February 2008 Newsletter

Adorned with Modesty Newsletter
Looking for Home
February 2008
In This Issue
Looking Forward to Home
Featured Product: Whole Wheat Bread Tutorial
New at Adorned with Modesty
The "Whole Wheat Breads Tutorial" is nearly finished! We'll let you know when it is available for purchase. See Featured products section for more information.
We are excited to have some stores selling the" Proverbs to Live By" Paperdolls and even happier to be earning some extra funds to donate to missionary work! Join us in giving thanks.
The shop is still for sale, but we will be keeping it open until next fall if our Lord does not bring a new owner. We should be able to start putting fresh items on after our move next month. Please continue to keep our family in your prayers for wisdom regarding the state of the shop and our place in it.

Links and Freebies
The Substantial Excellency of Spiritual Things
by Thomas Watson

Pilgrim's Progress audio
dramatized

Eternal Life Ministries is offering 93 choice MP3 recordings from the very best of Christian literature, on a single CD. Many of the messages are devotional, and are read by a pleasant female voice. Also included, are 41 select Spurgeon sermons read by a polished male voice. To request your free CD, you MUST send your name, address and email to:Eternal Life Ministries, P.O. Box 10092,Fayetteville, AR 72703If you have any questions about the CD, please contactPerry Boardman, pkb1224@eternallifeministries.org


Founder's Faith
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves lest, while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the Annals of Heaven. [Letter by Madison to William Bradford [urging him to make sure of his own salvation] November 9, 1772]


Adorned with Modesty is For Sale
For more information on owning this shop please see:
Adorned with Modesy For Sale


"O glorious hour! O blest abode! I shall be near and like my God! And flesh and sin no more control The sacred pleasure of the soul."


Looking forward to Home...

Oh, how blessed we feel to be given the chance to own a home here in Pittsburgh. It is our first family home and, in our Lord's will, where expect to see our girls grow up as Eric works his way slowly and steadily through seminary.

As we feel the joy and excitement of settling into a home, we think of the Israelites as they entered the promised land and even more so, our hope of eternal life in the presence of God.

Take some time to warm your affections toward our heavenly substance, as the pleasures of this short lived time in the world are but fleeting vapors.


Featured Product: Whole Wheat Bread Tutorial
We glad to say that a working copy of the tutorial is out. This is going to be a great little booklet. Included will be our family's own recipes for bread, muffins and pizza- all from 100% whole wheat. There are lots of helpful and beautiful photos as well. If your family dislikes the idea of whole wheat, please give these recipes a try for them. We have had so many gracious comments by "white bread lovers" who are grateful for tasty whole wheat breads & pizza. We will also be including a section on tips and our favorite rescources.

We are so thankful to those ladies who are helping us through their comments and questions. We would be happy to have few more families to give their input. You will receive a free copy of the tutorial download. We can only take a few more people, as too many questions would be overwhelming. If you are interested, please contact us at: ericreschly@hotmail.com and ask to be a part to the "Whole Grain Tutorial" project.


THE HAPPY HOME CONTEMPLATED-BEING WITH CHRIST IN GLORY"Father, I will that they also whom you have given me, be with me where I am." John 17:24"So shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thes. 4:17 "In those blest regions of delight, Where Jesus is unveiled to sight, No mortal tongue can e'er express The ransomed sinner's blessedness. What mortal pen can describe the glowing beauties of Emmanuel's land! What mortal tongue can express the blessedness of the saints, when gazing upon the heaven-bright glories of Emmanuel's form, and dwelling forever in his glorious presence, under the resplendent beams of the Sun of righteousness! This is what the eye has not seen; what the ear has not heard; what the heart of man has never conceived. But yet this blessedness awaits all the saints, and will abide with them through the incessant flow of eternity's immeasurable ages. O, happy thought!Dear Christian reader, Christ has, in his infinite love, now gone to prepare a place, an endless happy home for you; but he will come again, and receive you to himself. He will not always leave you in this valley of tears. No- when this short life is ended, you will "depart and be with Christ;" you will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Christ will bring you to his Father's house, where his glorious presence is enjoyed without a medium. He will welcome you to the mansions of glory, to the kingdom of heaven. "Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." "Don't be troubled. You trust God, now trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father's home, and I am going to prepare a place for you. If this were not so, I would tell you plainly. When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am."Thus spoke our Savior before he left this world- before he ascended to heaven from Mount Olivet. But there is a day coming, when that same Savior shall break through the clouds of heaven; "when he comes to receive glory and praise from his holy people. And you will be among those praising him on that day, for you believed what we testified about him." Job obtained a glimpse of this day. He starts forward on the wings of faith, and beholds through the lapse of many ages the divine form of his Redeemer. He sees him with his very eyes. "But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God! I will see him for myself. Yes, I will see him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought!" Christ shall come again, to gather his children home, to that place which he has prepared for them. Then shall the word of command, issued from his blessed lips, go forth: "Gather my saints together unto me, those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the call of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, all the Christians who have died will rise from their graves. Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and remain with him forever. So comfort and encourage each other with these words." Then shall we be ever in his presence, where there is fullness and pleasure forever. It is Christ's presence that will make the very heaven of happiness, the very center of felicity. It is being with Christ that will constitute the purest, brightest, noblest heaven. What would heaven be to the saints, did they not enjoy the presence of Christ? It would be no heaven to them, though they were surrounded with the glories of the New Jerusalem. O Blessed Jesus! may we be going up through this wilderness world, leaning upon you; walking by faith; loving and serving you; and may we finally be brought to behold your glorious face in the realms of light, in the paradise above, and be ever with you. "What is the world, but grief and care! What heaven, if you are absent there! Your glorious face illumines the sky,And sheds ecstatic joys on high." It is in the presence of Christ, that we will participate in those pleasures which are at God's right hand. "In your presence is fullness of joy: at your right hand, there are pleasures for evermore." Oh! to be ever with the Lord! What human mind can comprehend the blessedness of such a state? Christ knows this blessedness; and how fervently he prays, "Father, I want these whom you've given me to be with me, so they can see my glory. You gave me the glory because you loved me even before the world began!" This prayer will be answered. We shall soon be with Christ. We shall soon behold his glory. Then shall we see Him as he is; even Him who loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood; who died on Calvary for us; whose blessed hands, and side, and feet were pierced for us; and whose precious blood flowed so freely to wash away our sins- to Him be glory forever!To read the whole work, please click here:The Happy Home Contemplated
Adorned with ModestyReschly Family
317 Veronica Dr.
Pittsburgh, PA. 15235
319 461-0139ericreschly@hotmail.com
Thank you: Thank you for your support and prayers on our behalf.

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