…you realise our world is a very different place than it was only a decade ago.
Tagged as // Culture, Social Media, Technology
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December 23, 2009
Atheist Snowman Greeting Card
Thanks to Steve Sanchez for pointing me to this atheist snowman greeting card.
Microblogging will likely cease over the next few days due to a hectic schedule. See you all next year.
Tagged as // Atheism, Culture, Humour
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Creative and Inspirational Workplaces
It may be a terrible excuse for laziness, but I still think that not having a creative, inspirational, clean, organised workspace, serves as a hindrance to my productivity. Then I’m reminded of those men before me who were more disciplined than me and worked by candle-light suffering great physical ailments.
Thanks Andy Tan for reminding me of all the places I’m not sitting right now microblogging this.
Tagged as // Culture, Design, Time Management
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December 20, 2009
Postmoderns as Tourists
I really appreciate Michael Horton’s description of Postmoderns:
“If the concept of the modern self was that of a master of all it surveyed, the postmodern self is best described as a tourist. There is no destination; just personal journeys from nowhere to nowhere in particular.”
Quote by Michael Horton, taken from The Gospel-Driven Life
Tagged as // Books, Culture, Michael Horton, Postmodernity
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December 11, 2009
More Pluralistic Propaganda
Aaron Armstrong pointed me to a new video documentary that has what I consider to be a blasphemous title. Not a clever marketing decision if you want to reach people who are careful how they use the name of God. Anyway, from the video trailer it appears to be, simply put, pluralistic propaganda.
Consider these words by Australian actor Hugh Jackman:
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can’t see them having any argument.
And with the power of multimedia, Ringo Star then declares:
God is love…
It might seem rational to travel the world to ask people “Who is God?” in an attempt to find truth. However, if you believe Romans 1:18 that men “suppress the truth in unrighteousness,” then all you’re going to find with that method is a collection of non-truth.
Tagged as // Culture, False Teaching, Pluralism, Total Depravity
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December 3, 2009
Video: A Futurist Laptop – The Rolltop
Yesterday I was sent a link to this concept video of a new “laptop” design; the Rolltop. I’m not sure how durable it would be, but it looks really sleek. I enjoy seeing what Futurist’s envisage, and if the Lord tarries, the new technologies and advances that become a reality. The Lord’s common grace is evident all around us.
I wonder what Leonardo da Vinci would have come up with if he lived in the 21st Century?
Tagged as // Culture, Design, Technology
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November 20, 2009
Do You Know This Man?
Well you couldn’t know this man. He is a sculpture. More specifically, he is a “Hyperrealistic Sculpture.” From the photos in this gallery and with some of their strange distortions of perspective, I’d say they beat Madame Tussauds.
Find the whole thing a bit disturbing? You can thank Dan Phillips for pointing me to this in the first place.
Tagged as // Art, Culture
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November 10, 2009
Calvin Beer in Geneva
via nytimes.com
Thanks to Mark Russell for pointing me to this link. I’d seen “Calvinus” beer around on the internet previously but had thought it was courtesy of Photoshop. I was wrong. I wonder if it would taste better than “Arminius”?
Tagged as // Alcohol, Culture, John Calvin
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November 2, 2009
Communicating with Post Moderns
I was referred to two lectures today delivered by Ted Donnelly earlier this year at the Trinity Baptist Pastors’ Conference. I’ve just listened to both lectures consecutively and have been immensely blessed. Donnelly’s two lectures were entitled Communicating with Post Moderns and provide both a helpful survey of postmodern thinking as well as practical exhortation as to how the church should respond. He not only warns against ignoring the culture we live in all together whilst at the same time he confronts the subtle compromises he sees within the church and the blatant error of those in the emergent church movement.
One of my favourite lines from his lectures was when he said:
“We reach people because we’re different from them…because when they come in there’s a sense of awe, and reverence, and the transcendence of God, and holy fear.”
You can listen to both lectures by following the links below:
Communicating with Post Moderns – Part 1
Communicating with Post Moderns – Part 2
Tagged as // Culture, Emergent, Postmodernity, Preaching, Ted Donnelly
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October 26, 2009
Video: Piano Stairs & Church Growth
I post this video as I found it to be entertaining and an interesting observation of human behaviour. I fear promoting this video though as I can just read the headline now, “Mega-Church Installs ‘Piano-Pews.’”
Please enjoy the video for what it is and please don’t let it influence your “Church Growth” theory. 
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