Revelation 4:11

Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.

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The video fails to give credit to the BBC/Discovery series Planet Earth.

Noted: Planet Earth fails to give credit to God!

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YouVersion

Absolutely unbelievable!!!

I have been poking around trying to create a web-based Bible that you could "mark-up" and "tag" and journal.

This looks like it!

Why "tag" the Bible?

Tagging is internet/computer term for making categories and groups out of your data. I might tag all my photos with Stephie as "stephie". Then I can find all my pictures with Stephie in them. I also might tag all my photos from weddings as "wedding". Now I can tag a picture of me and Stephie at a wedding with two tags-- "stephie, wedding". That totally beats making a Stephie folder and a Wedding folder and copying the picture into multiple places.

Now tagging the Bible. What if I'm reading the Bible and find a promise that I want to grab later? I tag it "promise". Now when I ask for all my "promise" verses, I get a collection of verses that I have personally marked as "promise". I might do the same for "money", "prayer", "the judgment", "law/grace".

It's kind of a personal concordance for life that comes out of regular Bible reading.

Hooray!

This site does more than that, and I've only used it for 3 minutes, but I'm so excited.

Psalm 30:5

For his anger is but for a moment,
and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.

The Shack Review

I've wanted to post on The Shack, but haven't because I can easily get hurtful.

This review says everything that I'd want to say.

The_Shack.pdf

From Tim Challies, via link from Justin Taylor

Stranded in Suburbia - New York Times

Stranded in Suburbia - New York Times

Each gas price increase causes me to hope more. There is a lot of pain for the working-poor in higher gas prices; but cheap gas is a barrier to neighborly community.

Cheap gas has let us live 15min-1hr away from where we work, where we shop, where we go to church, the movies, etc. That has made it easy to live isolated at home; and compartmentalize social groups (one group at work, one at church, one at school).

Expensive gas won't kill driving, but it should reshape local living in America. And for that reason, I'm hopeful as I see gas rise.

This article (top) describes what I hope happens.

Cuddly Bears

Teddy Bear Mosaic, originally uploaded by Essjay in NZ.

Why do we think bears are cuddly? They are deadly! Powerful claws, sharp teeth. No one would let their kids play with a real bear.

But we think they are cuddly. Evolution should have made us hate bears by now.

Is it possible that bears and humans were supposed to play together? Were you made for a world of powerful, but peaceful and playful bears?

I feel like we were. Like a dolphin that lives it's whole life in an aquarium. It was made for an ocean! But it can't remember how it came to live in an aquarium. It just always has, but it's heart tells it that he was made for much, much more.