We visited the weekly Farmer's Market in downtown Austin last Saturday, dropping by the Ardoin family's booth...

Tiffany had a sonogram yesterday. Praise the Lord, all is well from what they can see. The office had a new sonogram machine that makes a 3D photo of the baby...

Grace performed in CCSA's summer musical, The Pirates of Penzance...

Books I found helpful as I began a more serious study of the Bible's direction on church leadership, structure, and function...

The Frio River was glorious as usual...

If things keep going the way they are...in 100 billion years the only galaxies left visible in the sky will be the half-dozen or so bound together gravitationally...Unable to see any galaxies flying away, those astronomers will not know the universe is expanding and will think instead that they are back in the static island universe of Einstein.
“observers in our ‘island universe’ will be fundamentally incapable of determining the true nature of the universe.”  

"...fundamentally incapable of determining the true nature of the universe."  Hmm, the New York Times admits that humanity's scientific endeavor may have fundamental limitations?  Has a dangerous cat escaped from a formerly impenetrable bag?...

Our church recently enjoyed a Sunday afternoon of baptisms, food, games, and friendship.  12 were baptized, including our second daughter Emily.

Several families in our church recently hosted a Father/Daughter banquet. We enjoyed a wonderful meal together. Each father and his daughters shared a table with one other father and his daughters (except for one family which filled a table with daughters from the same family!)...

According to Exodus 18:19-22, qualifications for civil leaders are: a man who fears God, is truthful, and hates dishonest gain...

We participated in THSC's final Capitol Day for 2007.  The Texas legislature was in its final week of the sesson so everyone was really busy.  A group of about 250 homeschoolers and their parents spent the morning with THSC's Tim Lambert and other staff learning about the session and general information about Texas lawmaking.  Later, about 50 teams spread out across the capitol complex to deliver cookies to each Senator's and Representative's office, to cheer the weary and show our appreciation of the hard work done in the session...