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Archive for April, 2007

New Donkey

Posted in Rural Life on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve had a good weekend.  My mom came to visit, great to watch my daughter play, and develop a relationship with grandparents.
My neighbor’s donkey had a baby this past week so we got to go see the new addition to the community.  He hasn’t picked out a name yet.  He’s been in the habit of [...]

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You know it wasn’t a Presbyterian Church

Posted in Funny on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A church in Ohio (I love the name of the church) are facing complaints about their loud worship.
Check out the minister’s shirt.

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O thou babbling Assyrian!

Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Found this Biblical Curse generator on a very funny site I haven’t visited in a while.  Ship-of-fools.com has great sections on and signs and blunders and cool gadgets for God.

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Morning Reads

Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ten Steps for Fledgling Preachers from the unashamed workman
We were always impressed with
these on our cruise, I’ll have to try making one myself now.

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Morning Read

Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Saw this on John Piper’s blog this morning.

Alabama apologizes for slavery.

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Forty years a country preacher

Posted in Pastoring, Rural Life on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Turns out that the man whose picture I used for my last post is the grandson of the Rev. George Gilbert, who was an Episcopal Priest in Connecticut.  Rev. Gilbert wrote a column for the Rural New-Yorker entitled ‘Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks’ for 25 years.
He was the subject of a 1939 [...]

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CHAP. VI The Parson praying.

Posted in George Herbert, Pastoring on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

THe Countrey Parson, when he is to read divine services, composeth himselfe to all possible reverence; lifting up his heart and hands, and eyes, and using all other gestures which may expresse a hearty, and unfeyned devotion. This he doth, first, as being truly touched and amazed with the Majesty of God, before whom [...]

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Ignoring Beauty

Posted in Society on April 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Read this at John Piper’s blog this morning.  Makes me think of how the ancients understood the connection between the good, the true and the beautiful.

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CHAP. V. The Parsons Accessary Knowledges.

Posted in George Herbert, Pastoring, Theology on April 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

THe Countrey Parson hath read the Fathers also, and the Schoolmen, and the later Writers, or a good proition of all, out of all which he hath compiled a book, and body of Divinity, which is the storehouse of his Sermons, and which he preacheth all his Life; but diversly clothed, illustrated, and inlarged. [...]

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Easter Wings

Posted in Christian Year, George Herbert on April 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Here’s Herbert’s poem for Easter. It was originally printed vertically on the pages, formatted like this so that it formed to sets of wins. The set of wings on the left was printed on one page (to be read first) and the other set on the facing page: I had to make it [...]

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