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As some of you know, we are planning a big trip in December of this year.  Usually, the only big trips we all take are to my parents’ house, which is a 7-8 hour drive (that includes our frequent stops) and lodging at their house.  Because of the length of this trip, there will be [...]

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Everyone needs to go read this right now.  If you don’t have time right now, come back when you have time.  Read it.  Digest it.  It’s really, really good, and really, really needed.
It’s what I’ve been trying to say for years now, but never as well as this.
Go read it and ponder these things in [...]

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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, left, right, center, or none of the above, if this doesn’t upset you, there is something wrong with you.  Whatever happened to teaching children about freedom of speech?  Heck, whatever happened to teaching chlldren to think for themselves rather than browbeating children to agree with the teacher?
As I [...]

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Did I spell that correctly?
Things have been pretty heavy around here for the past several days.  Dealing with a lot of things.  Sorry about the paucity of blogitude on here lately.  Thank you so much for those of you who have written to inquire how we are doing.  I appreciate it.  I appreciate you.  And [...]

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Living in the Southern U.S. of A. as we do, most of the Christians we know are of the Southern Baptist variety, or of some Evangelical offshoot thereof. (Most of the non-denominational or independent churches around here are splits from Baptist churches. A lot of the non-denominational churches near us really are Baptist churches but [...]

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I’ve posted this before, but it bears repeating:
?If anybody should ask me how this communion [i.e., the true communion of the believer with the very body and blood of Christ] takes place, I am not ashamed to confess that that is a secret too lofty for either my mind to comprehend or my words to [...]

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Oh, the delights of the homeschooling crowd when you’re the only Reformed people in the crowd.
First there was the mom who told my son that J. K. Rowling had demons in her house that she talks to regularly.  She told me she ‘read this in an interview’.  I asked her to send me a copy.  [...]

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Yes, the scare quotes are on purpose.
This afternoon, around 3:00 (15:00 for those of you who are used to 24-hour time), my wife and our eight year old, “Birdie,” came home from a long day of laundrette-ing and errand-running (including a visit to Lord Waldemart).? They had not eaten lunch, whereas those of us who [...]

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I wrote the other day about the Harry-haters.  Yesterday at the home-school coöp, a girl in my nine-year-old son’s class, who has previously called him a “Satan worshiper” because he likes the Harry Potter books, told him, “Presbyterians are just Satan worshipers who put Bibles in their churches to fool everybody.”  Lovely.
Here are some pictures [...]

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Today at breakfast, my children were asking me what I thought was the worst TV Christmas Special ever. One of them voted for the one where Angela Lansbury is a nun and there’s a little blind shepherd boy who wants snow on Christmas or something like that. Our oldest voted for “The Year [...]

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