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One Week Later

It’s been one week since my last post and all I have is another instant message from hobbsandbean. maggie is singing a song that sounds like the farmer in the dell, but it goes like this “the surgery the surgery, if you want the surgery i’ll charge you for it.” they were playing c-section.

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It’s Very Male / Female in Here

The following is an instant message I received from hobbsandbean a short while ago. maggie leared how to chop carrots with a REAL knife today! a serrated one, so it wasn’t too sharp, but still! she did awesome. now she’s knitting. while cal sets off grenades. it’s very male / female in here.

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Do All Things by God’s Word

I’ve read this quote from John Calvin previously in The Legacy of Sovereign Joy, but read it again tonight in my weekly Institutes assignment. It’s a great setup for our seminar on Saturday. Here, then, is the sovereign power with which the pastors of the church, by whatever name they be called, ought to be endowed. That […]

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Misery 101

Since some reading in The Institutes yesterday afternoon I’ve been mulling over the lessons of misery under the sun, namely, misery teaches us to regard God and put our stock in another world. Even as Christians we tend to skip this required class (for some reason it’s always early in the morning) so it’s no […]

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Aspiring to Seek His Help at All Times

A cold “blog booger” on a paper plate collected some sentences from Calvin about God’s being due our adoration, trust, invocation, thanksgiving. I was laid low especially by my need for invocation, “the habit of the mind, whenever necessity presses us, of resorting to His faithfulness and help as our only support.”

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