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Yeah, sometimes it gets like this!

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Every time I think I have this all figured out, something like this happens.

This portion of clutter's been here long enough. Let me add a bit of something new here in this space (if you're a corporate entity and would like to buy advertising space here, you can use the contact information and we'll start setting up that retirement account for me and the wife right now!)

Books I'm reading right now:


1. Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges

2. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

3. Preaching & Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

4. The Door Within Trilogy by Wayne Thomas Batson (reviewing & previewing for my son) I'm now into Book #2; Jonathan's finished it and on to Book #3

5. Future Men by Douglas Wilson

6. Overcoming Sin & Temptation by John Owen (edited by Kelly M. Kapic and Justin Taylor)[just starting]


What are you reading now?

Dec 6, 2007 3:23 PM

Monday Montage

The first post today comes after a very frustrating Monday morning. Can't go into all that just didn't go right, well or even half-way, but this about sums it up:


Here are the lyrics:

Bad Day

by Daniel Powter


Where is the moment we needed the most

You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost

…

Dec 10, 2007 1:40 PM

Some Reasons to Pray

Tomorrow morning, my family & I will wake up with very few fears (other than "Will our furnaces at church stay running?" "Will the weather keep more people away this Lord's Day?" or "I hope the Advent candles stay lit this week.") We will gather together at Cornerstone with other believers in order…

Dec 8, 2007 7:17 PM

Recipe for Goodies

Rebecca is soliciting recipes for the Christmas season, so I thought I'd oblige with at least one of my favorites. Ann makes these each year and they never last more than about two days. What really irks me is when she makes them and then has the audacity to share them at gatherings (family,…

Dec 8, 2007 9:00 AM

The Thursday Three

I didn't get as early a start as I'd hoped with this today. Perhaps when I can spend more time reading, writing, blogging and studying than shoveling snow I'll be able to keep up a bit better. Enough with the grumbling and complaining. Here's three for today:


Three Things You Won't Hear Me Saying…

Dec 6, 2007 3:37 PM

Ungodliness

Each Wednesday, I've been posting about Jerry Bridges' book, Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins we Tolerate. So far, Bridges has done a great job of presenting the problem - indwelling sin; helping us to realize what an awful, corrupting thing this is; and, showing us that the solution is the…

Dec 5, 2007 11:26 AM

Tuesday Reflections

This past Lord's Day was a bit different than most for us here in Minnesota. You see, Saturday brought winter to bear upon us with about 3-4 inches of snow early, then freezing drizzle and sleet pretty much all day after that. By the time late evening rolled around, everything was covered with a…

Dec 4, 2007 2:20 PM

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Ben Stein has a movie coming out in February. I've been reading about it for a couple of months now and am curious to see it when it finally arrives in theaters. Ben is a Jew who believes in God as a loving Creator (I really have no idea what his thoughts on Jesus as Messiah are). "Expelled" is…

Nov 30, 2007 10:43 AM

Friday's Physical Fit

I'm just gonna show a couple of pictures and you take your best guess how my Friday's starting off.

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Here's hoping I'll be able to walk fairly straight-up by Sunday morning, 'cuz right now, I look like an elderly John Wayne moseyin' down the road.

Nov 30, 2007 3:09 AM

It's Thursday!

And that has usually meant my Three-4-Thursday presentation of three things or three groups of things that are floating around in my mind, on other blogs or the 'net. Well, here they are today, with no strict relationship to anything.

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Let's face it, when it comes to Christmas, I'm quite often a…
Nov 29, 2007 7:10 PM

Directions for Dealing With Sin

 I’m currently reading through John Owen’s three works on the moritification of sin, dealing with temptation and the power of indwelling sin. There’s a group of us engaged in discussion over at Challies’ place. It’s not too late to join by any stretch; we’ve just finished chapter 2 of Mortification…

Nov 28, 2007 5:54 AM

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