January 2005 Entries
It seems (here, here, here and here for example) that the first free election in more than 50 years in Iraq was wildly successful. Pictures of elderly, infirmed and cloaked women greeted me on most of the news sites that I frequent. I saw video of 3 men carrying an elderly woman in a plastic deck chair down the street so she could vote. I saw pictures of blue fingers everywhere. I think that’s very cool.
I also find it interesting that there is talk of erecting a monument to Bush in Baghdad. This...
I probably shouldn’t post this. But I’m going to anyway…
Today, I received an email prayer list that contained a request that struck me. I have the privilege and honor to receive a request from a Chaplain that is on the ground in Iraq. I have the privilege and honor to pray for this man and his local “family”. As he submitted this request privately, I’ve obscured some details to protect his identity. Please join me in praying for him and his comrades as they serve their...
For those of your playing along at home (and I know there are a few of you), I've posted my IBS lessons for Romans 4 and 5.
Later.
Just a quick FYI...
I've been making some updates to the site. The most notable and first implemented is Miguel Jimenez's effort around combatting Comment spam that robots enter on blog sites such as this one. It's very frustrating, offensive, and time consuming to monitor for the crap that is propogated and I, as one of many, have had enough.
Therefore, now, when you leave comments (and I hope you do), you'll be asked to enter the characters represented in a graphic displayed in the Comments section. Yes, it's slightly more complex than just entering your comment and firing, but this keeps...
Folks, this kind of stuff drives me crazy. Martin Luther King Jr never (to my knowledge) used financial equality as one of his major platform issues. Yet today, on the commemoration of his birthday, this is what the likes of Jesse Jackson are claiming. Further, they've got mainstream news pundits parroting right along.
When did desegregation, voting privileges, and anti-discrimination turn into Socialism? MLK, while not a perfect man, stood for things that were good and right. He went about it a good way. He could have taken a path of violence (i.e. Malcolm...
I just posted the first 4 lessons that I've done for an Inductive Bible Study method for my Sunday School class. I hope it's useful to someone out there.
I've also posted what I think of as a one-page summary on how to do a IBS. It's based on Kay Arthur's How to Study Your Bible, but I've simplified some of it for newbies. I think it helps to simplify and grow into the full IBS method. It gets a little overwhelming just starting out.
Both sets of information are under the “Article Categories“ section on the top-left.
Please let me know if you...
Yes. It's true. I am a news junkie. But I'm not the only one out there. There are others - you know who you are. Our condition has taken countless hours away from other more productive things that we could be doing. However, there IS an answer. I can help.
The answer is Really Simple Syndication (or RSS). Frankly, it's the bomb. It allows me to collect the information I want from the websites that I want. How cool is it? Let us count the ways...
RSS does not require any authentication or indentification to work. Your provider (newspaper, news site, magazine,...