Archive for July, 2008

Subject: Ben’s b-day…

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

[Video is at the bottom] Saturday, July 26th Rajiv: is tomorrow.  Is anyone gonna cake him?  I feel like he needs to be caked real good.  Every part of his face should be covered. Joe: Yo, he's gonna get cakes so hard. So whats the gameplan? Do we have a digital camera ...

Crusade Blogs in Google Reader

Monday, July 28th, 2008

I've put all the RSS feeds from all the people in Crusade whose blogs I know of into a shared tag on Google Reader.  You can subscribe to it here, or view a webpage with them all here. Includes: Ben, Liang, Rajiv, Ray, Ken (Arnold), Charlene, Crystal, Jeanne, John (Sullivan), Tom ...

22 Years

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah - Psalm 39:4-5 Come now, you ...

What is the Wasted Life?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

YouTube - Trip Lee Interview-What is the Wasted Life?. "Anything separated from Jesus Christ is a waste of our lives... Anything we do, separated from the motivation behind it - giving the Lord glory - is a waste of our lives.  Pursuing things that are not of the Lord, pursuing things ...

Begin By Confessing Your Righteousness

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

I've started going through Paul Tripp's Whiter Than Snow.  It's a book of 52 short meditations on Psalm 51.  Here's a snippet from the first one that I find immensely helpful. Here’s the point. Before you can ever make a clean and unamended confession of your sin, you have to first ...

Joshua Project in Google Earth Plugin

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Joshua Project is a ministry that collects data on the world's unreached people groups.  You should check out their website.  They've published their data in many formats, including a downloadable Google Earth .kmz file.  I've taken that and built a webpage using the Google Earth Plugin. 1. Use this file to ...

Glorified Forevermore

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Worth a slow, prayerful read (from here): As far as any eye could see There was no green. But every tree Was cinder black, and all the ground Was grey with ash. The only sound Was arid wind, like spirits' ghosts, Gasping for some living hosts In which to dwell, as in the days Of evil men, before ...

Sheared

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

My hair grew to the longest it's been for about a decade, I think.  Thanks to Joe and my new Wahl clippers ("Premium DuraChrome finish is always in style!"), I am now sheared. Before: During: After: Slideshow:

Search Desiring God From Firefox

Friday, July 11th, 2008

You can now search all of desiringGod.org from Firefox.  Follow along... 1. Go to desiringGod.org. 2. See how the arrow next to the Google Search Box is blue?  That means you can add a search function... 3. Click it and you'll see the option. 4. Click "Add 'DesiringGod.org Search'". 5. Don't try it out just ...

Exercises In Self-Centeredness

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Often, my flesh thinks it needs 2 things to be happy: Everyone else to stop sinning in ways that annoy me, inconvenience me, or make me feel like I need to rebuke them or tell them to stop. Everyone else to focus on making me happy, meeting my needs, fixing my problems. Simple ...