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Archive for November, 2007

Tax Cuts: More Money Can Be Given
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

A little bit of vindication for comments I made in 2004.
Townhall.com’s Doug Wilson has an interesting article that ties increases of charitable giving to tax cuts. This should make sense: if the government isn’t taking money away from you, that’s more money you can give!
Wilson has some choice observations:
With increasing frequency, Americans are educating themselves [...]

Reinforcement
Monday, November 12th, 2007

This evening an interesting thing happened. The younger daughter sang one of the five-note Amens from Divine Service III on Sunday. The older daughter, thinking it was cute and good, repeated it. Thus the younger daughter, seeing sister’s approval, really got into it, singing it over and over again.
Not only could this [...]

And Crown Him Lord of All
Sunday, November 11th, 2007

The second Sunday our church had the Lutheran Service Book, Divine Service III was used. I tried to explain to my older daughter that this was the same music I sang as a kid, as well as my parents, my mom’s parents, etc. Unfortunately she found a new friend in the pew in front of [...]

Veterans Day
Saturday, November 10th, 2007

I was unable to reach Sgt. Bulmer for a followup interview to last year’s, so as a thank you to my dad and father-in-law who were drafted and who served, as well as my uncle who is a Master Sergeant in the Kansas Reserves and nearing retirement, here some choice phrases from Martin Luther’s “Whether [...]

It Was Over…
Saturday, November 10th, 2007

…when Todd Boeckman threw his third pick.
I knew when Ohio State got the #1 BCS position that they got it too early. They were just getting warmed up. They hadn’t even played Penn State yet. Illinois was underrated, and Michigan would get their game up no matter who they lost to the rest of the [...]