New Pictures

Here are some new pictures of Charlie.  He has this really cool shirt that predicts he will be a Conspiracy Nut when he grows up, and his dad got a little carried away with the camera and took about 30 pictures the other day.  There’s also pictures of us at Christmas Eve dinner with friends, [...]

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Thomas Jefferson’s Religion

I recently picked up a religious biography of Thomas Jefferson I found on the new book table in the New College library. It turns out the book is eleven years old, but I still found it interesting. I thought I would share a few thoughts that stuck out to me:

Jefferson was a [...]

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Merry Christmas from Charlie

We took some video of Charlie recently in new Christmas clothes.  The result is captured in this captivating video.  The last part of this video also involves Charlie donning a pretty exciting shirt. Merry Christmas!

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Matthew 2.1-12: A Christmas Sermon

Below is a Christmas Eve sermon originally prepared during my time in seminary at RTS. -BC
Text: Matthew 2:1-12
INTRODUCTION
We’re probably all pretty familiar in our culture with stories, movies, or books where the rightful king or leader emerges onto the scene to occupy the throne which is truly his or hers. One example that immediately [...]

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Footloose

Today Charlie had a checkup at the doctor to check out his foot. He emerged from the womb with his left foot touching his left leg, so we’ve had to keep an eye on it. The doctor thought it would straighten itself out, which it pretty much has (as we’ve been praying it [...]

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Congratulations to Ashur

This has been a big week for the Crowe boys. First, Charlie is born. Then, today we find out that our dog Ashur (who is staying with Cheryl’s parents in Wetumpka) has just achieved a lifelong goal: he caught his first squirrel! My sources told me he apparently tracked a dumb [...]

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Counting our Blessings

This week has been a crazy one, to say the least. But, it’s been a very good one for us. In addition to Charlie’s birth, we’ve experienced the warmth of Christian friendship from both sides of the globe. We would like to take a minute to thank those who have gone out [...]

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He’s Here!

On Monday, December 3, 2007 our son joined the world in Edinburgh. He was 7 lbs 5 oz, 20 inches long, and almost 2 weeks early! Cheryl and Charlie are doing well. We spent around 24 hours at the hospital, and are looking forward to some rest. Ha-ha. Thank you [...]

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T.F. Torrance

Yesterday a great theologian passed, Edinburgh’s own T.F. Torrance. His importance is second to none when speaking of theologians associated with New College (for example, my study room is called the Torrance room), but many of us are not all that familiar with his work. I found the eulogy on Ben Myer’s blog [...]

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Pictures of the Week

Here are some pictures from the past week. Edinburgh is now decked out for Christmas, which is nice.  As you can see below, our flat is also decked out for Christmas:

Here is Cheryl at almost 38 weeks!  We are now less than 2 weeks away from our due date.

Here is Cheryl iChatting with her friend [...]

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