tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697Mon, 12 May 2008 23:06:07 +0000http://www.kingsmeadow.com/blogger.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)Blogger987125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-5251752039674754847Sun, 11 May 2008 19:55:00 +00002008-05-11T21:49:55.286-05:00I've posted some photos of our garden's Springtime glory over on the Eleventary site. Just looking at them again, reminds me of this poesy from Thomas Campion: Now hath flora rob’d her bowers To befriend this place with flowers; Strowe about, strowe about The sky rayn’d never kindlier showers.http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/strowe-about.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-2377105891695188837Sun, 11 May 2008 19:54:00 +00002008-05-11T17:59:48.725-05:00"God Almighty first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." Francis Bacon "To prevent undue disappointment, those who wish for beautiful flower borders and whose enthusiasm is greater than their knowledge, should be reminded that if a border is to be planted for pictorial effect, it is impossible to maintain that effect and to have the space well filled for any http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/in-garden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1344077895902078366Thu, 08 May 2008 23:25:00 +00002008-05-08T18:28:26.810-05:00"God promises forgiveness for repentance; He does not promise tomorrow for procrastination." Augustine of Hippohttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/promises-promises.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1026907863770521323Wed, 07 May 2008 15:40:00 +00002008-05-07T10:46:39.806-05:00"Reward spectacular failure; punish mediocre success." This traditional leadership-development maxim has long been attributed to Ramses II, but it was probably adapted from a folk saying by the Greek-Christian redactors and curators of the great Alexandrian library sometime around the middle of the third century.http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/mentoring-bold-leaders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-4171324321186114123Wed, 07 May 2008 02:29:00 +00002008-05-06T21:30:48.789-05:00“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain bad laws.” G.K. Chesterton “There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.” Will Rogers “The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.” Henry Ward Beecher “Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.” Robert Heinlein “The most http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/petty-tyrannies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-4937822742412905345Wed, 07 May 2008 02:02:00 +00002008-05-06T21:03:57.609-05:00 Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass. Before the gods that made the gods Had drunk at dawn their fill, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was hoary on the hill. Age beyond age on British land, Aeons on aeons gone, Was peace and war in western hills, And the White Horse looked on. For the White http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/chestertons-ballad-of-white-horse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-5784172330171895210Tue, 06 May 2008 06:00:00 +00002008-05-06T01:00:00.358-05:00it was on this day in 878 that the young, inexperienced Christian king of Wessex, Alfred the Great, defeated the pagan Viking warlord Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandun. The unlikely victory not only ensured that Christianity would survive in England, it made the unification of that land possible for the first time since the departure of Roman legions in the fifth century.http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/alfred-great.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-4760538676896113683Tue, 06 May 2008 01:59:00 +00002008-05-05T21:00:45.490-05:00"It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only true and solid basis of greatness." Samuel Johnsonhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/true-and-solid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1202458934163861180Sun, 04 May 2008 23:08:00 +00002008-05-04T18:09:32.073-05:00http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/lazy-sunday-afternoon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-5774449720900038317Sun, 04 May 2008 01:26:00 +00002008-05-04T06:09:01.817-05:00The May issue of TableTalk Magazine offers a fascinating examination of the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues. The varied contributors include R.C. Sproul, Thabiti Anyabwile, Robert Carver, Chris Donato, Ron Gleason, Ken Jones, Robert Rayburn, Carol Ruvolo, R.C. Sproul Jr., Gene Edward Veith, and Yours Truly. If you’ve never read—or better yet, used—this very fine monthly http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/05/tabletalk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1443753375609894092Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:10:00 +00002008-04-30T12:10:29.974-05:00http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/election-ad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-6829796784024306556Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:51:00 +00002008-04-28T07:58:43.044-05:00"We know that all men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good." John Calvinhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/opposite-of-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1380611634687327864Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:17:00 +00002008-04-28T23:24:10.208-05:00The ever-creative and always irrepressible, Crystal Thomas, has a wonderful new dessert and coffee shop called Aux Choux in downtown Franklin. The cheese cake is to die for!http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/aux-choux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-52667971059328027Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:10:00 +00002008-04-28T23:38:22.211-05:00If you are a thinking American who cares about the future of the nation--and if you're looking for solid, practical advice about what to do and how--then this election-year book by David Zanotti of the American Policy Roundtable is for you. But be forewarned: you'll need to expect the unexpected. After all, Zanotti is courageous, wise, funny, informed, Biblical, strategic, creative, insightful,http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/thinking-and-voting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-132275359116374210Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:13:00 +00002008-04-23T12:52:52.307-05:00What's a pastor to do? What's a pastor to be? According to Michael Horton in an incisive Touchstone article, instead of focusing on the "ordinary means of grace" and the ministries of "Word, prayer, and sacrament," these days pastors are more like "directors of sales and marketing." They are increasingly asked to be "managers, therapists, entertainers, and entrepreneurial businesspeople." Ifhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/relevantitis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-6008169027418610575Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:17:00 +00002008-04-23T07:18:41.855-05:00"Civil liberty is not freedom from restraint. Men may be wisely and benevolently checked, and yet be free. No man has a right to act as he thinks fit, irrespective of the wishes and interests of others. This would be exemption from all law, and from the wholesome influence of social institutions. Heaven itself would not be free, if this were freedom. No created being holds any such liberty http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/benevolent-checks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-8165359120437112972Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:14:00 +00002008-04-23T07:17:06.640-05:00"The legions of well-intentioned but smug, educated elites have agreed in advance to reject thousands of years of inherited wisdom, values, habit, custom, and insight and replace this heritage with their official utopian vision of the perfect society." William Gairdner "Those who pose as the saviors of mankind are all too often more dangerous than the very ills they purport to remedy. There arehttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/electoral-reminders.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1665803474130164627Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:50:00 +00002008-04-23T21:52:32.823-05:00"America has once again arrived at a momentous crossroads. We are going to have to decide--as we have had to decide so many times in the past--whether we shall only speak of justice and speak of principle, or whether we shall stand and fight for them. We are going to have to decide whether we shall quote the words of the Declaration of Independence with real conviction, or whether we shall takehttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/whigs-redeux.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-3691097490421182966Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:29:00 +00002008-04-21T13:29:39.764-05:00“We cannot expect a more cordial welcome than disturbers of complacency have received in any other age.” Richard Weaverhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/disturbers-of-complacency.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-1567449997597716763Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:04:00 +00002008-04-19T16:17:31.126-05:00Join Franklin Classical School and the King’s Meadow Study Center on May 1 from 6:30-9:30 PM, for an evening of lively discussion and intellectual engagement as we discuss Darwinism, Intelligent Design, and the newly released film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed with some of Middle Tennessee's most capable scientists, academicians, and intellectuals. Ben Stein’s Expelled documentary is http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/expelled-in-franklin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-4567981000314698161Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:10:00 +00002008-04-19T13:18:25.134-05:00American colonists and British troops had their first exchange of fire in the towns of Lexington and Concord in the "shot heard 'round the world." The British general Thomas Gage sent a force to capture stockpiled munitions at Concord. This incident is often regarded as the start of the American War for Independence. The night before, of course, silversmith Paul Revere rode from Boston to http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/regulars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-5345965863540079401Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:26:00 +00002008-04-18T17:27:32.928-05:00"Let your hand feel for the afflictions and distresses of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widows mite, that it is not everyone that asketh that deserveth charity; all however are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer. Thus is the mettle of true character." George Washingtonhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/mettle-of-true-character.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-6526501972430216287Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:16:00 +00002008-04-18T17:18:03.185-05:00Brought to the city of Worms to recant by the Emperor, Charles V, Martin Luther uttered immortal words that launched the Reformation on this day in 1521: "Since your majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns and without teeth. Unless I am convicted by scripture and plain reason--I do not accept the authority of popes and councils for the have contradicted http://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/reformation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-7156235429618653365Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:15:00 +00002008-04-15T06:16:39.129-05:00“We shape our buildings, then they shape us.” Winston Churchill “Architecture is the most revealing of all the arts. It is possible to tell more about a culture’s faith by its buildings than by its philosophers.” Paul Johnsonhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/architectural-worldviews.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5123697.post-5100870430513711372Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:14:00 +00002008-04-15T06:15:04.541-05:00"Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else." Booker T. Washingtonhttp://www.kingsmeadow.com/2008/04/what-helps.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (George Grant)