My Desktop Photo 49: Beauty in Shades of Grey

Photo by Andrew Stark
(click on photo for larger view)

Book Review (and a Giveaway): What He Must Be

Click on image to view this book at Monergism Books…if he want to marry my daughter by Voddie Baucham Jr.

Have you noticed the blog blitz around this new Voddie Baucham book? During these first two weeks in March there is a Find One, Build One Blog Tour, with many bloggers reviewing this book and several offering readers a chance to receive a free copy. I’m participating, too, and I’ll be giving away a free book to one of you. Read on to the end of this post to find out how to enter the draw for a copy of What He Must Be.

I will admit that I had a few reservations about participating in this blog tour. For one, I’m not all that familiar with Voddie Baucham and I’m not very adventuresome in my choices of books to read and review. I usually choose to read and review books only if I’m fairly sure before I start that I’ll be able to endorse it. And one of the few things I did know about this author is that I disagreed with a stand he took last summer on one issue. So I had no idea whether I would like this book or not before I started it, and that makes me a little nervous.

Secondly, I have an aversion to anything that seems like a Christian subcultural bandwagon and I had a little suspicion this book might be part of something like that.

Click to read more ...

Eleven Reasons to Celebrate in March

1. It’s supposed to be the end of winter. Or so they say.
2. We got to spring forward. Hooray for one hour less sleep.
3. St. Patrick’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day.
4. There’s March break. Perhaps you know it as spring break or reading week. No school is always a good thing.
5. Three reasons in one: Pi Day, Pi Minute and Pi Second.
6. We have the the spring equinox, when everyone in the whole wide world has the same length of day.
7. And don’t forget Johnny Appleseed Day.
8. Some people have been giving away free books.
9. My oldest son’s 30th birthday is on the 26th.
10. It’s Women’s History Month. My apologies for mentioning it, but I need eleven reasons and I’m running low.
11. Some very interesting people have birthdays on the 11th. Like Ezra Jack Keats and Wanda Gag.