Archive for June, 2009
Twitter? What Happened?
Just to clarify: We had planned on doing an “experiment” in church this past Sunday, and all was well, until our filtering/display interface for Twitter hit a snag. Apparenetly, Twitter went under some maintenance and took a heavy hit last week with the Iran Election drama. In the process of their maintance, they updated their API, and that [...]
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Twitter If you don’t have a free Twitter account yet, go to Twitter.com and sign up for free. Watch this 2 min video on what Twitter is. You can update your Twitter status many different ways. If you’re at your desktop, you can update through a desktop application. If you have a smart phone, such [...]
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I hate that painting of Jesus. You know, the one where He’s limp, passive, and nice looking. He’s just not like that when I read the Gospels. Then there’s the modern day “Christian”. The nice guy. The quiet guy. The whatever guy. In the passage below, Paul describes the Christian life with active and forceful [...]
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If you owned a business, would you keep an employee who doesn’t get any work done? No. If you were a gardener, would you keep a plant that didn’t produce a harvest? No. If you were an investor, would you keep an account that wasn’t growing and producing? No. I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve known some [...]
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Tags: bearing fruit, fruit of the spirit
I’m Not
You are never as great as you think you are, so don’t become prideful. And you are never as bad as you think you are, so don’t become crippled by insecurity. Simply give your best and be thankful that God has given you the opportunity to be a part of His great plan. Thanks Kent.
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Everybody is annoyed by the “know-it-all”. This person has a dogmatic opinion about everything. Oh, they KNOW how the world spins surely, and even worse, they have a running mouth! The know-it-all is usually against anything new, resents discipline, and refuses to be a learner. Soloman, the wisest man who ever lived (next to Jesus of course), [...]
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Tags: wisdom