Archive for January, 2008

Two Deaths Considered: Hinckley & Bush

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

It is my honest hope and intent that the following post will by no means bring disrespect to the persons and families of the about-to-be-mentioned. The passing away of a loved one is indeed a sensitive time, but nonetheless a part of life, and with this in mind I would like to proceed with an [...]

Visual Representation of KJV References

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

So, you’ve seen cross references in the margin, or footnotes, of your Bible. But what would all those look like represented visually? Chris Harrison, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, has done it. He’s taken the cross reference data and worked out the image below. Beautiful. Amazing. It’s the kind of [...]

What I Listened to This Week

Friday, January 18th, 2008

The first two messages in Mark Driscoll’s series “Religion Saves and Nine Other Misconceptions”: birth control and humor/making jokes. The one on birth control should be required listening in pre-marital counseling. As for the making jokes topic, Driscoll verbally body slams every group possible while ending with guidelines on how to and when to make [...]

Spring Chapel Speaker Lineup: Lennox, Dever, Hogg

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

It looks like it’s going to be a fun semester for chapel messages at Southeastern. I’m particularly excited (and you should be too) to hear John Lennox of the University to Oxford throw down. Just look at his jolly face…and you haven’t heard him speak yet. What a gracious, calculated (yes, pun intended–considering he’s a [...]

Around the World: Heater & Together

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Neat video concept of going around the world, dancing to two sweet house tunes:

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Seow Biblical Hebrew Flashcards

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

In doing an intensified language course, like J-Term/Summer Hebrew or Greek, having a ready-to-go flashcard program for the computer is where it’s at. Talk about maximizing efficiency and effectiveness. I found the below Microsoft Excel flashcard file for Seow’s Biblical Hebrew vocabulary. I had no idea that Excel was capable of this, but boy is [...]