http://oklahombres.com My thoughts on a number of topics. Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:51:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post will comment on our children's father and how he worked lots of hours and still took time to read to our children as much as he could. He did tea parties as Daddy with our girls, and built rockets with our son. He built a great play house ... http://oklahombres.com/2010/06/19/fathers-day-2010/ From Yesterday's Bible reading: Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish. Psalm 49:20 Even the death of a family pet should remind us not to be proud. http://oklahombres.com/2010/02/23/pomp-and-death/ Douglas Wilson at Blog and Mablog, has begun to post comments on the individual essays in the "NT Wright" issue of Table Talk. I know, this adds an extra layer of brain torture, but if you can take the strain, it's well worth the effort. Wilson, when it first erupted, ... http://oklahombres.com/2010/01/25/wilson-on-tt-on-nt/ What can I say? I have been re-orienting priorities, and haven't posted anything here since back in the fall. The Heidelberg posts were all set up to automatically post since the very beginning. I would like to have set up something similar for 2010, but it didn't happen. The "Friday ... http://oklahombres.com/2010/01/22/wherehaveyoubeen/ (Third Part: Of Thankfulness—Questions 86-129) 127. What is the sixth petition? And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. That is: Since we are so weak in ourselves, that we cannot stand a moment; while our deadly enemies, the devil, the world and our own flesh, assail us without ... http://oklahombres.com/2009/12/27/lords-day-52/ (Third Part: Of Thankfulness—Questions 86-129) 126. What is the fifth petition? And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. That is: Be pleased for the sake of Christ's blood, not to impute to us, miserable sinners, our manifold transgressions, nor the evil which still always cleaves to us, as we ... http://oklahombres.com/2009/12/20/lords-day-51/ (Third Part: Of Thankfulness—Questions 86-129) 125. What is the fourth petition? Give us this day our daily bread. That is: Be pleased to provide for all our bodily need; that we may thereby know that Thou art the only fountain of all good, and that without Thy blessing, neither our care and ... http://oklahombres.com/2009/12/13/lords-day-50/ (Third Part: Of Thankfulness—Questions 86-129) 124. What is the third petition? Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. That is: Grant that we and all men may renounce our own will, and yield ourselves without gainsaying, to Thy will which alone is good; that so every one may ... http://oklahombres.com/2009/12/06/lords-day-49/ (Third Part: Of Thankfulness—Questions 86-129) 123. What is the second petition? Thy kingdom come. That is: So govern us by Thy word and Spirit, that we submit ourselves unto Thee always more and more; preserve and increase Thy Church; destroy the works of the devil, every power that exalteth itself against Thee, ... http://oklahombres.com/2009/11/29/lords-day-48/ Notice how this whole definition turns on the word knowledge. Without the knowledge of God and his benefits, we have no reverence or love, and thus no piety. How can we know Him whom we seldom pray to, or read his word to us? Can we rely on feelings alone? ... http://oklahombres.com/2009/11/24/piety/