These are perhaps the most important memories I have of my grandfather – singing this one song repeatedly.
Yummy Matcha KitKat
My littles were excited to recognize the first food – green matcha KitKat bars!
When Giza was in Egypt
Perhaps my actual traveling dimmed the glory of that literary adventure, but I can feel the passion re-emerging.
My Grandmother's House
They were lost for eternity and for all I know they continue to lie in the dirt of the neighbor's yard.
My Own Small Memories
You should read what you want. Be inspired by what you love. And if you feel inclined, enjoy the silliness of my own small memories as I write them.
What if the Lesser Evil Actually Did Good?
What is the Presidency? And what powers should it preside over?
Endless Imperfection of Obedience
God's law remains a reminder of our failure compared to God's standard.
Texas is Our Continent
Vastly different and highly enriching, each book opened a world into parts of North America not usually experienced by our family.
Book Review: Deluxe Ultrathin HCSB
The HCSB Deluxe Ultrathin Bible is the best Bible I have ever used.
Efficacious Prayer
The instruction of Jesus Christ on prayer remind us to pray the promises of God back to Him. This is faithfulness of heart — dependence upon our savior.
Rouse All the Senses
"For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham." (Hebrews 2:16; NKJV)
Prayer as Catechism
The reciting of the prayer then contains both personal petitions and catechismal instruction for our hearts.
Calvin on God's Paternal Clemency
"For I do not accept the distinction made by learned and otherwise godly men that good works deserve places that are conferred upon us in this life, while everlasting salvation is the root word of faith alone." - Calvin
Our Week in Europe
We began our tour of Europe looking up “animal pictures,” resulting in Europe being termed a very scary place: badgers, foxes, and bears oh my!
On the Bookshelf, July 2016
My second time through. They don't write love stories like they used to.
Otherness
O holy Christ, your voice is stronger
than the torrents tempting us to take
the earthy waters; human potters mold more vessels
but you call us
NOT a Country, a Continent: AFRICA.
Letting our summer sun shine on Africa last week was exciting and enriching.
Revealed in Power
"That there is no other method of living piously and justly than that of depending upon God." - John Calvin
Call and Response
do you trust the gifts you're given?
neither do I, yet we both risk the touch
Luther and Progressive Covenantalism
Despite Luther's conclusion that "Christ, the Founder of the new generation, did not change the covenant; He changed the sign of the covenant," he stands removed from the Reformed tradition which provides starker continuity between circumcision and baptism.