Wow, that feels good!

I’m officially done with my semester.  I had finished grading exams and calculating averages for my history TA assignment on Monday, but I still had a sermon to write on Amos 3:1-8.  I just emailed it, and now I’m done!
These breaks in the action are weird for me.  I get to read whatever I want!  [...]

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Two thoughts…

1) Have you ever picked up a banana and begun to peel it, and then realized that you were almost automatically switching hands in order to peel it more “naturally”? This morning I caught myself doing this. I must have just happened to grab the banana with the left hand, and so [...]

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Scottish Morbid Introspection?

I’ve been reading, at the recommendation of my minister, the Memoirs of Thomas Boston (or, if you prefer the original title [you've got to love these old, Barnes-and-Noble-unfriendly titles!], Memoirs of the Life, Time, and Writings of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Boston, A.M., Sometime Minister at Simprin, Afterwards at Ettrick, Divided into Twelve Periods, [...]

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Baby Got Book

you should watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTYr3JuueF4

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St. Augustine on guys’ night

As I continued to reflect on the strangely transcendent joy of my fairly mundane evening with Deacon the other night, I was reminded of two other places I have run across great expressions of such “rumors of glory”: C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia is certainly one, and the tear-jerking liner notes of Andrew Peterson’s Love [...]

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Mama’s night out

Kristen was saying that she gets to go to Starbucks once a week to read. Her hubby stays home with the little ones. So, I asked Andy if I could do that too, and he thought it was a great idea. Do you wanna know what I’ll be reading?

Wise Blood was recommended to [...]

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