Avegail Hepburn (2025)

16/09/2025

We were mesmerized with the radiant colors flowing from the sunset and flowers at Hubert’s Farm ☀️🌸🌼🌻

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

— 1 Corinthians 3:7

16/09/2025

Having an apple-solutely wonderful time at Scott’s Orchard today! 🍎🍏

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of
silver.

— Proverbs 25:11

08/09/2025

Make Your Choice
(Luke 16:14-17)

JESUS'S STATEMENT THAT "you cannot serve God and money" (Luke 16:13) immediately tells us that the Pharisees had a problem, because they were
"lovers of money" (v. 14). As teachers of God's law, their life's work should have been in the service of God-but they had made their choice, and they had chosen to love money, not God. And because they did not love God, they lived their lives to impress people, and not God. They tried to win approval and esteem from people with their apparently righteous and religious lives-perhaps by their actions even trying to impress people with their "love" for God.

But just as you cannot serve both God and money, neither can you please both people and God. It is one or the other. What fallen human beings celebrate is not what God celebrates. It is an abomination to him. So being a people-pleaser is not just useless when it comes to pleasing God; it works against us. It is an offense to God. The Pharisees were earning God's judgment even as they were earning people's praise. But God knew the true state of their hearts. He knows what is in every human heart.

Although they claimed to be experts in the Law and the Prophets, the Pharisees failed to see that the kingdom promised therein had arrived in the person of Jesus. To ridicule Jesus is to ridicule the person promised by the Law and the Prophets. To reject Jesus is to refuse to enter the promised kingdom.

Jesus is the fulfillment of the old covenant. The Law and Prophets had not been wrong. Far from it! Not one word from them could pass away, exactly because the kingdom they pointed to had now arrived in Jesus— and his kingdom is a permanent kingdom. The word of God had not changed, but the times had.

The Pharisees, like all people, had to choose. They were lovers of money, but they could not serve both God and money. They wanted to be justified, but they could not please both people and God. They wanted to be experts in the Law and the Prophets, but they failed to see that, in Jesus's preaching, the promised new era in God's purposes had arrived. And like all people, they were being urged to enter forcefully into that new kingdom (v. 16), and yet were ridiculing and rejecting the only one whose teaching-and subsequent death and resurrection- could bring them in.

They had ignored all the promises and the warnings, and made the wrong choice at every turn (see vv. 29-31).

12/08/2025

"As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you."

— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

23/07/2025

My first sunflower bloom of the year 🌻💛

23/07/2025

"Let’s think first what immodesty says about us women before we talk about what its effects may be upon others. What are your Christian standards? Do you seek to be noticed, to make a splash when you come into a room? Or do you seek to be simple, humble, gentle and quiet in spirit and not wearing the very latest fashions nor looking frumpy by wearing something that’s way out of date. We do have to conform to a certain degree, but there are always classic clothes. Those are the ones that I try to stick with because they last for many years. I have a suit now that I think is 17 years old and I just wore it about a week ago. I wear things, which are tailored and simple and classic.

But we’re talking about these low-cut dresses, sleeveless blouses, see-through blouses and the slit skirts. The Bible says that we’re supposed to shine as lights in the world. Christ lives in me. Does that make any visible differences? Will it correct my thinking? Do I pray that God will purify my desires?

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It’s their business, isn’t it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.Does a man’s thought life have a problem? Well, of course. But here is some very frank talk from two different men in two different places, and it’s not by any means the only letters that I’ve had from them. It is a very difficult and a very delicate question. As both of these men recognized, it is their job to stop looking. Don’t look the women up and down. Don’t fall for the types who are dressing like prostitutes. But is it right for us women to be thoughtless in these areas? Is there an earnestness about pleasing the Lord? Have we taken His yoke? Are we learning from Him? Are we gentle and humble in heart? Are we walking worthy of the Lord, looking and acting and speaking differently from the Lord?

What would the Lord have you do? Look like a frump or look like the vanguard of the fashion magazines? Flashy or sober? Are you pregnant? Are you overweight? Do you try to dress in such a way as to minimize those things? Are you too old for short skirts? I see a lot of women as I travel around who I would certainly say are too old to be wearing those short skirts. And if you’re 16 years old, how short a skirt can you wear if you want to be responsible before God in the presence of young men?

Neat or messy? Wildly and deliberately messy? I see some hair-dos, which I think of as wildly and deliberately messy. Feminine? There are many ways of drawing attention to yourself without your once thinking about it. Think. Ask the Lord’s guidance. We older women must be willing to take the risk of making someone angry and speaking to her about the way she is dressing. We have to take responsibility. It is our fault that we have not been teaching younger women modesty."

— Elisabeth Elliot

21/07/2025

You expect that you will be married, and then your troubles will be over; some say that then they begin. I do not endorse that statement; but I am sure that they are not over, for there is another set of trials that begin then.

It is wise to marry when we can marry wisely, and then the sooner the better. Married life is not all sugar, but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours. When husbands and wives are well yoked, how light their load becomes!

A well-matched couple carry a joyful life between them, as the two spies carried the cluster of Eshcol. They are a brace of birds of Paradise. They multiply their joys by sharing them, and lessen their troubles by dividing them: this is fine arithmetic.

When a couple fall out there are always faults on both sides, and generally there is a pound on one and sixteen ounces on the other. I have no doubt that where there is much love there will be much to love, and where love is scant faults will be plentiful.

Marriage was the last relic of paradise left among men, and Jesus hasted to honour it with his first miracle.

— Marriage
by C.H. Spurgeon

12/07/2025

"If you want to be a godly older woman, you won't get there by being a worldly young or middle-aged lady.
Your daily decisions will turn you into the kind of woman you want to be or don't want to be." — Tori Ruckman

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

— Titus 2:3-5

18/01/2025

Twin lakes, Mammoth, CA 🦣☃️

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He's been so good at speaking Tagalog since after we met 🥹

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