Oh my, I hope you didn’t think I forgot about you or sending out these silly emails. Truthfully, I have tried to write, but I it was as if I forget how to write. Please forgive the tardiness of the email… most of this email is now 5 months old.
But let’s go backwards and quickly revisit the last year.…

I wrote this e-mail about 3 weeks ago.  Forgive me for being so slow. I know there is a lot to catch up on. Starting with the changes inside the house, we lost Nathan to Blockbuster for a semester, added Will, and Travis transferred from Blinn to A&M. A big thank you to Katrina for providing Cal with instate tuition…

from John Owen’s The Mortification of Sin, Chapter 3. Not the greatest passage from the book… hopefully there will be better quotes from Owen later.

“Men are galled with the sin that hath prevailed over them; they instantly promise to themselves and to God that they will do so no more; they watch over themselves and pray for a season, until…

Yes, it has been a few months since the last e-mail. So let’s briefly catch up. Most of you knew I spent the summer in ‘East Asia’ aka China. In a sentence, we learned how to live out the book of Acts. As for present things, we’ve now all moved in to the house. This ‘we’ being Joe, Nathan, Cal,…