Mouth of Babes

A conversation on a short road trip this week…
Me:  “So, Haddon, what do you think you want to be when you grow up?”
[brief pause]
Haddon:  “Um…I think I want to be a Christian like Karsten.”

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Ryan Gets a RED Star!

Today my feedback star switched to red as I received my 1,000th positive feedback on eBay!  I think I’ve probably done about 1,7000 transactions and have no negatives.  Whew!
See Ryan’s red star.

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Busy Week

It’s been several weeks of crazy as I have been preparing for this past Thursday and Friday.  It was the annual two day Educators’ Convention for the Michigan Association of Christian School’s Conference.  It was a great opportunity for me to present five different workshops on varied topics (last year I presented one workshop two [...]

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Quote of the Day

Douglas Wilson…
“As we look around at that great squirrel-cage run we call modernity, we see that most of us as moderns belong to a religion called Getting Ahead….True education reform begins in rest; it begins with grace.  We cannot hope to be effective in this work unless we get the Gospel straight and, having gotten [...]

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From the “My job requires 32 arms” file

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Quote of the Day

A.W. Tozer on the omniscience of God…
“God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all [...]

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Needing a recommendation

Do any of my readers have a suggestion for a good and reliable and non-cumbersome internet filter?  I will have broadband in the school in the next several weeks, and need to set up some barriers.
Your suggestions are appreciated.

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From today…

Two things I learned/enjoyed tonight…

A bumper sticker… “Honk if you love peace and quiet”
A field mouse, if properly motivated can outpace the fastest of lawn tractors.

Also, I’ve been considering infiltrating the local Knights of Pythias.  I know nothing about them, but I think it would be fun to manuever through the ranks…wish I had more [...]

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Ahoy, Me Mateys

I wish I had known earlier!  Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  Ergh!  I feel like such a scallywag for not knowing that sooner.
Here’s some info…http://reference.aol.com/nowyouknow/talk-like-a-pirate

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Garlands of Grace

My college friend Dana Gage, a pastor’s wife near Nashville, has a very good blog called Garlands of Grace that Chrissy and I frequent.  I commend it to you for it’s excellent perspective.  The postings and themes are God-centered and deal primarily with topics of parenting and wifehood.  We think you’ll enjoy Dana’s takes.  With her permission, [...]

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Quote of the Day

C.H. Spurgeon on prayer…
“I would rather be Master of the Art of Prayer than M.A. of both universities (Oxford and Cambridge).  He who knows how to pray has his hand on the lever which moves the universe.”

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That’s Preposterous

I’ve started a new category of posting called Preposterous!.  Though I don’t wish to make a dinosaur hill (though i like the  word preposterous because it sounds so dinosaurish) out of the outrageous things we find in our society, there is a place for doing a bit of chronicling of these that seem so ridiculous.
I [...]

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Quote of the Day

John Piper, with one of the best opening lines I’ve ever found in a book,
“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do.  Sometimes even sentences.”
 – A Godward Life

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Do Something!

Do something today to remember what happened in America on September 11, 2001.  The farther we remove ourselves from the memories of that day, the less valuable the lessons become.
Today, I am showing a long National Geographic documentary to most of the school.
Also, please leave a comment to this posting mentioning where you were and [...]

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On ALF and Unreasonable Fears

Two year old Haddon has a terrifying fear of ALF.  It began one day as I was in my in-laws basement and noticed an old stuffed ALF half hanging out of the toy basket.  Then ALF attacked me.  As Haddon watched from the top of the stairs, ALF tore at my neck and face and made [...]

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Another Boomershine boy is growing up

Another Boomershine boy is growing up…
Randy Reporter - The Scotts Times
Scotts, MI  –  According to previously unpublished reports, Lincoln Boomershine is starting to stand.  Though no photographed evidence yet exists, the little boy who turned 10 months old on Friday has shown evidence of escape from his primordial and original condition on all fours!  Standing sightings [...]

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Quote of the Day

Tedd Tripp on the inability of our hearts to be neutral…
“Since there is no such thing as a place of childhood neutrality, your children either worship God or idols.  These idols are not small wooden or stone statuary.  They are the subtle idols of the heart.  The Bible describes such idols using terminology such as [...]

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Quote of the Day

Dr. Thurman Wisdom,
“Your relationship with Christ is the most important thing about you.”

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A good apologetics resource

In order to defend faith, you must know the faith.
Every other year, I teach a class on worldviews to my 11/12th Bible class (this is the off-year).  The curriculum is the Understanding the Times series by David Noebel and Summit Ministries.  As part of their ministry they have some encapsulizing statements about a whole range [...]

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