Posted on June 30, 2008 by Peter
very interesting post i read today:
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
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Nicholas Carr, writing in The Atlantic, explores the question, Is Google Making Us Stupid
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2008 by Peter
this is the declaration that came out the past week’s meeting in Jerusalem of the Anglican Church. it is very interesting and very important to the future of the denomination and the future of millions of Christians who are under the Church of England. i will let ya’ll read it for yourselves:
The Jerusalem [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2008 by Peter
this is a great post i read at Out of Ur.
Driscoll: Emerging Churches “Don’t Have Converts”
David Fitch responds by addressing the nature of mission in a post Christian context.
Last year at the Convergent Conference at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mark Driscoll made the following remark:
And all the nonsense of emerging, and Emergent, and new [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by Peter
the comment was made to me at work the other day about how i was more chipper than usually. i found that very interesting and also telling of how important rest is to us as humans.
for the first time in months, my wife and i took a real sabbath. we actually [...]
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Posted on June 23, 2008 by Peter
“God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him in the midst of loss, and not prosperity.”
this is a quotation from john piper from a video i just watched here.
it is quite an interesting statement. and piper is very vehement about his discussion of prosperity gospel teachings. anyway, i [...]
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