tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83711882012-02-19T07:54:52.665-06:00Christianity, literature, technology, and life, conveniently arranged in one blog by Jacob Gerber.Jacobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12924799417926655365noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8371188.post-1099533504658258052004-11-03T19:56:00.000-06:002004-11-03T19:58:24.656-06:00

Not because I have decided to give up blogging, but because I have merged with my friend Andrew, formerly of Jackknifed Juggernaut. Please update your bookmarks to our new blog, Of Bald Men and Bears, which is at http://baldbears.blogspot.com/. I will still keep this blog up, but will only post to the other one.

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My 40 day policktical fast was completed yesterday. This process was probably one of the best I've done in my life; the time in peace from politics have given me a lot of time to do better things (like this blog), and I feel much less likely to have a gut reaction to an event or idea come straight out of the Republican Party platform. Up to this point, I have still not visited the Drudge Report

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First, I should note that, contrary to some rumors that have been circulating, I am neither dead nor apathetic toward my beloved blog; I have merely been working like a legalist to get caught up from having taken pretty much four days off of any homework to go to the preaching/teaching conference at Willow Creek Community Church.Second, I want to answer a few of the comments posted where I

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I will be writing a post soon on my experiences this weekend at the conference I attended in Chicago. For now, you should read this story to find out about an essential piece of survival gear should you ever become stranded on a desert island or something like that.

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For the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Fall Break, I have travelled to Chicago to attend a preaching and teaching conference at Willow Creek Community Church. So, I'm writing this from a hotel in a suburb of Chicago, and I probably will not have a lot of opportunities to post until Wednesday. Still, I should be back full force on Wednesday! For those of you at UNL, have a good break.

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This is pretty cool. Apparently, they have hooked up sensors to a quadriplegic's brain that allows him to operate a computer with 70% accuracy. The implications of this are amazing. Does this raise any ethical concerns with anyone? (It may or may not; I'm just curious.)

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(It was an absentee ballot.)That's pretty much all there is to it, except to say that I don't think that I will ever again reveal for whom I vote. In the midst of my political fast, it was somewhat difficult to make an informed decision, but I prayed that God would guide me and that he would bless the election. That doesn't mean that we will have a Super Christian in every office; in fact, when

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What people define as newsworthy has always intrigued me. This intrigue peaked, of course, in the publications of my middle school and high school, but also in the newspaper of my beloved childhood home, the Chappell Register (where "news" consisted of letters from Santa schoolchildren were assigned by their teachers to write).Still, these pieces of journalism suffered because of a lack of news.

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Dwight Knoll linked to a story about the Jesus Seminar from his blog. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read it, either.

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After I got up this morning, started my coffeemaker, and took a shower, I came back to my room to decide what to wear. I poked around my wardrobe for a while, but I knew what I had to do: I pulled out my favorite Nebraska Cornhusker shirt and put it on. It doesn't matter if we gave up the worst loss in school history Saturday, because I refuse to be a fair-weather fan.This determination goes

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D.A. Carson, in his For the Love of God, Vol. 2, writes:We must always remember that: The Gospel is not admired in Scripture primarily because of the social transformation it effects, but because it reconciles men and women to a holy God. Its purpose is not that we might feel fulfilled, but that we might be reconciled to the living and holy God. The consummation [of Christ and the Church in the

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Actually, this is bad news for all you Calvinists out there. I was looking around the internet for information on the theology of 7th Heaven, and a Google sponsored result led me to an article that very persuasively refutes Calvinism. You can read it here.Rev. Paul C. Jong points out basic logical errors in the theology of Calvinism, such as how:What the untrue theology says about

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I regret to inform you all that I have fallen. I didn't want to do it, but my entire family was talking about the presidential debate this evening. I should have yelled, "Get behind me, Satan!" and left the room, but I must admit that I sort of wanted to hear what was happening. I only have seventeen days left in my policktical fast, but I succombed to temptation. These last days are going to

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It's homecoming time in Hastings, sports fans! My dad picked me up at about 2:30 from Lincoln, and we just got back into town. The reason was twofold: (1) my car had broken down, but was now fixed in Hastings, and so the trip from Hastings to Lincoln and back again was inevitable for him (whether it was he driving a vehicle and my mother driving my vehicle, their leaving my vehicle in Lincoln,

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If you enjoy video games, you have to see this eBay auction where 1355 video game system and accessories (including over 290 entertainment systems) were auctioned off in a lot (Slashdot reports that there were over 1300 games, but I didn't want to count them). The lot went for $11,500. There are some rich nerds out there.Furthermore, Google has added SMS service which, in their words:...enables

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MC Hendrick wrote a thoughtful post on what the world would be like if there were no God and everything were irrelevant. He makes the case that there is no freedom if there is no creator, since there would then be no objective set of morals, not ultimate purpose for our lives, and no reason not to do the sort of things we don't want done against us (murder, adultery, theft, etc...). I very much

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If you attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, you have often seen a gentleman holding a sign requesting alms for the poor (himself), and challenging us to think about what Jesus would do were He in our shoes. This has always been a dilemma for me.On one hand, Jesus describes how those who will be saved will have been feeding the poor and clothing the naked, et cetera; and, in the process,

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Good news! Google has stepped up its services, probably in an effort to edge out the new Clusty search engine and, to a limited extent, Amazon.com (only in the way that Amazon allows you to run searches that will scour the text of their books). According to a Reuters news article, Google will now be offering a service called Google Print.Apparently, if you keep using Google as your search

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For my Medieval Literature and Theology class, we are reading Dante's Inferno. In this book, Dante puts certain figures from history and his contemporary world into different circles of hell, depending on their crimes.If you are interested in determining which circle you are headed for*, take a survey** that will determine your destination here.* - This does not apply if you have accepted Jesus

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As you may have noticed, I have listed listed this book on the list of books that I'm reading/digesting since I put the list up. The reason I am still reading it is that this is the devotional guide/commentary that I use to study the Bible.Actually, I have been using this, as well as the first volume for about four years. The reason I have used it so much is because it, more than anything I

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My dad brought me up more coffee from home today. This was wonderful, because I was about 11.25 ounces through my 11.5 ounce container of coffee (the one I purchased at the beginning of this semester). I have no idea where it all went so quickly, but I love coffee. I take great delight out of my coffee routine.First in my routine, I get my coffeemaker all set up the night before, spooning out

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I found out about a new search engine that, according to the New York Times, is going to give Google a run for its money. Clusty the Clustering Engine apparently has a method of searching that is comparatively as good as Google's (I think it uses some sort of technology Yahoo! developed), but a method of sorting and organizing the search results that blows Google out of the water. I tried it

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If you would like to test your Bible knowledge, you might enjoy this quiz. I received great insight from the person who designed this quiz--almost as much, in fact, as I received from the Prayer of Jabez. Look out, Dr. Warren Wiersbe--the About.com Bible pundit is taking the theological world by storm, shining light on profound theological truths, such as Adam's real sin in the Garden of Eden:

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As I promised, here is a post about my dream. After I explain what exactly my dream was about, I will then explain how I think I would turn it into a novel.In my dream, I met a girl named Sarah in one of my classes, whom I really felt led to witness to. (This really was not a romantic thing.) So, I tried to develop the sort of relationship necessary to tell her about my faith and invite her to

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One of the things I appreciated most about Laura Winner's Girl Meets God was her strong appreciation for the Old Testament (coming from an Orthodox Jewish background), and especially why it is still important today, even though we have the New Testament. Winner writes about a time she went to a Messianic Jewish Church:The rabbi is in the middle of a sermon series on the Book of Joshua. "Well,

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For those of you who, like I, enjoy Star Wars perhaps a little too much (don't worry, your secret's safe with me!), you might be interested in knowing that George Lucas has approved a Star Wars TV show that should premiere in May 2005. The article about this is here.

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In today's issue of Sports Illustrated On Campus, there was an amusing article about great moments in band history. It was a true/false quiz (which was kind of annoying), but I have distilled the following list of humorous, true, band moments in history:1941: The University of Chicago disbands its marching band--two years after having disbanded its football team.1967: During a nationally

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Today, my Bible reading plan brought me to one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, Ezekiel 33. Here's a quick run-down of why it is so meaningful to me.Verses 1-9: It is a challenging and sobering thought that we are responsible to communicate our knowledge of Christ with those who don't know Him, although we obviously have no control over their response. Paul, toward the end of his life,

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Some of the important news of the day from our beloved college newspaper, the Daily Nebraskan:Apparently, Rep. Tom Osborne (R-Neb) has switched houses in Congress to be in the Senate without my knowledge (is that even legal?). This is news to me, because I haven't been paying attention to such things. Here's the headline of the DN today: "Osborne near rocket explosion: Senator unharmed after

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Continuing my series of posts on Winner's Girl Meets God, the next subject I would like to broach (and probably the last, unless I think of anything else) would be that of Orthodox Christianity. This is not so much in the sense of the principles contained in the Apostle's Creed or the Nicene Creed, but in the sense of the rituals and practices the Christian Orthodoxy has promoted over the

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Having written my earlier melancholy (but hopeful) post, things may be starting to look up. I just got an e-mail from a wonderful, faithful client of mine (for those of you who do not know, I am a parliamentarian--the information is a bit out of date on that web site, by the way), perhaps needing a professional opinion for her organization. This is a good thing (it means that I might be able to

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Well, my faithful blog readers (i.e., those of you who have sloshed through some of my deeper, weighty, and just plain long posts, who are still reading my blog now), I am considering writing a novel. Now, don't whisk away to Amazon.com just yet--I still have to actually get this future bestseller on paper (or, at least on the hard drive of my computer).What I am interested in knowing (and this

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I read Lauren F. Winner's Girl Meets God this weekend. I loved her insights into the relationships between Judaism and Christianity. Her thoughts about politics challenged my conceptions of what a Christian should be. Also, she's an extremely good writer, if you can stand memoirs.This probably won't be an extremely long post, but I wanted to give you a general idea of what I thought about the

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My life isn't going very well right now. Starting a little over a week ago, things just haven't moved as I would like them to. School seems to be piling up everything it has on me. I'm extraordinarily broke. Yesterday, I even had a little car trouble. As I was driving back to Lincoln from Hastings (both in the great state of Nebraska), I suddenly got a "Check Engine" light, which prompted me

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WORLD PREMIER STORY :: MUST CREDIT "WORDS, WORDS, WORDS."Our ever fickle-friend (or should we say "flaky"?), Ben, has started a new blog with the help of his friend Christy. Ben had an embargo on the address, but with a little technical know-how, this blogger uncovered the new blog's address before its official launch.The sure-to-be-smash-hit (or at least, the perhaps-to-be-soon-jettisoned) blog

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Per the advice of a member of this blog's readership, I have been reading Girl Meets God, by Orthodox-Jew-turned-Christian Lauren F. Winner (this is a link to the original edition sold on Amazon.com and has better reader reviews, but the first edition-first print from which I am reading is full of typos). Once I am through reading it, I will post a general review of the book, but, in the

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This weekend I went home (I am right now writing from my couch in Hastings). I got home extremely late last night, but this morning I turned right around and went to Norfolk for a marching band competition. I usually enjoy following my old high school's band around the state to the various competitions that I marched in during my tenure. Today was a slightly different story.Of course, it was

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It has been something of a lifetime goal to learn how to program computers. It isn't that I have something specific that I want to program; in fact, I doubt I would have much use for programming skills much beyond writing simple programs to check math problems (we English majors who have completed our math graduation requirements don't always think logically). Still, I followed my heart (not my

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WORLD PREMIER STORY :: MUST CREDIT "WORDS, WORDS, WORDS." Ben's blog, "The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers," officially passed on into the abyss of cyberspace. Ben, citing issues of time, commitment, and interest, formally terminated his blog. The real problem we, the blogosphere, are faced with is the void formed by the loss of this blog. So, if anyone out there is interested

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I heard a presentation tonight on why we (my university) need to take greater efforts to protect transgender people in areas as diverse as housing rights, restroom construction, and forms that force people to define themselves either as "Male" or "Female."There was a time in my life (and indeed, there may be more times in my life) when I laughed dismissively at stories of how identity questioning

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I have six Gmail invitations to give away, and I have a friend who has another six who is willing to give his away. If you don't know what Gmail is, it is Google's up-and-coming e-mail service that turned the geek community on its head because it offers a whopping 1 gigabyte of mail storage. Also, it has a lot of other intuitive features in its mail service that I'm enjoying. Furthermore,

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I hate being poor (poor in the sense of I'm-an-American-who-has-no-real-perspective-on-poverty). You see, Buena Vista Home Video has released the complete first season of Boy Meets World on DVD. I desperately wanted to purchase this when it came out some time in August, but I had no money to spend then, and I have no money to spend now.*Sigh*I was doing a little poking around Amazon.com, and

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Andrew put up a post about the worst worship choruses. He is absolutely right about the horrendous nature of some choruses. I have often been frustrated by the picture our "worship" music paints of God. It seems like far too many of the songs we sing in church read like "Oh, God, you have made me so happy, so I am happy, because you made me happy. I am happy, so I praise you, because I am

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This morning I read Ezekiel 24. In this passage, God tells Ezekiel that He was about to take from him "the desire of [his] eyes with a blow" (v. 16); in other words, Ezekiel's wife was soon going to die. Why? Well, God also commanded Ezekiel against mourning in any way for the loss of his wife. Why? God wanted the Israelites to have a representation of what he was about to do in the lives of

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This evening I read Ayn Rand's Anthem. For those of you who are unfortunate not to have ever read any of her works, I highly recommend that you do. This one is particularly good to start with, since it is extremely short (well under 100 pages). Be warned, though, that Ayn Rand is not someone to read as a source of Christian inspiration. In fact, she is one of the staunchest atheist writers I

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I need to get something off my chest. I'm not really sure how to broach the subject, so I'll just treat this like a band-aid, and rip it off quickly, thus exposing my deep, gaping wound: *big breath* I use Sparknotes.com. I, who love literature and despise cheat-guides like Cliff's Notes, have been using the plot-summaries of Sparknotes.com for about two years now; I have been doing the very

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WORLD PREMIER STORY :: MUST CREDIT "WORDS, WORDS, WORDS." A friend of mine, Ben Keele, just entered the blogosphere with his sure-to-be-smash-hit-blog, "The First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers" (a reference to the play Henry VI, written by your friend and mine, William Shakespeare). Already, Ben is providing hard-hitting analysis of today's most pressing issues. We want to welcome

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Well, I just downloaded and installed the preview version of the internet browser Mozilla Firefox 1.0. It's pretty nice, but, unfortunately, some of the extentions and themes I had for Firefox 0.9.1 don't yet work in 1.0PR. I imagine that there will soon be updates. For those of you who have never used Firefox before, you are definitely behind the times. Here is a whole list of reasons to switch

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- Much Ado About Nothing (Act 1.1, l. 290) Now that I have a blog on which I am posting my thoughts on everything (as well as a reader base that spans the entire Husker nation), it certainly seems obligatory to write about such a subject as the opposite gender (that would be women). After all, it's my writing on this topic that ensures the posterity of this blog! First, I have a list of

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I have been known to be somewhat...ah...partisan in my political views. Often, in fact, I have been more interested in changing someone's mind about a political issue than being sincere in telling them about Christ. So, I have made a decision to go on a forty day fast from politics. This means: No news (I tend to enjoy Fox News) No Drudge Report No Rush Limbaugh No taking sides in

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Well, the Huskers pulled it off this week, beating Pittsburgh 24-17. Still, the victory lacked the gusto I would have liked to see. The Husker offense played very conservatively, trying to avoid at all costs the turnovers that cost them the game to Southern Mississippi last week. Though he didn't throw many passes, Joe Dailey threw only one interception, which was a big improvement over last week

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- Much Ado About Nothing (Act 4.1, l. 18) Since my old roommate got a blog, I became instantly jealous. You see, I have wanted to get my own blog for quite some time. In fact, I had one this summer, but only for a brief amount of time, because posting on it was extremely labor intensive, and not many people came (If you wish to send me a sympathy card, I am always appreciative of any I receive

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