Start watching American Idol. You know who to vote for. (Or, to be grammatically correct, you know for whom to vote.) Check out Fox, The Houston Chronicle, MSNBC, and the Chris Sligh Fan Club. And buy a T-shirt….

We filmed this when I was at my parents for Christmas and my sister Esther recently put it all together in imovie. Enjoy….

It is always an adventure starting the spring semester here. This year it feels even more so. During my four years of undergrad, I was never here over Christmas or summer vacation. So the fact that this year was the…

I saw this quote at the American Museum of Natural History last weekend, and wanted to share it with you…

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

-Theodore Roosevelt

We took Ari sledding today at our friends Jeff and Emily’s house. She wasn’t to sure about it at first and pretty certain she didn’t like it after we pulled her along a little ways. She’ll probably like it better…

Christian, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into his den? Hast thou not had enough of the old serpent? Did he not poison all thy veins once, and wilt thou play upon the hole of the asp, and put thy hand upon the cockatrice’s den a second time? Oh, be not so mad! so foolish! Did sin ever yield thee real pleasure? Didst thou find solid satisfaction in it? If so, go back to thine old drudgery, and wear the chain again, if it delight thee. But inasmuch as sin did never give thee what it promised to bestow, but deluded thee with lies, be not a second time snared by the old fowler-be free, and let the remembrance of thy ancient bondage forbid thee to enter the net again!

Charles Spurgeon