My friend Daniel rolled up his pant leg one day to reveal his sweet new kicks. “Check out these babies.” They were TOMS. TOMS Shoes. Shoes for Tomorrow. It’s a shoe company based out of Santa Monica, California, with factories in China, Argentina, and soon Brazil and Ethiopia. “Oh, so it’s that kind of company.” [...]
Why do I close my left eye after I’ve been reading or looking at my computer screen for a while? That’s kind of awkward.
What I like most about it is that it randomly closes the window; but, boy, is it a whole lot quicker than previous conflagrated vulpine canines. Aye it is.
Having just finished The Kite Runner, parallels between it and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, which I just finished listening to a BBC radio dramatization of, come to mind.
In The Kite Runner (2003) the reader along with the protagonist, Amir, eventually finds out that the household servant boy, Hassan, is not merely a servant of a [...]
After seeing all the flummery about the new Wordpress 2.5 and the screen shots of the the admin section, I decided to dive in. Actually it wasn’t that straight forward. Upgrading always makes me nervous. So, I upgraded via svn a test blog I keep tucked away online. It worked like a breeze. Praise the [...]
At the Duke Socratic Club’s Two Views dialogue on the atonement entitled “How Does Jesus Save Us?” (Feb. 26, 2008) the question was asked of the proponent of penal substitution where the life of Jesus fit in on his view, for it seemed that in this view all that mattered was the death of Jesus, [...]
Today we received our ninth phone book. (I just counted how many we have stowed in the cupboard.) One month sees a new phone book and accompanying directory from Company X. Company Y then sees the competition and steps it up a notch offering their new phone book and accompanying not-so-desideratum. Every time there’s a [...]
For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge (Rom. 10:2).
Good idea, bad execution. Had I more knowledge about the execution it would have been both a good idea and good execution.
I have acted in a zeal for God but not according to knowledge just like those [...]
Are you a real man?
HT: Codex: Biblical Studies
Check out this sermon on the phrase “him that pisseth against the wall” from the KJV of 1 Kings 14:10. The phrase also occurs in 1Sam 25:22, 25:34; 1Kings 16:11, 21:21, and 2Kings 9:8. The rendering by the KJV, while perhaps vulgar to modern ears, is a word [...]
“Did you become effeminate when you got married?” That was the question posed last night by a single seminary twenty-something. The immediate response in my mind was, “wait, what?” Some questions you just never expect, but I’ve got some thoughts on the question that didn’t make their way in edgewise last night.
The first response is [...]
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