Saturday, August 30, 2008

Friday, August 29, 2008

Why I Read Political News

It is important to keep up with horrifically bleak current events.

Friday, August 22, 2008

My Spurgeon Favorites

1. Morning and Evening
2. Treasury of David
3. The Soul Winner
4. Flowers from a Puritan’s Garden
5. Chequebook of Faith
6. The Golden Alphabet
7. All of Grace
8. John Plowman’s Talk
9. Salt Cellars
10. Quivers for My Arrows
11. The Downgrade Controversy

Friday, August 15, 2008

The Storied Question

"All great stories begin with the question, 'What if . . .'" Rudyard Kipling

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Chesterton's Probity

"Intent on its very ending, they're ignorant of its very beginning."

Sunday, August 3, 2008

An Eleventary Life

One God, five solas, one helpmeet, three kids, and two grands.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Teddy Roosevelt on Service

"Merciful service gives itself rich, but selfish isolation hoards itself poor."

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Have Mercy

“Mercy is two hearts tugging at one load.” Sarah Orne Jewett

Saturday, July 26, 2008

A Life of Faith

"The motives to a life of faith are infinite." Samuel Johnson

Arthur Quiller-Couch's Vision

"Now, with visions of redemption I walk against the crowd." Q

Good Intentions

"The streets of hell are paved with good intentions." Mark Twain

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Someone Else's 11 Words

Once upon a time, George Grant was born on July 24th.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

T.S. Eliot on Gadgets

“New technologies will often only produce tumid apathy with no concentration.”

Friday, July 18, 2008

Culture War

Attacks on great cultures come first through the denigration of language.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Top Summer Reads (So Far)

1. Heroes, Paul Johnson
2. Living Church, John Stott
3. Seeking a Better Country, D.G. Hart and John Muether
4. Solomon Among the Postmoderns, Peter Leithart
5. 100 Cupboards, N.D. Wilson
6. Respectable Sins, Jerry Bridges
7. Sword Song, Bernard Cornwell
8. Twelve Challenges Churches Face, Mark Dever
9. A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage
10. Richard Baxter and Converstion Timothy Beoucher
11. Christ and Culture Revisted, D.A. Carson

Godly Associations

Tis better to be alone than in bad company.” George Washington

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Reforming Vision

“Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.” Thomas Chalmers

Friday, July 4, 2008

A Scherrerism

"I need to get in shape so I can die healthy."