Today I told Calvin that he's coming with me to a summer camp in OH in 24 days. He already started his packing list.

3 of 5 stars to The Good News We Almost Forgot by Kevin DeYoung

> We have all had to deal with the theological Euclidians, who can slice metaphysical hairs with precision, and when they are done, nobody can tell any difference. They can take the midges of truth, dissect them, and tie off the intestines of those midges into a little braid, and all while the rest of us don't even know yet whether or not midges even have intestines. I mean, think about it.

That's my boy. Thanks @hobbsandbean

Moneyball - the first one through the wall always gets bloody

@gabrielschut @clove37 I'll be bringing my new iPad and this:

> Marriage is a political act, and not an individual choice. How you marry is a way of testifying to what city you belong to. Who defines marriage? The difficulty we are having in our generation in answering this question shows how theology shapes and drives everything.

> One other item of Christian theology has to be taken into account, and that is the reality of the fall into sin. The Christian approach to marriage in the context of mere Christendom deals with both of these realities -- the creational given of male and female, and the sinful propensity we have to hump the world. Creational sexuality and sinful sexuality are both factors.

> the standard mistake of confusing an attack on effeminacy (inappropriate softness) with an attack on femininity (glorified responsiveness).

> We think because the university we went to has different "departments," where the different "majors" hang out, that these are all different enterprises -- like the manufacture of jet engines differs from training horses for future dressage tournaments. But politics and philosophy and education are all part of the same essential project. We will not successfully deal with any one of them without dealing with them all.

> Across our fair Republic, a vast army 60-watt intellectuals have now banded together to flicker dimly in the gathering twilight, having mistaken themselves for the dawn.

It was going to be a great picture of my 12 year collection of 251. This is what I got instead.

> I am skeptical of those whose first instinct in the midst of theological, political, or cultural controversy is to plead with everyone that there doesn’t have to be a controversy.

> There is more to life than belligerence. But there is also more to life than boasting of civility when battles need to be won. When the Bible tells us to seek the things that are above, it doesn’t always mean the fray.

Session Five
The Myth of Adolescence
Mythbusters Youth Retreat 2009
Emmanuel Baptist Church

Session Four
The Myth of Adolescence
Mythbusters Youth Retreat 2009
Emmanuel Baptist Church

Session Three
The Myth of Adolescence
Mythbusters Youth Retreat 2009
Emmanuel Baptist Church

Session Two
The Myth of Adolescence
Mythbusters Youth Retreat 2009
Emmanuel Baptist Church

Session One
The Myth of Adolescence
Mythbusters Youth Retreat 2009
Emmanuel Baptist Church

An interview by Clint Hughes of Nancy Wilson, Bekah Merkle, Matt Whitling, and Tom Garfield

I've tried to explain this to concerned bulletin readers everywhere: Canceled vs. cancelled

For pitch and catch, someone has to catch. Cal's first time.

> women can’t compensate for father hunger by being more motherly. Women are gravity, and men are centrifugal force. Women cluster, and men escape. Women overcommit and men under commit. Women are soft and men are hard. This is why we don’t have a comparable phenomenon like “mother hunger.” We have mother troubles—frequently—but it is a different ball game.

θαρσεῖτε, ἐγώ εἰμι· μὴ φοβεῖσθε.

Montage of Calvin's first three at-bats!

Calendar: first game! Weather: raining! Excitement level: off the chart!

“'Poor dearing' is not bearing a burden."

> The goal was not to destroy holiness, but to get it out of the monasteries. The goal was not to destroy beauty, but to get it out of places where it was being falsely worshiped, and move it to places where it could be innocently enjoyed.

Boppa took him to the new Cabelas to see the Swamp People and all he got to do was drive a boat.

RT @hobbsandbean: Looking official! Number 7 for the Marysville Green Machines.

There is no better place for a six year old to stand around doing nothing on purpose than at baseball practice.

iPhone and iPad text/code editors and writing tools compared

> What’s the point of the whole Bible? *Kill the dragon, get the girl!*

> The situation is crazy, but you are the person responsible to get the grace to deal with it.

> [Adam and Eve] sinned because they did not treat that enemy as an enemy. So fighting did not bring in sin. A lack of fighting brought in sin.

And every war since has its root in Adam's abdicating pacifism.

We learn to live in hope and in harmony with others from both Scripture's encouragement and from suffering endured.

"Through them propose hill after hill to die on, all save Golgotha." via @desiringgod

Swimming upstream for sake of God-honoring health.

The type of tongue wagging that's cute.

Two golden goals: simple living and sincere leading.

Date night with @hobbsandbean in a few hours. Going to dinner and

I still can't affirm the infant baptism, but so much still applies to disciple making and worship.

> After baptism has taken place, everything else is part of Christian discipleship -- teaching the baptized to obey all that Christ commanded. Discipleship is foundationally, irreducably, a matter of obedience, not theological test-passing. It is an ethical response, not a cognitive one.

> We are treating little children as disciples, and the first lesson of every disciple is joy. "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD" (Ps. 122:1). If the children are not glad to be there, then everything after that is counterproductive.

> ...you have the Ironic Spectacle of "evangelical" Calvinists making their kids score 90% or above on the grace portion of their theology exams before they give them some grace as a reward. But the solution to that appalling business is not to reject or set aside the authority of grace to shape our lives in joy.

@goodbean Spirit-filled, Scripture-saturated "work" for assembly. Here's a series of messages where I expand.

RT @evangelcs: Who is Abraham Kuyper and what is Kuyperian Calvinism?

Glad you asked.

> The principle of new life must therefore be active and present before we can be entrusted with any element of public worship, whether high, low, or middle. The Spirit creates the church, *not the other way around*, and when that Spirit-created living water is there, we must find a cistern for it. But finding a cistern is not the same thing as finding the water.

4 of 5 stars to On Secular Education by Robert Lewis Dabney

> Liturgy is inescapable.

> without that true evangelical faith, all religious activity is just so many drowning swimmers clutching at their anvils.

> Neither is the point blunted by those who (in the name of the truth I am advocating) have turned themselves into evangelical mystic ghosts, in no need of the external world. But even they have their rudimentary rituals, and the plain teaching of Scripture goes on to silence them. Regeneration enables us to use biblical ordinances rightly; it does not eliminate the need for them. It only eliminates the spiritually stupid use of them.

"Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you."

Helpful hand-raising tips for newbies from @timhawkinscomic

Bonhoeffer: “If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.”

via Justin Taylor

> Bad moods must be fed to survive. Starve it.

> The purist is incapable of seeing the possibility of good men within corrupt systems and corrupt empires.

> ...the political equivalent of primitive baptists. They want to get back to the pristine days of the early church so they can figure out some kind of way to split that one too.

> it should be pointed out to somebody that fresh converts are often a cause's worst liabilities. New converts often do a great deal of damage. Do you really love liberty all that much? Then learn how important it is to cool it.

> Whatever it is you are using to cause your sense of indignation to grow so big, trying using some of that fertilizer on your sense of proportion.

> These ghouls have somehow gotten control of a narrative which they like to call social justice and as far as I am concerned, they can take it to Hell with them.

> you can adopt a position that won't rip it with all the conservatives in the church you few up in

"If you must give up something else, why not the fussing" from @douglaswils Or, Sausage Indulgences for the Reformed.

by chuck skoda

Part 2 of stewarding personal discipline by @jsarr @PStewardship

4 of 5 stars to Classical Education and the Homeschool by Douglas Wilson

> [Unbelievers, per Romans 1:21] refuse to render thanks to him.

> Therefore, one of our central apologetic tasks is to bring such unbelievers into the presence of Christians who glorify God as God, and who are overtly grateful to him.

at the Resurgence

RT @evangelcs: More about our school motto: Risus est bellum.

Hahahaha.

Just can't get enough of Luther giving Frederick his first copy of the German NT. Yeah, I'm watching

RT @evangelcs: INVITE: Come to a viewing and discussion of _Trivium Sketches_ this Sunday night around 8PM @ the Weinbergs'. ...

by Andy Naselli

4 of 5 stars to Classical and Christian Education by Gregg Strawbridge

"[T]he beauty of preparing your kids for Sunday worship is that it helps prepare you as well." via @NancyWilson23

"selflessness...is precisely the posture that leads to more success." via @ThisIsSethsBlog Or, IOW, death brings life.

Being a steward of personal discipline for effectiveness and joy by @jsarr @PStewardship

from Doug Wilson on Vimeo

Looks like a great new app from @desiringgod and @JohnPiper

a conversation between John Piper and John MacArthur

Desiring God 2007 National Conference

conversation between John Piper and Doug Wilson

Desiring God 2012 Conference for Pastors God, Manhood & Ministry: Building Men for the Body of Christ - Desiring God