Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

Faith Helps

When I tell stu­dents that there are objec­tive and prac­ti­cal ben­e­fits to faith they seem sur­prised. But that’s the nature of truth — when you make choic­es based upon real­i­ty, those choic­es tend to work out bet­ter. 

What can we all learn from reli­gion — whether we believe or not? — 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…

Conspiracies

This is one of the best rebut­tals to a con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry that I’ve ever seen.

Mon­day Morn­ing Humor

Three days ago in the sum­mer of 1969, Apol­lo 11 became the first manned mis­sion to land on the moon. One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. Of course, it makes per­fect sense that the whol…

Be Happy

I hate jour­nal­ing, but I’ve seen find­ings like this so fre­quent­ly that I might have to give it a try.

The most proven tech­nique for increas­ing long term hap­pi­ness: — 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…

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.