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A La Carte (12/15)
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Yesterday my wife, who was feeling lousy, had me take my daughter, who was feeling lousier, to the doctor. The doctor asked me things like, “Is she allergic to any medications?” To which I answered, “Um…I dunno.” “Has she had a sore throat?” “Um…I dunno. I’m only here because Aileen’s sick.” “Didn’t an antibiotic we gave her last time give her a rash?” “Um…I have no memory of that. Doesn’t it say in your fancy little folder over there?” I must be the worst dad ever.
5 Great Books - Over at Ligonier Ministries I asked a bunch of people to compile a list of 5 great books they read in 2010. You may want to look over the list and pluck one or two for your own reading pleasure.
Nativity Scenes & the 2nd Commandment - Mark Lauterbach writes about the 2nd Commandment and Romans 14. “Read Romans 14 carefully — stew in it, soak in it — it is remarkable. In it, God answers ten thousand secondary questions. Paul was wise — he knew that when we start into the answering of all those questions and application and start developing a list of appendices to the Law, we are on a path of diversion from the purposes of God and the freedom of the Gospel.”
Lee Does the Unthinkable - Cliff Lee turned down more money than most of us will ever make in order to pitch in Philly. And that has the makings of a great off-season story. Yahoo reports.
2010 in Photos - Boston.com has begun a 3-part photographic retrospective of the year that was. As always, the photo selections are top notch.
Pastoral Twitter Do’s and Don’ts - This blogger offers some good advice to pastors about how and how not to use social media.
Pastoral Narcissism - This is an honest article about pastors and their tendency toward narcissism. You know you’re having a bad day when you walk into a room only to find your wife Googling narcissism to see if it applies to you.
Quiet Headphones - The owner of the web site Quiet Headphones is a reader of this site and wants to offer 10% off to anyone who buys headphones from him in the next 10 days. Just use the code challies and you’ll get the discount.
How To Become a Famous Blogger - It’s just this easy:
And a quote to end this edition of A La Carte:
The more familiar acquaintance we have with God the more do we partake of him. He that passes by the fire may have some gleams of heat, but he that stands by it has his colour changed. It is not possible that a man should have any long conference with God and be no whit affected. If we are strangers to God it is no wonder that our faces become earthy. - William Bramwell
I am a follower of Jesus Christ, a husband to Aileen and a father to three young children. I worship and serve as a pastor at 
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Comments (11)
I’m with you all the way in the “vague dad” thing, brother. Reminds me of Matt Groening’s little piece, “Women Speak In Estrogen And Men Listen In Testosterone”, where he says this about Offspring:
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favourite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
(That’s to say: maybe you’re not the WORST dad ever… at least you took her to the doctor, and remembered her name too.)
The other day my wife was gone for a few hours and I was taking care of our seven-month old. I really had to use the restroom and wash the sleep crusties out of my eyes, so I had the idea to put him on our bed. Well, thirty seconds in I hear a thud and run into our bedroom to see my screaming baby boy on the floor. Ah! So, if anyone gets the worst dad award this week it should be me.
Thank God His protection over our children covers even those times it is the parent’s fault.
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I started reading the Cliff Lee article, intrigued by your blurb for it “turning down more money than we’ll ever make”. But then I read that he’s still getting $24 million a year, which is STILL more money than I’ll ever make.
This is why rugby league has salary caps. Makes the game soooooo much better!
Maybe I take things too seriously but should I be concern that nobody listed as one of the 5 great books they read in 2010 as the Bible?
RE “I must be the worst dad ever.”
Perhaps, but you still blog everyday! And that’s the main thing.
It looks like the Nativity Scene article was deleted for some reason. That is too bad. It was quite good.
The Nativty Scene article has been reposted with a new URL.
http://mrlauterbach.typepad.com/gospeldrivenlife/2010/12/liberty-legalis…
Tim, thanks for mentioning my noise cancelling headphones ! Hopefully they will be a benefit to all your readers who need to find a quiet place to read or study. I know they helped me study when I was at RTS and had a 2 & 3 year old screaming through the house! Now the just help me keep out the noise at the office and focus on my work. Thanks again, and cheers ~ Ryan
…yeah…you’re taking it too seriously…it’s pretty much a “gimmie” that all of these people are regular Bible readers and would expect the people reading this list to be Bible readers as well, these are other great books to point us towards for further edification.
What a crazy world we live in when we find it heroic (or nearly so) that Cliff Lee would “settle” for $120 million. Even if he had “settled” for $50 million, he and his children and his grandchildren would have had enough to live in luxury for the rest of their lives.
The fact that Lee’s agent is Scott Boras makes this decision even more remarkable. Usually when you see “free agent” and “Scott Boras” in the same sentence, you can usually count on your favorite player going to the Yankees.
Lee is one of the good guys in MLB. We’ve watched him since he played AA ball in Akron and he’s always been a class act.
Nice to hear that you are human, Tim. I think most men have similar experiences; I for one have had almost the identical experience at the doctor’s office.