At Work in Cape Town
Bob and Jackie Braswell are AGWM missionaries to Global School of Theology/Cape Theological Seminary in Cape Town, South Africa.
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“Please, Aslan,” said Lucy, “what do you call soon?” “I call all times soon,” said Aslan. …”
“Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal…. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
“Trial-and-error has error in it”
Online Tools of the Bible Interpreter: Bible Handbook/Dictionary
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 Encyclopedia of Biblical Christianity: http://www.theopedia.com (This site gets into systematic theology and in some places is extremely Calvinist, but still evangelical). Theopedia is more tightly controlled and strictly edited than Wikipedia, but it is growing in coverage of useful topics.
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) and if you’re interested you can find the download link on the project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ .
“Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?”
What’s the difference between a guitar player…
… and a fourteen-inch pizza?
A fourteen-inch pizza can feed a family of four.
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 how it relates to the present.
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 installs. Also, I don’t like to be among the first to use a new update, especially a big one like a service pack. I always wait a few days under the theory that if it is buggy I will have time to hear the digitial screaming of other users before I jump in.
