A couple of weeks ago, our town Sebastopol celebrated it’s annual festival called, “Sebastopolooza” (as if pronouncing the name wasn’t already difficult enough).  Our church, Sebastopol Baptist, celebrated the day by giving away free water bottles and info on our church.

The kids, of course, had to ride the ponies.

And a good time was had by all.

Hannah is adorable.  She’s at that stage where everything she does is cute.  An adult who falls asleep at the table is a fool but a 17month old is adorable.

She likes to hang out in the pantry and pull stuff out.

Well, it hasn’t been the best of years for the eagles.  We are trying to build a family tradition of going to all the home games.  Not as easy as you think with three children five and under.  Hannah still not old enough to go but Trey is at the point where he can tolerate a game.  Hopefully, by the time they are grown up, we’ll have a nice family tradition.

Tomorrow marks Sebastopol’s annual town festival called “Sebastopolooza.”  If the rain holds off our church will have a booth set up to share with people about our church.  Also, I’ll be dusting off ye old running shoes and running in the 5k race (3.1 miles).  You can register here if interested: 5K Sebastopolooza race

Otherwise, come by and grab some food and watch the famous “Mule pull.”  Country living is addictive.

Some people like to make God’s name great in a not so great way.

Hat tip: Gary P.

ABC news has started a series on the 10 commandments.   They chose Chick-fil-A to illustrate “keeping the Sabbath.”  If you don’t know, Chick-fil-A closes all day on Sunday.  And they are a franchise that is in high demand making an abundant profit.  This strikes against manly wisdom as God’s wisdom is known for doing.  You can read the full article here: Chick-fil-A

I think, isn’t that incredible, isn’t that neat?” Cathy said. “That we can be closed on Sunday? We’re generating more business in six days than all these other tenants are generating in seven? And we can be with our family.”

Providing nourishment for the body as well as the soul.

Taken from David Daniell’s The Bible in English:

“Not long ago, in a room in the Metropolitan Museam of Art in New York, I found myself in front of a Raphael Madonna and Child, and by chance alongside a group of older teenagers.  Their scholarly instructor pointed out the painting’s strong perspective, and that it is led into by, on the left, St. Peter, ‘who, as you see, has keys on his belt, because he was the first pope’, and on the right, St. Paul, ‘who has a sword on his belt, because he had been a soilder’.  Both statements are plain wrong. Even defenders of the popes agree that St. Peter was not the first.  St Paul was never a soldier; he has a sword because he is, prominently, holding the open Scriptures, ‘the sword of the Spirit’.  Jesus told Peter that he would give him ‘the keys of the kingdom of heaven’ because of his statement of faith (Matthew 16:19), with no mention of popes.  Paul included in ‘the whole armour of God [...] the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God’ (Ephesians 6:13-17).  What Raphael’s picture tells the observer was, in that recent moment, twisted into one-line ‘facts’ which simply wiped out both faith and the Bible.”

Some funny outtakes form his commercial with Sears.

We have reaped a harvest that we did not even sow (or did we?).  Many of the members of Sebastopol Baptist have abundantly blessed us this summer with the harvest from their gardens.  Here below, Hannah and I are shucking some corn from the Leach garden.  There is nothing like a fresh local harvest.

Hannah loves to help and she is a devout lover of the cob.

^{Luke 6:38} give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Too funny.