December 2009

Merry Christmas

December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas from the Thorn household! You can follow our Christmas happenings at Flickr.

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Friday Photos

December 18, 2009

I got the household together for our Christmas card photos this week. Here are a couple shots of my son I took while we were setting up. Elias loves mugging for the camera. Click a picture for a larger version.

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Theology for Puking

December 17, 2009

Not too long ago I threw up in a very public place. In front of a lady. She is a member of our church. Boom. It is sometimes easier for me to filter the bigger crises in my life through biblical theology, than it is the smaller inconveniences and embarrassments. For example, if someone steals [...]

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Reviving Love

December 3, 2009

The Ephesian church’s loss of love for Christ reflects a very real danger all Christians face. We all experience ups and downs, growth and atrophy, in our love of God. Octavius Winslow’s classic, “Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the the Soul” has been helpful to me over the years, and is being used [...]

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