National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared [...]
Archive for October, 2007
National Novel Writing Month
Posted in Books on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Trapped in Casual Relationships
Posted in Lists, Relationships on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In our lives, clearly we may have many acquaintances but only few friends who truly know the struggles and issues of our heart, that are with us in adversity, and rejoice with us in success. We all desire intimate relationships, but still we spend our time talking about clothing, work, others, sports, politics, church, and [...]
Open-Ended Marriage Questions
Posted in Lists, Marriage on October 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Paul David Tripp gives a list of open-ended questions for marriage counseling, or perhaps even for us to evaluate and see our own relationships with new eyes:
What things did you see in this person that made you want to marry him?
What were your goals for your marriage when you were engaged?
What things in your marriage [...]
Joel Osteen, Kraft Cheese of Preachers
Posted in Blogs, Humor on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Prodigal Jon has an insightful post:
Instead of addressing these problems by experimenting with specialty cheeses or lowering their price, Kraft is doing something called “Value Engineering.” Basically they are raising profits by lowering the manufacturing costs of macaroni and cheese. What does that mean? For one thing, it means that Kraft no longer puts cheese [...]
Statistics and Evangelicals
Posted in News on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some stats Christianity Today. I wonder which of the prosperity gospel, emerging church, and new reformation are having a greater impact on opinion of evangelicals:
56% Americans who believe that freedom to worship applies to all religious groups, regardless of how extreme.
72 Americans who said this in 2000.
19% [...]
Ann Coulter, Offending with Truth
Posted in Interviews, Life, Politics, Theology on October 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I remember having a conversation a while back in which I offended someone, and then tried to explain why it was unreasonable that they were offended. Let’s just say it didn’t fly. That’s exactly what I thought of when I read the transcript of Ann Coulter on Donny Deutsch’s The Big Idea. Well, read for [...]
Review – Heaven on Earth
Posted in Books, Heaven, Reviews on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the campus bookstore I picked up two copies of Stephen Nichol’s Heaven on Earth while on sale, and figured it to be a great deal. On my shelf it stayed until the promotion all around prompted me to take it off the shelf to read. You’ve seen a quote or two already, but here [...]
More Conference and Sermon MP3s
Posted in Audio, Conferences, Files, Free, Sermons on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some more conference MP3s recommended by Pastor Steve Weaver. Of course, he hasn’t listened to them yet, but they’re on his list:
Conference on C.S. Lewis held at SEBTS
Norton Lectures by Alvin Plantinga at SBTS
Preaching Conference at SEBTS
Expositor’s Conference with Steve Lawson and John MacArthur
And finally, today in chapel we had a TMS alumni [...]
Web 2.0 and Bible Study
Posted in Bible, Tech, Websites on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As you are all familiar, the web has a large amount of Bible resources, but it can always use one more! Blogos has posted about YouVersion, a new on-line Bible reading application that is recently out in public Beta. It seems like there are a lot of improvements that would be nice to see, but [...]
SEBTS C.S. Lewis Conference
Posted in Audio, Conferences, Files on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How intriguing! I’ve been interested in studying Lewis, but have too many foundational classes to work through first. Here is an excerpt from Pastor Steve Weaver’s Blog:
The MP3s of the main sessions of the recent C.S. Lewis conference held at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary are available online, but I don’t know where to find them. [...]
