There is a tendency to follow the world’s lead and see life as a mixture of the profound and the mundane – to contrast the exciting, meaningful, fun parts of life with the normal, dull, daily grind parts of life. For many this is the contrast between “chilling” or “hanging out” and doing something that really matters.
Posts from January 2009
The Shepherd Press Blog: Post Only What is Helpful
Facebook, then, gives you these two options: you can leave a trail of rotten communication that points directly back to you, or you can leave a trail of words, comments and thoughts that point directly to Christ and his mercy. Which trail would you like to create? This is a question that you may not ignore.
Book Review: WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
A great starter manual for the new WordPress blogger.
When I made a decision last year to get serious about blogging, I had to make two first-step decisions:
1) What platform was I going to use?
and
2) What training tool would I enlist to make me more effective with decision #1?
When I did a book search for WordPress, there didn’t seem to be a lot of options.
The Shepherd Press Blog: Facebook and You
Now we have a biblical platform upon which to construct an understanding of Facebook and the other online social utilities. Let’s look at some specifics. The first thing one is asked when logging on to Facebook is what are you doing right now? You are supposed to tell all of the people in your social network what you are doing.
Book Review: Heaven by Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn’s book Heaven changed my thinking.
→ Read the rest Like for many others, trying to imagine what Heaven will be like was difficult for me. The Bible tells us a great deal about Heaven, but I think we often miss most of it because we are too often plagued by the influence what Alcorn calls Christoplatonism. He stresses the reoccurring theme of the renewal of Creation and gives us pause to ponder the possibilities of what God has in store for us in Heaven.
Donation plea overload in the mail? “Trash It”
Joel Belz offers some good advice for those who are receiving an extra amount of charitable giving pleas in their mailboxes:
→ Read the rest If things are really bad for the economy in general for the year ahead, one component may have it even worse. Those are the folks who manage the charitable and non-profit organizations of our society.
MacWorld SF Keynote: Delighted? or Disappointed?
Phil Schiller’s keynote address at MacWorld San Francisco is over. Like many Mac users who were unable to attend the keynote address and conference, I followed the address on the web. Announcements regarding updated software like iLife ’09 and iWork ’09 were made. A new 17″ MacBook Pro was unveiled (similar to the 15″ MacBook Pro and 13″ MacBook arrivals last October, 2008).
WorldMagBlog: A parental invasion, of sorts
Ever since Facebook dropped its student-only restriction and opened its doors in September 2007 to anyone, many student users have cried foul, saying the unrestricted access allows their parents to spy on them. Some 5,819 disgruntled high school and college-aged students have even joined a Facebook group entitled “For the love of god–don’t let parents join Facebook.”
Book Review: Every Man’s Marriage: An Every Man’s Guide to Winning the Heart of a Woman
I recently finished reading Every Man’s Marriage: An Every Man’s Guide to Winning the Heart of a Woman (previously released as Every Woman’s Desire)
Book reviews now available!
One of the things that I enjoy doing on my blog and elsewhere is reading and writing reviews. I have done a few reviews on Quawkle, mainly hardware and software reviews, but I would also like to write some book reviews.
Recently, I changed my daily routine to allow me to wake up early in the morning so I could devote some time to reading.