You might enjoy hearing a bit about one of our vacations this summer. In August we enjoyed camping with Mom & Dad
Black on their property in the desert in Prineville, OR for two nights,
driving to Paulina Lake (lots
of fish
were jumping!)
& to the top of Paulina Peak (from which you can see a looong
ways), canoeing on beautiful Hosmer Lake (there were
lots of fish in a shallow section) and camping there for the rest of
the week (there was a great view of Mt. Bachelor), picking up huge
rocks made of pumice at the obsidian flow, going for a bike ride around
Elk Lake, seeing hawks
and osprey hunting, vultures eating (but they flew away when we stopped
to look at them), and elk along the side of the road on the way home
(by Davison Road near Crescent
City, CA). Beforehand our OPC congregation in Eureka, CA had asked me
to preach on our way home, so we had a good
visit with the congregation (they asked me
to
teach SS at the last minute; thankfully I had a lesson and a few
handouts prepared), and with the family that gave us a place to stay
Saturday night. They asked me back to preach the very next Sunday
since their pulpit supply coordinatorship had just changed hands and
they didn't have a preacher scheduled. Safe travel the whole way,
which was a blessing. Google says the trip was about 1404 miles total. Mom
& Dad had an old tire blow out on their trailer on the way home,
but were able to continue after installing the spare tire. So you can
drool over vacationing in Oregon someday with us I've uploaded the
beautiful pictures Dad took here.
If
Jesus “lost” none that were His, except Judas, doesn’t that
mean we can lose our salvation?
A
friend of a friend asked this and some related questions regarding
John 17:12, which reads, “While I was with them, I kept them in
your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one
of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the
Scripture might be fulfilled.”
I have a personal library of about
2,000 books. In the last 5 years I’ve often found myself thinking,
“I remember reading about this topic in book X, and I’d like to
footnote its discussion, and I know I own the book...now where is
that book?” I look in the likely spots on my bookshelves without
finding it, then tediously scan every bookshelf and pile of books,
only to end up not finding the book. Frustrating.
When I worked under the Cataloger in
the library at Westminster Theological
Seminary, I found the solution. It was time to give up on
constantly re-creating my own system of categories for ordering the
books on my shelves and do what all academic libraries do: label the
books with Library of Congress Call Numbers. It’s the best
academic book categorization system in the world, period. Why invent
my own categories when I can access the combined wisdom of many
thousands of trained academic librarians? And the automation tools
exist to make it relatively easy. What doesn’t exist is a
description of the process
for transforming bookshelves that hide your books from you into a
refined, accessible personal library.
So,
in the hope it will help you as much as it did me, I now unveil the
process I use for labeling my books:
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on their property in the desert in Prineville, OR for two nights,
driving to Paulina Lake (lots
of fish
were jumping!)
& to the top of Paulina Peak (from which you can see a looong
ways), canoeing on beautiful Hosmer Lake (there were
lots of fish in a shallow section) and camping there for the rest of
the week (there was a great view of Mt. Bachelor), picking up huge
rocks made of pumice at the obsidian flow, going for a bike ride around
Elk Lake, seeing hawks
and osprey hunting, vultures eating (but they flew away when we stopped
to look at them), and elk along the side of the road on the way home
(by Davison Road near Crescent
City, CA). Beforehand our OPC congregation in Eureka, CA had asked me
to preach on our way home, so we had a good
visit with the congregation (they asked me
to
teach SS at the last minute; thankfully I had a lesson and a few
handouts prepared), and with the family that gave us a place to stay
Saturday night. They asked me back to preach the very next Sunday
since their pulpit supply coordinatorship had just changed hands and
they didn't have a preacher scheduled. Safe travel the whole way,
which was a blessing. Google says the trip was about 
We are pleased to announce the