This is a portion of a personal letter written by my close friend, future-uber-blogger, current college professor, and soon-to-be missionary to Cambodia–Jeremy Farmer. I’ve removed the context of the letter but really wanted you to read his important comments about the theology of children. Please take some time with these thoughts. Chew them up and [...]
Archive for February, 2009
A Mobile Ministry That Sits Behind You in Your Minivan…Among Other Lessons
Posted in Apologetics, Culture Wars, Family, Gospel, Patriarchy, Pilgrimesque on February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not the “Push the Thingy” Type of Education
Posted in Classical Education on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A good liberal arts education is designed to equip leaders for life — we need men and women who understand where we came from, where we should be going, and how we ought to behave on the way. With that as a foundation, graduates of such programs generally excel in making their way through life [...]
Even in Our Culture Where Reading is So Uncool…It’s Still Worth Lying About?
Posted in Culture Wars on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners, a survey suggests.
Just because you read the cover in Barnes and Noble, it’s on your bookshelf, sat down in a cozy chair with it, read the Amazon reviews, or want to [...]
Maybe You Missed the Day They Taught Law at Law School
Posted in Classical Education on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Maybe you’ve seen DVD or audio university courses available in bookstores, but you knew there were coming online–for free. The iTunes Store has a great assortment of FREE classes and even courses available from dozens of universities (called iTunes U) including Cambridge, Cornell, Dallas Theological Seminary, Oxford, Yale and many others. Some classes are on [...]
The Kind of Men God Used/Uses
Posted in Biographical, Culture Wars, Patriarchy, Pilgrimesque on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Horatius Bonar, writing the preface to John Gillies’ Accounts of Revival, proposes that men useful to the Holy Spirit for revival have been marked in these nine ways:
1. They were in earnest about the great work on which they had entered: “They lived and labored and preached like men on whose lips the immortality of [...]
The Public School is the Largest Monopoly in the U.S.
Posted in Classical Education, Culture Wars on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The only way in which a state-controlled school can be kept even relatively healthy is through the absolutely free possibility of competition by private schools and church schools; if it once becomes monopolistic, it is the most effective engine of tyranny and intellectual stagnation that has yet been devised period.
J. Gresham Machen (from Desiring God [...]
AutoFillPDF-Labels
Posted in Resources I Use on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just found a cool program that takes so much of the hassle out of printing a page of labels.
AutoFillPDF-Labels
Not the Same Tone As the Moderns Might Say It
Posted in Culture Wars, Gospel, Pilgrimesque on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worldly things are good in themselves and given to sweeten our passage to Heaven.
Worldly Saints, p. 59 by Puritan Richard Sibbes
Please Don’t Think That The System is Tanking Because Its Flawed
Posted in Capitalism Works! on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Capitalism works. Here is why we have our current housing crisis.
From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us.
What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s [...]
Sometimes Truth Hurts
Posted in Classical Education, The Things of This World on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thoughtful Presidential read with a historical ending.
Every aspect of this man’s presidency could be seen as nothing short of disastrous. Things were good for most, until he showed up. Things were generally calm and peaceful. Most Americans were comfortable, safe and feasting at the table of a robust economy. By the time he left, we [...]
Read and Do
Posted in Pilgrimesque on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
20 Qualities of Good Listeners
HT: Challies
Welcome to the USSA
Posted in News and Sports on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a visual showing where that $800 billion is going…supposedly.
Taking Apart the Stimulus Plan
I Know It Pains Us To Read This
Posted in Classical Education on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whoever passes by what is over his head condemns his head to its present low altitude; for nothing can elevate a mind except what is over its head; and that elevation is not accomplished by capillary attraction, but only by the hard work of climbing up ropes, with sore hands and aching muscles.
Mortimer Ader, from [...]
Miracle on the Hudson Part I
Posted in News and Sports on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In October of 1956, Pan Am Flight 943 ditched in the Pacific Ocean. All were saved. Here is the story with all original video.
American Windstick
Posted in AMUSEMENT: "Muse" Means to Think and "A" Means... on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harmonica’s don’t get a lot of play on the stage of Carnegie Hall. But when Buddy Green got a chance to go on stage, he made the most of it. This is cool.
Lincoln Wordle
Posted in Classical Education, The Things of This World on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I really like wordles (a sort of word cloud). They show and then emphasize words that are repeated. Here is one of Abraham Lincoln’s February 1861 speech in Independence Hall, Philadelphia. I wonder how it would compare to a modern President’s emphasis.
Here is the original link.
When The Gestapo Has Chronological Snobbery
Posted in News and Sports, Preposterous! on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This might be a different story if there were an epidemic of children chewing books, but, this is full-on inanity. Here is a story of what the government is doing to outlaw the sale of children’s books published before 1985.
I’m subversive enough to leave the books lying around where kids might ‘accidentally’ read them.
The New [...]
Yeah, But the Movie is Starting…
Posted in Classical Education, Quote of the Day on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
Happy 200th Birthday, Abraham Lincoln
Posted in Classical Education on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Consider Lincoln’s most important speech:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived [...]
The Hermaneutics Class I Wish I Had Had
Posted in Gospel, Variety Pack on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a no-brainer list for some of you, but I need to digest it some more. I was on the wrong track to make hermanuetics a mandatory class in college.
Here is George Grant’s list of basic principles.
Cause for Alarm
Posted in Culture Wars, Gospel on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you find yourself loving any pleasure better than praying, any book better than the Bible, any house better than the house of God, any table better than the Lord’s table, any person better than Christ, any indulgence better than the hope of heaven–take alarm!
Thomas Guthrie (quoted in Overcoming the World by Beeke, p. 37)
HT: [...]
London From Above at Night
Posted in Photoblogomous on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been almost five years since Chrissy and I were in London. Here are some beautiful pictures of the city from The Big Picture.
Don’t Forget
Posted in Classical Education on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Ours is a rich legacy. Rich but lost.”
Woodrow [...]
On Heroism
Posted in Patriarchy on February 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities- truthfulness and unselfishness, a readiness to put one’s own pleasures aside for that of others, to be courteous to all, kind to those younger than yourself, helpful to your parents, even if helpfulness [...]
He Did it Again!
Posted in Classical Education, Goings On, Pleased with God on February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
God put the wind to our back and gave us a prime spot to tell our community about our new school. Fox News 17/Nashville called today and then told this story at the 10 p.m. time slot tonight. The story is first about Pioneer and then about JECA.
Big Changes for Pioneer Christian Academy
Thank YOU [...]
Showing Himself Spectacular!
Posted in Classical Education, Goings On, Pleased with God on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
God did something amazing for JECA in January 2009–He gave us a school building! And it was all obviously Him at work.
In the very best spot on the north side of Nashville we could have imagined, God has given us 25 acres of land in a quiet country setting and a 33,000 square-foot school building [...]
Jonathan Edwards
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