As many of you may already know, Eddie and I have a real passion for history. It was our college major after all. With that being said, it has been very difficult for us to find a history curriculum for the kids that we can truly say we are satisfied with. I have actually been pretty appalled at what passes for historiography in most home school history curriculum. What I [...]
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Meditated on this passage from my reading today: As Dirk [Philips] writes, authentic brotherly love in the true congregation of God is demonstrated in the ways “that we minister to each other with a willingly extended hand, not only with the spiritual, but also with the temporal gifts which we have received from God.” (Biesecker-Mast, Separation and the Sword in Anabaptist Persuasion, 192) For Dirk Philips, a true congregation implied [...]
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Here's my official, just over 200 word book review for John MacArthur's "The Jesus You Can't Ignore." I was walking through it chapter by chapter, but it was such a chore to get through the book and I just needed to be done with it that I tore through the rest and produced the final summary.
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Today I took my first (and possibly last for quite some time) steps in recovering some chairs my Mom picked up for us a few months ago. We are also planning on repainting our dining room with some paint I got for free last year during a Glidden promotion. The color is called “Luscious Mango”. I can’t wait to get it up! The fabric I found for the chairs is [...]
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Here's my book review of Frank Viola's "Reimagining Church." An excellent book, and exceptional challenges.
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Chapter three began with the presumption of the problem I discussed in chapter 2. Author John MacArthur again presented the timing of his first cleansing of the temple event as vital to the setting for when Nicodemus came to Jesus in secret. But the initial problem can be set aside for his subsequent commentary on the John iii dialogue between the Lord and the Pharisee. I found his commentary very [...]
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