Entries from June 2007 ↓

Since it was asked, here’s what I picked up at the book sale (extended until 1PM EDT today, by the way!):

For myself . . .
Beyond The Bounds
Biblical Foundations for Manhood and Womanhood
Building Strong Families
Contending for our All (biography of Athanasius, Owen, and Machen)
Counted Righteous in Christ
A Godward Life
The Justification of God
The Hidden Smile of God (biography of Bunyan, Cowper, and Brainerd)
The Legacy of Sovereign Joy (biography of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin)
Preaching the Cross (with chapters by Piper, Dever, Mohler, Duncan, Mahaney, and Sproul)
The Roots of Endurance (biography of Newton, Simeon, and Wilberforce)
Sex and the Supremacy of Christ
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God
Taste and See (aka: A Godward Life, Vol II, expanded edition)

For Amy . . .
Devotions for Ministry Wives (’cause church leaders’ wives face some pretty unique challenges at times)

For a co-worker . . .
Desiring God

There’ll be a whole lot of reading going on.

So Desiring God (John Piper’s ministry) has been having a book sale since yesterday.  Every book in the store for $5.

I got 16 books.
Sixteen.
For $88 after shipping.
Retail value easily at least $250-300.

I don’t know whether to be proud of my frugality or ashamed of my booklust.

(Sale’s still going on through tonight, by the way.  Get in while the gettin’s good.)

It’s been suggested that Ben’s recent unboxing photos of his new ESV Bible may be the first Bible unboxing photos on the Internet.

Wrong

(HT: ESV blog)

Bald again

Originally uploaded by Rae Whitlock.

Just in time for the heat and the sun.

Episcopal priest declares that she is “both Muslim and Christian”. When asked, her bishop said that he is “excited about the interfaith possibilities.”

Dude.  Yikes.

(© 2007 Jason Morehead)

My friend Jason took this picture of Zion Church in Lincoln, NE (of which he and his wife are members) as it was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Obviously, the previous sentence isn’t entirely accurate, as a church is not its meeting space, but still.

Keep the family of Zion PCA in your prayers as they deal with the loss of their beautiful building and as they move forward.  God will be glorified through the destruction of this building, but the pain is just the same.

Read Jason’s thoughts here.

Read media coverage here.

I’m buying this shirt.

Four years ago today, she came into this world looking like this . . .

And now . . .

Happy birthday, Z. *sniff*

Apologies for the lack of posts lately.  I spent this past Sunday morning in Urgent Care, having been unable to breathe properly for the previous . . . oh . . . twelve hours or so.  Felt like someone was inside of my chest, squeezing my esophagus with a blood-pressure cuff.  Sleep didn’t come that night, though I was completely fatigued, trying to scrap together a full breath’s worth of oxygen into my lungs.

Anyway, I was diagnosed with “reactive airway disease”, which exhibits itself with asthma-like symptoms, but only shows up with certain triggers.  Some prescribed steroids, antibiotics, and an albuterol inhaler later, and I’m feeling almost better.

At least it’s not tuberculosis.  Or ebola.