a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
Ben Franklin said, “He who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserves neither.” I find it an interesting quote for today’s political climate. No doubt the quote is being thrown out so often it will lose some of its power and even become distasteful, if not so already, to certain Republicans. Quite frankly, sacrificing our liberty [...]
So this is what happens when your friends decide their engagement party should be 70s style:
Jesus amazingly showed little regard for the belief systems he encountered. He neither felt the need to correct every little “error” nor did he spend time detailing the way to “truth.” He simply said, “I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life.” Now, one of the defenses of our current situation regarding truth [...]
New Study Reports that Search Sites Provides Twice the Conversion Rate When Compared With Other Acquisition Sources: “The Dow Jones story: Search Sites Better At Getting Shoppers To Buy: Study, reports on new research from WebSideStory that shows search engines (both paid and organic listings) provide more than twice the conversion rates than other forms [...]
Jordon Cooper tagged me, and I just now realized it. Sorry for taking so long, Jordon. I don’t know how that post slipped under the radar. Four jobs I’ve had: 1. Arby’s 2. Residential Counselor at a youth group home 3. Internet Help Desk during college 4. Pastor Four movies I can watch over and [...]
Leadership Blog: Out of Ur: Brian McLaren on the Homosexual Question 4: McLaren’s Response Brian McLaren gives a thoughful response to the horrific behavior of a few. His approach to the Scriptures on this hot button issue is commendable. While I am interested in seeing where he ends up, I am glad he wrote what [...]
Okay, BIG disclaimer. If you are easily offended, do not watch this video. It contains some profanity (no f-bombs, if that makes a difference for you), and I post it because it shows how a lot of people think. And it’s really, really funny, although I think flawed for the purpose the director obviously meant [...]
Okay, with this cool new feature of Google Video, I have a hard time staying ticked off about the Mac thing. I promise that I’m thinking about making this my last Google Video post of the day Jesus on The Family Guy: I know it’s sacreligious. Don’t crucify me for it
So I’m still playing with Google Video, and although I’m still very annoyed by their neglect of Mac (I think the thing that bothers me worst is that you can’t search for videos that only play on Mac… I found ONE movie that I can purchase out of everything on Google Video thus far for [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about how Google is dropping the ball with Google Video in major ways. They failed to properly promote their most popular TV shows, and even if they had, a LARGE segment of the market could not have purchased them any way. I’m a big far of the iTunes Music [...]