Toggl: Time-Tracking Software in the Cloud
Do you need to track your work time? I do. But my employer provides software with such a clunky interface that I simply can't bear it and, subsequently, I've had a perpetual temptation not to bother providing accurate data. (The software requires you to log in practically every time you change to a new task!) But now I've joined the millions of happy, peppy people who use Toggl. The best part is that you can just click "continue" next to a task you've recently been doing. If you're going back...
Dr. Bob Jones Sr’s First Use of “All Ground Is Holy Ground”
The sayings of Dr. Bob Jones Sr are legendary around my alma mater. As a frequent victim of chronological snobbery, I was ready to be critical and dismissive of these statements when I first saw them tacked above chalkboards in classrooms. But I was won over by Dr. Bob's homespun, humble wisdom. I've really come to like and even treasure a few of the sayings. I often pray, "Lord, give me strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden." And I often think, "Pray like it's all up to God, and...
Read Your Bible, Pray Every Day
My pastor knows his people. My wife and I needed this practical exhortation to jump-start our annual Bible reading. I do think that one of the biggest lessons I'm still learning about life in this modern world is that every choice to value something is necessarily a choice to devalue something else. If I'm going to value Bible-reading, other things are going to have to fall by the wayside (until my adolescent dream of being able to pause time is finally realized). Sometimes I, an adult...
ESV Reader’s Bible Sample PDF
Crossway has finally put out a sample PDF of their upcoming Reader's Bible. I've been checking the page compulsively for some months, but I can't say how long the PDF has been up. I'm also not quite sure what to think, because the PDF includes enough of Genesis to show that they still elected to use chapter numbers, but not enough of Genesis to show what they'll do when chapter numbers interfere with the flow of thought, like when a paragraph extends from one chapter to another. Chapter...
Review: Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief by John M. Frame My rating: 4 of 5 stars When a systematic theology begins with a series of endorsements that are longer than certain other systematics, you know you’ve got either a goldmine or a naked emperor. I didn’t have to even touch the book before I knew I had the former, because Frame is a favorite of mine. He is biblical, above all else (I took it as a compliment when R. Scott Clark complained in his review that Frame is "more...