About

I am Jake Riley, 16. I am the fourth child in a family of 12 (My dear Dad, Leslie, My precious Mom, Christy, Emily, 21, Trey, 18, Ellen, 17, yours truly, Hannah, 14, Ben, 12, Sarah, 10, Annie, 7, Mercy, 3, Josiah, 1). I am a follower of Christ, and my goal is the advancement of His Kingdom. I live in Pontotoc, MS, and it is only due to the wonders of modern technology that I am able to speak to you now and think I’m doing something important. Sorta. My interests are:

Blogging: Although this is my first go at it, it seems like it will be a lot of fun. Okay, now it has been a lot of fun.

Missions: It is my belief that mission are a daily thing, not something we do in foreign countries. But as far as international missions go, I’ve been to Ethiopia. I want to go again, plus I want to go to China, and anything else in Africa, or India (mostly because of reading Amy Charmicheal).

Writing: I have myriads of books and short stories that I am developing, though only one is really in progress at the moment.

Reading: My favorite author is the Holy Spirit. As far as spiritual books go, I like books by J.C. Ryle, (Practical Religion, Old Paths, Expository Thoughts, ect.) Rutherford (though I’ve only read a few of his letters), A.W. Tozer (The Pursuit of God, The Divine Conquest, Fellowship of the Burning Heart, The Christian Book of Mystical Verse, etc.), Brother Lawrence, Clyde Cranford, Jonathan Edwards, Amy Carmicheal, C.S. Lewis is okay, J.I. Packer, Thomas A Kempis; etc. Some good fiction writers that I like include G.A. Henty (to many to name), C.S. Lewis (Narnia, The Space Trilogy), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility) and a few minors like Stevenson, Twain, Shakespeare, Chesterson, Dickens, Aurthur Conan Doyle, ect. J.R.R. Tolkien is not a good fiction writer in my opinion; he’s the best.

Movies:  Lord of the Rings is my favourite movie,  Sci-Fi, like Star Wars is okay, Iron Man is okay, and Spider-Man is awesome; action-adventure: National Treasure, Sahara, and “older days” stuff like The Count of Monte Cristo, The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans, and Horatio Hornblower; Movies made from English literature: Pride and Prejudice (the good new one with Kierra Knightly, and the really, really, really, good five-hour version with Collin Firth), other Austen, Dickens, Gaskell,  ect; independent Christian: Bella and Fireproof, and the like. And if there’s any type of movie I appreciate, it is a good animated movie: Pixar Movies, all of them, are favourites, and stuff like Meet the Robinsons and Bolt.

Animals: I do not own any personally. Trey has two Berkshire pigs, we had chickens, we currently have six cats or kittens, one gargantuan lab, one pipsqueak mutt dog, and a pond full of fish, turtles, frogs, Gollums, ect.

My favorite Artists: Old CCM guys like Rich Mullins and Keith Green and Steven Curtis Chapman are always favourites around here. Michael Card is good. Old classics like Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Handel, and Vivaldi, are all good, but my favourites are Beethoven and the incredible Cannon in D Minor, by Mr. I cannot spell his name. I also like contemporaries like Casting Crowns, and I have a whole shelf full of Third Day.

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