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...