A few weeks ago I posted some journalling tips. This time I want to share some tips for memorizing the Word of God....
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Having recently completed a series of posts on educating options for Christians, I thought it might be useful write a...
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So you decided to start journalling as your new year resolution and don't know where to start? The following tips ...
Read moreI was genuinely sad to read this. I would love Microsoft to be able to wow consumers again. But Microsoft is focused on the enterprise more than the consumer now. I don’t think this is a path to long term success personally.
Consumer Electronics Show: Microsoft CEO’s Keynote… | Stuff.co.nz
Having recently completed a series of posts on educating options for Christians, I thought it might be useful write a single post with a summary of what is covered in each article. Here is what we covered:
1. The Biblical Mandate This is where it starts – what God instructs us to do is what sets the agenda for our children’s education.
2. Educational Goals Who is setting the goals for our children’s education? What are those goals?
3. Educational Content What is being taught to our children? This stems from the goals of the educators
4. Children are not created equal God makes everyone different. Formal education often doesn’t take this into account, but you should.
5. Relationships and peer pressure There are significant differences between children today and children of 80 years ago, and school has a lot to do with it. We need to define “childhood” thoughtfully.
6. The effects of segregating children How does the divide between parent and child happen and how can we avoid it?
7. Counting the costs It doesn’t matter which option you choose – education costs money. But what are you getting for the price?
8. Conclusion The goal is to raise children in a way that seeks to instruct and nurture the relationship between the child and the Lord. Think about your children’s education on the basis of growing godly adults rather than preparing them for college.
The Lord holds us as parents accountable for our children’s education – not the school system, not teachers and certainly not the government. As Christians we need to manage that responsibility with purpose and prayer.
I’m no economist, but I enjoyed reading this well reasoned and historically informed view of our current economic problems. Essentially we have entered into a structured depression that may take decades to emerge from until three core issues are resolved.
The Long, Long Depression – Matthew Lynn – National Review Online
I enjoy reading Nancy Pearcey. She does good research, knows how to make a point well and is intelligent. While I haven’t finished reading Saving Leonardo (I’m about two thirds of the way through), I’ve appreciated what I have read, and it has been very useful in forming my thinking.
So, it is worth pointing out that her book Saving Leonardo is on sale at Amazon.com now for $2.69 on the kindle.
I encourage you to spend the paltry amount of money to purchase it and read it. Even if you don’t read all of it, you’ll benefit from the first few chapters.
While you’re there, you might want to consider purchasing Total Truth – one of her other books. I haven’t read it yet, but have heard good things about it.
If you don’t have a kindle, you can either buy one, or download one of the free kindle apps for your computer, phone or iPad.
So you decided to start journalling as your new year resolution and don’t know where to start? The following tips are things I’ve learned from several years of journalling, and while they are aimed at Christians journalling for the benefit of their spiritual walk, many of the points will apply to journalling in general.
Some of these elements feel very strange at first – but don’t let your idea of “normal” get in the way of doing something that makes a tangible difference to your walk with the Lord.
So in no particular order, here are 15 tips for journalling.
The fundamental factor to bear in mind as you consider the education of your child is what is best for the child in light of the Biblical mandate God gives us as parents. Formal schooling is not the best option for all kids but may be the best option for some. The point of this series is that there are advantages with homeschooling that public schooling inhibits, and likewise there are certain drawbacks with homeschooling that parents should consider in light of what is possible for families. As parents we need to consider the personality, temperament and capabilities of our children and decide what is the best option for the child.
Via Rick Holland
“So what is the first thing you do when you wake up? Here’s my problem. I find it easy to grab my iPhone and check my email, glance at social media notifications, see if there are any texts awaiting a response, and look at look at the news and sports feeds. There is certainly nothing wrong with doing these things. But my problem is that this is much easier and feels more urgent when I awake than addressing the thirst of my soul for God.”
I have exactly the same problem. After my post yesterday, it was good to read Rick’s concern about the most important discipline of all:
My prayer for my own soul, and yours, is that we develop the discipline of beginning the day with the thought of God, fed by the Word of God, for the glory of God, and enjoy the grace of God for our days.
Do you make new year resolutions? About this time of year everyone starts talking about the things they will do next year. We call these resolutions. I don’t have a fundamental problem with resolutions, but making them at new year seems a bit arbitrary to me.
A resolution is a commitment to change something you do or how you live. That is often a good thing. However, in my experience most people (including me) soon forget their resolutions and go back to the way they lived previously. It seems their resolution was not a deep enough commitment – or is there another reason?
Yep, apparently it’s possible to build a Mac for nix. I haven’t done it before, but it looks like fun.
Lifehacker have an “always up to date guide to building a mackintosh” and you can find a list of recommended parts here. I’d be inclined to get a SSD Drive for the operating system and then a larger spindle based drive for data storage (perhaps map it to your /users folder).
They also have a useful guide to building a bootable USB key with OSX on it from which you can install OSX.
According to lifehacker you should be able to build a hackintosh for around $300. The actual cost depends on the parts you get and the guide was written before hard drive prices skyrocketed up. Even so, you can still build a nice OSX machine with a SSD drive for less than US$600 which is several hundred cheaper than buying from Apple.
If only I needed another machine 
ReadWriteWeb on Facebook in Dumbest Moves of the Year in Web Enterprise Services:
On its way to becoming the great equalizer of the profound and the trivial
Quite right and well said. The problem with social media noise is that it treats all things as equal regardless of it’s inherent value.
(Via ReadWriteWeb)
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