Karis recently performed for a recital. Here is a video of a duet she played (Bach double concerto), along with her solo piece.

I attended Together for the Gospel (T4G - www.t4g.org) recently. Wow! What an experience, what a training / inspiring / opportunity to understand the Gospel more clearly and completely.

"The (Unadjusted) Gospel" was the title, and was this point / topic drilled home.

And the books, books, books, books!

Here's the pile of all the books I got at the conference: those included with the conference, some I purchased (at greatly reduced prices), and some free pamphlets.

Here are the books included with the conference (i.e. given to us during the course of the conference, no additional cost!).

A highly recommended conference.

the dangers of our leader's actions...

An interesting read from the Wall Street Journal: Busting Bank of America: A case study in how to spread systemic financial risk. 

If this is what are leaders are really doing, we are in a precarious position, indeed. 

The cavalier use of brute government force has become routine, but the emerging story of how Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke forced CEO Ken Lewis to blow up Bank of America is still shocking. It's a case study in the ways that panicky regulators have so often botched the bailout and made the financial crisis worse.
In the name of containing "systemic risk," our regulators spread it. In order to keep Mr. Lewis quiet, they all but ordered him to deceive his own shareholders. And in the name of restoring financial confidence, they have so mistreated Bank of America that bank executives everywhere have concluded that neither Treasury nor the Federal Reserve can be trusted.   ...
The political class has spent the last few months blaming bankers for everything that has gone wrong in the financial system, and no doubt many banks have earned public scorn. But Washington has been complicit every step of the way, from the Fed's easy money to the nurturing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and since last autumn with regulatory and Congressional panic that is making financial repair that much harder. ...