The book of Ecclesiastes challenges the way we view the world. Twenty-Eight times in the book we read that life is meaningless. This is the assessment of what life is like under the sun. When the phrase “under the sun” is used the book is pointing to the fact that life as we know it, [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Book Review: Breaking the Idols of Your Heart
Posted in Allender and Longman, Book Review, Books, Idolatry on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love Summer/ I love Mangoes
Posted in Food, Miami on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have been knee deep in mangoes this past week. On Thursday I went to a church members home to drop something off. I was greeted with a bag of mangoes. But to make it even better she gave me a pole so that I could pick some more mangoes for myslef. On Saturday we [...]
Fair Trade Music
Posted in Music on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the blogs I read recently posted a link to Noise Trade. On this site you can find over twenty albums from various artists: Derek Webb, Sixpence None the Richer, and Sandra McCraken – to name a few. To download an album you simply need to tell three friends about the album, [...]
Lifelong Learner
Posted in C.J. Mahaney, Ed Welch, Family, Fatherhood, Fear on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my previous post I mentioned that the blog posts by C.J. Mahaney on how a father should approach vacations have gotten me thinking – a lot. Two things Mahaney talks about are our need to know the indwelling sins of our family and the need to study our families. Both of these comments [...]
Vacations for Dads – part 2
Posted in C.J. Mahaney, Family, Fatherhood on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my search for blogs that deal with issues regarding fatherhood I find myself again and again coming back to the blog at Sovereign Grace Ministries. I just finished reading the three posts on the role that a father has in planning and leading family vacations. These posts are incredibly insightful and helpful [...]
Feliz Cumpleaño Abuelo
Posted in Birthday, Family on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My abuelo (grandfather) turns 80 years old this week. I was able to live with both my abuelo and abuela while I was in seminary in Orlando. Thanks to them I saved a lot of money. But more importantly I got to know them a lot better.
Saturday night we celebrated abuelo’s birthday with a [...]
Vacations for Dads
Posted in C.J. Mahaney, Fatherhood on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Communities seem to emerge in the blogosphere quite naturally. Kate is a part of what she calls the Blog Mamas – a group of very different women who benefit a lot from each other’s writing. I have noticed that this has been really encouraging for Kate and I am getting jealous. So I am becoming interested in [...]
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