Sometimes I find things that just make me spew my coffee in laughter. Here are a few:
Net Finney (great site in general, and likely to be added to the blogroll soon!)
Alan Groves was a professor of the Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. He celebrated his homecoming early this month.
Here is a bit of a glimpse into the details of his death. But if you do not read that, at least take a few minutes to read his letter.
29
Jan
Thank you!
For Christmas this year I received a number of gift cards/certificates for Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Thank you, all who gave! I had more fun picking things out that you can begin to imagine. Below is a list of the items I purchased:
Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Loraine Boettner
Grace Unknown: The Heart of Reformed Theology by R. C. Sproul
Treasuring God in Our Traditions by Nicole Piper
Truths We Confess: A Layman’s Guide to the Westminster Confession of Faith: Volume 1: The Triune God by R. C. Sproul
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? by James White
Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God by J. I. Packer
Soul-Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Plus Halloween & Easter Celebrations (DVD)
Not Too Late by Nora Jones (CD)
4
Dec
Use your brain
This is a video from WorshipGod06. Ryan Ferguson recites Hebrews 9 and 10 from memory. Powerful? Unbelievably so…
And before you lazily say you cannot memorize like this (note that Ryan memorized the entire book of Hebrews), read what Dr. Andrew Davis has to say.
2
Dec
Self-serving
I know this is completely self-serving. So be it. My official Amazon wish-list.
I picked up a new cell phone for Tami the other day. She was eligible for a credit toward a new phone from Verizon because we have been with them for more than two years, so I used that and got one that has bluetooth capability, and grabbed a wireless headset to go with it.
So we were on a date last night, sans kids (oh, the quietness!). When we sat down in the restaurant I remembered that I needed to call my sister about some plans for this weekend, and I asked Tami if I could borrow her new phone.
Shortly thereafter, Tami was asking how to set up the headset to work with the phone, and we hooked them up together while waiting for our food. She then put everything back into her purse, and we enjoyed talking and eating for the next hour.
A short time after we finished eating, my sister called, and Tami answered the phone. No sound. “Hello? Hello?” Nothing. Then we realized that the headset was still connected, and we needed to use it to talk. My sister patiently stayed on the line, and Tami finally got the headset on. And then my sister told her what was going on: apparently the “redial” button on the headset in Tami’s purse kept activating, and had dialed the last dialed number (my sister’s) numerous times throughout dinner! So she got to listen in on our conversation, and enjoyed more interruptions of her evening than even a telemarketer could provide!
Sorry, Amy. Your techno-goober brother is down 0-1 to technology…
22
Sep
Hamsterman
I just read an article about Zorbing. What a trip!
And for more info, read here.
22
Sep
New pictures posted
Since the site redesign is not complete, pictures and blog entries are not easily available together. That is not so bad right now, since I have been inconsistent with both! But tonight I posted 76 new images, for those interested. Many are just snapshots, but there are a few in there that I really like.
Enjoy!
Pictures from July 2006, in all their unedited glory!
21
Sep
Rockets
Last night Tami and I heard some whimpering coming from Timothy’s room. When I went in to check on him, he was curled up in his bed, mostly asleep, crying on and off a bit.
I shook him awake a little and asked him if he was okay, since he was a bit sick over the past few days and I was concerned that he was not feeling well. He mumbled something I did not understand, and I asked again.
“The door is closed!” he whined.
“What door, Timothy?”
…mumbling, then “The door on the rocket.”
Me: “The door on the rocket is closed, and you can’t get in?”
“Yeah.”
“…Okay, well you go back to sleep, get into the rocket with Wallace and Gromit, and enjoy a trip to the moon.”
On the way to the final meeting on our missions revival at church last night, I was asking Lindsey in the car what Bible person she had studied in school. She said “Moses, and how he parted the sea and all that stuff. But I already know the whole story.”
She went on: “And we talked about the 12 things that God did…what are they called?”
Me: “The ten plagues?”
“Yeah, I was confused. The ten plagues.”
Me: “The frogs, and flies, and blood…”
“Yes. Timothy, all the water everywhere turned to blood!”
…a few moments of silence, then she said “But I really don’t understand. God told Moses to talk to Pharaoh, but He told Moses that Pharaoh would say ‘no’! I just don’t understand why God would tell Moses to talk to him if He already knew he would say no. I just don’t understand.”
And as only God could work things out, two things immediately came to my mind. The first was Dan Phillips post at TeamPyro on Tuesday, which I already linked to last night. Wow — even down to the same story in the Bible.
And the second thing, related to the conclusion in Dan’s post, was part of the catechisms we have been teaching both the kids: “Lindsey, you already know the answer. It’s the same as the answer to this: Why did God make you and all things?”
“For his own glory.”
God is good.
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