Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

Marriage Matters

Yet anoth­er rea­son to view divorce (and the soci­etal sys­tems that make it easy) neg­a­tive­ly. Mar­riage mat­ters.

What’s the sin­gle strongest pre­dic­tor you will die an ear­ly death? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Bark­ing up the wrong tree. I want to under­stand why we do what we do and use the answers to be awe­some at life. About. Eric Bark­er; First vis­it? Start here. Bakadesuyo.com is proud to be list­ed on blo…

Regaining Childhood

Inter­est­ing way to think about it.

Does new infor­ma­tion slow down your life?

From William Reville, here is a spec­u­la­tion: Final­ly, here is a “guar­an­teed” way to length­en your life. Child­hood hol­i­days seem to last for­ev­er, but as you grow old­er time seems to accel­er­ate. “Time” …

A Bear In The China Shop

It is dif­fi­cult to over­state my pes­simism about the tra­jec­to­ry of Chi­na’s econ­o­my.…  I hope I am wrong but I deeply fear anoth­er big blow to the glob­al finan­cial sys­tem. Google for “Chi­nese Ghost Cities” to have your socks scared off.

To the point (Aus­tro-Chi­nese busi­ness cycle the­o­ry)

“There is per­sua­sive evi­dence to con­clude that the Chi­nese econ­o­my is actu­al­ly grow­ing at just 4 or 5 per cent right now based on a com­pos­ite of oth­er indi­ca­tors,” says Patrick Chovanec, a busi­ness pr…

Kudos Where Kudos Are Due

My pas­tor just got an arti­cle pub­lished in Rick War­ren’s Min­istry Tool­box. Way to go, Scott!

New NET Bible website is awesome

The NET Bible web­site just got an over­haul and it is awe­some. Check it out (be sure to mouse over the foot­notes). And they seem to have renamed the web por­tion of their project NEXT Bible: http://nextbible.org

Chi Alpha Worldwide on the Facebook

A clever Chi Alphan noticed that the Face­book now sup­ports glob­al groups. So they set up one titled: XA- CHI ALPHA WORLDWIDE ‑XA (I don’t know if that link will work or not — I took out the school pre­fix)

So Chi Alphans world­wide, unite!

My Favorite Line From My Sermon This Week

“Of course, then the witch­es showed up and so we did­n’t get to fin­ish our con­ver­sa­tion.”

Richard Mouw rocks

I just fin­ished read­ing Calvin­ism in the Las Vegas Air­port by Richard Mouw (pres­i­dent of Fuller The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary). It was great. I’ve read one oth­er book of his, Con­sult­ing the Faith­ful: What Chris­t­ian Intel­lec­tu­als Can Learn from Pop­u­lar Reli­gion, and I loved it as well. I’d have to say he’s one of my favorite low-vol­ume authors.

Dog the Bounty Hunter

Dog the Boun­ty Hunter has to be one of the most fas­ci­nat­ing indi­vid­u­als I’ve ever seen on tele­vi­sion. If you ever get a chance to watch the show, I high­ly rec­om­mend it.