Posted in some thoughts on Mar 25th, 2010
From Calvin’s Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (p37-38): If anyone, therefore, appears before you who is in need of your kind services, you have no reason to refuse him your help. Suppose he is a stranger; yet the Lord has pressed his own stamp on him and made him as one of your [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Mar 24th, 2010
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals [money], would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could be safely trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Jan 16th, 2010
The formal cause – a 7.0 magnitude earthquake – is obvious. But why such devastation? Blogger Brian Hollar quotes/comments: "(T)he Haitian earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. But the quake that hit California's Bay Area in 1989 was also of magnitude 7.0. It killed only 63 people. This difference is due chiefly to Americans' [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Dec 31st, 2009
October John Owen, The Holy Spirit (Works, Volume 3) (at 650 pps, this one took a while!) John Fesko, The Rule of Love November Gustaf Wingren, Luther on Vocation Collection, Luther and Calvin On Secular Authority Robert Godfrey, John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor December Collection, John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology G. I. Williamson, The Westminster Confession [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Dec 21st, 2009
Below is the text from an email I sent out to our families and our church recently regarding Megan’s pregnancy with baby #2 (not Ethan). Dear family and friends, It appears that the Lord, in his goodness and wisdom, has decided to call our little one home. We accept this hard providence as good for [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Dec 8th, 2009
This past Sunday was the 2nd Sunday of Advent, the ‘Sunday of Judgment’. Our pastor put together some suggestions for how to celebrate Advent in family worship, which I’ve found very edifying. The suggested readings for the ‘Sunday of Judgement’ were Isaiah 11:1-5 [show] There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Dec 3rd, 2009
This post by Kevin DeYoung is well worth the read: The Gospel Old and New – thoughts welcome. UPDATE: The post above was apparently provoked by A Letter to Non-Believers* by Shane Claibourne, published in Esquire. *For whatever it’s worth, there is no such thing as a “non-believer”. There are only believers and unbelievers. “Non-believer” implies some [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Nov 30th, 2009
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Nov 27th, 2009
Our son Ethan doesn’t always enjoy his car seat. By trial and error, we’ve discovered a few hymns that seem to calm him down almost immediately. The problem is that we don’t always remember the right lyrics (we often improvise, which certainly gets us laughing, but then he starts crying again!). So, I’ve decided to start assembling [...]
Posted in some thoughts on Nov 25th, 2009
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