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All Things Are Better In Koine?
When Bible College kids have too much time on their hands…
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Free Ebook: Thriving on Less – Simplifying in a Tough Economy
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A FREE download is available now: Leo Babauta has written a companion to The Power of Less — a free ebook called “THRIVING ON LESS: Simplifying in a Tough Economy“.
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When your income is dropping or in jeopardy and you still have a mountain of bills to pay, things can get pretty scary.
However, tough economic times do not have to be a time of struggles!
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Beacon Light Baptist Church Christmas Pageant
Monica put on a little Christmas pageant with some of the kids from our church…
Archive for December, 2008
Best of the Web for week of Christmas, 2008
Published December 27, 2008 "Blogosphere" Leave a Comment
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From the “OK, it’s kind of bizarre, but also kind of cool Department”…
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The Car Tent is a rather ingenious approach to urban camping. Instead of hiding in a park or making up excuses in a public location, car tent users can camouflage themselves right in plain view.
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“The car tent is a tent designed to look like a car cover, so you can go camping in the city without being disturbed. And really, who doesn’t go camping in the city? When you get hungry you just shoot a business man and cook him over an open flame.”
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Too good to be true? LiveDrive is the first service I have seen to claim unlimited file storage space on-line. This would certainly solve the dilemma that I have in trying to find hard drive space to keep my home movies…
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Never run out of storage space again! All Livedrive packages come with unlimited storage space.
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We believe that using an online hard drive should be no different to using a normal hard drive … and that’s exactly how Livedrive works.
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Send large documents, presentations and ZIP files to contacts and clients. Forget the hassle of emailing attachments.
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Best Places to Find Multi-Monitor Wallpaper
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Most popular by a landslide, was Mandolux.
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Second and still highly favored was InterfaceLIFT, an enormous respository of wallpapers.
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Although you wouldn’t expect anything less from a website devoted to creativity and artwork, the wallpaper section of DeviantArt is packed with beautiful wallpaper.
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Social Wallpapering take a Digg-like approach with users submitting and voting wallapers up and down in popularity.
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The problem with wives…
Published December 13, 2008 Marriage Leave a CommentTags: cooking, events, kids, Life, Marriage, parenting, wife
Monica's solo
…Is that they make it look so easy. There would be a lot less marital conflicts if the husband only knew what the wife had to go through for some of the seemingly simplest of tasks, such as just getting all of the kids ready and out the door to make an appointment.
Monica sang in a Christmas special recently (even had a solo!) and I had to get all the kids ready to go while she was getting set up at the event. Maybe I’m just a bad father, but it’s harder than it looks.
You have to pack the diaper bag, get all of the kids’ hats and gloves, make sure they’ve all gone to the bathroom and had their drinks, make sure you have remembered to bring everything else that’s necessary for whatever event you are attending… And that’s just going places, don’t even get me started on how hard it was to coordinate dinner so that everyone was eating exactly what they wanted all at exactly the same time and that it was cooked to perfection (or in this case, just heated up to perfection in the microwave).
Let’s give the wives a special round of applause!
Best of the web for the week of December 7, 2008
Published December 13, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a Comment-
Evangelism Through Christmas Cards
As long as you are sending out Christmas cards anyway, and as long as people expect religious themes anyway, use it as an opportunity for evangelism.
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Jesus is God’s promise fulfilled.
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Christmas Blessings…
…with a prayer that you come to a quiet place of reflection on the simplicity of Jesus’ birth and the magnitude of His purpose.
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Search and find magazines on Google Book Search
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Today, we’re announcing an initiative to help bring more magazine archives and current magazines online, partnering with publishers to begin digitizing millions of articles from titles as diverse as New York Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and Ebony.
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Life only matters if it’s wanted
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The question, Mrs Furedi argued, was “not, when does human life begin? but, when does it really begin to matter?”.
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She admitted that “the embryo is a living thing”, and that it “is clearly human in the sense that it’s not a gerbil”, but stopped short of according it the same status as “a born person”
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Mrs Furedi is married to Frank Furedi, the founder of the British Revolutionary Communist Party and currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent.
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GTD Tip #1 – Make your weekly review enjoyable
Published December 9, 2008 Productivity 1 CommentTags: gtd, Productivity, weekly review, work
Over the years I’ve started using GTD principals a couple of times and have slowly fizzled out a couple of times. I have managed to keep it going for awhile now (and am always more productive when I am doing it) by making the weekly review a little more enjoyable.
Nothing kills off the desire to “get things done” more than dreading the weekly review. If you start to see it as a mundane chore that simply must be slogged through, you’ll start putting it off and skipping it some weeks altogether. This spells doom for the GTD philosophy.
One thing that used to cause me to dread the weekly review was seeing the same old tasks over and over again that I knew I would never have time to get to. How depressing to see all of those failures right in front of your face every week! If you find this happening, remove the task from your list, and if it’s something you think you may one day get to, try to anticipate when you’ll be able to look at it again and set yourself a reminder to appear (maybe a few months hence), at which time you can evaluate whether you can take it on or just set another reminder. Aim to “declutter” your task list every week.
Also, try to look forward to the weekly review as a time to take it down to third gear and relax a little. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, or if you have a Starbucks nearby, pick up an eggnog latte or something. How about a smoothie? Put on some relaxing music, and try to have fun, visualizing your goals and the next steps you must take to get them done. By keeping your review time organized, relaxed, and a little more fun, you’ll ensure that you stay willing to keep it on your schedule.
Best of the web for the week of December 1 2008
Published December 5, 2008 "Blogosphere" Leave a Comment-
Just when you thought it would be a good idea to add rounded corner and drop shadow effects to all of your blogs and web applications…
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Out with the old rounded corners, drop shadows and heavily saturated colors — in with a softer palette, faster components and a fresh new look.
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The Doorpost Film Project – Volition
A vision of hope that “someday people will see it for what it really is.”
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Give the gift of death this holiday season…
Planned Parenthood is now offering the ultimate abortion convenience: gift certificates!
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From the, “it doesn’t get much weirder than this” department…
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Boy George took it too far with his boytoy male escort.
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The 47-year-old, who tried under his real name George O’Dowd, denied falsely imprisoning Audun Carlsen at his apartment in April last year, the Press Association reported.
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the singer had handcuffed him to a wall and beaten him with a chain because he was angry he had refused to sleep with him when they first met.
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Michael Patton tackles the question… Can Christians play Santa? I have mixed feelings on the whole Santa issue. On one hand, I hate telling the kids something that is not true, on the other hand kids love to believe in magical little things like that.
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At first, my reaction was the typical OK, this confirms it. We are not watching anymore Santa movies, cutting way back on the Santa fun, and not going to talk about getting presents anymore. But that never feels right. I quickly turned away from that and started singing the Santa songs with them. Why?
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I should not demonize Santa and other “secular” Christmas cheer when it is the life throughout the year that is important. I would rather my daughter tell one of her friends about what Christ means to her in July than to have her focus on the manger in December. Telling others about Christ all year round is commanded in Scripture and is the true meaning of Christmas.
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Should Christians play Santa? I have no problem with it. Personally, I can’t bring myself to tell my children that he actually exists, but I have no problem with others who do and I have no problem singing Christmas carols that don’t involve Christ so long as Christ is the focus of our lives, not just our Decembers.
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‘Twilight’ and the agony of abstinence
“Moral-minded critics and skittish parents have latched onto the literal fact that the teen lovebirds in the movie never actually have sex. Yet considering all the anguished panting and heaving going on, I’d say “Twilight” has things on its mind other than waiting until marriage.”
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American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers
“Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or even thinking about flying aboard the commercial carrier.”
Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:19-22)
This is a clear command from Paul speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. A (very) modern paraphrase might read, “Listen fairly to peoples’ ideas, engaging your brain and thinking critically about them. Believe what is true and deny what is false.”
I believe we have slowly lost the ability to “prove all things.” Paul would take us all to task for our inabilities in this area. By contrast, see how the Berean Jews were spoken favorably of in Acts 17:11 for “receiving the word with all readiness of mind” and searching the scriptures to see whether the things that Paul was preaching were so.
We all have some blind spots. For whatever reason, the Holy Spirit has not seen fit to lead any particular one of us into perfect truth in this life. If you’ve ever been around someone who was convinced they had all the answers, you can probably imagine why. There’s a prideful attitude that such claims to perfection always bring. At what cost comes perfect knowledge? Therefore setting up other individuals as your standard of truth will always fail. It’s not enough to believe something just because your parents did, your pastor does, Jerry Falwell, or <insert name here>.
You must think critically about everything, and I believe the Bible teaches that you should take an irenic approach to truth, from the Greek word for “peace”, εἰρήνη. The wisdom “from above” is pure, peaceable, gentle, and “easy to be entreated” (Jas 3:17). In other words, you look at the facts with an open mind. You make a decision after carefully weighing all of the facts, not before: “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” (Proverbs 18:13)
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