Alpha week one: Who is Jesus?

This is probably my fourth time through Alpha, and I still wound up taking notes.  The main point of this talk was C.S. Lewis's question "Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?" Freud said people were hungry for love.  Jung said people were hungry for security.  Adler said

Sorry, but the Emperor is naked

Some troll posted the URL of my Linux usability rant on comp.os.linux.advocacy.  I took that file down last night because I was appalled, but not surprised, at the vehemence of the personal attacks from that group.  Rather than believe that anyone could be less than expert with

Vineyard blogs

Todd Hunter has a blog (link via Jordon Cooper), so does Steve Sjogren, but his hasn't been updated since mid December.  Someone at Vineyard Fort Meyers also has a blog, but I'm not sure who Charlie is.  Is anyone else out there?

Empowered Evangelicals chapter four

A paradigm is simply the way that a person perceives reality.  Defined this way, we can quickly see that no two people wear exactly the same glasses all of the time.  For example, if you have been married for more than one day, you have come to the realization that

Empowered Evangelicals chapter three

Every Christian knows, through personal experience, that the Christian life is lived on two tracks, power and pain, victory and defeat.  But how shall we make sense of it?  Our understanding of power and pain is rooted in the biblical message of the kingdom of God. Reading theology to INXS

Empowered Evangelicals (chapter one)

I didn't realize at the time that my conservative evangelical friends neglected major blocks of Biblical teaching about experiencing God.  They didn't speak very much about personal intimacy with God and they placed a low value on worship.  Singing hymns was really just a warm-up

Book study

We're discussing our way through Empowered Evangelicals in women's group, a book we actually had on our shelves until we gave it away.  This is a big step up from the last book (the Allure of Hope, by Jan Meyers), which was all non-scientific, touchy-

Alpha

Leaky power steering rack, new part overnighted to garage, five days labour: $1219 Rental car for a week: $189 Finding out the repair is covered by a warranty we thought had run out in October, and getting the rental car for free while our car is worked on: Priceless We

New tea in town

Starbucks has been supplanted by St Louis Bubble Tea, on the Loop in University City.  It looks odd to have a cup of milky sweet tea with several layers of black balls at the bottom (called boba) and a 12mm diameter straw to accommodate them, but once you get over

Ex-Slashdot

I've nothing against the guys in charge, but this has to be said: It's the "News for herds.  Doesn't matter" tag line that I love.  The herd is the problem.  Some of the links are OK, but the comments?  Please.  Too much