Chris R. Quinlan

Some of my favorite iPhone apps (not in any particular order) : Google (has voice searching which is very convenient sometimes, and quick access to all things Google..which is nice if you use google as much as I do...Gmail,Docs,Calender, Reader) Accuweather is my favorite weather app MobileRSS for RSS feeds, (syncs with Google reader) Pandora PocketUniverse is pretty cool Find my iPhone is free now, and is very cool. (can send message, remote lock or wipe, have it make a sound, or find on a map. just Google how to set it up) Fox News, AP Mobile, CNN are good news apps eBay, Amazon.com, Google shopper are cool shopping apps For searching for different things: Bing, AroundMe, Where, IMDb, Flixter DropBox  & Evernote if you use those SoundHound for finding out what song that is thats on the radio NavFree has free Nav software that is fairly nice. Maybe also try MapQuest There is a Nook, and Kindle  e-book reader if you read e-books Skype...

This warning from J. C. Ryle from 150 years ago seems like he's talking about the situation in 2011! We call it Post-Modernism or Relativism, but it's the same devilish scheme. Seemingly reasonable "let's all just get along" principles, all designed to make the  truths of the bible  appear quite "unkind" and " closed -minded." What is "unkind" is knowing that many of the people around us are going to be judged by a holy and righteous God and then keeping to ourselves the truth about the only way to avoid eternal punishment. It's not at all unkind to see a person about to be hit by a bus and run over and shove that person out of the way with all possible force. Or to see a distracted person about to walk off a cliff, and shout with all rudeness, "STOP!" Shouldn't we show "kindness" by warning people of the wrath to come in whatever way is necessary to grab their attention? Deliver Us From Pantheism I ...

Healthy Examination of the Soul Occasional retirement, self-inquiry, meditation, and secret communion with God, are absolutely essential to spiritual health. The man who neglects them is in great danger of a fall. To be always preaching, teaching, speaking, writing, and working public works, is, unquestionably, a sign of zeal. But it is not always a sign of zeal according to knowledge. It often leads to adverse consequences. We must make time occasionally for sitting down and calmly looking within, and examining how matters stand between our own selves and Christ. The omission of the practice is the true account of many a backsliding which shocks the Church, and gives occasion to the world to blaspheme. ~ J.C. Ryle

Let us learn the high authority of the Bible, and the immense value of a knowledge of its contents. Let us read it, search into it, pray over it, diligently, perseveringly, unweariedly. Let us strive to be so thoroughly acquainted with its pages, that its text may abide in our memories, and stand ready at our right hand in the day of need. Let us be able to appeal from every perversion and false interpretation of its meaning, to those thousand plain passages, which are written as it were with a sunbeam. The Bible is indeed a sword, but we must take heed that we know it well, if we would use it with effect. ~ J.C. Ryle

Forgiven souls are FORGIVING. They do as they have been done by. They look over the offenses of their brethren. They endeavor to “walk in love, as Christ loved them, and gave Himself for them.” (Eph. 5:2.) They remember how God for Christ’s sake forgave them, and endeavor to do the same towards their fellow-creatures. Has He forgiven them pounds, and shall they not forgive a few pence? Doubtless in this, as in everything else, they come short—but this is their desire and their aim. A spiteful, quarrelsome Christian is a scandal to his profession. Forgiveness is the way by which every saved soul enters heaven. Forgiveness is the eternal subject of song with all the redeemed who inhabit heaven. Surely an unforgiving soul in heaven would find his heart completely out of tune. Surely we know nothing of Christ’s love to us but the name of it, if we do not love our brethren. ~ J.C. Ryle

Forgiven souls are HOLY. Their chief desire is to please Him who has saved them, to do His will, to glorify Him in body and in Spirit, which are His. “What shall I render unto the Lord for all His benefits?” (Ps. 116:12), is a leading principle in a pardoned heart. It was the remembrance of Jesus showing mercy that made Paul in labors so abundant, and in doing good so unwearied. If anyone points out to me believers who are in a carnal, slothful state of soul, I reply in the words of Peter, “They have forgotten they were purged from their old sins.” (2 Pet. 1:9.) But if you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, “He is under a ruinous delusion, and is not forgiven at all.” I would not believe he is forgiven if an angel from heaven affirmed it, and I charge you not to believe it too. Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Chris...

Forgiven souls are HUMBLE. They cannot forget that they owe all they have and hope for to free grace, and this keeps them lowly. They are brands plucked from the fire—debtors who could not pay for themselves—captives who must have remained in prison forever—but for undeserved mercy—wandering sheep who were ready to perish when the Shepherd found them! What right then have they to be proud? I do not deny that there are proud saints. But this I do say—they are of all God’s creatures the most inconsistent, and of all God’s children the most likely to stumble and pierce themselves with many sorrows. We have nothing we can call our own–but sin and weakness. Surely there is no garment that befits us so well, as humility. ~ J.C. Ryle