Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

What not

I have nothing really exciting to say, but Scott Coats is posting once a day these days, and a lot of the rest of my LiveJournal friends are seriously slacking off, so I gotta keep it going I suppose. We're studying a Christian financial book in Sunday school right now in ...

Nooma - She - Preview

There's a preview out for the next episode in the Nooma series.

Senior High 1, 2008 - Tuesday

See part 1 - Introduction See part 2 - Monday Tuesday - Called to be Loved MSG 31-39So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the ...

Senior High 1, 2008 - Monday

See part 1 - Introduction Monday - Called to Faith There's been a lot of talk about atheism vs. belief lately. Every few years there seems to be a new crop of books that pop up about how religion is an evil influence on society. This year, I discovered Tim Keller's The ...

Ben Witherington Reviews “Pagan Christianity”

Ben Witherington, Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary, has reviewed Frank Viola and George Barna's Pagan Christianity on his blog. I read the book a few months ago, and it was a fascinating read. It does challenge a lot of what we do in our churches these days. ...

Interesting Article on Rob Bell

From Christianity Today: What Leaders Can Learn from Rob Bell Incidentally, the reason my notes from Rob's sermons have stopped is that Rob is on sabbatical from teaching, though they're having a great list of guest speakers during that time. So that will pick back up once he's back in the ...

Senior High 1, 2008 - Sunday

SunSenior High 1 this year was thrilling, fulfilling, stressful, and tiring. It was a great week, yet again. Unfortunately, we lost our administrative director just before the week started, leaving me to serve as the program coordinator and part of the administrative director all at the same time. In addition, we ...

Rob Bell - Others

My thoughts from Rob Bell's message from April 27, 2008: Others Rob continued going through Philippians ever so slowly. Today it was chapter 2, verses 3 and 4: 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only ...

Rob Bell - One Mind

Part of my weekly routine is listening to the latest sermon from Mars Hill each week while I'm running. Like I've mentioned before, I really get a lot out of it, and I draw from what I've learned in other areas—my sunday school class, summer camps, etc. Part of the ...

Rob Bell profile from CurrentTV

One of the habits that I've picked up over the last year 18 months or so is running several times a week. And one of the reasons I look forward to it is that it has become my devotional time. It's during that time that I listen to the weekly ...

January 5th 2009
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iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...
January 3rd 2009
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Winter Geocaching

Scenes from around the Wolf River as we were out geocaching yesterday: [gallery] Because of the great weather we've had over the break, I've had the chance to get in some geocache hunts. Today we hit a couple of the easier park and grab ones while out for lunch, but the main ...
January 2nd 2009
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Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...
December 31st 2008
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Weightbot for iPhone

Click to Read: Lifehacker: Weightbot Tracks Your Weight with Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface. Weightbot has been getting a lot of press here lately. I'll echo the praise, it's a great iPhone app to go along with all those New Year's Resolutions to lose weight. It's got an outstanding UI, really makes ...
December 28th 2008
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Hey Ladies - The Best Music of 2008

Why Hey Ladies? There's a significant trend this year with a record number of female voices in my choices for this year's mix—half of the songs. Last year, it was two. The other big trend was that this was the year of the male/female duo, most of them married couples. ...