December 2007

(Tim) God bless all of you for your kind expressions of love and faith which have greatly comforted our family. Thinking about how many of our loved ones won't be home yet this Sunday, Mary Lee and I have decided not to have Aunt Elaine's memorial service for another week or two. We'll announce the date here on the blog as well as through our church E-mail list.

(Tim) If you haven't read it yet, make plans now to get a copy of Roland Bainton's bio of Luther, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. It's a classic. My dear brother, Brandon Pickett, sent me this excerpt and I thought others would find it interesting. Bainton's commenting on the place of announcements in the worship services Luther led and he writes...

(Tim) Some of you may remember our daughter Michal's testimony about how the Lord used the death of an orphan and two of her unborn children to strengthen her faith, and that this past year the Lord chose to bless Ben and Michal with a son. Well, a few weeks ago Ben sent us this pic of the three of them, and I thought some of you might want to see the rest of God's story. So here's Ben and Michal, and their firstborn son, Daniel Peregrine Crum.

(Tim) Here's David Talcott's summary of a couple wrights, but mostly horrendous wrongs given out by Bishop N. T. Wrong a couple years ago at the unChristian unBiblical Equality national conference in 2004. I lampoon Bishop Wrong to make it clear that no one of good conscience who honors God and His Word should allow this Brit and his ilk to bamboozle them into rebelling against the plain meaning of Scripture, that women are not to be allowed to exercise authority over men because Adam was created first, and then Eve; and also because it wasn't Adam, but Eve who was deceived.

The world has always been full of false shepherds who seek to lead God's precious sheep astray, but let's remember the Apostle John's words: "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world" (1 John 4:4).

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(David Talcott) It's probably not worth your time to read the whole thing. It's a talk (Wright) gave at some big CBE conference in '04. He only does two positive things...

(David Lehr, by way of Tim) Baudelaire said (in the Lehr translation), "It's more difficult to love God than to believe in Him. On the other hand, it's more difficult for the men of our time to believe in the Devil than to love him. Everyone serves the Devil, yet no one believes in him. It's his sublime subtlety."