Doug over at Coffeeswirls keeps trying to beg people into subscribing to some offer so he can get his free iPod. I believe I am the last remaining blogger in the world who has not tried to get people to buy or subscribe to something so that I could get an iPod. So please, someone…
It has been one of those days. Not a bad day, thankfully – just a busy one. I booked a good chunk of work today, so that should help keep me busy in the near future and pay the bills for another week or two. Ah, the joys of self-employment! Thanks to everyone who clicked…
I guess it isn’t a new blog as much as an old blog in a new location and with a new look. Brad, who owns and operates Read ‘Em & Reap has moved away from BlogSpot and now has his own domain. He also has an particularly attractive-looking site, if I do say so myself.…
If you have been visiting this site for any length of time, you may know of Jeri who posted in the forums and before the forum was installed, posted many comments here. She became a friend and I benefited greatly from her wisdom. She even gave blogging a try at her site called Sober Minded…
This site first came to life in September of 2002. I registered the domain challies.com primarily as a place to display photos of my children. My parents and siblings had moved down to Atlanta a few years earlier, and I wanted to be able to provide them with updated pictures of those of us who…
Here’s a topic I’ve been meaning to bring up for a while. Before I start, I should point out that my knowledge of the sciences (other than aspects of computer science) is absolutely shameful. I last studied science in my second year of high school and only passed because during the final exam I sat…
I spent some time today thinking about Sunday, or as we referred to it as I was growing up, the Sabbath day. I turned to a few of the old confessions to read again what they have to say about the Lord’s Day. The London Baptist Confession says: As it is the law of nature,…
It seems that the site has made a successful migration to the new server. It took some doing, but I think it is all here. Last night I had to copy over the database which stores all the articles I have written, as well as the thousands of comments from the original commenting system. That…
If you’re seeing this message it means you have found your way to the new server. I am hoping by Saturday morning everyone will be directed here. It doesn’t look any different, of course, but hopefully it will run quite a bit faster.
Today is moving day for this site. Sometime in the wee hours of the morning I’ll be trying to have the site directed to a new server. If you have any trouble accessing the site over the weekend, please accept my apologies. I am attemping to move all the files (thousands of them) and the…
It has been too long since I posted some recommended reading from other blogs and Web sites. I will remedy this today. You are free to understand this post as being an indication that I am busy writing my first week’s “lesson” for Cutting It Straight and am also engaged in moving my site to…
It seems I absolutely have to move this site to a new server this weekend. While it may not sound like that big of a deal, let me assure you that it is. Moving the site, the forums, databases and so on without losing any information is quite the daunting task. And what’s more, I…
Here, once again, are my weekly ramblings, restored to their rightful day of the week. This is a chance for me to address all the topics I wanted to write about during the week but couldn’t make into a whole article. Today the pope denounced the imbalance of wealth that exists between the world’s rich…
If I had a dime for every time I have heard someone tell me “it changed my life!” I’d be a rich man (even if those dimes were Canadian currency). I remember hearing people walking out of the theatre after watching The Passion of the Christ and saying how the movie had changed their life.…
Christianity has been in the news the past few days, and frankly I think most Christians wish it was not. It seems Christianity is best kept a little under the radar, for when it hits the mass media little good can come of it. First we had Jimmy Swaggart and his comments about homosexuals. On…
This is the “official” announcement launching the “League of Reformed Bloggers.” This is a news aggregator and blogroll featuring bloggers who write from the perspective of a Reformed worldview. This is being co-hosted and moderated by yours truly and David at Jollyblogger. Our desire is to provide a place where those who write and read…
I was cleaning up my hard drive this afternoon and came across a whole bunch of different site design concepts that never actually made it onto the Web. While there was good reason for a lot of them, I could a couple that were actually pretty good. Since I have never used them I figured…
A couple of weeks from now I will be starting a Sunday evening study at my house which will be geared towards new Christians. It will be called Cutting It Straight. I anticipate it covering the basics of Christian beliefs and doctrine. Initially I do not intend to do “Bible study” as much as topical…
This morning I was reading an interview with Jaci Velasquez over at CMCentral. Velasquez is a Christian singer/songwriter who has achieved quite a lot of success in the mainstream market, especially the Latin market. Not too long ago she decided, as so many musicians do, to expand her portfolio and give acting a try. Her…
I wanted to write something about worship today. I started thinking about what I would write while I was sitting in church watching the band practice for a few minutes before the service. I got no ideas from watching them. During the service, though, I began to think about whether people view worship as an…