Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Some Food for Apologetical Thought

“God is thus the principle of definition, of law, and of all things. He is the premise of all thinking, and the necessary presupposition for every sphere of thought. It is blasphemy therefore to attempt to "prove" God; God is the necessary presupposition of all proof. To ground any sphere of thought, life, or action, or any sphere of being, on anything other than the triune God is thus blasphemy. Education without God as its premise, law which does not presuppose God and rest on His law, a civil order which does not derive all authority from God, or a family whose foundation is not God's word, is blasphemous.”

-R.J. Rushdoony from The Institutes of Biblical Law

Friday, August 1, 2008

Now That's a Mouth Full

The local library in our area started having a chess night a couple times a month when people can get together at the library and play a few games of chess. Our boys love to play chess and they're tired of getting beat by dad all the time so we have been going fairly regularly and it has been lots of fun.

This last time I took my four year old daughter along and she naturally became bored with the whole chess thing after a little bit, so I took her out to walk around in the library for a while. As we entered the toddlers play area I noticed a 4 foot tall stuffed Barney flopped over in a chair in the corner and before I knew it my sweet little daughter was running over to see him. I don't think we have ever even watched Barney so I had no idea what she was doing.

Much to the horror of all the on-looking toddlers my little girl ran right up to him, stuck her head right in his big mouth and started hollering (quietly of course, she does have some manners) "Ahhhhh, he's chewing my head!"

I don't know, maybe we need to do a little more work on the whole "meek and quiet spirit" thing (1 Peter 3:4). One things for sure though, I think Barney bit off more than he could chew with this one.