...thoughts expressed here are not necessarily final.

January 23, 2006 Technology update

The ebook :generation x.

BlackBerry dealt a setback…

Underdogs

Holly and Herbie had been in serious trouble throughout their young lives; they're lucky merely to have made it beyond adolescence. So it may come as a surprise that one of them now has a successful career in law enforcement, while the other is enjoying a productive pastoral existence herding sheep. I'll be watching...

What a Man's Gotta Do

A Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Got to lay down your life to be faithful and true
Got to give all it takes God’s ways to pursue.
Yeah a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

The path of least resistance is no way for God’s man.
With a hallowed persistence we must pursue God’s plan.
It’s not just with God’s assistance that we follow his command
It’s only Of Him and Through Him and To Him that we stand.

A Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Got to lay down your life to be faithful and true
Got to give all it takes God’s ways to pursue.
Yeah a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

The wide road of the world is calling us to stray
It seems so right for there are so many on its way.
But it all ends up in judgment and it ends up with God's wrath
It takes us down to destruction in it's never ending path.

A Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Got to lay down your life to be faithful and true
Got to give all it takes God’s ways to pursue.
Yeah a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

Its so easy to compromise when your back's against the wall
And it seems to make no sense to make a stand and heed God's call
It's a bitter lesson to learn so you'd better count the cost
You are called to be so different from the world so dark and lost.

A Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Got to lay down your life to be faithful and true
Got to give all it takes God’s ways to pursue.
Yeah a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.

Anthony Foster
January 17, 2006

We saw The End of the Spear Sunday..

Check out the website. Here's the EveryTribe site for the trailers. We saw the documentary before seeing the movie, which gave us the sense that the movie really followed the documentary closely, with no embellishment...That's another matter- the documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor was basically from the Saints' perspective.

I thought it was great- exceptional acting, cinematography, music, pacing of the story. It was not overly sentimental, a lesson all Christian filmmakers should take to heart. It is a needful and powerful testimony of the event that changed missions world and inspired millions of Christians in the 20th century. It is an important retelling, as many people in my current church never heard of the martyrdom or only knew the story in a vague fashion. Our church sponsored a night at the movies which we didn't attend because we thought it would be crowded. Apparently there was no interest or everyone thought the way we did, since just a few showed up. It's a sobering question.

We were blessed to meet Dayuma several years ago at a Wycliffe gathering associated with the Dayuma stage production.

Lord  Feed Your Flock

Lord  feed your flock and lead us to rest.
We will cast down our burdens for you to bear
You are the solid rock and in you we're blessed.
We cast our cares upon you as for us you care.

Lord, seek the lost and bring back the scattered.
Bind up the broken, strengthen the sick.
You'll not cast out the bruised and the battered
You will not quench the smoldering wick.

You bring your good news to the afflicted
The broken-hearted Lord you will bind
You  gather together all the evicted
The wayward and wasted you will seek and find

Oh Saviour- Messiah you have set us free
We stand by the power of your name
So to captives  we declare liberty
The favorable year of the Lord we proclaim.

Comfort the needy, those who are mourning
Give them a garland for ashes and fears
A mantle of praise for a spirit of fainting
Oil of gladness to flow instead of their tears

Ez 34:16; Is 61:1; 64:6
Anthony Foster
January 23, 2006

Why I Love the South

This is an oldie I never blogged- The Spiritual Dangers of Blogging.

You know, honestly, there's spiritual danger everwhere...

January 25, 2006—The rise of Wikipedia and other communally aggregated reference materials on the internet has created a new set of challenges for educators: How accurate or reliable are these sources for student research, and what kind of policies should educators set regarding their use?

Social Glue?

The internet has played an important role in the life decisions of 60 million Americans, research shows.

Brokeback Mountain: Social correctness now demands that " love should be celebrated, not hidden, and that every person should be free to love who they want."

The movie "Brokeback Mountain" presents a distorted and unbiblical picture of human sexuality, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, during a Jan. 17 appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live."

A panel of commentators appeared with Mohler to discuss the topic of homosexuality as it relates to the controversial Golden Globe Award-winning film. " Brokeback Mountain" …
The panel consisted of Mohler; Janet Parshall, host of the radio program "Janet Parshall's America;" Chad Allen, an actor and gay activist; and Guy Padgett, the openly gay former mayor of Casper, Wyo.

Comments on End of the Spear from thoughtful folk…

http://thereformedbaptistthinker.blogspot.com/2006/01/to-see-or-not-to-see-end-of-spear.html

http://www.founders.org/blog/2006/01/sad-news-about-end-of-spear.html

A Kentuckian who knows Kentucky.

This is why I will always have a home to go back to.