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Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Photoblogomous, Preposterous! on September 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »

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Mapping Out School Violence

Posted in News and Sports on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here is an interesting map showing where school shootings and plottings have been.

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Faith-Based Professional Football

Posted in News and Sports on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The Detroit Lions try to work with God.

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“I Love the Ready Tears of Strong Men”

Posted in Patriarchy, Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

John Piper’s account of his full-term granddaughter’s being still-born this weekend.

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Quote of the Day

Posted in Quote of the Day on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The always edgy Ann Coulter…
“Even Islamic terrorists don’t hate America as much as liberals do.  They don’t have the energy.  If they had that much energy, they’d have indoor plumbing by now.”

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From the “You Don’t Say” Department

Posted in News and Sports, The Things of This World, Variety Pack on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Video games can shoot holes in the GPA.

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Arrr! I Missed it Again!

Posted in Goings On on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

For the second year in a row, I’ve realized I missed National Talk Like A Pirate Day the day afterward.
Today there is no school (power outage), so I’ve taken a minute to find a not-so-classic Pirate-song.  (This is all my kids know about VT.)  It’s good for reminding us that we will never do what we do [...]

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Narnia – Part The Second

Posted in Variety Pack on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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Quote of the Day

Posted in Family, Gospel, Patriarchy, Quote of the Day on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Your Home A Place of Grace by Susan Hunt quoting Bryan Chappell writing Each for the Other: Marriage As It’s Meant to Be
“As the values of our secular society continue to assail our families, it becomes increasingly critical that Christian homes where God’s Word is honored have an effective witness for the gospel, ensuring the spiritual [...]

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Quote of the Day

Posted in Family, Patriarchy, Quote of the Day on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

John Angell James…
“It is an unquestionable truth, that if a man be not happy at home, he cannot be happy anywhere; and the converse of the proposition is no less true, that he who is happy there, need be miserable nowhere.”

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My Favorite Bookmark

Posted in Variety Pack on September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I love Book Darts.

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Nugent with Cavuto (on Border Security)

Posted in News and Sports, The Things of This World, Variety Pack on September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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WAR is Coming

Posted in News and Sports, The Things of This World, Variety Pack on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ken Burns’ new seven-part documentary The War is coming to PBS beginning this Sunday.
Here is a short clip about chocolate-flavored roast beef.

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Read More

Posted in Pilgrimesque on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ten Tips to Reading Better

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Quote of the Day

Posted in Family, Patriarchy, Pilgrimesque, Quote of the Day on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Cotton Mather…
“Familes are the nurseries of all societies.”

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A Personal Word

Posted in Family, News and Sports, Pleased with God on September 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »

 
Friends,
We are so glad that God doesn’t love us in trifles.  When He swifts blessings to us, often He does so in heaps and heaps.  Our God is the unbridled-Giver, the singular bestower of all graces and mercies.  He prudently gives what is best…always and still only at the right time.
Today we saw a picture of [...]

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A Note About 9/11

Posted in News and Sports, Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God, The Things of This World on September 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The sixth anniversary has come and gone, and I’m still thinking about it. I think conservatives, especially, have a tendency to want to make a bigger deal out of the day than there probably should be–jockeying for position to make the best point and loudest soundbite. I’m not so sure there needs to [...]

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Quote of the Day

Posted in Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God, Quote of the Day on September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Anne Bradstreet…
“He that is to saile into a farre country, although the ship, cabin, and provision, be all convenient and comfortable for him, yet he hath no desire to make that his place of residence, but longs to put in at that port where his busines lyes: a Christian is sailing through this world unto [...]

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Had Says That This Video Is Incredible

Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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Don’t Forget to Remember

Posted in Variety Pack on September 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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The Things of This World

Posted in The Things of This World on September 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I’m not normally compelled by this earth’s temporal trickery, but this thing has got it’s hook in my jaw.

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Rebel With a Cause

Posted in News and Sports on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Yes, he provoked his own arrest, but…

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The Essential Tool Crib

Posted in Pilgrimesque on September 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »

You know that the world is going online, don’t you? Here’s another great benefit of Web 2.0.
It’s been more than five years since I stopped recording books that come into my library. It takes a good amount of time to enter all the information that I want to record about each book, and [...]

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Free Books from Challies

Posted in Variety Pack on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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Happy is the Man that Hath His Quiver Full of Children

Posted in Preposterous!, The Things of This World on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

…as opposed to this irritating schmuck.
Enfants terribles
Would your life be better without children? Corinne Maier says yes in her new book, which has scandalised the parents of France. She explains her reasons

Emma Tucker
I’m on my way to Nîmes to interview Corinne Maier, who has written a book called No Kid: 40 Reasons Not to [...]

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Perhaps Like Nothing You’ve Seen

Posted in Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God on September 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Right here.

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