I think this will be my goodbye to Xanga. It seems really silly to me right now.
God Bless

Matt Pierce

This is from an email I am sending to a list to update people on my trip:
First thing, thanks for your concern and prayers! I am just fine. I was playing with baby Cheetah when I felt the earthquake. It was very small where I was at and you could barely feel it.

We left […]

Hello! I wanted to tell everyone that I have made it to Chiang Mai just fine. I have had a great time and the people here have been a wonderful blessing. I arrived at Im Jai House on Wednesday at lunch. Since then I have been working on computers at the orphanage, getting to know […]

I am in Chiang Mai, Thailand :). I will update more about my trip later.

Rev. 21:1-8 (ESV)
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. [2] And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. […]

Something silly one of my Taiwanese friends sent me:
http://www.tongcom.co.kr/dingani_13.htm
Merry Christmas!

Less than one week and I will be flying to Chiang Mai, Thailand.
1 Cor. 15:14-19 (ESV) And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. [15] We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, […]

Awesome quote from a great man:
“The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. […]

Dec. 5 –
Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe that, as the Bible says, Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, without a human father, according to a new NEWSWEEK poll on beliefs about Jesus.
Sixty-seven percent say they believe that the entire story of Christmas—the Virgin Birth, the angelic proclamation to the shepherds, the […]

Here you go, the latest bible study from the ATO house:
John the Baptist
Luke 1:1-25, 57-80

Prophecy of John the Baptist: Malachi 4:5-6

Written in about 430 BC
With Malachi’s death, the voice of God’s prophets would be silent for 400 years. Then a prophet would come, like Elijah, to herald Christ’s coming.

John the Baptist arrived to make ready […]