Everyone should read this great refutation of Richard Dawkin’s latest book, “The God Delusion.”

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/002/1.21.html
I also think its interesting that Notre Dame, a traditionally Catholic University, has been hiring so many reformed (Calvinistic) evangelical scholars. The author of the above article, Alvin Plantinga (formerly a professor at Calvin College) and Mark Noll (formerly a professor at Wheaton College).

There are many other, more personal things, I am going to write about shortly. They will probably be included in my monthly update from Thailand. Please pray for my family. This is a special prayer request and I have been struggling
with how to begin writing this. Death is something that is difficult for each of us to deal with, but much more so when we are so far from home. My cousin, Scott Overby died from an enlarged heart a few weeks ago. His mother, Jeanne Overby, is my Mom’s older sister and if you remember their mother passed away last year while I was in language school in Khon Kaen. As you can tell from the obituary Scott was married and husband of three children. Please pray for his wife and three children while they struggle with this immense loss.

This is the obituary taken from The Murray Ledger & Times:

Scott Overby, 39, Maddox Lane, Lawrenceburg, died Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007, at 5 a.m. at Commerce Street, Hardin.

He was disabled and was a member of Alton Baptist Church and Hardin Baptist Church. His father, Larry Overby, preceded him in death.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Melissa Mattingly Overby, and one daughter, Lexandra Avon Overby, both of Lawrenceburg; two sons, Reagan Scott Overby, Lawrenceburg, and Bradford Lawrence Overby, Benton; his mother, Mrs. Patsy Jeanne Henson Overby, and one brother, Steven (Duck) Overby, both of Hardin.

The funeral will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Collier Funeral Home, Benton. Rev. Rick Shannon and Rev. Trad York will officiate. Burial will follow in the Marshall County Memory
Gardens, Benton.

Visitation will be at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today Monday).

Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Scott Overby Memorial Fund for Children, 1037 Maddox Ln., Lawrenceburg, KY 40342.