Category: Misc Stuff

I was browsing Technorati this evening, and came across this blog. This guy appears to have a good handle on things, but I haven't read everything so….. Here are some quotes of his:

From Easter Egg Christianity:

The other day I noticed a Newsweek poll regarding belief in the resurrection. I was astonished to find that in this secular venue 81% had affirmed a belief in this event. 81% of the population believes that Jesus was supernaturally raised from the dead into an immortal, glorified body, thus vindicating His teaching and claims to be the Messiah and the very Son of God? I don't think so! Not if I'm reading my cultural cues properly anyways….

…So a person believing in the resurrection should have good grounds for believing that Jesus actually said things like, "Before Abraham was, I am" and, "No man comes to the Father except through Me" and, "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven." How is it, then, that so many Christians can go to their Easter pageants and light their candles and sing their hymns while also denying potent realities like Jesus' unique divinity, the exclusivity of Christianity, or the doctrine of hell? The answer must be one of two things. One, they do not genuinely believe the resurrection to be a literal, historical event, i.e., they are simply immersed in the cultural expression of their "faith traditions." Two, they have not yielded to the logical implications of their profession of belief. Either this is a cavalier belief or it is simply an intellectual assent absent of any authentic faith commitment.

From Between Consenting Adults: 

"What consenting adults do in private is no one else's business." Is this really a good moral criteria? Based on the outrageous and lethal things that some consenting adults have managed to do, "consent" advocates should be running for cover.

This post has a bad link in it. The correct link to lifeway should be http://www.lifeway.com.

This post also has a bad link in it. The correct link to my contact page should be http://www.techs4jesus.com/contact.htm.

This post also has a bad link in it. The correct link to Technocrati should be http://www.technorati.com.

Sorry about not editing the posts directly. Blosxom by default uses the modify dates on the files to determine where to put the post in the blog. If I edit them after the fact, perma links will be all messed up, etc… I think there are some plugins out there that will fix that to use something from the filename, but I haven't had time to look into them yet.

Did anyone else watch TV this weekend? Did anyone notice the plethora of shows that dealt with Christianity, God, Jerusalem, visions, etc…? I sure did. The History Channel, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel were the worst. It appears to me that they are trying to cash in on the "spirituality" craze that appears to be sweeping the country. The problem with this is that they deal with things that so don't matter. They ran shows talking about what Jesus would have looked like, the grail, mystics, people who have seen visions of Mary, the road to Emmaus, etc…. Shows like this only make people question their faith and don't do anything substantial to further the Gospel.

Do I really expect secular TV to run The Jesus Video? No, although, it would be awesome if they would. This is why we as Christians need to know what we believe, why we beleive it, and what we stand on. So what if the apocrypha or Dead Sea scrolls says thing that contradict the Bible. They aren't the Bible. I don't believe them, I believe was the Bible was

 

…written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy….

 

— The Bpatist Faith and Message

 

My faith won't be shaken because something appears to contradict the Bible. My faith won't be shaken by someone who claims to have seen a vision of Mary. My faith is built upon the words of Almighty God! For those of you who may not understand, I mean the Bible.

I had some down-time today waiting on my computer, so I was doing a little surfing and working on my blog. I just put an RSS feed in my blog, so I downloaded an RSS reader plug-in for Firefox called Sage. In looking around at my RSS feed, I noticed links to this place called Technorati. Poking around there let me to PointMan’s Blog. This guy appears to have things together. Some of his articles I found interesting. Here is a sampling:

Here is an article about the crazyness in our countries moral compass:

Talk about a screwed up moral compass… Idiot. These big lobsters never survive once captured so he just threw $150 down the toilet. It would have done more good given to a shelter or mission.

Here is an article about guns in our country: 

Liberals booted God from the schools: no prayer, no Bible reading, no Ten Commandments, no teaching based upon the Bible. No speaking of Christ. After all, kids might really take those teachings to heart. They may decide not to lie, steal, fornicate, rape, and kill! They might honor and obey their parents, the law, and school officials. They might become kind, gracious, fair, honest, and principled! Heavens, we can’t have that can we? After all, we demand a secular society. Well, we have it and our schools have become Ignorance Factories, sex clinics, self-esteem laboratories, and sports clubs.

Hope you guys enjoy reading his blog as much as I did!

BTW, if you want to know what yak-shaving is, follow this link. Basically, it boils down to: 

You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you’re doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you’re supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you’re doing to the original meta-task.

A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Answers in Genesis has been saying this for some time now. Here is a link to an article they published in 1997 talking about this same thing. The traditional media is just now picking up on this and reporting it. I don't know why…perhaps they can no longer cover it up, or ignore it.

In this post, I have a link wrong. I won’t edit it (then my dates and permalinks would be all messed up). The correct link to view the completed anitcoloring “pictures” should be this: http://www.susanstriker.com/samples.html.

[Update 2012-12-26 14:40:11] I happened to notice this while looking for another post.  The link was pointing to my (way) old bloxsom blog.  I changed it to point to the right post

I don’t claim to know anything about how kids think or learn. I don’t claim to know how to interact with them. I don’t claim to know much of anything outside of computers; however, a guy at work sent me this link for something called anticoloring books. Looking at their free downloadable samples and the results of what some people have actually done these things look really cool.

They appear to give kids (or people) a general idea that they can build their own drawings off of. My wife, Cyndi, is a preschool teacher at Merry Moppet Early Learning Center would really like these, I think.

[Updated 2012-12-26 14:36:50] The link to Cyndi’s picture was wrong. Also the link to Sysan’s website had an exta set of double quotes.

Are you a NASCAR fan? If so, you probably enjoy the brightly colored cars of your favorite driver. Have you ever wanted to create your own car? Ever wonder what your driver’s car would look like in a different color? Dave Averill Designs has put some downloadable coloring book pages up on their website you can download, print, and color. Knock yourself out!

[Update 2012-12-26 14:42:05] The link to Dave Averill designs has gone stale (either that or I found an asian language website with NASCAR coloring pictures on it).  I’ve removed the link.  It used to point here:  http://www.daleaverilldesigns.com/media.html

Well, I'm agrivated. Bloxsom uses last modified dates to figure out when to put posts in the list. Well, I accidentially uploaded the wrong file to make a post this morning, so my blog times and permalinks are all messed up. I need to find a plugin that uses filenames for dates instead of modified dates.

Well, yesterday in the mail, we received our Christmas card from the Rawlinsons. Turns out, Lisa had misplaced it and they just found it. I thought that was funny…something I would do. Well, I saw him online today so I decided to IM him. I found out he has a few blogs I thought I would link to them here just so I could find the URLs later when I wanted to read them.

Read Bill’s Technicial Blog
Read Bill’s Personal Blog

[Update 2012-12-26 14:54:10] Bill moved his code blog to host it with his domain name.  Although, he was nice and redirected the old address, I updated this to the new address.