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Entries from May 30th, 2007

Teach Your Children Well

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Catechism

What do you teach your children? What sorts of things do they soak up from your example in relationships and practical, important areas of life like handling money and directing their financial future? We imprint them with more of how we live in these areas of life than we verbally teach them. I wonder if [...]

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Talkin’ Money- altho’ I hate to

May 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Clannish -Family, Critics Choice, facts-of-life

Like most people I don’t like to discuss money. And no, this is not prelude to me asking you for some. It is the outcome of the necessity of the last few years to take a good hard look at how I view money and finances and how to resolve the vast differences on [...]

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Setting The Stage For Change

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Cat-in-a-bag, Clannish -Family

My husband and I have a reached a place in life where we see the imperative for change. We’ve seen the need for decades, but there is something in people who are like us that can’t quite negotiate the hurdle. But the specter of ones mortality and the wisdom of counting ones days is an [...]

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Mere Orthodoxy » The Kingdom Triangle: The Decade’s Most Important Book

May 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

Mere Orthodoxy » The Kingdom Triangle: The Decade’s Most Important Book
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Look for it:

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments · announcement

::: christianthinker.net :::
the fine Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland has a new book coming out called Kingdom Triangle that looks to be very interesting. Moreland blogs about it …
In this book he seems to be doing something that the church vitally needs but, strangely, almost no one talks about. The “triangle” refers to Moreland’s [...]

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Pope considers return to Latin mass | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Miniblog

Pope considers return to Latin mass | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Now, little more than a generation later, Pope Benedict XVI is poised to revive the 16th-century Tridentine Mass.
…A Vatican official, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, confirmed earlier this month that Benedict would soon relax the restrictions on celebrating the Tridentine Mass because of a “new and [...]

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Is Pentecost Over?

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Cogitations, Who Knows

Who says so?
Why is that which was instituted as a “firstfruits” over before the Harvest is in sight?
What indication was ever given that it would end- what prophetic word of the Old Testament prophets is invoked as foretelling its end as that which foretold its beginning?
Where is the sure word of scripture that we [...]

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Perspective on the God Question

May 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Christian

Have you ever found yourself non-plussed by an atheists insistence that you must be able to “prove” there is a God? Or felt pressured and upset by the ones that make fun of your “unsicentific” or “irrational” belief in God?
New Covenant states:
Why start off in defensive mode when it isn’t necessary?
…and if you really want [...]

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Saturday Scavenger Hunt: Colorful

May 26th, 2007 · 9 Comments · community-memes

Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

Theme: colorful
Find the Photo Hunters Blogroll, here.

I took this photo @ the Franklin Park Conservatory. It is a glass skylight made by Dale Chihuly, I believe.

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“New Internet”?

May 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Computer

Many researchers want to rethink the internet’s underlying architecture, saying a “clean-slate” approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since the internet’s birth in 1969.
…In the late 1960s, BBN won the contract to build a network linking machines at four universities. That network, then known [...]

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