Well, now that we can predict (by density of protons and intensity of magnetic field fluctuations) solar eruption about 2 days ahead, perhaps we could find it less frightening towards more severe geomagnetic storms in the future, provided everyone is more sober about them.
I have this inkling that I should never accept any client that's in the business of shortsales and owned by an Israeli. Both clients in my experience would have owed me $465 + $780 = $1245 by now. At least what I'm losing is only time in this case.
Something impressive from Microsoft. Though, it doesn't seem to be out for sale in the market.
Some very simple idea which I never bothered to think of.
I am really intrigued by it. The site has a link to the papers, I must read it sometime.
The resulting images are incredibly sharp and welldone.
I wonder how blur this technology can support.
These type of people, such as Anne Rice, I'm sure, are plenty.
Yes, there's truth in what they say, just like Mahatma Gandhi. But they failed to grasp the prime focus: That Jesus is Lord. Their acceptance of Christ, was that he was a very good, moral human being.
And their resulting conclusion as exhibited, was somewhat more of a cowardice. For it is like saying: I am not Chinese, because of some the hideous things the Chinese people are doing.
And at a deeper subconscious state, perhaps they were blaming all the problems in the world on God's inaction.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time.
This famous quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi was not properly sourced. I looked and looked and finally arrived at this site: (The closest source so far but I have not verified it myself)
A 1926 review [1] by the Reverend W.P. King (then pastor of the First Methodist Church of Gainesville, Georgia) of E. Stanley Jones's The Christ of the Indian Road (published in 1925 by The Abington Press, New York City) includes the following,
Quote:
Dr. Jones says that the greatest hindrance to the Christian gospel in India is a dislike for western domination, western snobbery, the western theological system, western militarism and western race prejudice. Gandhi, the great prophet of India, said, "I love your Christ, but I dislike your Christianity." The embarrassing fact is that India judges us by our own professed standard. In reply to a question of Dr. Jones as to how it would be possible to bring India to Christ, Gandhi replied: First, I would suggest that all of you Christians live more like Jesus Christ. Second, I would suggest that you practice your Christianity without adulterating it. The anomalous situation is that most of us would be equally shocked to see Christianity doubted or put into practice. Third, I would suggest that you put more emphasis on love, for love is the soul and center of Christianity. Fourth, I would suggest that you study the non-Christian religions more sympathetically in order to find the good that is in them, so that you might have a more sympathetic approach to the people.
I'm not so sure that Jones actually attributed to Gandhi the line "I love your Christ, but I dislike your Christianity" in The Christ of the Indian Road (it doesn't appear, for example, in the snippet view of Jones's work that's available on Google Books), but it's possible that Jones or his work somehow, perhaps unintentionally, served as the origin for the belief that Gandhi had said as much. The line itself may have been a pithy distillation, offered by someone else, of a thought attributed to Gandhi. In any event, the phrase, with its attribution to Gandhi, is at least as old as February, 1926. And it seems to have been quite a hit amongst various American theologians in the decades that followed. (Tough to know whether Jones, during his lectures in the United States, ever attributed that precise sentiment to Gandhi.) In any event, it would probably be helpful to check The Christ of the Indian Road to see how accurately King offered up text from the book.
I got nothing on the rest of the alleged quote (because I really didn't look for it), except the thought that it likely evolved in a similar fashion, as a perhaps uninformed rephrasing of text that had appeared in one of Jones's books (perhaps the text that King presents, above). (It seems to me that a line attributed to Gandhi that contains "your Christ" would be older than the remainder of what you shared with us.)
-- Bonnie
[1] The Atlanta Constitution, 7 February 1926, p. F14.
Apparently happening on some stations: VBA scripting or the environ("UserName") function causing some station's MS Access to popup a field called environ, and no matter what is entered, the resulting value will always be #error. On working stations, they do as they should, showing some intended values.
According my search, this is due to security settings.
Solution:
Tools->Macro->Security-> Set lowest (or maybe just change settings back and forth).
Not long ago, I heard a pastor's sermon on Isaac. Well, the actual topic of the sermon "series" was on "The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" - a topic I didn't seem to find much relevant to the content he preached.
While trying to unbias between the pros and cons of Isaac, it is obvious he looks down on Isaac's character, as he said it himself also. Despite his effort to bring out his pros - (which is only the fact that Isaac had only 1 wife throughout his life). That's another argument one can debate against him on: about how "sinless" having one wife compared to having more than one in those days. I will not trouble my mind for that now.
Now, on Isaac. This pastor claimed two of his faults, which are related to cowardice:
1. Couldn't find a wife on his own.
2. Didn't fight for the wells he dug.
My response:
1. I would like to see how this pastor survives in India or any other cultures which spouses are united under arranged marriage - and watch how he would dispise arranged marriage, contrasting with the higher divorce rate of the Western culture.
2. This pastor needs to listen to Pastor Stephen Tong's lecture on serving: Fight not over material matters; but never compromise doctrinal matters.
Later he commented on Jacob's fault: on cheating or stealing property from Laban (Genesis 30).
On the subjects on Isaac's marriage and Jacob's affair with Laban, I have both officially touched on earlier in a Bible study fellowship and Q&A session respectively. Obviously, they were incredibly contrary to what this pastor preached.
So when I heard his speeches, I immediately concluded he was either drawing his own biblical conclusion or from some crackpot commentaries. Because I was sure about what I talked about, as I carefully researched after Calvin's commentaries, Dr. Tong's lectures as well as comparing different authors' commentaries. None of my talk was based on my own immature conclusion.
For Calvin, and many other more disciplined scholars of the Word, Isaac was a good son, for he was willing to let his father, whom he clearly honored as father as well as respect as God's servant, to decide on his future. And in Jacob's case, I would agree with most commentators other than this pastor because Genesis 31 clearly stated against his interpretation. He either didn't read Genesis 31 carefully or didn't want to accept the truth of it.
Actually I didn't have much first impression on this pastor when he confessed that his obsession was movies. When one confesses his sins, I am experienced enough now to see how genuine they are by judging how they confess it. In this case - it was more of an entertainment than a confession.
The existence of Islam is the failure of Christians in the knowledge of our Lord.
The hatred of muslims is the failure of Christians in the grace of our Lord.
Peter said: But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. (2 Peter 3:18).
If there is a mega church, or a big church, there are often two prominent judgments: It's a revival or it's the triumph of Satan.
Of course, a third "non-judgmental" is not relevant here.
In order to be a better judge, as all Christians will be judges of even angels, one can easily analyze the situation by observing the surrounding, for how can a mega/revived church not affect its surrounding: both secular and non-secular.
The news has been going around for a while. A pastor mentioned it in a speech on Monday's Prayer Meeting for STEMI Rally, many protested, many defended.
For Christians, it is rather unsettling, because it is forcing them to wake up. So many responded with some urgent need to preach the Gospel. This is good because many have awaken; bad, because they "forgot" to go to Seminary. As if running out of the burning house naked.
What then? Rather use dramatic emotion to inspire the crowds?
However, in this case, I feel that the liberals defendants are the worst kind, unless they preach Christ even more.
