May 2008
44 posts
Medical Miracle - West Virginia's Eyewitness News →
On May 22, 2008, this ABC affiliate reported a local story of a woman being raised from the dead in the name of Jesus.
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Did you hear about the Talking Jewish Mother Doll?
You pull the string and it says, “Again with the string!”
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Online Tools of the Bible Interpreter: Concordance
A Concordance is used mainly for word studies, as explained in the article on Tools. For the same purpose I would prefer to use the “universal search” box on the left side of the net.bible.org page (by doing a search for the same word I would look up in a concordance). For word studies, one can also use the KJV with Strong’s links from the same page.
For a more normal (if...
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Annoying Programs: Apple
Apple’s annoyances include interrupting you to check for updates on your time, resource-hungry programs that slow your system to a crawl, and digital rights management that mostly gets in the way of using content you’ve already paid for.
Apple’s software is firewalled on my PC and not allowed to check for updates. (I use Comodo Firewall Pro, which is free and very configurable,...
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Online Tools of the Bible Interpreter: a Study...
The tools of a Bible interpreter are always available when you are online if you know what you are looking for (with Google around, you hardly even need to know where to look, though it does help to memorize some URLs).
For a Study Bible, I suggest remembering the address net.bible.org so that you don’t have to look it up. The NETBible is there, along with a few other translations. There...
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10 Most Annoying Programs
The linked piece from Rupert Goodwins, ZDNet.co.uk is a humorous but all too true look at some ubiquitous and annoying software.
In response, I find these are all true and bothersome enough that I have quietly dealt with most of them in the normal course of using my computer. Probably most “computer guys” have done something similar but we forget to document the fixes so they can be...
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Take Your Vitamin Z: Carson on Compatibilism →
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“It’s a funny thing about us human beings: not many of us doubt God’s...”
– http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9801/budziszewski.html via http://scassembly.blogspot.com/
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39 Tips to Improve Weblog Traffic and Visibility... →
Tips from a practitioner who happens to be my buddy from way back. Time for me to pay attention to this. I wasn’t blogging when Rich’s post originally appeared. Now I’m in the very early stages of establishing what I hope will be a regular stop for those interested in the nexus of missions, theology, and computers where I live and work. I’ve been testing whether I had...
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Tools of the Bible Interpreter
While teaching in Assemblies of God Bible College in Tanzania, I ran into the issue of some students not practicing what they learned in class. A major cause was that after leaving campus, they didn’t have the Bible study tools they needed to continue. I organized a course to teach how to use computers and online tools to fill this gap. Now I want to share the same information here for...
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from discussion in comments at AGThinkTank.com
George Wood: The problem is that Arminians also stress God’s sovereignty and divine prerogative, while Calvinists admit man’s moral responsibility. That is not the nub of the issue between Calvinists and Arminians. The nub is unconditional election, limited atonement, and eternal security.
Me: That may be the nub of the issue between Calvinism and Arminianism, but it doesn’t have to be the center for our understanding of soteriology.
George: While the AG deftly tries to avoid "the extreme positions" of the two camps, in reality this is impossible.
Me: It may well be impossible if you start from inside of one of the traditional positions and then try to reason your way to a halfway point. But it is not horribly difficult if you start from a third position and describe how it overlaps both while being different from either. That is what I’m suggesting and I think it is exactly the kind of thing an AG Think Tank might be able to articulate to make a positive contribution to the fellowship’s theological identity.
George: There’s not a lot of wiggle room between those two hard edges.
Me: Then don’t get down between those edges - start somewhere else.
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Eating the pizza box
Yesterday it was announced on the news that the cardboard used for pizza boxes could cause obesity. This naturally raises the question, who eats the box? If we apply this question figuratively to the issue of having faith, I regret to report that a lot of sincere people are eating the box. And an equally large number are throwing away the pizza to keep from eating the box. I know this, not only...
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My comment at CT
The link below to the article at Christianity Today’s website will also take you to a variety of comments at the end of the article. I contributed one, which is reproduced here:
Very well articulated! I am from a Pentecostal background, and have come to a very similar view from a very different path. There are a number of us who grew up in Pentecostal churches who rejected some of our own...
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“In the matter of the security of the believer, The General Council of the...”
– Security of the Believer (Official A/G Position Paper)
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Teaching a Calvinist to Dance | Christianity Today... →
Excellent article that articulates the compatibility of Pentecostal worship with Reformed theology. Note: I am neither a Calvinist nor an Arminian, but a compatibilist.
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“You learn your limits. And then you learn your limits are almost entirely...”
– Building Mental Toughness: Simple, But Not Easy | Schaefer’s Blog
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100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man’s Library |... →
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my version of Front Seat, Back Seat (just voice...
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How to Forgive - wikiHow →
“As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim...”
– President Apostate? - New York Times
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thoughts on Windows Vista from a latecomer
We have two Windows laptops here, both purchased during the XP era (which I suppose isn’t quite over yet). One of them is over 6 years old and will probably need to be replaced this year. I suppose we will buy a laptop loaded with Vista, partly because that’s how they come, and partly because I need experience with it.
I don’t own a Vista computer yet but I have been called on...
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“In this vain and fallen world, a man who cannot laugh has no business...”
– For Kirk and Covenant, pp. 125-126, via http://www.dougwils.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=5428
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Speaking in Code [Hamartiology] →
Plain talk about when fundraising tactics cross the line into sin.
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recommendation: devotion/commentary by email
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Woot : One Day, One Deal (SM) →
gadget bargains, one per day. i haven’t bought anything yet but i like checking in case there’s something i need.
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“The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and...”
– Mueller’s Prayers
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“But don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are...”
– Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times
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Blessing
Num 6:24-26 MSG
(24) GOD bless you and keep you,
(25) GOD smile on you and gift you,
(26) GOD look you full in the face and make you prosper.
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Starting over
I gave up on my previous blog. It was something that required too much time and emotional energy to keep up with. This “tumblr” alternative was recommended to me as a way to keep a blog alive (posting often enough that someone might actually visit it) while at the same time requiring a minimum of fuss. I intend to play with it for a while before announcing it’s here so that I...