Posted on August 13, 2007 by Peter
this is a post i read on Tim Challies blog. very poignant, i think. it reminded me of requiem for a dream. what do yall think?
Second Life and cheating in a virtual world.
Friday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal featured an article about Second Life, a popular online digital world. It is [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2007 by Peter
i was corresponding with a family member about “communism” and american form of government. i think we disagreed because i used a label “communism” of which we had very different definitions. but at the same time, i think there is more important issues than the political system that one lives in or creates. [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2007 by Peter
Great Post I read from Ben Witherington
Heroes or Saints? Who are our Cultural Icons?
Believe it or not, the word hero never comes up in the NT. But the word saint occurs over 60 times. And here’s the really interesting thing– it always in the plural! Saints are not formed in a vacuum or by isolate [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2007 by Peter
since i have become a blogger, i have run across person after person who is talking about this ephemeral “emergent church”.
what is the “emergent church”?
who is part of it?
who are the leaders?
if you read a blog (or anything for that matter) about the emergent church, you will find there are many people are equally labeled [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2007 by Peter
Let me tell you a story.
There was a man who invented a thing called a “nintendo”. He knew a little about computers and how to eletrical engineering. So he came up with this crazy idea that a computer could build a program that would entertain others. He builds his prototype and sure [...]
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