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50 Days of Heaven - Days 6 and 7

On these two days, Mr. Alcorn has strayed away from at least what I know as traditional views of Heaven, though granted, I am not a particularly studied scholar on the matter. I haven't ever heard of an intermediate Heaven, which is different from the future Heaven. His definition of Heaven, at least for these two chapters is, "The place where God dwells", and he speaks particularly of a "central" dwelling place, given that God is omnipresent. (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 14, 2006, 6:01 am | Read 1056 times | Comments (3)
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50 Days of Heaven - Day 4

I sort of got discouraged on days 2 and 3, where I didn't find much that was edifying. But day 4 had a couple interesting things. (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 14, 2006, 5:15 am | Read 838 times | Comments (3)
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And Yet Another Quote

I haven't managed to get home yet tonight - started at a link from Worship Matters, Bob Kauflin's blog, and managed to meander around to a number of blogs, which after I get through the list, will probably add to the list of blogs that I read, but wanted to post a link to this one in particular. I suppose the "right way", if I were a true blogger, would be to put my favorites in a post or something, like so many else do. (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 13, 2006, 8:14 pm | Read 642 times | Comments (0)
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A Hunger For God

I guess I will need to read the book - I have not liked a fair amount of what John Piper has to say (which is unfortunate, since my church loves everything he says). But I happened across Slice of Laodicea and read the following quote today, which is exactly how I have been thinking recently:

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Posted by jondaley on November 13, 2006, 6:02 pm | Read 754 times | Comments (4)
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Keith Green video

I have a couple cds of Keith Green, but hadn't ever actually seen him. I happened across For Such A Time As This and watched this video of Asleep In The Light:

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Posted by jondaley on November 13, 2006, 5:51 pm | Read 733 times | Comments (5)
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500th post

Who would have guessed that back when I started writing back in November of 2002 that I was starting what would eventually become a blog, and fairly regular posts? Certainly not me. (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 6, 2006, 7:35 pm | Read 589 times | Comments (0)
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50 Days of Heaven

Our church is reading 50 Days of Heaven, by Randy Alcorn. It is a shortened version of Heaven, specifically written as a devotional book. It is part of a sermon series entitled, An Eye on Eternity. I thought I would write a couple quotes and thoughts for my care group, in order to encourage them to read. No promises about 50 days worth, but perhaps as I find interesting things. (More)

Posted by jondaley on November 6, 2006, 6:09 am | Read 622 times | Comments (0)
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A Good Dinner

It might be hard to tell, but can you see the things waving/crawling around? Dig in...

Posted by jondaley on November 5, 2006, 3:44 pm | Read 685 times | Comments (4)
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SATs for Pre-schoolers

I happened across Wynne's blog today, since I was poking around on various CMU alums' web sites. She recently linked to this story about standardized testing. I don't have much that is original to say about this, but figured some of you might like to read the article.

Posted by jondaley on October 31, 2006, 3:51 pm | Read 784 times | Comments (1)
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TV

Reading Mom's post about the TV/autism study reminded me of my own recent negative TV experience. (More)

Posted by joyful on October 24, 2006, 4:07 pm | Read 1569 times | Comments (15)
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Worship Quote of the Week: Domesticating Transcendence

For a number of years, I have been on the Worship Quote of the Week e-mailing list, and have found a lot of the quotes to be edifying and helpful. (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 4, 2006, 6:42 am | Read 902 times | Comments (0)
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Merry Christmas!

I have seen the Christmas stuff come out right after Thanksgiving, and last year I saw some stuff just after Halloween, but this year has them all beat. (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 24, 2006, 7:10 pm | Read 672 times | Comments (0)
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Domain Registry Support?

I hadn't ever gotten a call from a domain scammer before, but today I got my first one. He wanted a fax number to send some sort of notification to. Since I know my domain isn't going to expire for a year, and I was pretty sure that neither my registrar nor my DNS host had asked these guys to call me, I quizzed him some, but he wasn't really able to answer any questions.

Just to be sure, I called my registrar, and they confirmed that these guys are probably some sort of scammer. After searching further on the Internet, I see that lots of people have had trouble with them.
It appears to be a company in Panama, so presumably there isn't anything I can do to stop them, other than warn people here.

Posted by jondaley on September 18, 2006, 4:58 pm | Read 789 times | Comments (1)
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Old Cell Phone...

I tried to re-activate our prepaid phone, but Cingular no longer supports TDMA phones, which is an older standard, but I hadn't realized that GSM had taken over that much. Our cell phone that we use regularly is also TDMA, but the sales guy said that it should last a while, as long as we don't cancel the plan.

It costs $30 for a new phone, and $15 for the minutes, and he has to ship it, the local offices only have $80 phones, so it isn't worth anything for this weekend's bike trips.

Posted by jondaley on August 25, 2006, 10:57 am | Read 971 times | Comments (12)
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ACLJ Harassment

We get a phone call every day between 8:55 and 9:00AM. They are always hangups, but today, I finally answered quick enough to actually get a person. It was the American Center for Law and Justice, and they refused to remove my phone number from their list.

I emailed jsekulow@aclj.org directly, I don't suppose he actually reads his own mail, but maybe he will do something about it.

Their member services say I am not on their lists, so their telemarketers must be calling, as if it makes any difference to me whether they are paying a person in the same building as them to call me, or if they hired an outside firm to call me.

I need to look up the number to the FCC - they fined MCI $400 (or maybe more - I got a check for $400) for bothering me in college.

Posted by jondaley on August 25, 2006, 9:19 am | Read 944 times | Comments (2)
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