Last week my wife and I went to Disney World in Orlando Florida to celebrate our one year anniversary and, for the first time, opted for the Disney Dining Plan. You can only include the Disney Dining Plan if you are booking a vacation package with Disney, in our case I booked a five-day Magic Your W...

It’s flexible layouts on this week’s Friday Focus. I’ll be loose with the definition though, since 100% fluid width layouts are so hard to come by! Designs of the Week This is just a well-put together site. From the type to the colors to the images to the layout, everything feels l...

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When I first arrived to Tokyo, I noticed that, come the end of winter, weather forecast screens (in trains, on TV, wherever…) would start adding an extra line under the main sun/cloud/water-drop pictograms. Since the new icons usually depicted lovely little pink flowers or trees blowing in the...

Continuing the list of ten characteristics of Jesus’ preaching, as observed by a chapter in Preach the Word: (6) Visual in its Appeal - Jesus painted word pictures.  He didn’t speak in abstractions, but he helped his teaching to form in the minds of the listeners (whether they were inte...

Haslam’s book, Preach the Word, has a chapter entitled “Learning from Jesus.”  To some it is obvious that we should look to Jesus, who was, after all, the finest of preachers.  But I suppose some would overlook Jesus as a model of preaching since, well, we’re not Jesus.  I...

You’ve probably heard it said that good preaching comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable (or something similar).  While this may be true, it is also possible to make listeners uncomfortable in the wrong way.  Here are a couple of examples: 1. Pushing naturally unresponsive peopl...

Why hasn’t even one Republican co-sponsored H.R. 808, this year’s legislation to establish a Department of Peace? The legislation even has a clause promoting “faith-based” exchanges between nations, something I’d just as soon see taken out of the legislation, but the so...

Kanye West, and his very large head, are featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Details magazine. In his coverstory, West reveals that his drive for success in the music industry is most likely derived from his “sex addicted” youth … which is all kinds of distur...

  Kanye West is on the cover of the March issue of Details and in typical Kanye West fashion he said lots of really flattering stuff about himself, including but not limited to: "Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the f--king end-all, be-all ...