http://www.agricolae.net A farmer went out to sow seed... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:38:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 4th Commandment is to honor your father and your mother. Traditional reading of this commandment expands that honoring in two directions. The first is in the people honored - not just mom and dad, but anyone in a position of authority - principle, teacher, pastor, boss, senator, ... http://www.agricolae.net/?p=18 Wikipedia changes daily and the targets of this post hate it (it doesn't pay them), but here is the link to Calvin Coolidge, another guy the Thinkers would hate. A couple of quotes from that article. As his biographer (Fuess) later put it, "he embodied the spirit and hopes of ... http://www.agricolae.net/?p=16 Had an interesting conversation about change today. The subject was small churches. The background subject was me being irresponsible. The church that I'm the current Pastor of has had its share of trouble in the last few years. At some point in the last 5 years ... http://www.agricolae.net/?p=14 This is a story out of the WSJ around the words of a Wall Street Financier, Henry Clews, in 1908. "As in every preceding crisis, the main cause was far too large a mass of credits -- that is, of debts -- for the amount of cash in which they were redeemable. ... http://www.agricolae.net/?p=6 Hello.  Not that anyone will read this.  Just a couple of thoughts.  I tried putting a blog together about 4.5 years ago.   I was using a 1.x version of Word Press at the time.  It was all very clunky.  The stuff I've been able to throw together now is truly ... http://www.agricolae.net/?p=4