Archive for December, 2007
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
So I've deviated a bit from my published plan from a few weeks ago. I'm halfway through God Is The Gospel, but it's a slow read, so I've begun reading C. J. Mahaney's Living The Cross Centered Life.
This could become one of my favorite books, I think.
I'll post much more ...
Posted in Book Reviews, Theology | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
Posted here by Jon Bloom:
Each year Christmas night finds members of my family feeling some melancholy. After weeks of anticipation, the Christmas celebrations have flashed by us and are suddenly gone. And we’re left standing, watching the Christmas taillights and music fade into the night.
But it’s possible that this ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
There have been huge reactions and counter reactions over the years to the "Americanization" of Christmas. Commercialism abounds as we teach our children and ourselves that Christmas is about presents. "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings" are wished to us by friends, family, coworkers, TV and Radio shows, websites, ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
I was talking to one of my pastors the other day. He just took over preaching at the evening service at Black Rock a few months ago. It seems one of his big themes is that we're supposed to be "fighting evil" (and yes, he did use the word "superheroes" ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
So the voting's done and Mark Driscoll's sermon schedule at Mars Hill is set for the next few months. The series title is this post's title - "Religion Saves & 9 Other Misconceptions". You can see all the questions/voting/comments/hoopla that went down over the last few months here. What basically ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
From the DG blog (I added the bolding):
This morning my assistant, Bryan DeWire, found out his father, who 24 hours ago seemed in fine health, didn’t make it through emergency heart surgery. This afternoon, my wife called me in tears to update me on a very difficult day trying to ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
For the last several months, Cornell has been involved in a "massively multiplayer, locally social" online game similar to Risk. We're playing against all the other Ivys. Each student at each school controls a few armies, and a command structure coordinates troop placement, movement, and attack.
Alas, we need your help. ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Somehow I missed this... A few days ago, Google released their Charts API. The basic premise is: you configure a URL in a certain way, and you get an image of a chart. Perfect for displaying data on a website. I've had several projects where I needed ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
I actually know this guy.... I think he gave me my first copy of Let The Nations Be Glad a year ago when he came over to my house to do a presentation on Joshua Project to a bunch of my parents' friends.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
So I just finished reading book 1, Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart by John Ensor. Yes, that's a Google Book Search link - a surprising number of pages for a copyrighted book are online, and it will give you links to websites you can buy it from.
A ...
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