So, for some reason I no longer recall, I decided to see how hard it would be to edit a little video together in Linux. The result was this: the kids and I each made a music video with LiVES, and Tracey did one in iMovie. Our oldest is hosting these on her YouTube account. (To be fair, I didn’...

I just got an email from a vendor who serves religious organizations in the IT field, that started like this: Just as faith without works is incomplete, we at deleted believe consulting without implementation is incomplete. And my first response was, say what? In context, James says that “fait...

From Spurgeon, via Pyro: “Until we know the power of divine grace, we read in the Bible concerning eternal punishment, and we think it is too heavy and too hard, and we are apt to kick against it, and find out some heretic or other who teaches us another doctrine; but when the soul is really q...

From Steve Yegge, about the original engineers at Amazon.com: They all used Emacs, of course. Hell, Eric Benson was one of the authors of XEmacs. All of the greatest engineers in the world use Emacs. The world-changer types. Not the great gal in the cube next to you. Not Fred, the amazing guy down t...

I preached the sermon at GCBC today: The Value of Christ....

I am going to resist the temptation to promise that I will do a year-end post. A lot of things in our lives improved, by the grace of God, and a few things suffered. My relationships with people haven’t been this strained and broken in a year since 2004, when we quit the old ministry. It’...

From Richard Sibbes: Ungodly spirits, ignorant of God’s ways in bringing his children to heaven, censure broken hearted Christians as miserable persons, whereas God is doing a gracious, good work with them. It is no easy matter to bring a man from nature to grace, and from grace to glory, so u...

I just thought I’d make a note of this, because this is important. Mostly it’s to remind myself, but if anybody else needs the reminder, here it is. This woman gave up on trying to repent because she believed that her love for this guy was too strong to overcome. That is unbelief, and un...

And with that, I officially win, the first day that they officially count winners, anyway. Right now I have 79087 words. I should be able to do 80K with no problem; new goal before the end of the month is 100K and finishing the novel itself. I’ve still got eight hours until the end of the 24-h...

I listened to part of Barack Obama’s “closing argument” speech this morning on NPR. Something in it struck me. From MSNBC’s coverage: “We know what the Bush-McCain philosophy looks like,” Obama said. “It’s a philosophy that says we should give more and...