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“It is the truth of the gospel, reaffirmed in our hearts daily, that puts desire into our duty. … It is the gospel that motivates us to seek to be in our daily experience what we are in our standing before God.” – Jerry Bridges Respectable Sins

Has this happened to you? Someone comes to you for advice, or to settle a dispute. You carefully consider the situation and tell them your answer (possibly with ample support from scripture). They don’t like the answer, ignore it, and do what they wanted to in the first place. We live in a culture that [...]

I need six LR1120 batteries for the kids’ cute animal flashlights. The local RadioShack had them for $5, each. And they only had 4. That would be $15 in batteries for a $5 flashlight. No thanks. Ooo, look, Amazon has a 10 pack for $6.40 with free shipping. And I can get 20 for $9.75 [...]

I got my one year employment mug today. It is a nice dark cobalt color with my name and start date on it. I hear at five years you get a cupcake. I think I got the better deal. Too bad there is plenty of free coffee and tea in the break rooms but no [...]

CCEF has many good resources for Christians of all walks of life, even though their focus is on counseling. CCEF is a Christian counseling and educational ministry located in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I want to highlight here their podcast called Help & Hope. [iTunes] They post about every other week with things that touch upon [...]

This poem describes something I have wondered about for a while now. Why are so many children’s books littered with blatant propaganda? I guess it is the same with most kids movies too. Here is a video of a book on Jollygrains we got a while ago from a friend. Some of the implications are [...]

With the day off, we journeyed down to the VA side of the Potomac in search of fossils. We found these great turritellas at Fairview Beach (longest was about 5″) and gathered a small amount of fossilized shark teeth (and a porpoise tooth as well!) down at Westmoreland State Park. The kids once again had [...]

Joachim de Posada on YouTube. I shudder to think what my kids would do in this experiment.

In my observations, many people think that they do not have anything to contribute to a church or society because they are not ‘trained’ or ‘gifted’ for that specific task. I was reading Nehemiah today and came across a little note about a Hananiah in 3:8 … Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, [...]