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Spiffed up PuritanLibrary.com

Tom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:53:57 +0000

Check out the newly-redesigned PuritanLibrary.com, they’ve done a wonderful job of making it much more user friendly! A great place to find all those classic puritan authors, without having to worry about running out of shelf space!

Take the scalpel to your heart

Tom — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:16:57 +0000

“What Have We Done?” as performed by The Northern Conspiracy on Good Friday (April 6th, 2007) at MHC | Shoreline.

This was performed at Mars Hill Church (Seattle) on Good Friday, although a little repetitive it does a good job of looking deep within and admitting honestly the reality of our Christ-following.

Oh my soul, Oh my Jesus. Judas sold you for thirty, I’d have done it for less.

Oh my soul, Oh my Savior. Peter denied you three times, I have denied you more.

As the nails went in, I was standing right there.

As you breathed your last, I shook my head and I cried.

Oh my God, what have we done. We have destroyed your son (x2)

Oh my soul, Oh my Jesus. Judas sold you for thirty, I’d have done it for less.

Oh my soul, Oh my Savior. Peter denied you three times, I have denied you more.

And the blood ran down, and I was standing right there

And the water poured, I shook my head and I cried.

Oh my God, what have we done. We have destroyed your son (x4)

(repeat v. 1)

They don’t publish books like this anymore!

Tom — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:46:38 +0000

This lovely title page from “A treatyise of the iustificacyon by faith only, otherwise called the parable of the wyked Mammon.” Was posted over at The Conventicle – I have a softspot for this… old books and theology! This is just beautiful…

Reading bits

Tom — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:53:51 +0000

Preaching Hell in a Tolerant Age from Tim Keller via The Resurgence

The Morning I heard the Voice of God from John Piper via Desiring God

Every Little Bit Counts

Tom — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:17:29 +0000

You might not think that a white background on a website would be an ecological decision, but with millions of people out there browsing the web you should consider that, like rain, one drop might be small, but a billion or so can add up!

Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a year

Take at look at Google, for instance, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour,
that’s about $75,000/year, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.

Note: there was a picture here, but it broke my blog… who knows why.

Great organization of an ikea desk

Tom — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:45:37 +0000

This usage of pegboard makes an ordinary desk into an extraordinary space-saver! As an IT worker with more cables than I care to admit this is nothing short of revolutionary, seems like a good project to try in the near future.

Peace.

“Do stop behaving as if you are God, Professor Dawkins”

Tom — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:26:01 +0000

Alister McGrath levels what might be called a warning shot at Richard Dawkins in this passionate article from the Daily Mail.

It goes along well with this little youtube presentation I saw on the web last week or so.

Many thanks to the Tall Skinny Kiwi for the story!

Random News

Tom — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:22:49 +0000

The church that is Shakespeare’s resting place is falling apart, but you can help save it by giving money.

A wild story about a Pastor who sold the church out from underneath his congregation.

The drama continues… will the Episcopal Church take the property from separating congregations?

A “church” that deifies Marijuana goes to court for possession… who didn’t see this coming?

Annoying Church Bells! Just on complaint is all it takes to make them go away.

A pre-flight check for sermons…

Tom — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:53:03 +0000

Ahh… the venerable sermon… method of choice for imparting wisdom to the pews for over a thousand years.

Sadly, this ancient art can often be just a jumble of mediocre clichés, stitched together to keep an audience enthralled until the collection plate is passed.

Well, a web-based tool just might help you rid your sermons of overused clichés—and hopefully help you to develop a more refined presentation.

Check out the Cliché Finder

Now if only they could make a copy-editor/fact-checker too (cheesy sermon “examples” [often just white-lies from a book] won’t stand a chance!)

No Cheese Allowed

Cool stuff, and thanks to John Piper

Tom — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:10:51 +0000

I’m constantly impressed by John Piper’s Desiring God ministry, he’s made his sermons and notes available for free online, but recently his books have been made available (I’m not sure when it started.)

Today the book, Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce was made available for free from the Desiring God website and it looks like it well worth a read.

This distribution method is just so amazing to me, I applaud the people behind it and I pray that it would be used to bless people around the world.

Further reading (for free!)
What Jesus Demands from the World
When the Darkness Will Not Lift