Let me say that I do NOT perceive that we have a problem at HLPC with people looking down on others for the way they educate their children in different ways be it public school, private school, or homeschool. I thank God for that! We have families involved in all three avenues. That being said Josh Harris offers some good pastoral advice regarding this potentially divisive issue. As he says, we’re all in the gospel camp- not the public, private, or homeschool camp.

(HT: Justin Taylor)

Yesterday at HLPC we began a 7 week look at Habakkuk. Habakkuk asks hard questions of God when what He is doing does not make sense. I referenced a quote from Dr. James Montgomery Boice that was made to his congregation at Tenth Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Philadelphia when he was diagnosed at age 62 with terminal liver cancer. Here it is again:

“If God does something in your life, would you change it? If you’d change it, you’d make it worse. It wouldn’t be as good. So that’s the way we want to accept it and move forward, and who knows what God will do?”.

I have a Presbytery committee meeting this morning at First Pres Macon so I drove Andrew to school and am sitting here at Chick-fil-A on Zebulun Road with my laptop enjoying their Wifi and trying to get some work done for Sunday’s first look of 7 sermons at Habakkuk before heading to my meeting. Some miscellaneous ramblings on a beautiful Friday morning:

~Pew Bibles are here! Can’t wait to utilize our new ESV pew Bibles this Sunday. It’s something I’ve looked forward to for some time. I like the idea of people being able to hold a copy of the Scriptures each week if they don’t have a Bible of their own. Instead of printing the passage each week, we’ll simply put the page number in each week’s bulletin (Habakkuk is page 785 in the new Bible). This may not seem like a big deal, but I’m excited about it.

~When I retire, I want a group of guys to meet Friday mornings with at Chick-fil-A- there’s a group of retirees who are sipping coffee, griping about gas prices, and solving the world’s problems about 10 feet away. I want to be part of a group like that. The employees here obviously know and welcome these codgers. I want to be a codger one day. By the way, what exactly is a “codger”?

~Habakkuk, I’m learning, is an incredibly timely book. The minor prophets (called such for their size, not lack of importance) have so much to say to us. I’m embarrassed to admit that this is only my second time to preach from one of them. I’m looking forward to this series very much. The Scriptures do not sugarcoat anything. They deal with life as it really is.

~I really like Coke Zero. I need to go and get a refill. My second favorite diet beverage is Diet Dr. Pepper. I used to hate all diet drinks. That was before I hit 40. Everything changes at 40.

That is all.