July 2007
17 posts
Friday Photos
PicasaWeb needs to be better integrated with Blogger. The Picasa desktop client has a “Blog This” button that opens up a crippled version of Blogger to post the photo but that’s about it. Anyway, here are a few photos I took yesterday while walking around my neighborhood. This first one is obviously a traffic circle. The cool thing is that some people in the neighborhood have...
The Internet Has Crashed
(via Dustin DeKoekkoek)
Good article:
Why I'm Not Done With Church
"It's...
Good article: Why I’m Not Done With Church “It’s God’s intention to build a redeemed community living in a renewed earth in relationship with Him, the God who is Himself a Triune community- that’s the whole point, the telos of the Gospel!” (via Dustin DeKoekkoek)
The Cross
“…for a Christian, all other boasting should also be boasting in the cross. All exultation in anything else should be exultation in the cross. If you exult in the hope of glory, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ. If you exult in tribulation because tribulation works hope, you should be exulting in the cross of Christ. If you exult in your weakness, or in the people of...
Objective Reality
You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden to? It is no use trying to”see through” first principles. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible...
Democracy
I’ve read this quote on a few different sites today (John Piper, Justin Taylor, Evangelical Outpost). It’s good so I will post it as well.
I am a democrat [believer in democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in...
Our 4th
Yesterday, Jenae and I along with our dog Gus had a relaxing day. We got coffee at Ladro and sat outside for quite a while. We could see the very top of the fireworks show at Gasworks out our window so the three of us watched that for a few minutes until it got boring. (via Dustin DeKoekkoek)