Monday, December 31, 2007

New year's resolutions

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<idle musing> Well, it is New Year's Eve, the day when everyone makes all kinds of resolutions, knowing full well that they will a...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Mere mortals?

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"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person ...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Inspiration?

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The inerrancy wars rage on, and on, and on, and… This month has seen a spate of inerrancy posts, no doubt inspired, at least partially, by J...
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Back to the future?

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Seems that divination isn't dead yet. Apparently there is a gentleman who reads pig's spleens to forecast the weather . Just like t...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Effective Prayer

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“If we really want to pray with power, we need to break through into greater holiness. We don’t need a formula or a method for praying. But ...
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Friday, December 21, 2007

Idle musings on a Friday morning

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I wrote this earlier today... <idle musing> I am sitting in the waiting room of a car repair place, waiting for an oil change to get d...

Children must play

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Our son, Ryan, stopped through again on his way back and forth. He spent the last two nights with us and we had a wonderful time. But, last ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Is reading dying?

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I got an e-mail today mentioning an interesting article in the New Yorker Magazine titled Twilight of the Books: What will life be like if ...
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Quote

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“Sound doctrine that yields faithless living and no prayer is no doctrine at all.”—Jim Cymbala in Breakthrough Prayer , page 97
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Snow!

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We got 15 inches of snow on Saturday and Sunday; it was beautiful. Debbie and I spent a couple of hours snowshoeing along the creek that run...
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Prayer

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"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of God's willingness."—George Mueller

Jerusalem

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I read a good description of Jerusalem this morning in Harpers : “Jerusalem is as condensed, as self-referential, as a Rubik’s Cube.”
Monday, December 17, 2007

Prayer

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“David was a man who prayed much and received much. In contrast, those who seldom ask receive in proportion to their little faith. Yet David...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Clever little ad

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OK, this is my first attempt at embedding a video, and probably my last...But it is a clever little ad by a bookstore that is closing soon. ...

Musings for a Friday afternoon

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<idle musing> A couple of things have run across my desk today that are worth musing on... 1. I was delighted to finally see someone p...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007

Mysticism...

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Kevin Edgecomb has a nice quote from The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys over on Biblicalia . Here is an ...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Music

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We finally got to unpacking our music. The box of CDs was in the room with my boxes of books, and finally got moved to the living room this ...

Plumbing again

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OK. This will be the last plumbing post, I hope! I don't want this blog to become another installment of This Old House :) So, this wee...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Kitten

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OK, for all you adoring fans of kittens out there. I got Debbie to corral the kitten, alias Fuzzy Motor, FM for short, so that I could get s...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

"Q"

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I periodically get a shipment of new Paternoster titles from England. Some of them contain some real jewels. This one is from The Three Gosp...