Archive for November, 2005

Pardon me as I pick my jaw up from the floor.

Well, looks like Howard Varnedoe was able to make good on his desire to get Cornerstone’s website redesign up in concert with the new building!

Looks like they’ve got plans for a seminary… nice seal. =)

Too bad it’s all in Macromedia Flash, though. And there really needs to be a contact e-mail, if only to send critiques like this to the web designer(s) rather than posting them on the Internet…

Ah, sunny, breezy Sarasota. Not your typical Thanksgiving vacation, but boy, is it beautiful!

Ha ha… that’s all you’re getting out of me right now. More when I feel like it.

“CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Leaders of Iraq’s sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country…”

Okay, so why are we still there?

Nicole, Katie and I will be visiting family over Thanksgiving, so you’ll see me rarely (if at all) around here between Thanksgiving Day and November 29th.

This evening I’ll turn on the “Moderate comments” feature, so I won’t get spam-bombed while I’m gone. (Just in case you comment but it doesn’t show up.)

Wow. I didn’t realize the teens involved in this latest murder to hit the news… were homeschooled.

Alex Harris hit the nail on the head over in his post at The Rebelution:

Shocking words for two teens facing the possibility of execution or life behind bars for murder? How about for two young, homeschooled teens from strong Christian families? Not quite so shocking, is it? But which are they?

They’re both.

And that is what�s so important for us to realize, as young people, as homeschoolers, as rebelutionaries, and as Christians.

Being homeschooled did not prevent this tragedy; growing up in a Christian environment did not prevent this tragedy; bearing many signs of true faith and an understanding of the Gospel did not prevent this tragedy; these are harsh, but necessary truths that demand humility. Hard to swallow as it is, what happened in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is not an exception, it’s fallen man’s default.

We should all be asking ourselves the question: What is it that separates me from a David Ludwig or a Kara Borden?

And we should all be answering—in the words of Protestant Reformer, John Bradford—”There, but for the grace of God, go I.”

“No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he’s realized exactly how [little] right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about ‘criminals,’ as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away; till he’s got rid of all the dirty self-deception of talking about low types and deficient skulls; till he�s squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees�” — G.K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown

Finally, let us not fail to remember Kara, David, and their families, in our prayers. May God have mercy.

Apologies to Alex for quoting such a large chunk of his post… but there’s so much more there.