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Archive for October, 2008
Christ Commanded You To Consider the Lilies
Posted in Classical Education, Pleased with God, Variety Pack on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This Week is Reformation Week
Posted in Classical Education, Pilgrimesque, Quote of the Day on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our pastor, Sam Gage, wrote this overview passage and then read it in two parts during this week’s morning service:
Sadly, modern Christians are absolutely clueless about a significant period of time called the Reformation. If you ask most Evangelical Christians today whether they were Catholic or Protestant, they would know just how to answer the [...]
The Epicenter of Spritual Drivel
Posted in Variety Pack on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forty-thousand people per week cram into the former Compaq Center in Houston to play church with Joel and Victoria Osteen and all of America is exposed to their weekly TV broadcasts. What is preached from that place called the prosperity Gospel: if you do pray and do good things, God is going to reward you, [...]
We Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…in that we can create and then in turn appreciate creations. This is not high art but it is fun art.
I am so thoroughly unartistic, but so glad to be able to witness when creativity and talent are pieced together by someone with a whole lot of free time on their hands.
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One of the Finest Speeches in Literature
Posted in Classical Education, Quote of the Day, The Things of This World on October 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
St. Crispan’s Day Speech from Henry V (Shakespeare). St. Crispan’s Day is October 25th.
What Is Christian Handwriting?
Posted in Classical Education, Quote of the Day on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Matt Whitling says that because of the general disinterest in the topic and the advent of technology, “this is becoming an increasingly easy question to answer.” He states that classical, Christian schools should continue to work hard on handwriting and maintain “an attentiveness to aesthetics that is not anywhere else.” We should “continue to devote [...]
I Am A Family Man
Posted in Family, Patriarchy, Pleased with God on October 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Maybe the best video I’ve posted.
Not As Simple As It Sounds
Posted in Variety Pack on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an overview of how the U.S. elects its Presidents.
Watch Your Step
Posted in Goings On on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, it’s a horrible picture. Sorry.
On Monday Chrissy went to the trail to walk/run like she does several times a week and just missed stepping on a small snake. That was a little creepy for her Northern girl heart, but she was tough and kept on plodding. After several minutes she came upon a very [...]
Teaching the World Personal Responsibility
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One plate of chicken fried bacon strips at a time:
The Latest Update is Sweet News
Posted in Pleased with God, Variety Pack on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since it isn’t on their website yet, I’m posting their full email here. This is the latest in the story of Jonathan and Sarah Farmer’s infant Zoe:
In the last few days, God has continued to show His kindness to us in special ways. On Friday, the evening after Zoe’s surgery, we asked that you pray [...]
I Recommend His Stuff
Posted in Pleased with God, Quote of the Day on October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Karsten is using Saxon Math 2 text this year in our one year of homeschooling. Chrissy, Kar and I all really like it. John Saxon says that:
“Mathematics is not difficult. Mathematics is just different, and time is the elixir that turns things different into things familiar.”
Catholicism Can Be Witty
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out this hilarious church spat.
I Knew it Was Coming, But Then Someone Had to Go and Write About It
Posted in Pleased with God, Variety Pack on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God was so good to lead me to eBay’s website in January 1999. It has made my family thousands and thousands of dollars over the years and led me to learn to trust Him more and more through the use of it. We have seen wonderful things and have been thrilled by the way He [...]
How to Guarantee The Rest of Your Day Will Be Unpleasant
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Variety Pack on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yeah, But Don’t You Need to Work From the List?
Posted in Gospel, Quote of the Day on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
St. Francis of Assisi:
“Preach the Gospel always; and if necessary, use words.”
Wanna Try It?
Posted in The Things of This World, Variety Pack on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Netflix sent me an email coupon that I can forward to whoever wants to try out their service four weeks for free. That’s twice as long as their normal free offer. Let me know if you would like one. It expires at the end of the month.
The First-Ever TBAP Poll-o-Rama
Posted in Just Thought I'd Ask on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Autumn is Upon Us
Posted in Pleased with God, Variety Pack on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out another cool photoessay of photos taken this month from around the world.
I’ve always been intrigued by cranberry bogs when in Mass. Here is a harvest taking place in Tomah, WI just a few miles down the road from my sister and brother-in-law.
Grandfather Mtn. in NC
Geometry Game
Posted in Variety Pack on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I played twice. My average error was 4.00 the second time.
What I’ve Missed Is Now Here
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God, Variety Pack on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every time I’ve been to New Haven, CT (four times, I think) to do a little drive around Yale, it’s been too late in the day or too Saturdayish to go to Yale Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to sit in a quiet spot and devour a book or page handled and handwritten [...]
How to Win at Life
Posted in Pilgrimesque, Quote of the Day on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Richard Steele:
“Read and think; read and pray; then live by His grace.”
HT: George Grant
McCain and Obama Took the Gloves Off Last Night
Posted in News and Sports on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They were hilarious at dinner last night.
Learn How to Swim So You’ll Know How When You Need To
Posted in Gospel, Pilgrimesque, Pleased with God, Quote of the Day on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Piper on why the book of Job exists:
“Virtually everyone will experience a bitter calamity sooner or later. And you can mark this ahead of time: it will almost certainly seem absurd and meaningless and undeserved when it comes.
You may be shaving and singing a hymn when you feel the lump on your [...]
God Is Our Rock
Posted in Goings On on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
God is showing himself strong to the Farmers and using Zoe to show Himself to them. Here is an update on her progress.
Can’t Concentrate?
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means..., Quote of the Day on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Samuel Johnson…
“When one knows one is going to hanged, it concentrates the mind wonderfully.”
Simple and Profound
Posted in Gospel on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
James 3 Applied
Posted in Gospel on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
from Desiring God Ministries
Get Going
Posted in Quote of the Day on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abraham Piper…
“If the work you produce is the kind that people only care about if they know you, don’t be discouraged—be knowable.”
He Thought Life to Brief to Hem and Haw
Posted in Quote of the Day on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Winston Churchill:
“If you are not a conservative before the age of 40, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative after the age of 40, you have no brain.”
Jonathan Edwards
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