You shall not go out with haste…for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. (Isaiah 52:12) Security from Yesterday. “…God requires an account of what is past” (Ecclesiastes 3:15). At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the […]
This year I’m going deeper for Christmas. Or, more accurately, I spent Christmas money on resources to go deeper into studying scripture. I’ve had the NIV Study Bible for several years, and it really is a great resource. Its footnotes, along with its cross-references between verses, are extremely useful in tying scripture together into a […]
Five years ago or so, not long after they first hit the market, I picked up a Chromebook – the Acer c720. I did it mostly out of curiosity, as the new (at the time) Chromebook concept centered around the lightweight Chrome operating system from Google, packaged in a small and lightweight machine. In some […]
“Shout and be glad, Daughter Zion. For I am coming, and I will live among you,” declares the Lord. “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people. I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you”. (Zechariah 2:10-11) […]
Today marks the annual shift in the earth’s tilt, as the northern hemisphere slowly starts leaning towards the sun again, yielding an increase in the amount of daylight each day (until the summer solstice). And every year, it’s a day I rejoice.
Yesterday marked one month since I closed my Facebook account. Lo and behold, I live to tell the tale. I won’t repeat all the details from my farewell post on Facebook about why I left. But it was a combination of how the “Like” button was affecting me in a negative way spiritually the […]
The Pew Research Center recently published the results of a study on where adults are getting their news (and, tangentially, to what extent they’re even seeking it). In some ways, the results aren’t all that surprising. But in other ways, it’s kind of striking to see the differences among the age demographics. The implications for […]
I stumbled upon an interesting discussion with Ken Myers, creator and host of the Mars Hill Audio Journal. The Journal is a bi-monthly audio magazine of sorts. It originally started in 1993 as the ‘Mars Hill Tapes’, as it was originally distributed via the mail on cassette tape. I was among the early subscribers, and […]