Archive for January, 2006
Comments(1)January 29, 2006
Dealing with your generation
Luke 16:1-9: The Parable of the Dishonest Manager
1He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. 2And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ 3And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. 4I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ 5So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’ 7Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ 8The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. 9And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.
I’ve been looking for this verse for 6 months. It finally appeared in today’s Bible read through. While the parable does not teach that we should steal from our employers when we know we are going to be fired, it does teach a principle that is very true today. I know that I’m applying a sterotype, but Christians can be so naive and irrelevant when trying to communicate to non-Christians. Among other things, this parable teaches that Christians should understand the world and know how to “speak the language.”
That’s one reason that I really like Mo Leverett and Desire Street Ministries of New Orleans (now relocated to the panhandle of Florida). Mo didn’t move to New Orleans and stand on a street corner and scream the gospel at people. He didn’t work to establish a traditional church with traditional services. He moved to the neighborhood and “became one of them.” He teaches at the local high school. He works to provide for the physical needs of the children and families. He helps them with their education and encourages college. AND he tells them about Christ. He “shrewdly” meets the physical and emotional needs of the poor people in the Desire community, all the while demonstrating and living the gospel. While Mo is smart to “speak the language” of the people and deal shrewdly with them, this is really love! He loves the people of desire. He wants to see long-lasting marriages, healthy children, educated children, and college-bound teenagers.
While I absolutely think that Christians should be creative, wise, and shrewd when ministering to the world, above all we should love! We should want to see our non-Christian friends succeed, have great friends, successful marriages, smart children, and changed by the gospel.
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing…. 13So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 13
January 24, 2006
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This form of Christian apologetics deals with presuppositions. A Christian presuppositionalist presupposes God’s existence and argues from that perspective to show the validity of Christian theism.(tags: apologetics)
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January 19, 2006
Google + Sun Rumors
A good round up of Google and Sun rumors in this article, The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Google, Sun, and a New PC: Anatomy of a Rumor - Technology Review
January 18, 2006
NYC 2006
So I’ve made my annual trip to NYC for the third year in a row. This trip was uneventful except that I’m now stuck in an airport. Since an airport is far from interesting, I’ve decided to post this picture of me, Marie, Ethan and Al from 2004. Yes, we were on the Today Show!
January 12, 2006
Painful right-click problem
For a couple of months now, I’ve had this annoying problem in which any right-click and selection on a file or shortcut causes Windows Explorer to crash. Looks like it is caused by DivX. More details here Windows XP: Right click on desktop causes crash
January 11, 2006
Making the switch
I have been using Moveable Type 2.661 for almost two years (first post, March 17, 2004), but I really wanted to change the look and feel of the site. Most of the MT templates are specific to MT 3+, so with that and the price of MT, I decided to switch to Wordpress. The installation was very easy, as many people have documented.
But I do want to point to this link on redirecting Moveable Type entries. It was the last piece of information that I needed to make the switch.
January 9, 2006
Web Comments
Nice…
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you’re viewing in Firefox and even make your own blog post about it, all without leaving the page you’re on.
January 4, 2006
Support Judge Alito
A quick and easy way to contact your Senators in support of Judge Alito.
