I Was There – Five Years Later

The Pistons and Pacers brawled five years ago today. We had almost left a few minutes earlier when we had figured the Pistons were going to lose. In the final minute, things went really bad. Watching the video brings back the emotions of disgust.
Thirty minutes later on the drive home, there were still police cars [...]

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The Power and Danger of Iconography

I’ve never heard of this guy before. Good stuff. Can Christians use these principles in Kingdom work?

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Editing Changes Everything

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Behold the Lamb of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ

Be introduced to our favorite Christmas CD, though it’s not literally Christmas music and we listen year-round without apology. We’ve had the CD for a year, and iTunes says we have played this on our desktop 140 times in the past. It’s a great work to have internalized in your heart, and I love [...]

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Trailer for The White Horse King (book)

Gorilla Poet Productions will make you want to read every book they produce a trailer for, so don’t bother watching unless you have the $10. I’ve heard good things about this book, the first by Ben Merkle. It’s just sitting in my wishlist, ready to be purchased.

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On Terrorism and Those Who Terrorize

Good read by Douglas Wilson:
Nadil Malik Hasan and the Street Light

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Actually It Was Superimposed

Tonight in a fast-food restaurant…
Had to Chrissy, referring to the large painting behind him: “Is that an abstract?”
Chrissy: “uhhh”
Me: “No, it’s not.”
Kar: “Well, I know it’s not a still life.”

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One Year Later

Grandpa Hayward died one year ago today. I found these pictures in the last few months. Read here what I wrote last year after the funeral.

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Sexual Detox and False Messages

Some of you have never heard of Tim Challies. He is a one of a small handful of the Christian uber-bloggers (and of them, he’s the only one I read with any sort of regularity). He does his work here (Challies). He inspires me to read more, to consider more, to encourage more with my [...]

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Boom-Dee-Ah-Da

It’s back. A new version of Discovery’s “I Love the Whole World” commercial is being played:

Here is the original.

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Some Interesting Notes About Spinach

How a typo and a cartoon changed the perception of shredded, soaked nasty. This link includes the original Popeye cartoon, and it’s a hoot.
Some Notes on Spinach

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I’m Assuming this Was a Poem, Not a Hymn

Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so:
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For ’tis their nature, too.
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise:
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other’s eyes.
Let love through all your actions run,
And all your words be mild:
Live like the blessed Virgin’s Son,
That [...]

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A Great Read from an Unlikely Source

Thank You, President and Mrs. Bush!

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Stop and Think about Stopping and Thinking

One thing I’ve learned is that a child should not be given this rope to hang himself if he does not have a mentor to guide him through it.

Short sentences should only be used for emphasis, especially in a philosophical text. That is Flesch’s fatal mistake. Because everybody seems to write this way, our minds [...]

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You Fooled Yourself

Too many think they are wonderful with people because they talk well. They don’t realize that being wonderful with people means listening well.
Peter Drucker

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Sobering

Last words from the Texas execution chamber.
HT: Challies

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Redeem the Quiet

But you have to make time for it first. A busy body makes for a noisy soul. Time must be carved out to be refreshed by solace.
Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems [...]

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Hasten Not

“In truth you cannot read too much in Scriptures;
and what you read you cannot read too carefully,
and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well,
and what you understand well you cannot teach too well,
and what you teach well you cannot live too well.”
– Martin Luther

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What You Should Buy Your Child For Christmas

Let me not be a brow-beater. Let me just state plainly that you should buy your child, nay yourself, a copy of On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness for Christmas. Andrew Peterson has started his book-writing career with a full-tilt, high-charge adventure.
Let me go back a bit. I’m a fan of [...]

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Last Comment

Things have been slow here while school has been getting going, and I have been micro-blogging on FB. So I go weeks without thinking of TBAP (egads!)
I noticed that the last comment here was a congratulations comment written in September by Dr. Wade Gladin. Dr. Gladin died toward the beginning of October when his heart [...]

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What a Cool Guy!

The opening paragraph of Jean Fritz’ biography Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt:
What did Theodore Roosevelt want to do? Everything. And all at once if possible. Plunging headlong into life, he refused to waste a single minute. Among other things, he studied birds, shot lions, roped steer, fought a war, wrote books, and discovered the source [...]

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