A friend of mine, an excellent preacher (his name rhymes with “come ‘n’ see us”), sent me this article on application in preaching by Michael Horton. If you preach or teach the Bible at all, it’s worth a quick read. The issues he raises, it seems to this preacher,...
Mark Ward
Ulti-Awesome
Turn down your speakers, then check out some clips of people playing my favorite sport:
Neato Infographic on E-Mail Usage
I use Boomerang for Gmail and like it. Check out their really great infographic.
How to Safely Back Up Your BibleWorks Notes in Seven Simple Steps
How do you back up your precious BibleWorks user notes? 1. Install the excellent, free online back-up service Dropbox (click on this link and you and I both get free space!). 2. Open your notes tab. 3. Click the “Choose Notes Directory” button (see image below). 4....
Facebook Psychoses
Some great quotes from an insightful and humorous New York Times article on Facebook and other social media: How is it that activities we wouldn’t in a million years be roped into doing in real life—paging through an acquaintance’s baby album, suffering through a...
Barack Obama on Faith in the Public Square
For the first time in many years, a radio station other than NPR has managed—sometimes—to win my listenership during my daily commute. It’s 92.9 FM, aka Christian Talk 660. I have to admit I usually can’t stand the brash talk programs (the one exception is local...
Review: The Priority of Preaching
The Priority of Preaching by Christopher Ash My rating: 3 of 5 stars Christopher Ash is a preacher who trains preachers, and his little book The Priority of Preaching provides a unique angle on that training. He mines the example of Moses' long sermon in Deuteronomy...
TGC on ER2
D. A. Carson knows a thing or two, and I appreciated his candor and his demeanor in this response to the Elephant Room—what else can you call it?—debacle. Tim Keller contributed, too, but I thought Carson’s voice predominated (as a blogger, by definition, I could be...
A Blogger After My Own Heart
This guy, a doctoral candidate in linguistics, has a whole blog dedicated to the same mission my posts about Lexicographical Prescriptivism are. He writes on his about page, Grammar is a contentious point. Some argue that it’s horrifyingly appalling that ANYONE would...
Toggl Desktop
One of the problems with using any time-tracking software is that you actually have to tell it what you're doing and when you start and stop. I mean, shouldn't it just know? Toggl Desktop has taken one step toward solving that problem for me: it lets me know if I've...