Miss Meggy wasn't about to be left out 
Thursday, June 29, 2006
2 thought provoking reads
Doug Phillips posts here on "How Loyal Fathers Honorably Correct Sons"
and Doug Wilson writes thought provokingly on developing "An Apology for Feminine Modesty"
one paragraph that caught my eye especially
"A big part of the problem is the sin of abdication—fathers and husbands today are simply not jealous enough. Men must look to Christ and the Church for their pattern because they in turn are representing that pattern. "For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ" (2 Cor. 11:2). Tragically, it cannot go without saying anymore—if the goal is to present a chaste virgin, it should also be a goal to present her looking like a chaste virgin."Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish" (Eph. 5:25-27). A virgin daughter, and a chaste wife, are to be loved and sacrificed for, in order that they might be cleansed, glorious, spotless, without wrinkle, or anything like it, holy, and without blemish. These things mean, among others, that fathers should care very much about whether their daughters look like bed bait. It would be nice to say we don’t have that problem in the Church today—but we do."
Over heard this morning ...
6yo: "Mom what do you want a boy or a girl?"
Mom: "Yes I want either a boy or a girl"
6yo: "I bet you wish it was twins [presumably so she could have a boy and a girl at the same time like Grandma Brown]
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Just then I turned to a mix of amusement and not-quite-but-almost-horror crossing the wife's face.
Definitely NOT the question to ask a woman 14 hours after giving birth!
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
Cool comic book geek stuff
How Kryptonite Works
"Just about everyone who grew up in the United States after the 1940s knows the core truth about kryptonite -- it's bad news for Superman. Most also have an inkling that kryptonite comes in different colors, even if they only heard about those colors on an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
But if you ask the right person, you'll find out that numerous varieties of kryptonite have existed over the years, and different iterations of Superman have used them differently. Even if you restrict your question to the comic books, you can get wildly different answers. It all depends on the time period and title you ask about.
So what exactly is kryptonite? Where does it come from, and why is it here? What makes it so dangerous for Superman and other Kryptonians? And what does retcon have to do with it? In this article, you'll learn the answers to these and other questions about the radioactive mineral known as kryptonite. ..."
click HERE to read the rest of the article
Coulter did not go far enough
A great quote from the article on WND.com
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Not only do I have no problem whatsoever with anything Ann Coulter said about the Jersey Girls, I don't think she went far enough in her response to Hillary Clinton about how mean her husband has been to women he once wanted to have sex with. He must have liked them a bunch!
Ann, probably because she's just a petite feminine softy, really should have brought up the Barrett Report. The Barrett Report reveals that several women the President found to be sexually stimulating were audited by the Clintons' IRS. Yep, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Ward Gracen and Juanita Broaddrick were targeted by audits during the 1990s.
Ann may be considered insensitive by some, but auditing women your husband either assaulted, abused or had sex with is criminal. Nixon never did anything like this.
Where were Woodward and Bernstein on this one? "
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Baby guessing contest
My eldest Deanna is having a baby guessing contest over at her blog.
She is looking folks to guess the pertinent facts about the new baby's birth. Go on over and leave her a comment including the:
- sex of the baby
- weight
- date of birth
- color of hair
- length
- weight
Some facts about Coghlan babies that may help you narrow your guesses:
- all girls so far
- 4 brunnetts at birth
- 2 sandy (not quite blondes)
- one carrot top at birth
- they were 18 to 23 1/2 inches in length
- 6 pounds 12 oz to 8 pounds 8 oz in weight
To the extent that judging is subjective my opinion is final. If there is a tie we will flip a coin, draw names from a hat or use some other form of creative lot casting to break the tie.
If the new child is a girl we will send the winner a copy of "So Much More" and if it's a boy we will send a pocket knife with a faux ivory handle and a portrait of Robert E. Lee engraved on it.
Remember go to Deanna's blog HERE to guess and happy guessing.
Everyday News
Vision Forum launched a new section on it's website about a week ago. We call it Everyday News.
The purpose of the new "News Network" is explained here by Doug.
My kids have been thrilled and inspired by the news stories posted every Monday, Wed., and Friday.
homepage for ENN (where we even have an podcast link) and tell me what you think.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
A tip of the hat to an old friend
Today is flag day.
Today is also the Birthday of one of my oldest friends.
Joshua N. Wiley
Celebrates another revolution 'round ole Sol today.
Tip of the hat to you old man and congradulations on the birth of that new boy!
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Thoughts on Markets,,,,
The blog "Thoughts on Markets" is written by a good friend of mine and definitely worth a read. Full of good advice if you like hard money and thought provoking if you don't.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Friday, June 09, 2006
Playing with guns - Quotes on the Second Amendment
To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always posses arms, and be taught alike, especially when young how to use them....
-Richard Henry Lee
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. The are the American people liberty teeth and keystone under independence...From the hour the Pilgrims landed...events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable...The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
-George Washington
Arms in the hands of the citizen may be used at individual discouraged for the defense of the country, the overthrow of tyranny, or private self defense.
-John Adams
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
-Thomas Jefferson
Monday, June 05, 2006
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
We are clay in His hands
It amazes me how little things I took for granted in my youth, like profound hymns, come back to comfort me in times of distress or trial.
I had started a post about this hymn last month when Kim posted about the loss of our baby Sarah.
I revived it today when I received the sad news of some good friends who have lost their first child in utero. My heart goes out to the Bennets for their loss and I pray that God will sustain them in this time of trouble.
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Whate’er my God ordains is right:His holy will abideth;I will be still
whate’er He doth;And follow where He guideth;He is my God; though dark my
road,He holds me that I shall not fall:Wherefore to Him I leave it all.
Whate’er my God ordains is right:He never will deceive me;He leads me by
the proper path:I know He will not leave me.I take, content, what He hath
sent;His hand can turn my griefs away,And patiently I wait His day.
Whate’er my God ordains is right:His loving thought attends me;No
poison can be in the cupThat my Physician sends me.My God is true; each morn
anewI’ll trust His grace unending,My life to Him commending.
Whate’er my God ordains is right:He is my Friend and Father;He suffers
naught to do me harm,Though many storms may gather,Now I may know both joy and
woe,Some day I shall see clearlyThat He hath loved me dearly.
Whate’er my God ordains is right:Though now this cup, in drinking,May
bitter seem to my faint heart,I take it, all unshrinking.My God is true; each
morn anewSweet comfort yet shall fill my heart,And pain and sorrow shall depart.
Whate’er my God ordains is right:Here shall my stand be taken;Though
sorrow, need, or death be mine,Yet I am not forsaken.My Father’s care is round
me there;He holds me that I shall not fall:And so to Him I leave it all.---------------------------------------
click HERE for a midi of the tune
Monday, May 08, 2006
Grandpa came to visit...
My dad flew into town this weekend to pick up a car for my sister. Not wanting to take the giant gas sucking 15 passenger van back to town for the 3rd time last week we drew straws to see which 2 girls would accompany me to the airport.
Becca and Lydia drew the short straws......
Rachel "cuted" her way into the car.
At the airport looking for Grandpa
Grandpa stops for a picture with the grandkids.
There were two more pretty lasses anxiously waiting at the bottom of the drive
They were welcomed into Grandpa C's lap for the ride to the house
Podcasts worth listening to
Dr. George Grant has a podcast up and running (since March but I just found it this weekend).
For your edification are a selection of Sunday School lessons taught by Dr. G as well as a few of his sermons and addresses to the student body @ Franklin Classical School where my brother and sister attend.
Hi Thomas!
Hi Abigail!
You can also check out the PodCast Alley page for a larger selection of podcast archives, including a lecture on the Da Vinci code that I'm looking forward to.
enjoy!
Friday, May 05, 2006
Warning - extremely violent mean prank
It's not nice. In fact it's down right mean. A guy breaks off a piece of lipstick and shoots his sleeping roommate in the head at point blank range.
How mean! How inconsiderate!
How funny. I don't know why...maybe its the way the poor chap screams from out of a dead sleep. If I can't get the embedded player to work then click HERE to see the video
Friday, April 07, 2006
What I did last weekend...
I spent the weekend at the beautiful Callaway Gardens southwest of Atlanta. Helping Vision Forum put on a fabulous Father Daughter retreat. Click HERE for pics
Monday, March 27, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Random bad joke
A priest, a Rabbi and a Nun walk into a bar.
The bartender looks up and says ......
"Is this some kind of joke?"
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Quotable Papists
This caught my eye on Friday as I was scanning google news
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man in charge of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade has fueled a controversy by saying allowing a gay group to join Friday's march would be like permitting neo-Nazis to participate in an Israeli parade.
In an interview with The Irish Times, parade committee chairman John Dunleavy defended the organizers' decision to bar the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization from participating in the biggest St. Patrick's Day party in the world.
"If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow neo-Nazis into their parade? If African-Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku Klux Klan into their parade?" Dunleavy was quoted as saying.
"People have rights. If we let the ILGO in, is it the Irish Prostitute Association next?" he said.
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Friday, March 17, 2006
Zorro and Proverbs
Proverbs 26:27
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him.
I didn't think they had much in common. Really would you ever put Zorro and the book of Proverbs together? Perhaps a little context is in order.
Last night we watch the new swashbuckling adventure The Legend of Zorro. Boy was it a hit! Sword fights, bullwhips, wildhoirse chases --- totally full of high adventure and excitment. You could feel the tension building as we neared the end of the movie and Zorro finally began serving up a much need dose of his own medicine to the antagonist. We get right to the end and just as the bad guy is flung to his fiery doom I hear Lydia lean over and say almost smugly to Megan and Natalie
"See he fell into his own pit!"
"Yeah:" they agree knowingly "he DID fall into his own pit"
These are the moments that make it all worthwhile.
Monday, March 13, 2006
She spelled it Phonetically
I had the 4 year old mite with me at work today. We get along smashingly but it can be a bit of a struggle to keep her productivly busy. I was having her color some alphebet coloring pages at the desk next to me. I guess it was a little bit beneath her -- she's mastered her vowel sounds (mostly) and is working on the consonants.
She flipped the "A is for apple" page over and began writing "words". After a few minutes with no small amount of satisfaction she announced "Dad I spelled Lydia"
I looked down and was immediately perplexed. All I saw on the page was 3 letters L T U. Not wanting to crush her enthusiam I used the age old "have the kids explain it so you don't make the kid feel dumb" tactitc.
Apparently I wasn't looking at it phonetically. "Daaad" she sighed "look- its Li-Tee-Uh"
OOOOOh Lydia. Silly me.
Friday, March 10, 2006
shoot'em in the what?!?!?
Ok so the flash plug-in from Google Video isn't working. But if you click HERE you can still see the video of the old lady shooting a FA MP40 from here wheel-chair!
That was what was too funny not to share!
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
It's in my blood ...what can I say?
Tip of the hat to Barry K. for alerting me to this.
I never had any doubt about it...Texas is in my blood!
| You Are Austin |
 A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. You're totally weird and very proud of it. Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way. Famous Austin residents: Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Andy Roddick |
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
Monday, February 20, 2006
Chalcedon Foundation's 40th anniversary
The Southern Poverty Law Center gives us a handy summary of the Chalcedon Foundation's 40th anniversary conference. Now I wasn't priveledged to be there but after reading their synopsis, I for one can't wait to get the tapes!
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=591
Some quotes from the article:
"To oppose us is to attack God's law," Mark Rushdoony testified to nearly 200 followers from four states, "and to attack God's law is to attack God himself!"
"Draped in a stark black suit with a shiny gold cross pinned to its lapel, Mark Rushdoony peered down from the pulpit through glasses tinted the color of hellfire. " -- (WOW where can I get some "hellfire glasses? )
"There is no room for democracy in Reconstructionism, and no tolerance for dissent." ( yes there is! No there isn't!)
"Mark Rushdoony ...now leads a small army of true believers whose fundamentalism is so hard core they make garden-variety right-wing evangelicals seem like Unitarians at a Peter, Paul and Mary sing-along" (That's the biggest complement I've gotten all week!)
"Like many homophobes on the religious right..." (wow there is NOTHING biased in that statment is there? Nope not a bit...just brute facts!)
I could go on but you guys have to read this for yourself. I couldn't have written a paraody this funny yet at the same time there is a certain amount of comfort in knowing the enemies of God think we are so dangerous!
well NOW she's done it.
Well it's official. We are a blogging family. Mom went and entered the blogospere. You can find her her blog here. I look forward to seeing the pictures of our family that she hopes to post (mom - no 3 year old bathtub
pics allowed!) as well as reading her recollections of her own childhood.
So stop on by and let her know if ya like what ya see.
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Doug Phillips on "End of the Spear"
Finally, it is my sincere desire that independent Christian filmmakers will look to Every Tribe Entertainment as an example of what not to do. More important than the cinematic artistry and emotional power of this one film, is the catastrophic message these filmmakers are sending to the Christian community and the nation. Our standard in evaluating these methodologies behind these films is not The Lord of the Rings or Chariots of Fire (both of which were secular productions from beginning to end that cast homosexuals in lead roles). Our standard remains the Bible. It is by this standard alone that Christian filmmakers must be evaluated. By this standard, we must learn from the mistakes of this film company and aspire to make godly films in a godly way. We must recognize that our Lord is just as concerned with the means as He is with the ends.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Rushdoony on fantasy
"One of the glorious lines of the Virgin Mary's Magnificat is Luke 1:51: "He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts." The Greek work dianoia is literally a thinking over, but it is here used in the sense of an independent reasoning, a reasoning without God, and hence "the imagination of their hearts."
As I have pointed out elsewhere and repeatedly, the Bible has nothing good to say about imagination ( Gen. 6:5; 8:21; Deut. 29:19; 31:21; Jer. 23:17: I Chron. 28:9 Rom. 1:21; II Cor. 10:5). Because ours is an age with a will to fiction, the role of imagination is extremely important.
Men who will not be governed by God's word will not be governed by reality, because reality is not of their making. God having created all things, reality reflects the mind of God, not man. Hence, it is the essence of sin to resort to imagination to escape God's law world.
This problem is very urgently practical one, because every facet of the life of modern man is governed by imagination. This is basic to humanism, and it affects all men born of Adam (Gen 6:5), and especially modern man. Because Christians are born into a fallen world, and often educated by it, imagination replaces reality in their thinking and governs it.
To illustrate: As I travel, I encounter a very large number of cases, virtually all alike, of near impotence in the face of reality. Since the writing of Revolt Against Maturity (1977), The Word of Flux (1975), and on or more tapes on the subject of the will to fiction, and imagination, I have had telephone calls and personal visits concerned with this problem. Men in their twenties and thirties, including newly-weds, are impotent with their often very beautiful wives unless they resort to fantasy. Other women are fantasized to replace the real women.
Why should an unreal female be exciting, and a far better and real woman not be so? The key is the essence of imagination: the fantasy woman is totally the creation and creature of man, whereas the real woman is God's creation and creature. it is essential to imagination to create a man-made world and a man-ordained decree of predestination. It is the essence of sin to demand such a world.
Moreover, fantasy refused to pay any attention to reality, because to accept reality is to accept God finally. As a result, all kinds of myths are propagated to replace reality. George Gilder, in Naked Nomads, made clear that the bachelor is physically, mentally, and morally the most unstable person in society. He is responsible for most crimes, has the highest suicide rate, and is very unstable person. The myth has it that he is the free "swinging," and happy playboy....
Imagination or fantasy must replace reality.
But this replacement of reality by fantasy is not limited to the sexual sphere. It is basic to the total life of modern man. It governs his law and his politics. Is it not a fantasy to believe that man's law can replace God's law? Is it not vain imagination to assume that , by setting aside God and His law, man can have a just social order? The only difference between Marxism and American democratic indifferentism is that the Marxist are more open and honest about setting God's reality aside in favor of their fantasy. The world today is dedicated to its sinful fantasies.
These fantasies, because they deny God's reality, are doomed. The Virgin Mary says, "He hath scattered the proud." This scattering and confusion has prevailed since the dispersion of the peoples at the Tower of Babel. Mary rejoices in a glorious process which is God-ordained, and she sees it triumphing over all enemies of God in due time. They are broken up, scattered, dispersed and confused.
These are the proud, or the arrogant, huperephanos. Proverbs 16:18 says, "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." We fail to see the meaning of this sentence, unless we realize that pride has no sense of reality is therefore as surely doomed as a blind man on a strange mountain pass.
Paganism, however, has exalted pride and despised humility. Aristotle saw pride as the mark of the great-souled man. While earlier Greek thought, as in the Antigone of Sophocles, saw pride as a moral evil, later thought rejoiced in pride, and the Stoics in particular stressed it. Pride is seen by our Lord as evil (Mark 7:22) and an outworking of a depraved heart.
Some time back, Girdlestone called attention to Scripture's very telling uses of the word torah, usually translated as law, a meaning very important to our study here:
In 2 Sam. 7 there is recorded, first, the promise of God to keep an unfailing covenant with the seed of David, whose throne should be established for ever; and secondly, David's expression of thankfulness on account of this promise. In the opening of his song of praise (vv. 18,19) he say, 'Who am I, O Lord God and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto? And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou has spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?' The parallel passage (I Chron. 17:17) runs thus: "For thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree." The word translated manner in the one passage and estate in the other, is torah, which is generally rendered 'law'. The first passage might be rendered, "And this is the law (or order) of the man," and the second, "Thou hast regarded me according to the law (or order) of the man from on high.
What Scripture here declares is that the law, order, manner, and estate of man is Jesus Christ and His prophetic law word. Reality is not from man but from the triune God, and it is set forth fro us in the incarnate Word and His written word.
Jesus Christ orders life in terms of God's reality, whereas man's imagination seeks to re-order it in terms of the evil fantasies of man as god. Because fantasies are often "private," men fail to see their implications. Private fantasies become public acts and policies, and unreality thereby governs life. Judgment then is inescapable.
This collision course with reality is inescapable for individuals, groups, institutions, churches, and nations that live out their fantasies. The world was not made by man, and it will never serve man's fantasies."
R.J. Rushdoony
Systematic Theology Volume I page 474-476
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