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A friend of mine works in a warehouse. They receive, store, and ship products for various companies. One of the companies carries christian books. And occasionally the books become damaged, and are just thrown out. Except “damaged” to a retailer is not damaged to me or my friend. And so, this past Sunday I got two books: Hollywood Worldviews by Brian Godawa and Reel Spirituality by Robert Johnston.

I’d never heard of the latter, but the former has been on my wishlist for some time (since October 1, 2002, actually). I’m looking forward to reading them both.

Another book that seems to fit with those is Eyes Wide Open by William D. Romanowski. I haven’t read that, but Critique recommended it a few years back.

So many books, so little time.

Here are sermons by Andrew Sandlin, and others, at Church of the King.

Here are some pictures of Fiona.

Megan and Fiona came home today from the hospital. Both are doing just great.

As is fitting for this Labor Day, Ms. Fiona Aileen Okimoto made her entrance into the world. Not wanting to delay too long, she arrived at 3:52am.

This, after only being at the hospital slightly over 20 minutes (and, yes, it is The Baby to blame, not The Husband who said “Well, let’s time these a little more before we go, to be sure we know how far apart they are”). And a good bit of that 20 minutes was actually spent waiting for our midwife to arrive at the hospital.

I’d say it was exciting. Objectively I mean. Outside of having a baby in general, too. This was exceptionally exciting.

Mother and Babe are doing fantastic. Sibling girls are delighted with their new sister. She looks, to me, just like Geneva looked as a newborn.

All Praise and Thanksgiving to our Holy God in Heaven, Who gives to us more abundantly than we even know to ask.

My soul now bless thy Maker, let all within me bless His name!

So I’m driving home, and the car sputters out and dies. A nice man stopped and allowed me to use his wireless to call my wife to come get me. then I sit for a minute. Then I trek to a nearby house and ask if i can use their phone and phonebook to get my car towed.

he knows a guy that can tow it. he also knows a guy that has a shop to drop it off. I should buy that man something.

turns out the fuel pump died, and i’m spending more than i want to have it fixed. This poor car is on its last leg. it’s a 1991 dodge dynasty, and it has 195000 miles on it. But, i figure its worth more running than not.

still no baby. You can imagine, though, what I was thinking yesterday when the car died. “now Megan’s going to go into labor, and I’m not going to be able to get back to Lynchburg, and I’ll miss my baby’s birth.” But, that didn’t happen. Instead she drove out to get me with the girls, and we had submarine sandwiches for dinner as we drove. We even made it home in time for Megan to attend a babyshower for a friend.

As mentioned, the Stewart’s came down on Saturday. We had a nice time. Kate is, of course, a cutie. It is amazing how agile a baby’s forhead can be. They have a whole Linus thing going on. I loved all Kate’s little faces.

As mentioned at This Classical Life, we played a game of Hoopla. We won with like four minutes to spare. Looking back, I think we were too lenient with starting the time. Oh well… next time.

Mike, who I met for the first time, reminded me of someone. I couldn’t think who, but Megan knew because he reminded her of him also… our friend Brian Martin, who is currently a student at covenant seminary. Mike had some discussions with Kate, and I feel privleged to have been ringside. I also learned that Kate already knows three catechism questions… and in Latin! She’s one smart baby, I tell ya.

I was, and am, thankful that they put aside a day to come down and spend some time with us. It’s great to meet likeminded friends, and spend time with them, particularly time around the table, eating and talking.

…I just should have picked Mike’s brain more about how to go about teaching the girls Latin.

The other day I discovered that one of the girls (I think Ashley) had taken out our A Bug’s Life DVD and played with it in such a way that it is all scratched up now. You can watch about two thirds of the movie, and then it is one, distorted, pixelated image.

I am crushed.

Tomorrow I get to meet Kate!

One good thing about the stupid navbar is that the blogger link is at the top of the page, so I don’t have to scroll down to click it (or type blogger.com in the address bar).

Boy, I am such a lazy man.

If you were a pastor (or if you are one), and there was a local ‘association’ of ministers that got together once a month to primarily build relationships with one another, and this group officially accepted women pastors, would you take part in the group?

So there’s this guy. A Christian guy. And he says that he and his wife and have decided that they don’t want to have any children. So someone asks him why they made the decision, and what criteria they used to determine that not having children was a good thing to do. He answered, “I don’t think that we thought about it in terms as whether it was good or not but rather whether it was something we wanted to do or not.”

How typical is that? How sad is it? How condemning is it? We actually have come to the point where Christians don’t care about the consequences of their actions. They We don’t care about the reasons behind their our actions. They We don’t care about “Why”.

All that matters is “What I want”.