When to let the balls drop

This is solid advice from two seasoned pastors on how to balance work and family (though it's geared towards pastors, it's totally applicable regardless of vocation). I need to listen to these again and again...

Unbelievable...Obama's top ten reasons for voting against the born alive infants protection act

Some have sought to defend Senator Obama's votes against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act by explaining the reason/argument he advanced against it. But actually, Obama has offered 10 different reasons for his opposition. Jill Stanek--the nurse who started the national discussion about this act--has an article with quotes explaining the various reasons. Here they are in outline form--but for more detail and documentation, read the whole thing.

10. Babies who survive abortions are not protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.

9. A ban to stop aborted babies from being shelved to die would be burdensome to mothers.

8. Aborting babies alive and letting them die is a doctor's prerogative.

7. Anyway, doctors don't do that.

6. Obama apparently read medical charts and saw no proof.

5. Aborting babies alive and letting them die is a religious issue.

4. Aborting babies alive and letting them die violates no universal principle.

3. Introducing legislation to stop live aborted babies from being shelved to die was a political maneuver.

2. Sinking Born Alive was about outmaneuvering that political maneuver.

1. Introducing Born Alive was a ploy to overturn Roe v. Wade.

(HT: JT)

The blessing of Christ's kingly office for us

In a few weeks I will start reading through John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion with a friend of mine. A daunting task, to be sure, but I get excited about it when I read quotes like this:

“The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages—such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life.

Christ enriches his people with all things necessary for the eternal salvation of souls and fortifies them with courage to stand unconquerable against all the assaults of spiritual enemies. From this we infer that he rules—inwardly and outwardly—more for our own sake than his.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles—content with this one thing: that our King will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.”

—John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2.15.4

(HT: OFI)

The glory of Christ and the stale bread of the world

"The weakness of our hunger for Jesus is not because He is unsavory, but because we are so stuffed with the stale bread of the world. We have so nibbled at the table of the world that we are no longer hungry for the only food that satisfies."

John Piper, Hunger for God

(HT: Cross-eyed)

Dead, no, not yet anyway...

Ok, this blog has been dormant now for awhile. Not as long as Tony, not as long as Rob, not even as long as Josh's blog...but it's not dead yet, I promise. Stay tuned...

No more dancing in church...

(HT: JT)