Faith and Religion, Life Skills

Friends, Family and the Flesh

My dear spouse, why do I find it hard to receive biblical perspectives and teachings from you? Why do my family and friends always discourage me from my heart’s desires? Why are my family and friends not as excited about my prospective mate? Do some of these questions hit home?  For Bible believers, they are tied together quite intimately. Last…

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Faith and Religion

The Real Jesus of the Bible

I’ve been a professing disciple of Jesus for about 20 years.  Prior to meeting Jesus personally, I had seen an Anglican version of Him.  It was a ritualistic cookie cutter machine of religious gymnastics.  I realized I didn’t have what it took to become good at this sport so I left.  When I really met Jesus it was through a…

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Faith, Faith and Religion

Manna: What is it? It is this.

UPDATE: I’ve included a response from a friend to this post in the body of the post below under these neato little == markings, removing some personal identifying items. ========================= I could feel the heavy burden on my back when I woke up.  It was also on my chest.  I could also feel it pushing on my temples (both sides). …

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Faith and Religion, Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Technology, Ubuntu

The Race to Convergence: Or is it a Marathon?

This article started out kind of exciting.  It explained how Ubuntu was about to show, on a large commercial scale the unveiling of convergence of multiple devices.  For those who don’t know what convergence is, it’s the ability for multiple devices to converge into one user experience – without the need for multiple processors and hard drives.  For a company…

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Faith, Faith and Religion

How to be in, but not of the world.

I know.  It sounded like I was going to provide a step by step tutorial about how to both live in the world and yet live in God’s kingdom.  Sadly, I’m just not that spiritual yet.  However, I do enjoy slamming out blogs of things that I’m working through in my own life. This week, I encountered and interesting situation. …

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