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What an amazing discovery, some months ago, that the name "Word" had not been taken already to create a group on YahooGroups. So we did. But the email discussion group has not taken off. Would you help make this group a go and take advantage of such a great name?
See the group page here, or join up right now by email.
We'd like to find someone to manage the group, to take it and run with it. If you know of a good candidate, let us know.
#Bible #lists #groups
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“He started climbing over the gate, and I told him not to climb over. He climbed over anyway, so I pulled a gun on him,” West said.
“I told him, ‘Do you see where it's cocked?’ He says, ‘I can see,’” West said. “He was sassy. He told me he wasn't going to do it.”
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I must have a streak of perversity in me. I like reading about these old guys holding thieves and robbers at gunpoint.
This article hit a nerve, apparently, because it's by far the most popular on my personal website over the past 30 days, and it's been up only 12 days. "Why the church stops growing" is my take on recent news of church losses. It's gotten amens and condemnations. #churchgrowth #evangelism
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Life is lived on the fringe of the storm. We walk the razor's edge of time and circumstance; which, said someone, happen to us all. Life is delicate and fragile. "We are standing on the brink of another world" (William Law).The tornadoes of eastern Kentucky and W. Virginia just missed Rick Kelley's family. Just like life itself.
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Clipped from a bulletin.
What if, instead of worrying about whether you were doing the right thing, you focused on how you can so live so as to influence other people to be better than they would be on their own? What if, instead of trying to hide from Satan, we began to live for Jesus?Great article on Christian influence by Sean Ashberry. #influence #Christianity
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... faith is no lark in the park, but a determined, focused, and deliberate path we follow, guided as we are by the truth of Christ.Today's devotional on my blog spans the whole chapter of Luke 17, although I actually quote only two words. Read the short thought with a prayer at the link above. It may just spur you on to read the whole chapter.
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Again: What's Friendica?
Some people still don't understand what Friendica is. It's a solution that replaces walled gardens like Facebook in today's world, because we want to be free and unmonitored when we talk to our friends. ~friendica therefore has a network technology of its own: freedom and privacy aware. But it also recognises the reality and popularity of platforms like Facebook - and talks to Facebook contacts, just as it talks to Diaspora, Twitter or status.net contacts. It tears down the walls... and when people see torn down walls, they will eventually step over the rubble and join us outside them. Friendica recognises the need for real distribution on small servers as the basic prerequisite for privacy and Internet freedom. It therefore embraces technologies that make non-geek installation easy - for instance, the technologies that are part of many cheap and simple shared hosting deals today. Friendica has a vision, but it doesn't see visions as starting sometime in the future. Friendica's visions start today. Friendica is re-opening the Internet already - and it doesn't just do so for people who use it. We don't think of people on Facebook as deluded victims who might join us when they see 'the light' in five years' time. Friendica provides bridges for people to cross - if they want to, and in both directions. But if they don't want to use those bridges, they don't need to. They retain freedom of choice. And finally, Friendica isn't only feature-rich - it's stable. It's not something that's going to work properly some time in the future, because it already works.
♲ Martin Farrent
Again: What's Friendica?
Some people still don't understand what Friendica is. It's a solution that replaces walled gardens like Facebook in today's world, because we want to be free and unmonitored when we talk to our friends. ~friendica therefore has a network technology of its own: freedom and privacy aware. But it also recognises the reality and popularity of platforms like Facebook - and talks to Facebook contacts, just as it talks to Diaspora, Twitter or status.net contacts. It tears down the walls... and when people see torn down walls, they will eventually step over the rubble and join us outside them. Friendica recognises the need for real distribution on small servers as the basic prerequisite for privacy and Internet freedom. It therefore embraces technologies that make non-geek installation easy - for instance, the technologies that are part of many cheap and simple shared hosting deals today. Friendica has a vision, but it doesn't see visions as starting sometime in the future. Friendica's visions start today. Friendica is re-opening the Internet already - and it doesn't just do so for people who use it. We don't think of people on Facebook as deluded victims who might join us when they see 'the light' in five years' time. Friendica provides bridges for people to cross - if they want to, and in both directions. But if they don't want to use those bridges, they don't need to. They retain freedom of choice. And finally, Friendica isn't only feature-rich - it's stable. It's not something that's going to work properly some time in the future, because it already works.
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