Update: Lots of link-love this morning. If you’re new, welcome! I should say that the real innovators of this are these cool cats: Michelle, Dave, MPJ, JMoff, Doug, JMoff again and Sam – they are the original wordlers.
After Wordling John, the entire New Testament (all 175,743 words of the ESV) seemed the logical next step. Click for full-sized image:
Someone should do a greek New Testament so I know which words to learn.
everywhere in my life. I hate it; but worst of all… I love it.
Be gone, pride!
rhys is so hot says:
well i wanted to make a big entry on his blog
rhys is so hot says:
BANG, and there i was
Hooray!
Update: nevermind.
This is the awesomest thing I’ve seen today:
The complete Mars Hill Church Song Repository – sheet music for every song from every band. Free.
Loads of the songs have free quality mp3 downloads.
Looks like a great resource. Check it out.
Doxologist radio looks very cool too.
What’s your favourite Mars Hill band? Mine is easily Brothers of the Empty Tomb.
I once talked to a guy who doesn’t believe in God because all the arguments he’s heard used to argue for God have failed.
His reasoning is:
1. Arguments x, y, and z tried to prove God.
2. Arguments x, y, and z failed to proved God.
Therefore,
3. There is no God.
Anyone else see a problem with that? Maybe they were just bad arguments! In philosophy you need to be constantly reminded that to find an argument invalid is not the same as to falsify its conclusion.
(This post was based largely on my comment on another post. If you don’t already read the comments, do. There’s some gold buried down there.)
Free sms is normally VK’s terrain – check out his reviews – but I just found a sweet new player.
LeTXT, my old favourite, is having a rest. SMSfun still rocks – its quick, you can send sms to more than 1 person at a time.
But my new homeboy is yakedi! The big attraction of this bad boy is the one-two punch of unlimited free sms messages per day (in contrast to SMSfun’s limit of 5 per day), and the full 160 character messages (beating SMSfun’s 120). It’s a bit slower to send them, but yakedi! is definitely my new go-to man. Violinkid.com has a more in-depth look.
In this awesome post, Mark Driscoll writes:
The following Sunday I preached on the cross of Jesus as part of the Doctrine series I’m working on. And, at every one of the services I preached at live at our Ballard Campus people joined me on stage to give their lives to Jesus. I have always preached the gospel, but I find that lately my belief that God will actually save people through the preaching of the gospel has grown more certain than ever. Nearly every preacher believes that God could use them for evangelism, but sadly too often they do not preach as if God would use them for evangelism. This is something God in his patience is helping me to mature in and the fruit of seeing people saved from Satan, sin, death, hell, and the wrath of God is an unspeakable joy.
Lately I’m finding myself increasingly in that second group – finding it hard to believe that God does save people. Its been a while since I’ve seen anyone close to me saved…
Any advice?
Firefox 3 has been released. Get it here.
It’s also Download Day – they are trying to break a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours. Download it in the next 13 hours to be a part of it.
At the time of publishing, they had 3,959,285 downloads
Yesterday in ‘Haven’t We Always Been Creationists’, I showed that some ancient heavyweights were not creationists.
St Augustine, one of the greats, had some great advice, more relevant than ever 1600 years after he wrote it. (It’s heavy work to read, but well worth it)
“It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are. In view of this and in keeping it in mind constantly while dealing with the book of Genesis, I have, insofar as I was able, explained in detail and set forth for consideration the meanings of obscure passages, taking care not to affirm rashly some one meaning to the prejudice of another and perhaps better explanation”
(The Literal Interpretation of Genesis 1:19–20 [A.D. 408]).
If we discover something about the world, don’t go speaking idiotically against it because you cling to one particular meaning of obscure passages. Ouch. Good advice.
Augusting had lots more to say. Read some of it at the bottom of this page.
