Some Thoughts

I have 10 – let me know via comment or email if you’d like one.

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We’ve been travelling a lot lately (to Gaithersburg, MD, for work), which has left me precious little time for reflection. But two attention-catching thoughts did manage to sneak through that I’d like to share with whomever is still reading this blog… (1) We attended Christ Reformed Church last weekend, which is a newer work of [...]

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Ethan is suddenly crawling around at break-neck speeds…ah, they grow up so fast! Slow down, kiddo!

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It’s appalling to me how immodest our culture has become. Less and less of the human body is “private”; more and more of it “public”. I’m not advocating a new fashion trend of burlap sacks, but what if an entire generation decided to dress themselves with an eye to their (future) spouse? “This much of my body [...]

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… Because I live, you also will live. (John 14.19 [show] [19]Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. (ESV)) Jesus Christ is alive today. If he is not, then we are still in our sins; then we are [...]

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The Westminster Bookstore, no doubt in an effort to get this much-needed message out there, is offering a special introductory price of $10.99 (45% off) apparently good only through next Tuesday (9/29). I’m greatly looking forward to reading this book, if I can get to it. Christless Christianity was a bitter pill to swallow at [...]

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I’ve just listened to a great interview of Rick Phillips from the gents over at the Reformed Forum about his latest book, The Masculine Mandate. (The book isn’t due out until next month, but it can be pre-ordered from Amazon here.) Phillips summarizes “the masculine mandate” in the words “work” and “keep”, keying off of Genesis [...]

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Wonder how your government is spending the money that you worked for? Take a look at his: RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR ‘HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB’… RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR ’2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED’… RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR ‘REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER’… RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR ‘MOZZARELLA CHEESE’… [...]

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AT THE HEART OF MATURE MASCULINITY IS A SENSE OF BENEVOLENT RESPONSIBILITY TO LEAD, PROVIDE FOR AND PROTECT WOMEN IN WAYS APPROPRIATE TO A MAN’S DIFFERING RELATIONSHIPS. AT THE HEART OF MATURE FEMININITY IS A FREEING DISPOSITION TO AFFIRM, RECEIVE AND NURTURE STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP FROM WORTHY MEN IN WAYS APPROPRIATE TO A WOMAN’S DIFFERING [...]

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Commenting on the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer (“forgive us our debts [or tresspasses], as we forgive our debtors [those who trespass against us"), Calvin writes: ...we ought not to seek forgiveness of sins from God unless we ourselves also forgive the offenses against us of all those who do or have done us [...]

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