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Sick! Ugh…
I’m sick. It’s horrible. Major head congestion, sore throat, inflamed sinuses and a fever. First, Thomas got sick – fever and a cough. Thomas also gets crazy night terrors when he’s sick. Then, Tabitha got sick – coughing so hard she was throwing up. (She is one tough kid. As she was throwing up, I […]
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One Complaint Upheld by Presbytery
Just got back from the information meeting with the Heritage Presbytery Judicial Committee Commission over our recent complaints. The summary is that they denied our first complaint and upheld our second complaint against our Session. Sarah and I are very pleased at the outcome, and based on what the Presbytery commissioners said, the first complaint […]
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Knife Holder with a Message
misc/stabbykniferackI guess you wouldn’t get your spouse this knifeholder for a present. I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it myself, but this kitchen accessory looks like a human form being stabbed by multiple knives. Perhaps there’s some art angle that I’m missing, but I can’t see how anyone would want this in […]
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Intellectual Property
I’ve created a new category to organize my thoughts on intellectual property, copyrights, and their relationship to Biblical ethics. As I said in a previous post, I’ve been working occasionally on a book on what scripture says about the subject. I think Christians have bought the party line, and we need to do some serious […]
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Discernment
Saw this quote originally written in Christianity Today by Lewis Smedes: Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. Reality is always deucedly complicated; any human situation has far more to it than first meets anybody’s eye. No one has twenty-twenty discernment. This is why […]
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Or It Could Be Swollen Tonsils
Young Tilly Merrell, a seven-year-old girl from England, had never eaten solid food, since she was diagnosed as a child baby with Bulbar Palsy, a condition the necessitates being fed via a tube into her stomach. Friends of hers raised a collection to send her to America for treatment of her condition, but upon arrival, […]
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My New Laptop
Sarah and I had been going back and forth on the status of our computers. She’s been spending more time writing in the past few months, and we’ve started to have issues with the kids playing downstairs and the computers in the office upstairs. For a while, Sarah had been wondering about a computer downstairs, […]
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Sin City
From the Consular Information Sheet on Japan: Concerns Regarding Roppongi, Tokyo: We note that an American Citizen was murdered in early December 2004 in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. The murder occurred in an office building within walking distance of the local police station. A second foreigner (not an American) was stabbed to death in […]
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New Church Members?
A week ago Sunday, we had a couple guys in our church stand before the congregation and answer the “membership questions” that our pastor asks all new church members.
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Money Where Your Mouth Is
misc/3mmoneyglassHere’s putting your money where your mouth is. 3M has created an ad in a bus stop advertising their security glass. It’s not all cash, but the top and bottom of each stack are $20 bills, so there is still a significant amount of change. Regardless, I think it’s just a great ad. (via 37 […]
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Make Your Own Crime Scene
misc/crimeDownloadable from Microsoft Templates is “Crime scenes with shapes” for Visio, complete with dead bodies, pools of blood and murder weapons. It requires Visio 2003 to open, but the sample picture is enough to make anyone scratch their head and go “hmmm…”. I couldn’t link to the template directly, but it is filed under “Legal->For […]
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15 Feet of Snow
We got about an inch or two of snow last night. Nothing major, with just a little accumulation. Compare that to India’s portion of Kashmir, which this past weekend received 15 feet of snow! Avalanches in Kashmir have killed at least 42 people after six more bodies were recovered on Monday, officials said, as the […]
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Homskoolerz
misc/639lsAh, the old “abuse masquerading as homeschooling” argument has reared it’s proverbial ugly head again, this time in the form of a political cartoon. Jon Swerens, my new hero, has written up an appropriate response.
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Micah’s Week in Review
It is hard to believe that today is the beginning of a new week. So much happened last week, it seems as though much more time has elapsed. Last Saturday, at Kate’s shower, a friend of Kate’s remarked that the last time there was a pregnant lady at the wedding shower she had attended “she […]
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Federal Vision Repository Online
Grace Fellowship Church is now posting and editing a repository of documents dealing with the Federal Vision and the New Perspective on Paul, and it’s “encroachment… in the Presbyterian Church in America“. Some of the editorial comments on the site are less than charitable, but it’s nice to have all the documents handy. (via the […]