Snippets: True Bounty

“Thou Great and Only Potentate,
Thou has made summer and winter, day and night; each of these revolutions serves our welfare and is full of Thy care and kindness.
Thy bounty is seen in the relations that train us, the laws that defend us, the homes that shelter us, the food that builds us, the raiment that [...]

Funny Conversations: The Civil War

Evan:  Mommy, what was the Civil War about?
Mommy:  The Civil War happened because the South wanted their independence from the North because people in the South wanted to own slaves and people in the North didn’t want anyone in the United States to own slaves.
Evan:  (eyebrows raised)  Well!  What did the East and West have [...]

Please-Reconcile.org Speaks

The State, a newspaper in Columbia, SC
WYFF, Greenville NBC Affiliate

Please Reconcile: Breaking News

BJU published this Statement about Race at Bob Jones University on its website today, ahead of the receipt of the open letter and over 500 signatures collected from the Please Reconcile website (they were obviously paying attention to the goings on at Please Reconcile).
Here is the text:
At Bob Jones University, Scripture is our final authority [...]

Differing Expectations

When we first came to Oregon, it was a temporary move. We were supposed to live here for one year while Tim trained with his new company then return to North Carolina where he would work in the Research Triangle Park office. Because we knew we’d only be here a short time, we [...]

Snippets: Expectancy

“What are you asking God to do that only He can do so that, when He does it, only He gets the glory for it?”
–Dr. Art Azurdia, in a sermon entitled Living in the Passion of Expectancy from John 14:12-14 preached at Grace & Truth Bible Church on October 19, 2008

Please Reconcile: The Fear of Man

“The fear of man brings a snare, but he who trusts in the LORD will be exalted.” –  Proverbs 29:25 (NASB)
Bob Jones University considers itself to be the bastion of fundamentalism.  Historically, their leadership has been outspoken, even vitriolic, about issues and against people who disagree with the school about those issues.
Growing up, I regarded BJU [...]

Funny Conversations: Short Attention Span

Evan: (learning Bible verse for Kids4Truth club)  Daddy, will you tell me what this verse means?
Daddy:  Let me see…this verse is talking about how God is holy and we are sinful, so God paid the penalty for our sins by giving His own Son as the perfect, sinless sacrifice…
Evan: Look, Daddy! I’m a robot! (doing his [...]

The Surprised Raccoon

 
Kendall woke me up the other morning to show me this picture that she had drawn.  Once I got beyond the fact that she woke me up, I was quite impressed with her work. We call it “The Surprised Raccoon” because he looks like he’s in shock.  Maybe it’s a reaction to the funky eyebrows [...]

Poetry

While cleaning out some files in my office, I ran across a poem that Evan wrote a couple years ago.  I think that, at the time, we were learning how many days there are in each month of the year, so he was a little obsessed with numbers around 28 to 31 (as opposed to [...]