kingdom travelin'

Today, lets take a moment and remember… here is a link.

The recession is now official. It now enters into most convrations. In conversations in the this week, I have heard an attitude of hunkering down. Folks in their twenties and forties are looking around at this growing storm and going inside to wait it out. Plans are put on hold, expenses are being limited, people are waiting, waiting for the storm to be over…

This is a video that will bring Christmas home to you…

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I like the new WordPress dashboard… you blogspot users just have no idea what you’re missing… right Laci? Mark? (oh, yeah, he doesn’t post anymore).

I just heard an amazing talk (given by a Harvard prof) on the developing brain. I learned a great deal about how stress affects the brain’s development and even why we learn the way we do. One thought continued to come to mind during this talk… early childhood development (this conference’s topic) depends on families and communities… depends… families… NOT dvds or computer games… families. “Train up a child…” is a foundational biblical concept that precedes the scientic and socialogical data… the scientific data continues to point us to the truths of life contained in Scripture… but we can find great motivating information as we learn widely and see through our learning how universally God’s truths apply to every field of knowledge…
So families… rearing children… in as stress free a context as is possible is the core scientific message… how? Well, I keep thinking of the Peace that comes from Grace… of the Peace that comes because of reconcilliation between people which comes to fruition as peace comes between humans and God… what we need is peace, Peace from Grace!

while at Stbks grading papers, I observed two things that brought me great sadness about the state of man… the first was a homeless man searching the trash cans all along the street… he would find a container of milk partially emptied and finish it, and another reach into the can he found half of a coke, he took this find and moved to search the next can… the second event involved another man who was being searched and when the police found something in his pockets, he was hand-cuffed… what sadness I saw through the window… what sadness I felt for us… even so, come Lord Jesus… more later from the American capital.