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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...