Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace.
Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.
Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. Grace alone does everything they say, and so everything can remain as it was before ... let the Christian live like the rest of the world ... and not presumptuously aspire to live a different life under grace from his old life under sin. That was its heresy ...
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer--
Happy New Year
Here’s wishing all my readers, and your families, a happy and prosperous New Year. May you all be blessed with good health, optimism, peace and prosperity this year.
The new Tacoma Narrows Bridge has been decked out for the holidays, with colored lights on the catwalks, Christmas trees on the towers, and even colored construction cranes. Here’s a shot I grabbed last night — one of the few nights without rain in the past few weeks.
Back soon — God bless and stay well.
Tags: Series: The Two Towers
6 comments so far ↓
Grumpy Old Man // Jan 1, 2006 at 3:06 PM
Good engineering is impressive. So are lights in the darkness.
Have a good year!
HeyJules // Jan 1, 2006 at 4:33 PM
That is absolutely beautiful!
Valerie // Jan 1, 2006 at 7:59 PM
Breathtaking! Happy New Year to you and yours. . .
Moof // Jan 1, 2006 at 10:12 PM
Peace to you and yours for the New Year!
Guess we can add photography to your many talents – that picture is perfect!
Wishing you sunshine – hope the rains clear up.
B. Durbin // Jan 4, 2006 at 9:53 PM
I am learning much about photography, so please correct me if I’m wrong— narrow aperture and long exposure, right?
I think that’s what those asterations indicate…
Dr Bob // Jan 5, 2006 at 10:17 AM
Actually, I turned my Panasonic DMC-FZ20 settings to “night scenery”–which I know uses long exposures, and I’m pretty sure a small F-opening to maximize depth of field. Tripod necessary for this kind of shot, and lots of bracketing. Had to tweak the levels a bit in Photoshop, otherwise this is pretty much how it came off the camera.