Where Job’s friends went wrong. A Christianity Today article by Walter Kaiser on making suffering too simple.
Arm-wrestling machine recalled for breaking arms. This wouldn’t sound funny if it had happened to me. But it didn’t. Via Slashdot.
How to start writing. Good writing begins by just writing. From Scott Burken [...]

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Sermon #2 - August 26, 2007
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In my first post on this topic, I griped (eloquently) about how hard change is. But healthy change is obviously possible.  After all, some people, some companies, and even some churches change. What motivates them? Here’s my simplified version of what works, from Deutschman’s Fast Company article:

Reframing. People already [...]

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In the May 2005 issue of Fast Company, Alan Deutschman published an article, now considered an instant-classic, called Change or Die.* (He has since published a book with the same title). For my next few posts, I hope to hammer some of Deutschman’s wisdom into shapes we can use.
In the article, Deutschman starts [...]

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Sermon #1 - August 19, 2007
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Our Universe: Merely a computer simulation. An Oxford philosopher offers his reasons for believing we may be living in The Matrix. From The New York Times.
Your NOT To Do list. Success isn’t just getting things done but not wasting life on other things. Here’s a start for your list [...]

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Every time Barry Bonds swings his bat, he has a chance of becoming history’s all-time home run king. So why doesn’t anybody care?
It’s not just the steroids.
Things were different on April 9, 1974, when Hank Aaron hit home run 715 to pass Babe Ruth. Everybody cared. I was nine years [...]

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Yeah, I’m posing this Monday.

This week’s sky at a glance.  Sky and Telescope’s simple summary of what you can see in the night sky tonight.  I was into astronomy about a dozen years ago and I loved S & T.  Via Lifehacker.
A dog who follows your cursor.  Worth 10 seconds of your time.  But REALLY [...]

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John Piper, author of Desiring God and many other books, ministers to a congregation within sight of the Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed yesterday. His response to the tragedy is excellent.  It’s called Putting My Daughter to Bed Two Hours After the Bridge Collapsed: What Do Tragedies Like This Mean for Us?…and it’s well [...]

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I heard a preacher say once that Christians can never have a bad experience. His point was that God can redeem anything, a la Romans 8:28. Bloggers have an added advantage in that bad experiences make good copy.
I have recently been trying to get information on visiting a prisoner at the Knox County [...]

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