I write this as I take a break from redoing the walls of our baby room. And as I write this, Cheryl is busy planning her hospital bag, and Baby is tickling her from the inside. When I was young, to my shame I paid little attention during most of my dad’s attempts to …
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Fifteen pro-life truths
From a booklet by John Piper (emphasis mine): Existing fetal homicide laws make a man guilty of manslaughter if he kills the baby in a mother’s womb (except in the case of abortion). Fetal surgery is performed on babies in the womb to save them while another child the same age is being legally destroyed. …
Why should we expect to emerge unscathed?
I read this quote the other day: “Marriage, see, was God’s idea. It’s one of the most potent metaphors in all of Scripture for the way God loves us and the way we’re to let ourselves be loved by him. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. To the contrary, it’s fraught with peril. Any good …
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Off to Youth Leadership Conference (YLC) for year 2
We’re flying out this weekend to Christchurch for the Youth Leadership Conference. It’s been a year since we were introduced to this unique, week-long conference – where we learn to read and prepare a study from bible passage. It’s run by a network of (ed: mostly) evangelical Anglicans (rare as hen’s teeth in Western countries!) …
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US Holiday/WG11 Conference – DC take 2, travelling back, final reflections
DC take 2 We spent another day visiting Washington DC, the capital of the US. We got to see the US Capitol Building, didn’t end up doing the visitor’s tour because of their inconvenient security requirements (no water bottles, even if they’re empty!) A real highlight was visiting the Library of Congress (first seen in …
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