Monthly Archives: February 2007

Searching for a Good Cause

If you haven’t heard about it, head on over to GoodSearch and check it out. It’s a website that let’s you designate a charity of choice and for every search that you do, it donates a penny to that charity. … Continue reading

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Marriage, Children, Love, and Responsibility

I’ve always been interested in the nature of responsibility, and in what makes a man or a woman finally pick up its mantle and seriously begin the journey toward true manhood or womanhood. I think for a lot of people, … Continue reading

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Man + Woman = Good!

As a man and a husband and a father, a lot of the topics on this blog tend to center around the home. As such, from time to time, I will have things to say about marriage and about children. … Continue reading

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America, Evangelism, and the State of the Church

Kevin Bauder of Central Baptist Theological Seminary has sounded off on the state of the American church and the sore need for the re-evangelization of America. Here’s an excerpt: I have some reason to know. In 1990, I moved my … Continue reading

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Looking back on love

With apologies, these are poems that I wrote my wife while we were dating. There have been poems since then, but I stumbled across these recently and thought that with Valentine’s day coming up tomorrow, they seemed appropriate. It’s midnight … Continue reading

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Sick

I’ve been sick for the past week or so, but it’s been a kind of background thing; the sort where you feel horrible in the morning, but you gargle with salt water and take a hot shower and seventeen aspirin1 … Continue reading

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Reformed?

From a recent conversation with a Reformed friend: When people would ask me what sort of church I went to or what sort of religion I was and I would say, “Oh, I’m Reformed”, they would smile and then frown … Continue reading

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Books for Boys and Girls

Diary of an Early American Boy Any boy (or girl) interested in post-colonial American life will love this book. Based on accounts from a diary kept for the year 1805, the book follows the diary’s author, Noah Blake and records … Continue reading

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Antinomianism

Over at Greensboro NC Christian Joel Gillespie has written a couple of interesting posts on Antinomianism[1][2]. Do yourself a favor and check them out, then do me a favor and come back here and leave a comment about it. Just … Continue reading

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The Quality and Expression of Love

Over at Bittersweet Life, my friend Ariel has pointed us all to an article (on the Touchstone magazine blog) that dares to compare modern American pop culture lyrics on love to stuff written by dead people (they probably couldn’t even … Continue reading

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