Well, since I have done absolutely no writing this entire week (egads!), and wanted to leave you with at least one post before the weekend, I decided to give set you up with a look at our new home.

We are currently staying at Alison’s mom’s house, which sits on about two and a half acres in the small town of Graton (outside of Sebastopol, which is outside of Santa Rosa). I made a set with some pictures of the property on Flickr; you can check em out here.

It is an amazingly beautiful place, and we are blessed to be here. In fact, we are overwhelmingly blessed in all areas of our life. We have a good marriage, two healthy children, a free house, a good church, excellent family, excellent friends, a home business, and I get to work from home (sheesh; it’s like a fairytale or something).

The book I’m reading now is “The Nature of the Atonement.” This book effectively blew my mind. The first view, the “Christus Victor” view, is pretty radical, and gave me a lot to think about. Gregory Boyd authored it, and I thought it was well and reasonably argued; though I think he’s what you would call “on the fringe” of evangelicalism. For example, he believes in the openness of God; that God limited himself to not knowing future events, because He could not possibly know the future without negatively affecting our free agency. But, according to this view, he’s a real good guesser. So basically he’s right about guessing the future 100% of the time. I’m not sure we’re splitting hairs yet, but we might be close.

Anyway, good stuff. I look forward to reading the rest of the book.

On behalf of Simon, and the rest of the staff here: have a great weekend!