July 2010
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Dear world: I’m still alive. Packing, but alive.
June 2009
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Oh how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
May 2009
14 posts
God always uses imperfect people.
If you don’t deny yourself, you will deny the Lord. (Orig? from a sermon by Bill Newby)
Mother Theresa was often asked, How can I make a difference with my life as you have with your life? Her answer: Find your own Calcutta.
If you succeed at the wrong thing, you’ve failed.
The Christian recognizes that our real problem is not in achieving freedom but in learning service under a better master. -E. Peterson
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
God does not treat us according to our deserts, but according to his plan. He is not a police officer… He is a potter. - E. Peterson
Missionary Bible Schools are like mortar. One can stack bricks without mortar, but the result is never very tall and always pretty shaky.
Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, who is the only one in the world who thinks my wife married “up.”
When lips and life contradict, go with the life. - DJP
When a church is bringing transformation to a city, it fills up with
sinners. A lot of churches are doing all they can to avoid that.
First clue a church has forgotten how to be fishers of men: they try to
clean the fish before they catch them.
What do we mean when we say we have a heart for missions, but our
actions don’t demonstrate a heart for people?
We are not saved by works, but we are saved _for_ works. - Jonathan Edwards
When I started using Twitter...
I was clueless. I thought I wanted to generate a large number of followers so that I could be heard. I researched how to do so and ended up following the recommendations of Guy Kawasaki. What I learned:
<> Kawasaki’s method is an excellent way to follow and be followed by people who think that “social networking” is a way to generate customers by offering to teach...
April 2009
3 posts
In our culture, news about God can be sold if it is packaged freshly;
but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. -E. Peterson
Went jogging in the rain this a.m., demonstrating a rare combination of
courage, determination, and lunacy.
March 2009
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February 2009
14 posts
How to Friend Mom, Dad, and the Boss on... →
“LifeWay Research: Only 22 out of 43,000 SBC churches met the criteria of...”
– Attendance Fact File—Center for Missional Research - NAMB.net
Denominations Fact File - NAMB.net →
Pentecostal differences
Assemblies of God World Missions - About →
International Mission Board :: Home →
Fast Facts page from Southern Baptists’ IMB website.
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should... →
“Barna defines “evangelicals” as a subset of “born again”...”
– Caught in Our Shame: Comments on the Recent Barna Report
“The two denominations with the highest number of members who hold to orthodox...”
– Caught in Our Shame: Comments on the Recent Barna Report
For a hamburger today / Tuesday I will gladly pay / quoth Wimpy, quoth
I. #haiku
My grandson came over to spend an hour or so (to keep him off the
trampolines while big sisters are at gymnastics).
June 2008
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Our May 2008 Newsletter (PDF) →
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Overview of our ministry (PDF) →
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Projects in Tanzania for interested donors →
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AGWM Commitment Form, online version, our account →
Itineration Progress Graph -- we are at month 7
Pew Report Shows Americans Are Religious in... →
“Please, Aslan,” said Lucy, “what do you call soon?” “I...”
– C. S. Lewis - Wikiquote
“Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal…. As spirits they...”
– C. S. Lewis - Wikiquote
“Trial-and-error has error in it”
– You Can’t Predict Who Will Change The World - Forbes.com
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Online Tools of the Bible Interpreter: Bible...
For a Bible Handbook/Dictionary, a good one is built into the study tools at net.bible.org so you don’t really have to look much further if you use NetBible as your study Bible. Even if you don’t use NetBible, this is a good link to use for looking up proper names, place names, theological terms, and so on.
It is also good to be aware of Theopedia, or more formally, the Online...
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Annoying Programs: RealPlayer
RealPlayer’s offenses, as documented in the article that kicked off this series, go beyond mere annoyance. They are unethical and have resulted in RealPlayer software being banned forever from my machines. This doesn’t mean I have sworn off streaming media — check the Wikipedia article about “Media Player Classic” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic)...
“Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man...”
– Acts 3:12b, NIV
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What's the difference between a guitar player...
… and a fourteen-inch pizza? A fourteen-inch pizza can feed a family of four.
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Online Tools of the Bible Interpreter: Atlas
The next tool on the list is an Atlas of Bible-relevant geography. In addition to the Online Bible Atlas there are lots of maps online, and Google can help you find them. Note: Check the time period you are researching and try to find a map of that time so that the Bible-era names will match up. Once you do, it’s often interesting to check the same piece of geography in Google Earth to see...
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Annoying Programs: Windows Update
To reduce the annoyance of Windows Update, some people set it to do everything automatically. I take the opposite approach: I set it to alert me, but then let me decide when to download and when to update. That way the bandwidth hit of downloading and the insistence on rebooting aren’t interrupting me at bad times. For me it’s less annoying to choose when it downloads and when it...