Jonathan plays flag football

Gotta love the way he protects the goal line.

I think he just got so tired of trying to grab those little flags that he just decided to get in front of the guy before the guy got to the end zone. It worked too. Cute kid.

A little Friday apologetics

Chocolate exists.
Therefore there must be a God and he is clearly a benevolent God to make a luxury as wonderful as chocolate for us to enjoy.

Chocolate is soooo good. There's just no way it could be a happy accident of evolution!

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Remember the movie, "It's a mad mad mad mad world"? Well, it is.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=1181170

A night out

Dear Midway, Congratulations on spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a nice new stadium. And on the very clever idea of making general admission seating and then selling more tickets than there are seats. I guess you can use the extra money to get all your campuses on the accelerated reader program. You could even advertise it as such. "Come stand for 2 1/2 hours so our new schools can have AR." I think people here care enough about reading to do it.

While it may have been a little misguided, I have to admit that the new stadium is very spiffy. And even though the game was boring it was a pleasant evening. I enjoyed parking half way to Lorena and then hiking to the field in order to stand the whole time. It actually was not hard to see around the extra wide gentlemen standing in front of me except that they wouldn't be still. Lean left, lean right, lean left, lean right. I'm a little sea sick now.

Thank God for the good ol' BMBC yutes. They stopped by periodically and kept me entertained. Way to go y'all!

Summer time

We had a good trip to Houston last weekend. We visited my folks and sister to celebrate Independence Day and Jonathan's birthday. It was a good time. Thankfully, for a change, everyone stayed healthy.

On the drive back, I had one of those strange, sudden revelations. I realized that the older I get the less I need mountain fixes. Really not sure why that is. I suppose it has something to do with my decreased cold tolerance and increasing laziness. Still, I never dreamed my affection for mountains would diminish. Maybe if I just spent a week in NM or CO it would come back?

The week before the holiday weekend was our Vacation Bible School and it too was a lot of fun. One night we studied Titus 2:11-14. It reads, "11For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. 12It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good."

Wow, what a great passage! I'm not sure why I never really noticed it before, but I sure like it. Don't you? What do you suppose Paul is talking about when he speaks of saying "No" to ungodliness? I'd be curious how many different ideas are out there.

Speaking of ungodliness... Here's is a very timely and important article from Sue Bohlin at Probe Ministries. I highly recommend it. Read the whole thing because she makes a plethora of points.

I'll try to get back to some thoughts about kid's sports soon.