First Class!

So this is the closest I've ever been to First Class! I'm in the row
right behind it. I can touch the seat!!!
Of course, seeing the food they're eating and how it compares to what
I'll get might be a bit-O-torture... ;-)
But I've got some great legroom while Jeff is waaaaay in the back and
not on an aisle.
We're delayed, so it'll be about 11:00 p.m. when we land. It'll be a
long day, but tomorrow we'll hit the ground running. Lots to plan and
plenty of people to meet with.
Keep us in prayer as we put together this Summer's SWC Chicago Tour.

Lunch: The Aftermath

So we had a delicious lunch at "On the Border." Nothing quite like
Mexican food at LAX...
Now, we're waiting for our flight and looking for free wifi. Of
course, there's no free wifi at LAX.
Perhaps I'll get some Starbucks before boarding. If only they had
Sorbetto...

Security!!!

As usual, they wanted to dig around in my backpack. They did an
"explosives test" because of the density of the stack of books and all
the electronics.
The lady checking was nice though. We ended up having a pleasant
conversation about coin collecting when she came across my 1921 Morgan
Silver Dollars.
Now.... FOOD!
We board at 3:05.

Rob Signs
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Headed to Chicago

So we're on the Airport Shuttle. Hope we get good seats on the
airplane. More to come when we get checked in. After checking in my
first order of business is to find food. I'm starving!

The Great Charles Spurgeon

So I read a blog that puts up a Charles Spurgeon quote each weekend. The one that was up this weekend was too good not to re-post.

"Do not believe that the common Christianity of the present age will carry anybody to heaven. It is a counterfeit and a sham. It does not make men to differ from their fellows, it pretends to faith and has none, talks about love and does not show it, brags of truth and evaporates it into thin air in its latitudinarian charity.

God give us back the real thing—stimuli, strong belief in the gospel, real faith in Jesus, real prayer to him, real spiritual power.

Then again there will be persecution, but it will only blow away the chaff and leave the pure wheat!

The world likes us better because we like the world better; it calls us friends because we doff our colors and sheathe our swords and play the craven; but if we preach and live the gospel in the old apostolic way, we shall soon have the devil roaring round the camp and the seed of the serpent hissing on all sides, but we fear not, for "the Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge."

I hope that was as edifying to you as it was to me. For more great Charles Spurgeon stuff, check out the Spurgeon Archive.

Also - it's been far too long since I've blogged on the London Baptist Confession. I got distracted and busy and never got back to it. So in the next couple of days, check back for the next installment of the 1689 London Baptist Confession. It's such a great Confession of historic Baptist Doctrine!

Rob

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Mission Bay

Coram Deo Quiet Time

So we're up and having our Morning Quiet Time on beautiful Mission
Bay. What better place to spend time in God's Word than in the beauty
of His creation?