C. S. Lewis said that "[Repentance] is not something God demands of you before He will take you back…; it is simply a description of what going back is like." From the Faith Alone Journal’s article on The Theology of C. S. Lewis.
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From an article in the LA Times this little excerpt nearly bowled me over:Sarah, 23, says it never occurred to her to use birth control, though she has been sexually active for six years. When she became pregnant this fall, Sarah, who works in real estate, was in the midst of planning her wedding. "I don’t think my dress would have fit with a baby in there," she says.I’m speechless.
Wudanbal has been working on an AJAX bible too. He only has Gen – Joshua. Perhaps I ought to try and convince him to help me with mine…
Its a short, 2 second test of stop motion animation using my Canon 10D and a common art figurine.
My code was messy so I cleaned it up and found several errors, one of which was preventing a large number of passages from coming back. The "Too Much Recursion" error has been fixed.
Bricklayer is a little bit like .net, java with netbeans, and all the other technologies that allows for strict seperation of presentation, business, and application logic. Bricklayer is built with PERL, and in some ways approximates the API we all know so well in MovableType. If you’re a developer who likes perl, give it a look.
I’ve updated the Ajax Bible. It now displays all the references where a Strongs number is used in the bible.
Not that I’ve won anything yet, but reliable sources seem to indicate that Bling.com does indeed work. Uses Google as the search engine, so if nothing else it offers a different look to the same results you’re used to getting. If you sign up and invite others to join, when your "friends" win something, so do you. Be my friend on bling.com. ;) The above link takes you to the same page. And keep in mind that you don’t have sign up to win, you only have to sign up to claim the prize. Setup is easy. I’ll keep you…
I’ve got a tremendous amount of work to do in the next week. I’ve run out of photos ready to be posted, so there will be a short break of a few days before I’ll be able to post photos again. I’ll try to get them up over Thanksgiving weekend.
Strategy #1 – Avoidance Don’t let your mind think about it. The moment it pops in your head, frantically think of something else… anything else. I call this avoidance… and cite Phil. 4:8-9 as scriptural reference. Avoidance works best if you combine it with Strategy #2. Strategy #2 – Turning the Tables This strategy is really just a derivation of Avoidance. But when you are accosted by thoughts or desires for sinful things, sometimes the source of these actions come from outside yourself. To turn the tables, you follow the Avoidance strategy. When a temptation pops into your head, immediately…
Christians still die for their faith. The New York Sun report that Korean Reds and Targeting Christians. I found this excerpt exceptionally moving.The 20 parishioners were detained near their clergy, and watched, along with the assembled audience, as the five Christian leaders were told they could escape death if they denied their faith and pledged to serve only Kim Jong Il and his father, the first dictator of communist Korea, Kim Il Sung. According to the eyewitness, the clergy remained silent.For their steadfast belief, the Christians were executed. According to the report, "Some of the fellow parishioners assembled to watch…
Wycliff pointed this greek bible out to me. It looks really useful if you are a student of greek. It shows the meaning of each word in a javascript title tag and allows you to see a lot of meta data about the words usage.
Chromasia posted a pleasure doing business / 10 November, 2005 and John from Shots Photography started a discussion. I’m not sure what the heart of the discussion was about, but I posted some thought about photography and the medium that I felt were interesting enough to repost here.I’m terribly confused about what the debate going here actually is. Anyone care to sum it up?While I’m waiting for that I’ll throw my random two cents in, because heck, I’m always up to talking about the medium.Personally, I think the photoblog has limitations as a medium. I’m not putting the photoblog down,…
It took my poor laptop 18 hours to parse out the OT, and about 6 hours to parse out the NT, but the Bible References for each Strongs Greek and Hebrew Number is finally done. This should enable me to add cross references to the strongs definitions in the AJAX Bible.
Chinese get prison time for Bible delivery, says the Washington Times. All they did was hand out Bibles, and for that they get three years of prison. God bless them.
I updated the regex expressions for Javascript Bible Reference Parsing Object to reflect some of the common abbreviations. Thanks to the Folks at the GNPCB.org for posting common book queries. Thanks also to Jeremy for helping me simplify my regex expressions.
I updated the Bible App. It now shows verse numbers. The Bible Parsing Javascript Object has also been updated. It will now accept references that are fully spelled out or abbreviated. You can enter just the verse, or just the chapter. And it is case insensitive. So the following types of refs will work: Matthew 3:9 Mat 3 1jn 2:11-12 1 john 3:1 genesis 4 john 3:16and so on. You can find the entry to the bible app on the Projects page. I will soon zip everything up for download, though you could get all the files you needed now. Update:…
I know a lot of you are worried about what you should get me for Christmas, and as the season is fast approaching, I though it would be best to alleviate your discomfort. Here are some items I would like for Christmas:Caffiene Hoodie – I wear an XL, but an XXL will do in a pinch. USB Swiss Army Knife – Think 256MB.Zippo Spy Camera – I don’t have a small point and shoot, and I think this would fill that slot nicely.Those who understand binary t-shirt – I wear an XL or XXL.Well, worry no more and don’t let…
My friend Paulo has gone into the niche micropublishing business. cheapandtiny.com, written by Raffy keeps track of small and inexpensive gadgetry.
In an effort to encourage the coding of a bible reference object (see previous post on my bible app), I though I would post some specifications in a clearer format than I had previously, along with some example inputs and outputs. Feel free to comment in the comments section, and if you build one, let me know, I would be more than happy to host it here with proper attribution of course. If we used a GPL type system, the library could become very robust. Thanks!Bible Parsing Object Definition:Input: StringOutput: Object with attributes (book, bookname, chapter, startverse, endverse, [error])Notes:Reference: "Matthew"Returns:…