The Blended Blog: You know you have Teenagers when...part1

C.H. Spurgeon's Evening Devotional

Thursday June 12, 2025

"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling."-2 Timothy 1:9

The apostle uses the perfect tense and says, "Who hath saved us." Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved, but they are already saved. Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying bed, and to be sung of in a future state above, but a matter to be obtained, received, promised, and enjoyed now. The Christian is perfectly saved in God's purpose; God has ordained him unto salvation, and that purpose is complete. He is saved also as to the price which has been paid for him: "It is finished" was the cry of the Saviour ere He died. The believer is also perfectly saved in His covenant head, for as he fell in Adam, so he lives in Christ. This complete salvation is accompanied by a holy calling. Those whom the Saviour saved upon the cross are in due time effectually called by the power of God the Holy Spirit unto holiness: they leave their sins; they endeavour to be like Christ; they choose holiness, not out of any compulsion, but from the stress of a new nature, which leads them to rejoice in holiness just as naturally as aforetime they delighted in sin. God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but He called them that they might be holy, and holiness is the beauty produced by His workmanship in them. The excellencies which we see in a believer are as much the work of God as the atonement itself. Thus is brought out very sweetly the fulness of the grace of God. Salvation must be of grace, because the Lord is the author of it: and what motive but grace could move Him to save the guilty? Salvation must be of grace, because the Lord works in such a manner that our righteousness is for ever excluded. Such is the believer's privilege-a present salvation; such is the evidence that he is called to it-a holy life.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

You know you have Teenagers when...part1

You Know You Have Teenagers When...
by Trish Berg, author and speaker
(posted Jan 2013)

Struggling with loads of laundry, clutter in the kitchen and chaos in your life? Stress can easily steal our joy. Trish Berg reminds us to simplify the small stuff and find Joy in the Journey.

I remember the days when I was awakened at five in the morning by a child standing over my bed, leaning in with his face an inch from my nose, breathing on me scaring me half to death. Now I have three teenagers and a tween whom I can hardly drag from bed in the mornings. Oh, I remember the days of diapers, finger-foods and potty training which have been replaced by driving tests, Facebook and Pinterest. Boy how time flies when you are having fun.

So how do you know you have teenagers in your house? Well, here are a few hints. You know you have teenagers when…

…When the name “mom” is said in a high pitched tone with six syllables – “m – o – o- -o – o –m!!!”

…You have three blow dryers, two straighteners, four curling irons and a million bobby pins in your bathroom drawers.

…You find stray bobby pins on your carpet and kitchen floor daily.

(You may read the rest of Trish's You know you have teenagers when..article here.)

*Note from Me.....I think I should write you know you have Young Adults in the house when.... I'm at the YA stage we have past teenage years, no empty nest at this house.

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