from the phone
By PaulD | December 30, 2008
Using CellSpin for the first time. CellSpin (www.cellspin.net) looks like a great way to update your blog from your smartphone. So, I took this picture from my cellphone and it automagically put it on the web into my blog and into CellSpin. It worked! Kind of fun.
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Astounding! what Passion!
By PaulD | December 22, 2008
I found this story of two German college age men to be amazing! Astounding really. They sold themselves into slavery so they could take the good news of Jesus to a group of 3000 slaves. They really challenge me.
If you want more info on the Moravian movement and how it is effecting us today you can start here: Continual Prayer, Connect Europe, 24-7 Prayer, The Furnace, (The Furnace Video)
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Visual Search: Quintura
By PaulD | December 21, 2008
I am having some fun looking at visual search. There is Google, which is great for quick searches. But I have been looking for a way to search using visual methods. Here is Quintura’s beta. It looks interesting to me. Just hover your mouse over one of the words in the search and it will display the top links below.
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like a good Christmas card
By PaulD | December 21, 2008
You read your Christmas cards like I do, I look for something personal, something that makes the ‘Merry’ of Christmas a pleasant smile. The cards mostly follow a form, merry or happy something. Sometimes ‘bah humbug’ something, but that is a different Christmas card.
I was reading the start of a letter that is in the Bible today. It was Paul writing a group letter to some folks in a town. I had a commentary about the letter open as well and it said, “Thanksgivings were a common feature of ancient letters…the customary opening designed to secure the readers’ goodwill”1 I read that and though, ‘Wow, Paul followed a form just like Christmas cards!’
Just like a good Christmas card, I think Paul meant what he said: “We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers, because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”2 Although it sounds a bit stiff to me, I bet it gave the Christians in town a pleasant smile.
- Craig S. Keener and InterVarsity Press, The IVP Bible Background Commentary : New Testament [Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993]. 1 Th 1:2. [↩]
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 [NET] [↩]
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Christian Mystic Poetry…wow
By PaulD | December 20, 2008
Reading Andreas Wolf’s blog this morning I followed his link to a book of poetry: Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg. I do not know a lot about her life but some of her poetry was encouraging to me this morning. She lived three hundred years before the Reformation in the city of Magdeburg, Germany. Here are two of her poems that I enjoyed this morning.
A fish cannot drown in water
A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn’t vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?
(Found here)
Effortlessly
Effortlessly,
Love flows from God into man,
Like a bird
Who rivers the air
Without moving her wings.
Thus we move in His world
One in body and soul,
Though outwardly separate in form.
As the Source strikes the note,
Humanity sings –
The Holy Spirit is our harpist,
And all strings
Which are touched in Love
Must sound.
(Found here)
(PS. Mechthild shows up a lot in Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill.)
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