Posted on June 29th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
Not the Best Role Model The midwest tried again yesterday to behave like the west coast. A magnitude 4.1 earthquake – a very minor one mind you – was felt in and around Illinios about 1:10 am Monday morning. I didn't feel it, though others here in central Iowa say they did. I've only felt [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
Fundamentalists and a United Church Douglas has an excellent testimony on fundamentalism at salgoud.net. No, I am conviced that if we are to call ourselves Christians, we must do more. We must try harder, go farther, sacrifice more and love more radically if we are to do God's sacrifice any justice. I will not be [...]
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Posted on June 28th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
My apologies for the old – way old – posts that are probably showing up in the RSS feed. I'm working on cleaning up some old category posts which are bleeding over into a full feed of the Daily Bible Study page as I prepare to import them into WordPress. I found many posts that [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
You Know Corporate Downsizing Has Gone Too Far… When this happens.
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Posted on June 27th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
G-Mailto Jordan Cooper found a utility called G-Mailto which opens the GMail compose window when you click on a mailto links found all over the web. Pretty cool stuff. I just joined GMail. I'll let you know when I have invites to give out. I've been given just one so far and it is spoken for.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2004 by Gary Petersen
Product Weblogging I've been playing with WordPress, a new weblogging tool, as a possible replacement for Radio Userland, which I've been using since starting blogging over two years ago. Radio Userland runs on my home PC and upstreams web page content when I publish a new article. To update it while travelling, I have to [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2004 by Gary Petersen
For I, the Lord, Do Not Change You might remember the name of Gene Robinson. He is the openly homosexual man who was elected as a bishop in the Episcopal church not that long ago. I believe that stating that homosexual behavior isn't sinful is not only not Biblical, it is anti-Biblical. So for Mr. [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
Resolution Follow-Up The Southern Baptist Convention held their annual convention this week. Among the business they considered was a resolution encouraging member families to pull their children out of public schools. I wrote about it here (the comments to that post are very interesting as well, so don't miss them). They voted on that resolution [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
FavIcon from Pics Following up on this article, which talked about where a weblog icon file should go, the FavIcon from Pics site will allow you to create a FavIcon file from any picture or graphic. Very cool.
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Posted on June 13th, 2004 by Gary Petersen
It Used to be About Sin Dan Edelen posted a great article at Cerulean Sanctum (new link on the left, by the way) on how the focus of many churches has changed from presenting the gospel message to something less than that. It used to be about sin. Preachers railed against sin. They understood that [...]
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