“Repetitio est mater studiorum” revisited

I had mentioned some time ago that, after reading a good post from Joe Carter on how to be mastered by the Bible, I had begun reading Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Carter commended a method of repetition where you read the same passage of Scripture twenty times. I tried that with Jesus’ sermon. It [...]

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Huckabee on Giuliani on Abortion

I liked the classy and nuanced way that Huckabee characterized his differences with Giuliani over abortion in a recent interview.

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When Not to Email

Yesterday, on Leadership Network‘s Digital Team Blog,  I posted a few thoughts on when email should be abandoned. Past Posts on digital.leadnet.org: Taming the Email Beast -  a treatment suggesting more efficient ways of managing your inbox, Digital Death – extolling the wisdom of backing up your data Toward a New Model of Leadership Development, [...]

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A Living Orthodoxy

Noel Heikkenen highlights a great Yo-Yo Ma quote: “Any tradition that doesn’t evolve becomes smaller.” Reminded me of a favorite John Murray quote (that I’ve mentioned here before): “However epochal have been the advances made at certain periods and however great the contributions of particular men we may not suppose that theological construction ever reaches [...]

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less viral music

Justin Taylor posts a creative response after being tagged by Steve McCoy who was tagged by me. and kenny has responded.

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Viral Music

Ok, here are – three albums that I recommend you buy if you don’t already have them and – three bloggers I’m tagging so that they’ll blog what three albums they recommend and the three bloggers they’ll tag and so forth: ALBUMS The Pat Metheny Group – The Road to You: Recorded Live in Europe [...]

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Watching the Presidential Candidates

I had never used Rasmussen Reports but now I’m seeing it referred to.   They do daily Presidential Polls!  At the top of their site, you can see they’re collecting an impressive array of endorsements.

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New Design for SmartChristian.com

Andrew Jackson has announced a redesigned SmartChristian.com. Of Jackson’s site, Andrew Jones opines: “SmartChristian is the widest reaching Christian megablog I have come across.” and Mark D. Roberts says that the site is ” one of the most useful and popular of the God blogs.” Worth checking out.

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translation? smaller ipods with more memory storage!

” SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has developed a more advanced flash memory chip that will allow increased data storage in digital products such as music players. Samsung, the world’s largest maker of computer memory chips, unveiled a 64-gigabit NAND flash memory chip based on finer process technology using circuit [...]

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Churches Worth Noticing

For I believe the second year in a row, Kent Shaffer has put together an excellent metalist of “Best Churches Lists.” He compiled this metalist from the following compilations: Outreach magazine’s 2007 America’s 25 Most Innovative Churches Outreach magazine’s 2007 101 Fastest-Growing U.S. Churches Outreach magazine’s 2007 100 Largest U.S. Churches The Church Report’s 2007 [...]

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