Supplant Your Pride. Hear Job Fresh.

Listen to John Piper read his biographical/narrative poem Job. It will teach you much. It will stir your soul deeply.
It’s available for listening or download or reading free (as are almost everything he does) by following the link above.

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Smarter, Healthier, Safer, Happier

I’m a big advocate of the power-nap. I set my phone to wake me up after 17 minutes 3-4 days a week. In fact, I just woke up four minutes ago from my afternoon recharge. Here is a great summary of the why and how of what makes for a great nap. “Getting even the [...]

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Do Something. Know Why. Tell Someone.

Awaken by Lawrence Tribble (1770)
One person awake can awaken another,
The second can awaken their next door neighbor,
Three awake can rouse the town,
And turn the whole place upside down,

And many awake can raise such a fuss,
That it finally awakens the rest of us,
One person up with dawn in their eyes,
Multiplies.

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Want to Make a Difference?

This sounds like odd advice to the modern ear. Chrissy just finished a biography of Anne Bradstreet by Douglas Wilson. These are two of the last paragraphs in the book that come in the way of application of Anne’s story:
“If we are homeschooling, or if we are associated with Christian schools, we will reinstitute the [...]

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London 2004

I was forraging through old pictures tonight for a little while and found these from a school trip to England/Paris in 2004. These are not a very good summary of the trip, just a pile of misc.
Do you agree with the descriptors on this plaque I found near our hotel on Baker St or Gloucester [...]

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So I’ve Been Teaching in a Public School for Seven Days Now…

HT: Andrew Kern

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“I Knocks the Pride Out of ‘Em”

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Knock $4000 Off Your Winter Heating Bill

Keep the cold out. Keep the warm in.

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Wordplay

G.K. Chesteron:
“The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject, and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.”

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Grace-Filled Fatherhood

Douglas Wilson on his blog:
You have asked me how it is possible to have a rebellious and out-of-control son when you have not ever thought of yourself as an indulgent father. You are right to see that radical indulgence on the part of a father is a disaster for sons — boys need direction, counsel, [...]

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Relief From Anxiety, Worry and Frustrations

John Newton quoted in Jerry Bridges’ Respectable Sins (p. 66):
“[One of the marks of Christian maturity which a believer should seek is] an acquiescence in the Lord’s will founded in a persuasion of his wisdom, holiness, sovereignty, and goodness…So far as we attain to this, we are secure from disappointment. Our own limited views, and [...]

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Why We Sing in Worship

Jonathan Edwards:
“We sing in worship to engage and express our affections. There is no other reason to sing. If we aren’t dealing with our affections in worship, we might as well just read the lines of the songs dryly together in paragraph form without any music. We worship with music to because God has created [...]

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Yeah! I Wasn’t Expecting That Either

While we are waiting for JECA to get going… This week I started a new job slightly outside my comfort zone. Last week I went to the local public school district and inquired about a position as a substitute teacher in the system. I listed 5-12 grades as my preference. Well, before I could leave [...]

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Home Should Be A Place for Sweet Aromas

An excerpt from the chapter “The Art of Home School Opera: The Blessing of Family Eccentricities,” from The Little Boy Down the Road: Short Stories and Essays on the Beauty of Family Life, by Douglas W. Phillips, to be released from Vision Forum, October, 2008:
Every day there are thousands of sounds competing for the attention [...]

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13 Days / 10+ Billion Dollars / 28 Pictures

Here’s the photostory of what Ike left behind.

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Wedding Pictures

Here is a link to pictures from Eddy and Danielle’s wedding (8/16/08).

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Someone is Going to Own Their Own Business

Had [out of the blue]:  ”Slavery is bad.”
Me: “What is slavery?”
Had: “When people have to work for other people.”

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Strumming the Heartstrings

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Jellied Veal and Worse

Here is a compilation of some amazingly unpalatable recipes from the early 20th century. Very tempting, indeed. This is the food of the greatest generation.  ”First you take one calf’s head…”

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This is a Gem

“The character of John McCain and Sarah Palin can best be seen in the small things rather than in the big policies–as this amazing Rush Limbaugh Transcript demonstrates only too well.”
HT: George Grant

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Try Unpacking This

Jonathan Edwards, Miscellanies 247:
“For God to glorify himself is to discover himself in his works, or to communicate himself in his works, which is all one; for we are to remember that the world exists only mentally, so that the very being of the world implies its being perceived or discovered. Or otherwise for God [...]

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Really? Your WORRIED About That?

This Candian official is worried that the Palin’s decision not to abort their son is going to cause other families to NOT ABORT their children, either.
HT: Challies

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Seven Years Ago Today

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StormTracker Central

Here’s the best site I’ve found for keeping apace of the the progress of the hurricanes. StormPulse

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From the Mother of 19 Children

Susanna Wesley’s childrearing advice (she was also the 25th child in a family of 25 children):

In order to form the minds of children, the first thing to be done is to conquer their will and bring them to an obedient temper. To inform the understanding is a work of time and must with children proceed [...]

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Alaska’s First Dude

Great quote from Todd Palin:
“If I had a crystal ball a few years ago, I might have asked a few more questions when Sarah decided to join the PTA.”

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Convention Followup

Here is an interesting word cloud that shows what words were most dominant at the DNC and RNC over the past two weeks.

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No Ordinary John

My esteem of President Washington as a Christian man–not a Deist–is skyrocketing as I am plowing through Stephen McDowell’s biography. There really can be no objection when presented with the great and many evidences.

Lincoln loved the man he followed. He said…
“Washington is the mightiest name of earth–long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, [...]

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Over the Shoulder / Just Past the Feet

Edmund Burke:
“People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.”

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John McCain: Dumpster Jumper

It seems that the Democrats trashed thousands of miniature flags at the conclusion of their Denver convention.  That’s ok.  John McCain has a use for them.

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