge. Under state charter school law, the school would receive 80 percent of the state’s per-pupil funding amount, with the other 20 percent going to the Medford district. In exchange, the Medford district would provide some administrative services as well as oversight to ensure the school abides by its charter.<br /><br />Logos would be Medford’s second charter school. Madrone Trail Public Charter School, a Waldorf-style school for grades K-4 that opened in 2007, was the district’s first.<br /><br />For more information, on the Logos Charter School, call Joe VonDoloski at 989-370-5664.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-57634858094665583942010-01-20T18:15:00.001-05:002010-01-20T18:17:11.684-05:00What sustains me 2,000 miles from my family<strong>http://www.youtube.com/heidibug79</strong>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-14811954964858079832010-01-18T22:50:00.001-05:002010-01-18T22:51:13.186-05:00The difference between men and women<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZwLAh8qhOqI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZwLAh8qhOqI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-12803290405912636782010-01-02T18:26:00.002-05:002010-01-02T18:27:52.199-05:00Poetic Luther<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmocslipcH3bvbL4NcmL4ihHF4ei0IR9WcrW_0paQu7XuotJrzpR3WiKrzAan7MEH6HxjhYA2mkb5R9v-BZs6mdb5MQMpoRxzca5GLKuGrev2q3fZkOiHTpbAMcG0q5NdIXxg/s1600-h/FriarBen.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422288194997915138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrmocslipcH3bvbL4NcmL4ihHF4ei0IR9WcrW_0paQu7XuotJrzpR3WiKrzAan7MEH6HxjhYA2mkb5R9v-BZs6mdb5MQMpoRxzca5GLKuGrev2q3fZkOiHTpbAMcG0q5NdIXxg/s320/FriarBen.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div>A person who gives this some thought and yet does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs."<br />- Martin Luther </div>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-58801963880063483092009-12-27T22:44:00.000-05:002009-12-27T22:46:29.899-05:00Then we do something like this and TOTALLY redeem ourselves<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEvTW6IcCxpxbxtBk2JgZ3E2aaqbIFXHF5iBGtmKxQle1aM96nqmnFvB8Y8eQF2OIdRzSkoUh6v5jMie8eDFWrrosTFTXg9SDwzg96THDprvCxVcRgCZRzbYHXjbBCMTJdftf/s1600-h/Karis+baby.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420128298132214546" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidEvTW6IcCxpxbxtBk2JgZ3E2aaqbIFXHF5iBGtmKxQle1aM96nqmnFvB8Y8eQF2OIdRzSkoUh6v5jMie8eDFWrrosTFTXg9SDwzg96THDprvCxVcRgCZRzbYHXjbBCMTJdftf/s400/Karis+baby.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-40890623634894271922009-12-26T11:44:00.000-05:002009-12-26T11:46:24.769-05:00Spurgeon quote"I never come to you, and, <em>in forma pauperis</em>, ask you to accept Christ, begging and praying you to take Christ, because otherwise he will be a loser by you. It is you who must beg of him. He giveth grace as a king bestows his favours; nay more, he lovingly condescends to entreat you to come to him."Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-9430565513009238482009-12-25T12:53:00.002-05:002009-12-25T13:00:18.926-05:00Bah Hum-bugHow about a post on the <a href="http://www.hope-of-israel.org/cmas1.htm">pagan origin of Christmas </a>and how it should have no part in a church?<br /><br />Or is it ok to take pagan holidays and baptize them, jump down turn around pick a bale of cotton...and call it Christian? Or Advent.<br /><br />I hear so many people talk about the "true meaning" of Christmas and it is often on a Christmas card of their kid opening presents in front of the X-mas tree. I am doubting the kid is getting the true meaning, even if you do make a cake and sing happy birthday to Jesus.<br /><br />One lady on the radio called in to share how she is "being intentional" this year for Christmas by using last year's decorations.<br /><br />This is what I think: All the people who think they can combine "the true meaning of Christmas" with the rampant covetousness training are confused at best and at worst making a golden calf, calling it god and calling for everyone to dance, sing, and worship.<br /><br />everyone wants to keep the CHRIST in CHRISTmas, but so little is said about THE MASS.<br /><br />Christ MASS. I wonder what that word means?<br /><br />Merry X-mas and Happy Holidays everyone.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-81401739777706479762009-12-08T10:42:00.002-05:002009-12-08T10:45:11.341-05:00On the job front...<div><br />--- On <b>Tue, 12/8/09, Joe Vondoloski <i><mrvondo@hotmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br /></div><br />From: Joe Vondoloski <mrvondo@hotmail.com><br />Subject: Pastor Search<br />To: wellstonchurch@yahoo.com<br />Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 8:57 AM<br /><br /> <div id="ecxyiv1332526308"><style> .ExternalClass #ecxyiv1332526308 .ecxhmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass #ecxyiv1332526308 {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} </style> <ul class="ecxnobullets"><li><span class="ecxstronglabel">Salary:</span> <b>$13k - $13k</b></li><li><span class="ecxstronglabel">Job Category:</span> Senior Pastor</li><li><span class="ecxstronglabel">Job Status:</span> <b>Full-time</b></li><li><span class="ecxstronglabel">Education required:</span> Seminary/graduate degree</li><li><span class="ecxstronglabel">Experience required (years):</span> 5</li></ul><br />So you want a man with $50,000 worth of seminary training plus 5 years experience,<br />plus and undergraduate degree, to move to an economically depressed area and work full time for $13,000.<br /><br />I hope this is a mis-print. Otherwise, I would not sit by a phone waiting for the call.<br /><br />I can just imagine what went on in the board meeting that came up with this bright idea.<br /><br />What you are doing is called, Muzzling the ox.<br /><br />-Joe VonDoloski<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br />THE REPLY</span><br /><br /><div>Thank you for your assesment of our church. I assume you will not be applying. </div> <div> </div> <div>I have a EdD in educational administration and am serving as the church secretary, School Teacher, Search Committee Member as well as numerous other activities. I receive no payment - I do this work because I love the Lord.<br /></div> <div>I will share your encouraging views with our Board.</div> <div> </div> <div>Sincerely,</div> <div>Dr. George James<br /></div></div>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-15813259182889258042009-10-21T10:47:00.001-04:002009-10-21T10:48:41.991-04:00Expositional PreachingThe Definitions (From Mark Dever)<br /><br /><strong>Anecdotal</strong> - a sermon in which the preacher primarily tells engaging stories with a moral lesson.<br /><strong>Biographical</strong> - a sermon in which the preacher traces the life of a biblical character and draws contemporary moral implications.<br /><strong>Topical</strong> - a sermon that has a topic in mind prior to consulting the text, and then searches for one or more biblical texts that address the topic chosen beforehand.<br /><strong>Textual</strong> - a sermon that refers often to a particular Biblical text, but does not take the main point of the text as its own.<br /><strong>Expositional</strong> - a sermon which takes the point of the text as the point of the sermonJoe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-932937907739258212009-10-21T08:35:00.003-04:002009-10-25T09:11:59.686-04:00What a crock!I am substitute teaching in a public school English class today. The following quote is on the wall detailing various famous authors:<br /><br />"Nathaniel Hawthorne's Puritan ancestors are among those who persecuted witches at Salem. His guilt over his ancestor's behavior appear in his novels and short stories."<br /><br />Comments?Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-9536796432832601672009-10-08T09:19:00.001-04:002009-10-08T09:21:59.806-04:00If you have some free time on your hands...9/27/2009<br />Job Title<br />Pastor<br /><br /><strong>Part-Time Position</strong><br /><br />Description:<br />Man to Preach the Word, conduct Bible studies, call on the sick and elderly and build up the church body. Build a youth program. Loving heart for others.<br /><br />Requirement: Called of God, Some training helpful but not required. Experience preferable.<br /><br />Compensation: negotiable (translation- we will pay for your gas, maybe more)<br /><br />Church Info:<br />First Baptist Church, Andover<br /><a href="http://www.sbc.net/churchsearch/mapchurch.asp?ID=5545%2D44003" target="church">Map it</a><br /><a href="http://www.sbc.net/churchsearch/church.asp?ID=5545%2D44003" target="church">View Church Profile</a><br />5236 Stanhope Kellogsville Rd<br />Andover, OH 44003<br />Contact Name<br />Brian Hall<br />Email<br /><a href="mailto:bvathall@hotmail.com">bvathall@hotmail.com</a>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-56746432961109681872009-06-18T14:21:00.002-04:002009-06-18T14:22:26.514-04:00Baby Pictures<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VCdacemj2FAvMYft2XPFXcyyMkrO4NzPuRksDsascl31TKt1ibQ9O50NJfGK5y-tDuNgZcJuEpG6EsMUASz_6y7alaL1LEegFNowsaMrLeVDd-F5JrChiMrqqKVaRSPofN29/s1600-h/Karis+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348734654914221922" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VCdacemj2FAvMYft2XPFXcyyMkrO4NzPuRksDsascl31TKt1ibQ9O50NJfGK5y-tDuNgZcJuEpG6EsMUASz_6y7alaL1LEegFNowsaMrLeVDd-F5JrChiMrqqKVaRSPofN29/s320/Karis+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTxzwYl0KmWARrZliv9AH_1QXFK4uchS83diJwQpiC3QiqUEQbG_AA8I2sBL-kZX4RrlR2Eu4XdwkhjMzE0zekAiaZk8C7LRHADllrlXYPdg30OcjwEHDW1ASAmvhJ09kDfQx6/s1600-h/Future+Heartbreaker.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348734649011386370" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTxzwYl0KmWARrZliv9AH_1QXFK4uchS83diJwQpiC3QiqUEQbG_AA8I2sBL-kZX4RrlR2Eu4XdwkhjMzE0zekAiaZk8C7LRHADllrlXYPdg30OcjwEHDW1ASAmvhJ09kDfQx6/s320/Future+Heartbreaker.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQC_IkjTFHVrrzMWofJBARBqoYC18Dsemvk0unxp9FmE7VSo5FG-cPXg-QK3SLsuku6zeBAE2ooPGS0uNA5JgMuqCZxLfXzY6mPlUGf5eGckR1sKBQ-LmRNQBWH_ednRGyZ5G4/s1600-h/First+Song.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348734647943723202" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQC_IkjTFHVrrzMWofJBARBqoYC18Dsemvk0unxp9FmE7VSo5FG-cPXg-QK3SLsuku6zeBAE2ooPGS0uNA5JgMuqCZxLfXzY6mPlUGf5eGckR1sKBQ-LmRNQBWH_ednRGyZ5G4/s320/First+Song.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVs7l7drud0shRfbLrDJN6NlsK0wDX1txsbB3TRW7sLY4f2pOIl5HxzLrxWCfzA5L2xu2-2rw0aIAa6ySMCuoCUwXwGRk0sGwlAqzgJqrv6zKzMeqnD6xZbEhMrLWa1Yxfxvki/s1600-h/Boy+looking+at+my+daughter.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348734646383954626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVs7l7drud0shRfbLrDJN6NlsK0wDX1txsbB3TRW7sLY4f2pOIl5HxzLrxWCfzA5L2xu2-2rw0aIAa6ySMCuoCUwXwGRk0sGwlAqzgJqrv6zKzMeqnD6xZbEhMrLWa1Yxfxvki/s320/Boy+looking+at+my+daughter.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzQ_PBWmhfUMY0ZCg5Sb9Ux28WK9A_WUR41Dnl8181Rk8ANHmNqXpLJSrVHqgQZx131wP9oax9fTvB_r0T8qq8k0lFTHUO0uvyCSecjtl_pEX6SZtYy1YPhlGfA7OT-YpMZGP/s1600-h/Daddy+and+Karis.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348734636476989762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzQ_PBWmhfUMY0ZCg5Sb9Ux28WK9A_WUR41Dnl8181Rk8ANHmNqXpLJSrVHqgQZx131wP9oax9fTvB_r0T8qq8k0lFTHUO0uvyCSecjtl_pEX6SZtYy1YPhlGfA7OT-YpMZGP/s320/Daddy+and+Karis.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-32561817972647476662009-06-11T14:09:00.002-04:002009-06-11T14:16:38.814-04:00UPDATE<strong>Why I don't blog much anymore</strong>: Sitting down to my in-laws dial up internet is like sitting in the dentist chair and getting one of your important tooths pulled.<br /><br /><strong>What I'm reading</strong>: Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson- a treasure trove of pearls, probably my favorite book of all time.<br /><br /><strong>How I feel</strong>: Like Moses at the well after his first attempt at ministry. At least I didn't kill the guy and bury him in the sand. But I am encouraged that at the well, Moses looked to do good by running off some naughty shepherds.<br /><br /><strong>What I am waiting for</strong>: The birth of my daughter Karis- due yesterday, Heidi is to be induced Tuesday. Also a call from a church to come be their pastor.<br /><br /><strong>What I am learning:</strong> God is not on my timetable. It took 430 years for God to get Israel to where He wanted them before calling Moses there to free them, get ticked off, strike the rock and miss out on entering the promised land.<br /><br />God is good.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-88135923000009880602009-05-22T14:43:00.002-04:002009-05-22T14:45:02.810-04:00From the brook Cherith"Every servant that God deigns to use must pass through the trying experience of Cherith before he is ready for the triumph of Carmel. This is an unchanging principle in the ways of God." - AW Pink in his book on Elijah<br /><br />See this to be true in:<br />Joseph<br />Moses<br />David<br />Paul<br />and Jesus Christ.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-49707385751292779932009-03-28T08:18:00.002-04:002009-03-28T08:22:09.364-04:00New JourneyFor those interested, I have resigned my pastorate of Vanderbilt Community Church.<br />Tomorrow will be my last Sunday.<br /><br />We are moving all of our stuff down to Mt. Pleasant and then going down to Texas for some R&R.<br /><br />I don't know what the future holds, we are considering all of our options. One of them is for me to enter into the military as an officer.<br /><br />We appreciate your prayers.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-65249841219645410462009-03-26T10:02:00.001-04:002009-03-26T10:40:37.536-04:00What is right?"Eve trusted in her own evaluation of what was right and what would be good for her, rather than to allow God's word to define right and wrong. " Wayne Grudem<br /><br />The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. - unknown<br /><br />"I do think it necessary in these times to remind my readers that a man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty. I fail to see any scriptural warrant for the modern assertion that: "Sin is not sin to us until we discern it and are conscious of it." On the contrary, in the fourth and fifth chapters of that unduly neglected book, Leviticus, and in the fifteenth of Numbers, I find Israel distinctly taught that there were sins of ignorance which rendered people unclean and needed atonement (Lev. 4:1–35; 5:14–19; Num. 15:25–29). And I find our Lord expressly teaching that "the servant who knew not his master’s will and did it not," was not excused on account of his ignorance but was "beaten" or punished (Luke 12:48). We will do well to remember that, when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground. A deeper study of Leviticus might do us much good." - JC RYLEJoe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-11929811101708584502009-03-22T09:35:00.002-04:002009-03-22T09:35:45.218-04:00Amen<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yX_7j32zgNw&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yX_7j32zgNw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-18089060997609827492009-03-20T17:58:00.000-04:002009-03-20T17:59:10.514-04:00boldness in the preacher is the willingness and ability to be clear in the face of fear" (Wagner, Tongues Aflame, p. 42).Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-2403057857681670142009-03-16T21:55:00.000-04:002009-03-16T21:56:12.775-04:00God Sized TaskSome people say, "God will never ask me to do something I can't do." I have come to the place in my life that, if the assignment I sense God is giving me is something I know I can handle, I know it probably isn't from God. The assignments God gives in the Bible are always God sized. They are always beyond what people can do, because He wants to demonstrate His nature, His strength, His provision, and His kindness to His people and a watching world. That is the only way the world will come to know Him. - Henry BlackabyJoe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-11637621325150055912009-03-12T13:37:00.000-04:002009-03-12T13:37:00.800-04:00Why Piper is a ProphetFrom his sermon on <a href="http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/2009/3566_What_Is_the_Recession_For/">What is the Recession for</a><br /><br />"The book of Job in the Old Testament begins, “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil” (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/esv/Job%201.1" target="_blank" lbsreference="Job 1.1ESV">Job 1:1</a>). But in the last chapter of the book, Job says, “I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes” (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/esv/Job%2042.6" target="_blank" lbsreference="Job 42.6ESV">Job 42:6</a>). He was “blameless,” but later he repented. What does that mean?<br />It means that the most godly people in the world are like a clear glass of water with a sediment of sin hidden at the bottom of the glass. And when the glass is struck—with Job’s suffering, or with our recession—the sediment of sin is stirred up and exposed, and the water becomes cloudy. That’s one of the things that recessions are for. "Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-47586797910470685882009-03-11T21:20:00.000-04:002009-03-11T21:20:00.992-04:00EvanjellyfishmWe should remember that it didn't bum Gideon out when the Lord got him down to three hundred men. Part of the plan, as it turned out."<br /><br />Quote from a <a href="http://www.dougwils.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=6381">great post </a>by Douglas WilsonJoe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-73007555748343554432009-03-11T10:32:00.001-04:002009-03-11T10:37:20.194-04:00Prophetic Word of the DayJudges 17:6<br /><em>In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.</em><br /><br /><br />"With the Bible as our only infallible authority for every aspect of faith and life, we must stand on the truth and for the truth with uncompromising commitment to the truth and unwavering compassion for those who hate the truth, deny the truth, and use the only infallible authority for truth to defend their lies. By God’s grace, we have been called out of darkness in order to stand in His marvelous light so that we might boldly go into the darkness of this world as a light to the world, proclaiming the way, the truth, and the life before the face of God, coram Deo, and before the faces of our enemies. But in doing so, we must not in practice deny our allegiance to the authority of the Word of God by saying we believe it while continuing to live according to what is right in our own eyes."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ligonier.org/tabletalk/2009/3/1144_Unquestionable_Authority">Burk Parsons is editor of Tabletalk magazine </a>and minister of congregational life at Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Florida, and is editor of the book John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology.Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-51887030090823139352009-03-08T16:07:00.000-04:002009-03-08T16:07:00.580-04:00The Doctrine of the Last ThingsThe Bible teaches us that this age will come to an end and that the Lord Jesus Christ will return personally, visibly and bodily to judge all mankind. Those who by God’s grace believe in Him and have served Him will be ushered into His everlasting presence to rejoice in His glory with unspeakable joy. All all who have rejected God’s Son in unbelief and preferred a life of sin over the service of God, however, will be separated from God’s favor forever in hell. There they will suffer unspeakable and eternal agony, being the object of God’s just wrath upon sin (Matt. 25:31–46; Mark 13:26, 27; 2 Cor. 5:10; 2 Thess. 1:8–10; 2 Tim. 4:1, Rev. 20:11–12).Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34399524.post-88398393972223480622009-03-07T16:06:00.000-05:002009-03-07T16:06:00.256-05:00The Doctrine of the ChurchThe Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit, being a God of order, unites all those whom He saves into a body of believers called the church. It is within the context of the church that He causes His Word to be preached by men whom He has specifically called and qualified for this task. By means of the preaching of His Word, God is pleased to regenerate spiritually dead sinners and bestow upon them the gift of saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He also uses the preaching of the Word to strengthen the faith of His people, causing them to grow in the grace and the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus the church is the place where God dwells in the midst of His people by means of His Word and Spirit. It is where His people worship God, receive spiritual nourishment from His Word, serve Him, and have fellowship with Him (Psalm 122; 132:13–18; Psalm 133; Acts 2:47; Heb. 10:24-25).Joe VonDoloskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579810065005629169noreply@blogger.com0