What Not To Wear

In 1 Timothy 2:9, the Lord provides guidelines that help Christian women determine what and what not to wear.

...dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes

There’s a New Way to Own a Piece of Facebook Before Its IPO

If you’re looking to invest in Facebook before its IPO but not privy to the secondary markets where shares of the company have been trading, there’s a new (albeit somewhat indirect) way to buy a stake.

The publicly traded investment fund GSV Capital announced on Monday that it has purchased 225,000 shares of Facebook at a price of $29.28 per share, which values the social network at $70 billion.

The investment represents about 15% of GSV’s portfolio — enough to drive up shares of GSV (which trades on NASDAQ under the symbol GSVC) by more than 30% as of midday trading on Monday.

GSV does not currently show any other companies in its “portfolio” on its site, but the firm also recently announced an investment in Kno, a digital textbook outfit that raised $46 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz last year.

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In the Book of Joel this morning. Three chapters… short and powerful…. destruction… a call to repentance… the trumpet in Zion blows…. A call from God to return to Him… the Day of the LORD…

Joel wrote the book between 825 and 809 B.C. Israel would be taken into captivity by the Babylonians a couple hundred years later (“foreigners would invade her”). The Holy Spirit would be given to believers over 800 years later. God inspired him to write these amazing words.

Joel 3:16, 17
The LORD will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the heavens will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel. “Then you will know that I, the LORD your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her.

Joel 2:29-32
I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved;

We don’t know anything about Joel except he was the son of a man named Pethuel and that he was obedient to the LORD to write these words down for us to meditate on today.

Hebrews 1 says, In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.

As I read Joel, I catch a small glimpse of God’s awesome power and ultimate judgment of sin. Today I choose to obey and worship God alone.