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Archive for May, 2005

A New Online Book Site

I was given a link to an interesting web page of online books located at Library of Online Evangelical Christian Books . Interesting web page. There are two books that I want to read that are linked there:
Desiring God by John Piper
Real Christians Don’t Dance by John Fischer

Christian Pirate Blogs

Michael Spencer has written another article of interest entitled Prepare To Be Blogged: Thoughts From The Pirate Blogosphere that is right on about the Christian blogosphere. I too have felt like I am a member of the Christian Pirate Internet and Christian Pirate Blogs.

Evangelize or Entertain

An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most short-sighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an abnormal rate, even for evil. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments. The devil has seldom done [...]

Another Interesting Barna Survey

Barna has just released another survey about the books and authors that have most influenced pastors the most in the past three years. The results are very interesting but not at all surprising. The top two books of influence? The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church, both written by Rick Warren which accounted [...]

Hellbent To Retain Their Name

Another example of political correctiveness has now reared it’s ugly head. From the controversy with sports teams in the 1990’s that had names that referred to Indians and other teams that referred to the crusades, we now have an interesting controversy.

Church Hopping or Church Searching?

I received an e-mail from a friend of mine who forwarded me an e-mail from a friend of theirs who had read my article on Which Church Will You Flee To Next? and left an interesting comment of:

….This has been the experience of several friends…having to go to church to church to church to [...]

A Question About Some Web Pages

When I visit some web pages, I usually get an image of a black diamond with a question mark within the diamond where apostrophes are supposed to be. This happens with my Firefox Browser.
What is this and how do I get rid of it and receive my apostrophes?
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I was looking online at Google and [...]