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Heather's dad sent a link to this article, which I thought was pretty good. And at least, it is a good word-of-the-day for you. Your assignment is to use it in a sentence sometime today. "NOW, SIR," concluded Davy Crockett, "you know why I made that... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 9, 2010, 2:27 pm
Category: Reviews

Total Church: Pastoral Care

I am not sure what I think about this chapter. The authors argue for Christian pastoral care within a communal setting, as opposed to the "professional" counseling. I have heard of a couple stories of people violently against that idea, though I haven't seen anything bad... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 8, 2010, 3:57 pm
Category: Reviews

Dominican Republic: Meeting God in Missions

So, as most of you know, in March I went on my first ever short-term mission trip to Hato Mayor in the Dominican Republic with college students from Penn State, University of Pittsburgh and a handful from other places. It is almost a month later, and I've been meaning to write down... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 5, 2010, 10:49 pm
Category: Reviews

Mom was the Best Teacher of Computer Science I Had

I am not sure of the original source, but I received this via Jack Ganssle in his Embedded Muse . Mother taught the IF ... THEN ... ELSE structure: "If it's snowing, then put your boots on before you go to school; otherwise just wear your shoes." For years I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 5, 2010, 10:41 am
Category: Internet

Total Church: Church Planting

"The church exists by mission as a fire exists by burning." -- Emil Brunner Mission very easily becomes one activity among others in church life. It sits on the agenda alongside a list of other items bying for attention. Or it is left to the enthusiasts to get on... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 4, 2010, 6:01 pm
Category: Reviews

Total Church: Social Involvement

Partly due to doing things with my family and partly due to catching up at work after last week of very little work, I haven't read much lately, and then when I did read, it was late at night, and figured I'd wait until I was in front of a computer to blog about it, rather than using the phone... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 2, 2010, 9:30 pm
Category: Reviews

Jonathan Notes

Jonathan has been wanting our family to put on a Star Wars play ever since he started reading his Syar Wars book. I keep telling him, "You write the script first, and then we can figure out more details." So he finally decided to write the script, based on the movie Star... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 28, 2010, 5:04 pm
Category: Jonathan

Faith Notes

3/19 - Mommy asks, "Where are all those hiccups coming from?" Faith responds by opening her mouth wide and pointing down her throat. 2/23 - Faith said "I love you" to me! It sounds rather like "hello" with three syllables. She also tries... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 25, 2010, 2:12 pm
Category: Faith

Total Church: Evangelism

"Francis of Assisi is alleged to have said, 'Preach the gospel always; if necessary use words.' That may be a great medieval sound bite, but it falls short of what the Bible teaches about evangelism." I used to like that quote, and the evangelism models it leads... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 23, 2010, 12:00 pm
Category: Reviews, Bible

Total Church: Why Gospel? Why Community?

It's definitely a telling commentary on my life that the first chapter of Total Church , "Why Gospel?" was less exciting to me than the following chapter, "Why Community?". I think the former is in my head only, where the latter is in my head and heart.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2010, 10:31 am
Category: Reviews, Bible

It's All Relative

I was telling my mom the other day about how strange it was that Pittsburgh is all but closed down after the snowstorm on Saturday. Even the major roads (5th, Forbes, Negley, Penn) are not plowed, or rather, seem to have been plowed after one foot of snow fell, but then they didn't come... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 9, 2010, 10:45 am
Category: Reviews

Faith and Noah Notes

Faith can crawl downstairs now, and off chairs and couches. 1/14 - Faith finally signed milk . She still only does it with prompting, but it's a start. 1/13 - Noah said broccoli with prompting "bwah-kuh-wee" We've been working hard on /k/ and /g/ in... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 16, 2010, 5:23 pm
Category: Noah, Faith

Product Review: Wood Stove: 13-NCI

I mentioned our new wood stove previously, and asked some of you for recommendations, but never got around to writing about it here. We've had it for a couple months, and it has been great! We ended up buying an Englander 13-NCI . I don't remember what the 13 stands for, but 12 is... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 8, 2009, 5:45 pm
Category: Reviews

Pocket Notes

11/7 - Noah discovered the two cube puzzle that has pictures of six different vehicles and plays the sound of each when the puzzle is completed. He was having trouble with it, which seemed strange to me at this age. He kept getting the wrong sounds playing. I told him to... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 2, 2009, 2:34 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Checkups

I'll start with most recent and then go to my pocket notes. Jonathan and Faith both had well child checkups yesterday. As much as it seems like it would be easier to have two checkups together, it really isn't. I'll go back to scheduling them separately. It wasn't too... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 2, 2009, 12:29 pm
Category: Jonathan, Faith