bob and jackie are missionaries to africa (currently on home assignment). bob has renewed his blogging activity as a way of keeping in touch with friends, family, and you.Tumblr (3.0; @tzbabu)http://blog.bobandjackie.org/<p>Dear world: I’m still alive. Packing, but alive.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/142230514http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/142230514Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:28:17 -0500<p>Oh how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/121221155http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/121221155Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:59:32 -0500<p>God always uses imperfect people.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/112792981http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/112792981Mon, 25 May 2009 10:38:35 -0500<p>If you don’t deny yourself, you will deny the Lord. (Orig? from a sermon by Bill Newby)</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/112340809http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/112340809Sun, 24 May 2009 10:36:28 -0500<p>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.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/110992213http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/110992213Thu, 21 May 2009 09:42:12 -0500<p>If you succeed at the wrong thing, you’ve failed.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/110490873http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/110490873Wed, 20 May 2009 09:21:50 -0500<p>The Christian recognizes that our real problem is not in achieving freedom but in learning service under a better master. -E. Peterson</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/107672775http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/107672775Thu, 14 May 2009 07:58:10 -0500<p>Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/107205793http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/107205793Wed, 13 May 2009 09:01:23 -0500<p>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</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/106715072http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/106715072Tue, 12 May 2009 07:57:09 -0500<p>Missionary Bible Schools are like mortar. One can stack bricks without mortar, but the result is never very tall and always pretty shaky.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/106237219http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/106237219Mon, 11 May 2009 07:39:47 -0500<p>Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, who is the only one in the world who thinks my wife married “up.”</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/105822141http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/105822141Sun, 10 May 2009 08:30:33 -0500<p>When lips and life contradict, go with the life. - DJP</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/105441678http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/105441678Sat, 09 May 2009 09:00:28 -0500<p>When a church is bringing transformation to a city, it fills up with<br/> sinners. A lot of churches are doing all they can to avoid that.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/105029934http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/105029934Fri, 08 May 2009 09:01:18 -0500<p>First clue a church has forgotten how to be fishers of men: they try to<br/> clean the fish before they catch them.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/104461566http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/104461566Thu, 07 May 2009 00:01:11 -0500<p>What do we mean when we say we have a heart for missions, but our<br/> actions don’t demonstrate a heart for people?</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/104040863http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/104040863Wed, 06 May 2009 00:01:05 -0500<p>We are not saved by works, but we are saved _for_ works. - Jonathan Edwards</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/103903159http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/103903159Tue, 05 May 2009 17:27:10 -0500<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/11/looking-for-m-1.html">Guy Kawasaki</a>.  What I learned:</p> <p><> 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 others how to use social networking to generate customers [kind of the postmodern answer to Amway].</p> <p><> It is no fun trying to find content of actual interest from actual friends amid a timeline that includes hundreds of tweets that would count as spam if they had landed in my email inbox.</p> <p><> The tools that let me have my cake and eat it too (“following” people without actually ever having to see their tweets) became a way to turn something that ought to be fun (socializing) into drudgery (tagging new followers into different groups, keeping up with following those who followed me, following those who have lots of followers and automatically follow back, and on and on…).</p> <p><> The whole premise of using tools to follow more people than I intended to read is deception, not only of those I followed (who were supposed to think someone was out there actually reading the output I was working so hard to avoid), but self-deception as well, since I was building this list of hundreds of followers who, by the very nature of our relationship, were among those most likely to be screening me out in the same way.</p> <p>After deciding I had made a major mistake in the way I started with Twitter, I began to pare away at the list of people I followed.  Every time I checked a timeline, the spammy tweets near the top earned an unfollow.  But this was taking forever and became Yet Another Chore.</p> <p>Today I took drastic action: I unfollowed everyone and started over with real people I actually want to hear from.</p> <p>I feel better.  Checking in with Twitter is fun again.</p> <p>Maybe someone can learn from my mistakes.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/102055965http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/102055965Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:11:20 -0500<p>In our culture, news about God can be sold if it is packaged freshly;<br/> but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. -E. Peterson</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/100042907http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/100042907Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:05:04 -0500<p>Went jogging in the rain this a.m., demonstrating a rare combination of<br/> courage, determination, and lunacy.</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/95798215http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/95798215Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:24:59 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7JHS8adO3hM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7JHS8adO3hM&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Penn Says: A Gift of a Bible (via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/pennsays">pennsays</a>)</p>http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/82372340http://blog.bobandjackie.org/post/82372340Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:16:22 -0600