Live your theology.

Today marks Caleb’s 3rd birthday. God is so good. I can’t believe it’s been that long. I also can’t believe how long it’s been since I’ve done any regular blogging. I have a bunch of drafts, but no time to polish them and put them up. So sometime in the future I should have more Mr. T on the shorter catechism, some thoughts on the delivering of the gospel, my MLB post-season analysis, and some book reviews. Also a bunch of prayer meeting homilies, which I’ll start delivering next Wednesday. In the mean time, here are some handy bullet points…

• The Phillies. They’re my official rooting interest for this year’s playoffs. They remind me of a National League version of the Mariners. Also, Chase Utley has always come through for my fantasy team and that kind of dedication needs to be rewarded.
• I have a good sized Star Wars collection. Especially the action figures. Most of them are stored away in my Mom’s attic. This guy has put his collection online. I think it’s a pretty cool way to inventory/display what you’ve got. As for me, I’m just waiting until the value goes up on them and then its off to eBay!
• The Lord is teaching me lessons on not being able to please everyone through my tenure as Sunday school superintendent. Something (along with Pastor Fisher) tells me I’ll need to learn this lesson thoroughly as I prepare for pastoral ministry.
• PrayerMeeting. Like I said above, I’ll be leading our church’s prayer meeting starting next Wednesday and every Wednesday after that through the end of October. I’m going to do a series on Esther – I think it will be easier to just work through a book of the Bible (regardless of how infrequently I may preach) instead of thinking of a bunch of different topical sermons.
• Theology Forum. I won’t be at this Friday’s, but Jed will be and he’ll do a great job as always. We’re going to be looking at the Apostles Creed. What is being said, and why it needed to be formulated.
• We bought a new washer and dryer since our old ones broke. These are shiny and red front loaders that use way less water and hold way more clothes. Jenn was able to do two days worth of laundry in just two loads yesterday. That extra time will be a blessing to her since she’s just as busy as I am (moreso if you count all the home engineering).
• Homeschooling. Does anyone have any particular exhortations or warnings? We’re still 2 years away from Caleb’s venture into education, and we had beening thinking Heritage for years, but now Jenn is really leaning towards home schooling young Master Caleb. Maybe I can teach him Biblical Greek (once I learn it).
• Bullet points. I think they’re a cool way of making people think you have something substantial to say even though you only have a sentence or two to offer on a variety of topics.
• Seminary Books. Marty Hall and Linda Lane have literally given me hundreds of dollars worth of books I’d otherwise have to buy for myself. A super huge (and public) thanks is in order for both of them.
• My site takes too long to load. Or so Kristina tells me. She’s probably right. As I have more time I’m going to trim some of the problem children and see if I can’t speed it up. If that doesn’t work, we’ll probably be looking at a new template.
• If you want to see more pictures of the Anspach family, head over to Anspachfamily.com – that’s where I keep all the family stuff.  Warning: I update it very infrequently.  Mainly because no one is demanding I do it more regularly.
• I’ve been selling some old stuff on eBay to make extra room in the house and to get a head start on Christmas money.  I’m amazed at how much I’ve been able to raise – even some old hockey jerseys are going for > $35.  The prize of the auctions were two comics I bought in the ’98 that sold for $150 combined.  That’s the kind of profit margin I was expecting when I bought 10 copies of X-Force # 1 back in 1991.  I believe Karp feels my pain as he bought something like 50 of them.  Well, at least his mom did.