The Craw

Only One Party?

Steven Wedgeworth has some thought-provoking stuff up over on BH.

Mark is now in Los Angeles. Mark was surprised at Fry's where he was recognized by a WestCal faculty member.

BH

A post of mine is up over on the BH Blog.

The Political Season

Good stuff from John Armstrong on handling political differences in the local church. On a related note, the older I get, the less worked-up I am over politics. History ends, after all, in an absolute monarchy, a monarchy that's already intruded its authority and power into this age.

Preaching Mad

Why do we assume that "good preaching" strips off our skin each Sunday and makes us wish we'd never been born? Why don't we assume that we are to normally simply encourage the people of God?

Baby Pics

Okay, since you asked...here's some baby pics. Here's Celeste being held by my mom and Michele's mom.

Being held by Mom and Dad.

Presuming? Assuming?

Several years ago I left the PCA because a view of mine was deemed to be out of accord with “PCA Presbyterianism.” That position? I regard all baptized persons (infant or adult) as Christians until they prove otherwise. For some reason this was like kryptonite to Presbyterians in Southern California where, I believe, too much of a baptistic worldview has been imbibed.

Now I find that my view has a strange bed-fellow in the Baptist John Piper. Though he doesn’t believe in infant baptism, his practice gets one to the same place on a day-to-day basis. He writes in this essay on why children should be taught to pray:

I don't know when a child is born again. I don't assume that a child must become a blatant rebellious unbeliever before he is regenerated. He can start to believe at a young age. And because he can believe at a young age, and because I can't tell precisely when his faith becomes his own and authentic, I don't want to wait too long before I start treating him as a believer.

Go figure.

An Announcement

Pastor Mark Horne, author of "The Victory According to Mark" and "Why Baptize Babies?", will be preaching (and baptizing my daughter) at Christ Church on Sunday, February 3, 2008.

The Newest Craw

At 1:48 a.m., Celeste Miyako Craw arrived among us at 8 lbs., 4 oz, a record for the Craw family. The Lord is good.