tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34460202011-04-21T15:51:42.419-05:00The Musings of Timothy J. EtheringtonTim Etheringtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12185558574566012252noreply@blogger.comBlogger3171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3446020.post-28583395538219868342007-01-12T15:09:00.000-06:002007-01-12T15:13:16.796-06:00

Wow, that was weird. This blog somehow got republished at byfarthesteps.blogspot.com and a spammer moved in to byfarthersteps.blogspot.com. I contacted blogger support and they booted the spammers and let me move back in. That is some good customer service. I thought I was in for a fight.Spam Karma keeps catching comment spam on my blog and I keep reporting splogs to blogspot. This episode gives

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If you visited this blog in the past and were redirected to a spam site, my apologies. Since I have moved on I don't check this very often. Someone hijacked this blog and I just recently got it back. All of the posts here have been migrated to the new site so you should just visit there.

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I've once again moved my blog!! We're up to BFS v 3.0 here. Whereas this blog is persisting, BFS 2.0 will go away Oct 31st. Update your bookmarks if you haven't already.

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I'm toying around with iBlog and working on a new version of BFS. What do you think? Edited: I updated the URL for BFS 2.0. It no longer has that nasty "B1995945177" bit in it. Now located at simply: http://homepage.mac.com/byfarthersteps I will not be posting at this blog any more. If you want to keep up with me, please update your bookmarks to my .Mac site. It came together much quicker than

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Acts 2:23 Jesus was handed over to sinful men. God knew this and planned for it to happen. You had sinful men take Him and nail Him to a cross. Acts 4:27-28 Truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever Your hand and Your plan had predestined to

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Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who

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The other day I was walking across the parking lot at work when the bell in the large, classical Presbyterian church rang. For a moment I thought about what it would be like to live in a country where church and state are united and the church is not compromised. I felt at ease for a second thinking of Christians, real Christians running the nation. I felt like I had nothing to fear.After a brief

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I'm sure we've all gotten that e-mail claiming that someone has $1.5M in an account and they need to get it out of X country. They ask you to open an account they can transfer it to and you can keep some. It is a scam to get your personal information. Usually it is the widow or son of some assassinated or deposed ruler. Here's a new twist:From Amed Hassan, Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Tele:

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I spent the weekend doing an e-mail tango with support at Palm. The last e-mail I got from them was that I wouldn't have to pay the $35 to get the replacement CD but I would have to buy the CD. Well, the first thing out of the guy's mouth on the phone was $35 fee.In a last ditch effort to get a real answer I got a hold of support at the Palmone store and got a better answer:I am very sorry, but

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I bought my Palm Tungsten T second hand from eBay last year. I know the risks of buying second-hand but I was willing to take them. I got the Tungsten for a good price and the only thing missing was the CDs that come with it. No problem, I downloaded Palm Desktop 4.1 and was syncing my heart out.Recently I bought a Bluetooth dongle for my iBook and started syncing via Bluetooth. This is really

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I got spam at my spam magnet e-mail address. Big surprise. Here's the subject line: "repulsion cornbread driveway mort incommunicable" I'm sure it is designed to overcome the spam filters out there and it did but why on earth would I ever read it with a subject like that? Oh yea, curiosity.Here's what it said:I just heard of this new drµg called ©iális and I thought you might be interested in

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I went to see The Ladykillers last night. Don't bother, it wasn't that good. If you must see it, wait till it comes out on video.That isn't to say that it didn't have some good points. Tom Hanks' performance was great. He was charming to the end. But that was about it. The story didn't contain any surprises for me. However, it was done by the Coen brothers and they always seem to have more going

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The first six verses of Hebrews 3 really caught my attention this morning. The comparison is between Moses and Jesus. It goes like this:Moses - faithful (v 2) Jesus - faithful (v 2) Moses - Servant in house (v5) Jesus - Son over house (v 6) Moses - part of the house (v 3) Jesus - builder of the house (v 3) God - builder of everything (v 4) Moses - worthy of honor (v 3) Jesus - worthy of greater

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You know about that court case before the Supreme Court about the Pledge of Allegiance? I actually agree that "under God" should not be in there because of atheists. The guy is arguing the case on behalf of his daughter, he doesn't think that she should be made to say that in school. He doesn't want it to say that there is no God either (fair enough). BUT, and it is a big but, something I didn't

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Remember that other controversial film about Jesus, the Last Temptation of Christ? Well, the screenwriter of that one, Paul Schrader, has some very interesting comments about The Passion. For example:My guess is that Mel has a problem with the Enlightenment because his film really does go back to the visceral blood cult origins of Christianity, and the fervour it's created is more akin to a

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Rome's doctrine of the infallibility of the pope stems not from the man who occupies the office, but the office itself. God so superintends that teaching office so that regardless of the man, he cannot pronounce error in matters of doctrine and morales (when speaking ex cathedra, and the other numerous qualifications.)Yet, Paul told Timothy "what you heard from me...entrust to faithful men" (2Ti

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I've been listening to John Piper on the Internet lately. Man, that is some excellent preaching. Fortunatley his MP3s are free downloads so I'm filling up my iPod. :) His theme music is Be Thou My Vision, my favorite hymn. It is my cellphone ringtone. John is raising money to get his show on the radio across the nation. I think this would be a great thing for the Church in America. I'm going to

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It is snowing. This is the second day in a row that it snowed. It is supposed to snow again. What is up with that?

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Fascinating program on This American Life on political polling. Sounds like pretty much what I thought: fraught with errors and mostly useless information.

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I am a sinner. I have sinned. What do I do? Do I beat myself? Do I run and hide from God until he gets over it? Do I sink in to depression and despair? Or worse, do I blow it off and act as if it is okay, no one got hurt and I had a good time so what's the harm? No, I am a Christian and so none of these responses is appropriate. But neither is the response that says that Christ has atoned for my

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Oh yea, this wouldn't really be a Christian blog if I didn't say something about The Passion of the Christ. Since it debuted Wednesday, I have had 5 conversations about it at work. Employees and customers alike. I have not seen it yet and i'm not sureI'm going to. Haven't made up my mind yet. I don't care for a lot of violence in movies. My church mailed out 100,000 invitations to four

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Rosie O'Donnell and her lesßian partner Kelli Carpenter on why they rushed to San Francisco to get "married":We were both inspired to come here after the sitting president said the vile and vicious and hateful comments he did.President Bush's "vile, vicious and hateful" comments: The union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by

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Me and the kids went to a Bulls game tonight. I got some free tickets from work. Good seats too! Bulls played the Toronto Raptors and won 75 to 73. It was a pretty subdued game over all. Behind us sat a drunk, loud Bulls fan. Wouldn't have been a proper game without one I guess. What was most unsettling about this gentleman was that it was fairly obvious that he was a Jock in school. Went to

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My son and I went to Best Buy and checked out Garage Band on a 20" 1.25 GHz iMac. Wow. I want them both. Wow. No, really. Just 'wow'.

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Saw Lost in Translation tonight. Interesting movie. The pace was slow so it felt more like real life. Having been in Tokyo for a week I can say that it was authentic. Don't know if I would recommend it or not.

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I definitely had that "stranger in a strange land" feeling yesterday. I was listening to Marketplace and they started talking about NASCAR. NASCAR is foreign enough to me to begin with but it wasn't the racing that got me. Marketplace is a finance program and so they were talking about the marketing of NASCAR. One wag said that NASCAR was "a business opportunity disguised as a sport." Sponsorship

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Obscured by the bo0b. Everyone is concerned about Janet Jackson's exposed breast, and rightly so. That doesn't belong on TV much less the most watched TV program of the year. However, what was going on before the exposure was just as bad. The bump and grind between Jason and Janet was just as inappropriate.Also obscured in the media because of the totally lame halftime show was an excellent

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What? President Bush asked for only $1B for the Moon/Mars program?? That isn't enough. The program is probably dead before it begins. I don't think he'll get the money for it unless he is careful about what districts he plans to involve in the program. Gotta keep those senators well fed or they get cranky. The Air Force was very good in doing this with the building of the B-2.

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I had a dream yesterday and all I can remember is the phrase "Remember, you can't say 'toy' before you go chubby!" What can this mean? Come to think of it, I don't want to know.

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I'm stoked about the rover on Mars. Even more so by the possibility of a future manned trip there. But something is bugging me about it too. The purpose is to see if Mars could have once supported life. Okay. Fair enough. If life exists on other planets, I think it would be cool to see how He did it there. What is brushing my fur the wrong way is that I suspect scientists are doing this in hopes

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I'm going in tomorrow to drop Hebrew. I just squeaked by Elementary Hebrew I and when I sit down to study for E.H.II, I stress out so bad. Nothing looks familiar and I should know it. I'll do E.H.I again in the fall. Instead, I'm hoping to take a class on Karl Barth taught by Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer. Either that or one on church history by Dr. Woodbridge. We'll see.

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I took my son and saw Master and Commander again last night (second time for both of us, first time together). That is one I'm going to get on DVD. What a story! Anyway, it made me realize what is wrong with Star Trek these days. I could never put my finger on what was missing from Voyager and Enterprise. Was it the requisite hot chick in the tight jump suit? Was it bad writing? Was it the lack

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I now own a 10GB iPod. Thank you family! :)

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The rest of the world is laughing at us. Well, at least the Brits are. It's all because of our schizophrenic way of handling Christmas. They get how ridiculous we look chasing any sign of religion out of the public life. Yes folks, this is American post-modernism at its finest.

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I do not look good in a fedora. They were the baseball cap of the 1930's, everyone wore them. I do look okay in a bowler and a baseball cap.That reminds me. Back in 1985 (or so) I had an optometrists appointment at an Air Force clinic with an active duty doctor. When I came in I had my hat in my hand. The doctor, sounding like Fred Rogers, said, "You may place your Air Force cap here." I had to

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European Abortion Battle In 1991 a woman in France went in for pre-natal care. Her doctor confused her for a woman who was in to have a contraceptive coil removed. He pierced her amniotic sac and therefore she had to have an abortion. The doctor was found guilty of unintentional homicide. It was overturned on appeals. The woman is appealing to the EU high court.What I find most fascinating about

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Don't it figure. I just wrote an 8 page paper explaining the what I see as the weaknesses in amillennialism and briefly defending historic premillennialism to explain why I waffle between the two positions. I thought it had to be 10 pages so I was going to try to pull out one more example of a premillennial reign of Jesus when I double checked the syllabus. It is a 4-5 page paper. Great, now I

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Here's something I have been wondering about. Militant Muslims who carry out acts of terror often kill Muslims in the process. Why would the Muslim community of the world (militant or otherwise) tolerate that? The insurgents in Iraq are killing American service men and women, but they are also killing Iraqis who help them. Aren't they implicitly saying that those Iraqis are not Muslims? They're

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So my son got a MacWireless USB kit for his iMac (rev b) and I have an Airport card for my iBook. We now have a wireless network in our house. Too cool. As a matter of fact I'm on the internet via the network right now. We're streaming iTunes to each other. Next we're going to work on some networked games.

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Holding the stars accountable It is about time someone got around to doing this!

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"I think that g@y marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman," Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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I am still alive. Got a lot of school to do. More after finals.

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Finding Nemo is not available in stores till tomorrow but it is in my living room today! Preordered via Amazon. Lovin' it.

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I like the way this guy (admittedly, he's a Mac fan already) thinks! I think Panther is going to bring about a major increase in the number of people switching to Macs from Windows. Let's face it, Windows is a security nightmare. Seemingly every week there's a new patch, a new worm or virus to worry about. People are fed up with Windows, and Macs have been getting a great buzz of publicity lately

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What is up with the BBC? I've notice a PC bias there but in their story on the release of Panter, they make this snipe:The company are touting the re-design of its interface, Expose, which lets users to see all the windows which are open at once, as "revolutionary".This isn't exactly correct. Exposé does more than just let you see the windows, it makes it easier for you to navigate them if you

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I've added a link to Derek Webb's website. Derek did chapel a week ago and I was very impressed with the young man. He was in Caedmon's Call and I love God of Wonder, so that was a plus. His recent album She Shall and Must Go Free is excellent and challenging.So here's the deal. I usually don't go to chapel. I just don't have enough time in my life since I'm working full-time and going to

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Gospel in Context God loves you, and offers a wonderful plan for your life. - Bill Bright, The Four Spiritual LawsI could see no purpose in putting the Christian proposition before a man unless it was made in such a way that forced him to struggle with it in terms of surrender to the ultimate and most basic demand that could be placed upon him. In order to know what had to be addressed to the

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State sponsered witchcraft.

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Here's a twist on the warning to not let gas build up in your trousers!

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I wasn't planning on buying Panther (Mac OS 10.3) because I don't need any of the great things they're adding and I didn't feel like shelling out $120 for something I can't use. However, I can get the education discount and pick it up for $69. It doesn't look like they have the family pack (a site license of up to 5 machines) in the Education Store so that isn't an option. :-/

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Windows is smarter than I thought! I'm running Virtual PC on my iBook when Hebrew Tutor (Windows program) crashes and recommends restarting Windows. Okay fine. While Windows is rebooting I open Safari to surf the web. I accidently clicked on the trash can in the dock and Virtual PC pops up with the Windows 95 logo. Trash. Windows. Sure, that works for me! It did crash after all...

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What ever we do, we can't let Bin Laden find out about this. He'd be crushed.

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Modern Gospel Progress At that time [in the 300s when Constantine converted] Christianity was the one religion that had no nationalism at its root, partly because it was rejected by the Jews! It was not the folk religion of any one tribe. – Ralph D. Winter, The Kingdom Strikes Back: Ten Epochs of Redemptive History For if their [the Jews] rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will

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I just had two JWs at my door! What a thrill to begin the evangelism with them. Who is Jesus? They say he was the first created being. I said that according to John 1:3, which I read from their (mis)translation, he couldn't be created. We went round and round and they agreed to come back next Saturday. Oh, I am so thrilled to have JayDubs come over so I can witness to them! Praise God. I get to

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A new .Mac benefit is a free copy of iBlog software. It will let you publish your own blog on you .Mac homepage. I'm going to play with it and see if I can get a decent looking blog out of it. May also be a good time for a redesign. Of course that won't happen anytime soon, I have WAY too much school work to deal with.

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Luther: The Movie Okay, I saw it. It was a two hour movie and so the story was needfully rushed. The Diet of Worms consisted of Eck saying "Recant" and Luther saying "I need more time" and then they came back and Eck once again saying "Recant" and then Luther's famous reply. If you know anything about the Reformation, you know what I mean by "rushed". The movie hit most of the historical facts

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I think I'm going to go see Luther on Friday after work. I have no idea if it will be even close to what really happened or not but it should be a good story!

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God Uses MeansThe seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" And he said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but

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Oh good, it isn't just me. Barbara Streisand don't like her music either. Now, if we can only get her to take a similiarly critical look at her politics too...

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Ethics sans God? I listened to part of a fascinating program on Odyssey today on WBEZ. The discussion was on ethics. The two distinguished guests were taking calls when I tuned in and it was interesting to hear them try to form a basis for ethics which didn't appeal to "metaphysics". What that means is that they tried to define some form of morality that had nothing to do with God.As far as I can

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Here is why we need to get Macs out of our schools: Face it. Macintoshes are toys. They are for drawing pretty little pictures. Mac lovers can cite all the facts and figures they want about their processor speeds, but a Macintosh simply cannot compete with a Windows machine when it comes to what matters: keeping techs employed.

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Yeah! CARS is broadcasting (after a fashion) again! Glad to have those knuckleheads back.

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I find it incredible that people would take offense at our preaching the gospel in other nations. While in Burma I saw televisions blaring MTV in our hotel lobby. That kind of thing corrupts morals by promoting immodest dress and overt sexuality. It suggests promises of a better life for the sexually liberated & promiscuous. It touts a life of partying and fun. Yet it can never deliver these

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9/11 Two years ago I was driving to the shopette to get some milk before I went to work. I turned on KCRW and it sounded like it was CNN. I checked the radio and it was KCRW. They were talking about a plane crash. I had no idea what they meant. A man said that planes can crash into buildings on accident like that. I got out of the car and bought the milk. When I got back in they were talking

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Calvin's (not John) take on religion in public school:

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Back in 198? I came home from England on my first leave. Before leaving London, I had to stay in a hotel where I watched Agatha on TV to while away my hours till my flight. When I arrived in Detroit the next day I saw a commercial on channel 50 for the "World-wide Television Premier" of Agatha. I hand't realized how America views the world. It am us. Or US.Well, it seems that the world has bought

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It appears that Office 2003 will include some rights controls so people won't be able to monkey with your document. Fair 'nough, sounds like a nice feature. What has me worried is this: The technology is one of the first major steps in Microsoft's plan to popularize Windows Rights Management Services, a wide-ranging plan to make restricted access to information a standard part of business

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A hymn Ye who think of sin but lightly Nor suppose the evil great Here may view its nature rightly, Here its guilt may estimate. Mark the Sacrifice appointed, See who bears the awful load; 'Tis the Word, the LORD's Anointed, Son of Man and Son of God.

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It appears these computer viruses are getting more agressive!

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Here is scientific proof that fish are really out to get us. "Rather than simply being instinct-driven...fish are cunning, manipulative and even cultured." See, I'm not crazy.

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The HMS PrideThe HMS Pride sailed the Sea of Me when she received the call to put in to Submission Harbor. Her captain sailed her around the Life Islands but couldn't find the entrance to the harbor.During one circuit around the island, a storm arose. It drove the HMS Pride hard. Her captain fought mightily to maintain control of the ship. Mr. Humility, her First Mate, pointed the captain toward

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Yea, that whole fish thing I've been harping on (here and here), well it just turned gross! (via Russ)

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In light of SoBig.F and MSBlaster, both of which I had to deal with at work, may I point this out: Mac Viruses By The Numbers - Word Macro: 553, Classic Mac: 26, OS X: Zero. [Cough]. Humm...

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How would this be different if blogs existed when Calvin and Hobbes was written?

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"An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue", Reuters reports. He came in with chest pains and his heart failed so they declared him dead. His daughter found him alive when she came to claim the body.Everyone knows that no one can come back from the dead so Reuters put quotation marks around 'dead' in the title of the piece. Yet,

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A friend of mine told me that he'd had fixed a problem with his computer. He said it was a "eye dee ten tee" problem. I looked confused till he wrote it out for me: ID10T. I've had that same problem in the past. That and the multiple problems infliced by a loose nut on the keyboard and mouse. Both are common across all computer platforms and OSs. ;o)

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I was talking with a friend today about John Piper's biographical sketch of John G. Patton. Here's a little blurb on it:Upon hearing Paton's intention to go, a Mr Dickson exploded, "The cannibals! You will be eaten by cannibals!" To this Paton responded, "Mr Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you,

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Yesterday's fishing story was nothing. It's getting worse. Remember Hitchcock's The Birds? Now its The Fish!

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I decided to install Windows 95 on my iBook. I know, I know. Windows? Right. And, Windows won't run on a G3 processor, only Intel! Right again. I had to buy a copy of Virtual PC for my Mac so I can use a piece of Windows 3.1 software that is required for classes next term and strongly suggested for this term. So I bought Virtual PC with DOS and installed a legal copy of Win 95b I had kicking

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I've always enjoyed fishing. I just hate it when I'd get interrupted by actually catching a fish. Well, it turns out that catching one doesn't only interrupt a quite day at the lake, it can be lethal!

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Last school year was sort of tough. I felt overwhelmed with work and isolated. I didn't know many people at school because I'd just started. I didn't know many people at church because I couldn't get too involved. I knew everyone at home but spent little time there. This year seems like it might be different.I stopped by today to take care of some paperwork. On the way to the office I ran into a

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I'm ripping this off from a friend, but it cracked me up!Two church members were going door to door. They knocked on the door of a woman who clearly was not happy to see them. She told them in no uncertain terms she did not want to hear their message and then slammed the door in their faces.To her surprise, the door did not close. In fact, it bounced back open.Seeing the two church members at the

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Interesting thread starting on why Windows gets so many virusii compaired to other platforms.

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For, as for my heart, when I go to pray, I find it so loth to go to God, and when it is with him, so loth to stay with him, that many times I am forced in my prayers, first to beg of God that he would take mine heart, and set it on himself in Christ, and when it is there, that he would keep it there. Nay, many times I know not what to pray for, I am so blind, nor how to pray, I am so ignorant;

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Here's a pic of me and my son Benjamin (I'm the one with the gotee) at the Michigan Ave. Apple Store in Chicago. Cool store. We took the pic via an iSight on a 12" Powerbook. I'm posting this via my iBook and their Airport network. Technology is so cool. Next stop today is Moody Bible Institute library. BTW, Ben got the shiner from a friend. They were acting in a movie when he got biffed, as in

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The real question is exactly who was the cruelty perpetuated on? I'm thinking it was the neighbors.

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2 Timothy 2:10 - Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. Long ago when I was doing a local radio program, I had an Arminian gently point out that the term "elect" in Ephesians 1 was speaking about the position of being "in Christ" and not about particular people. We had a pleasant exchange and

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I cried during Communion this Lord's Day. No, the devotion was not particularly moving, nor was the music. The reason I cried is complicated. I've recently come to be (once again) painfully aware of my own spiritual shortcomings. Before Communion I considered not taking it because of these shortcomings. Then I remembered that the Lord's Table is a means of grace and that I was in need of a lot of

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I heard about this on WMBI this morning on the way to work. While I applaude the Bishop's intent, I am worried about his methods. I've heard white churches express concern about there not being enough diversity and this is the first instance of a black church expressing the same thing. I hope that we might continue to move together (without the lure of cash), the terms "white church" and "black

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I've been reading in 1 & 2 Kings lately about Elijah and Elisha. Man, what a story. These guys did some incredible things; taunting the prophets of Baal (1Ki 18:27&33-38), making axe heads float (2Ki 6:1-7), and curing and creating leprosy (2Ki 5:14 & 27). The author of 1 & 2 Kings just tells the stories. No explanation of why and there doesn't appear to be a common thread holding the stories

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I listen to Rob's playlist because that way I can be cool without having to spend all the money on CDs. Thank you Rob for the great music.

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Spank Granny? Raffy has a new domain name and a lot of issues, apparently. Spank granny? Humm. It used to be Have A Nice Day or H.A.N.D but now, continuing the hand theme, we're spanking granny. Egh. The blogosphere is a weird and wonderful place.

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A while ago I commented that 2nd movies in a trilogy tend to be the weakest. While that is (so far) true of Lord of the Rings and The Matrix, there are some notable exceptions. Star Wars was the best by far of the entire series. The Empire Strikes Back was okay and Return of the Jedi was miserable. The new Star Wars episodes are laughable.Last night I saw T3. T2 was by far the best of the series.

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My good friend Matt asked me a good question: why plant a church in the US? Instead of replying in a comment, I thought I'd blog my response.There are a number of reasons to plant in the US. First of all, my missions philosophy is "both/and". Long-term and short-term, overseas and domestic, church planting and pioneer. You get the idea. So, just because I am planting in the US doesn't mean I

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From Apple's website. When discussing the new fast user switching in the next version of Mac OS X, they say:Because we can Mac OS X animates transitions from one user to another. The current desktop becomes a texture placed on a 3D cube that rotates out of view while the incoming account desktop rotates into view on another side of the cube.I love that header: Because we can. What better reason

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BTW, as part of my field ed this summer I'm working on an annotated bibliography having to do with church planting. If you have read any church planting books that you found especially helpful, please drop me a comments so I can check them out. Once I'm done with the bibliography, I might publish it on my site. Thanks for your support.

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In the most recent issue of Reformation Today is an article on the Old Testament roots of baptism. It is brief but very interesting. I have long held that baptism's Old Covenant antecedant is not circumcision but I never really had anything to pin it to. Richard Gibson claims that baptism comes from the mikvah or ceremonial washing.That makes a lot of sense to me. I couldn't understand how a rite

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On the cover of just about every major paper here in Chicago were pictures of homosexuals celebrating the Supreme Court's defeat of a Texas anti-sodomy law. You've probably seen similar pictures in your local papers.Have you noticed that they all seem to be men weeping and hugging? I haven't seen one of two guys high-fiving or belly-bumping or other "typically male" forms of celebration.

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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips

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I'm in Kansas City at a pre-conference for the EFCA National Conference. Doing this post via the wireless LAN at the conference center. This conference is on multiplying church planting movements. Some interesting discussion. One of the great things that came up was that we have to start with prayer. I know, it sounds obvious but it isn't always so. Before you start a church planting movement,

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