It’s a BOY! That makes seven boys and one girl just in case you were trying to keep track. I suppose you want the stats now.

Josiah David Pierpont - we’ll probably be calling him J.D. pretty soon
Born July 31st at 12:34 PM
8 Pounds, 12 Ounces
22 Inches Long

Mom is doing well now after a rough day. I’m on my way to bed now. :-)

The picture isn’t too flattering - maybe we’ll have something snappier for you tomorrow. He wanted us to know he wasn’t too pleased with somebody turning the lights on all of a sudden. Kind of how I look in the morning, now that I think about it.

[Click Me for a close-up]

Have you ever tried to memorize scripture? Started out with big plans to memorize say, a chapter a month. Failed miserably after trying for just a week? This method emphasizes finding a workable plan for you, starting with one or two verses a week. The usefulness of this plan is in its simplicity.
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Martin Roth’s Christian BlogList moves to Blogs4God.com. Martin says “this is a portal site, supervised by several moderators, that gives visitors the ability to search for blogs from a range of categories. It is an exciting development.”

Indeed it is.

My brother, Ken shares this story today about a time when he tried to kill me. Well - I don’t think it was really that bad. I honestly don’t remember this event in my life, but then I was only five and I’ve always said I have memories represed between the pages of my mind. Isn’t that a song or something? Don’t tell Ken I don’t remember it though or he won’t buy me books for my birthday any more.

Over the last fifteen years or so we’ve had cable television on and off depending on where we were living at the time. This week we had it disconnected. What a liberating feeling and it’s been a little more peaceful around here lately. As peaceful as things can be with seven children between the ages of eleven and sixteen months.

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This article indicates that “a noted creation scientist says the recent discovery of skull fragments in Africa has evolutionists changing their story once again.” Should we be surprised to hear “they say that this find may make the picture of human evolution radically different than widely assumed”?

Here’s a good intoduction to blogging - in case you were interested.
Blogging for Beginners: What You Need to Know to Start a Weblog
How about some tools for blogging…
Blogger.com - beginners
MovableType - advanced users (it powers this site)

Have something to say, share, comment on? Get blogging.

According to this story broken by CPINews.net, a conservative news site started by two home-schooled brothers, things may not be what they seemed at first in the father’s lawsuit that claims that the Pledge of Allegiance being lead by a teacher harms his daughter’s rights.

By Maynard H. Belt
“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the Word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.” II Timothy 4:1-2

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Have you ever received an unsolicited e-mail invitation to earn thousands of dollars a month in only an hour or two a week? If you are like many, not only do you get those, but you get e-mail of a nature worse than that also. Did you know that a prime location for those who send you unsolicited e-mail to get your e-mail address is from your web site? Maybe you have a personal site or you are a Pastor and your e-mail address is on your church web site.

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Buy.com has a great deal going right now on books. I don’t know how long it will last but they have free shipping on all books and their prices a very competitive. You owe it to yourself to check them out before ordering that book you’ve been wanting. Enjoy it while it lasts.

By Maynard H. Belt

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord….” Psalm 33:12

There is no question that patriotism in our land has increased immensely since the 9/11 terrorist attack upon our country. Yet, in the very midst of such intensified loyalty, just last month the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, one of the most liberal in the nation, and whose decisions are often overturned, ruled that the words “under God,” added to the Pledge of Allegiance by Congress in 1954, violated the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. The decision stemmed from a lawsuit by a California father, a San Francisco doctor and atheist, who was annoyed and offended that his daughter had to listen to her second-grade classmates recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

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