Love this browser

Some bad toe-stumper may change my mind, but after a few hours using the Roccat browser for Mac, I'm hooked. Love it. Faster than anything I've used to date. Lots of cool features. This may be my salvation from FireFox.

I got all my Twitter accounts in bloglines.com, so that may tide me over after losing yoono for that.

Today is Day 7 for the National Poetry Writing Month. I'm 7 for 7 (tag napowrimo), but have yet to post today's.

Forthright Mag editorial still to come today, watch for that.

And then there's a work report to do still. Way late on that.

But first, is that a nap calling my name?

Fun piece and slow go

Yesterday's poem was the fun piece, "A Tiny Little Easter Egg." So far, so good, through Day 5. Early yet. I remember in 2011 having some challenges before the month was done.

Also read this reflection from the notice of a new book, "Is 'Slow Church' Good or Bad?" Some inspiration appeared last night out of nowhere for this one.

Am considering a short list of social media for Christians. But methinks it may leave some folk miffed. Then again, maybe not.

Remember that at any time you can check with my major online writings on the Twitter JasRandal. This account is a low-volume, links-only feed. You can also check it on my main blog site, randalmatheny.com.

And, of course, don't forget to sign up to this little bloggy space. Most posts here will not show up on social media nor on the Twitter account above. You'll know I've posted only by signing up directly or checking in here manually. I believe the sign-up option is below this post and in the left column.

Single people can serve

In a guest editorial on Richard Mansel's blog, Stan Mitchell gives churches the what-for:

Brethren, it’s time someone said something about this! We are limiting ourselves as a fellowship when we shut these good people out of service. On the mission field, single people can serve without the limitations of a married man; in our pulpits they can serve with distinction, just as preachers in Bible times did. The Lord’s kingdom has been hurt by our blinders, our prejudice against single people. Let me be blunt and urgent. It needs to stop!


No lack of reading material

Yesterday was a good day for writing. Instead of giving you all the links here (I'm lazy this morning), they're all on my jasrandal Twitter account, and I've narrowed the time frame down to yesterday here. What's "here"?

  • Believing Prayer that The Missus raved over (more than usual)
  • A devotional from Proverbs, translated from the Portuguese, written same day
  • A Forthright Mag editorial, "Good things that have happened"
  • A BNc story, "Preacher shares what happens 'five minutes after death'"
  • A Quick Bible Truths quote

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Email: restoration, links, support

Part of an email that I sent out this morning to a few folk ...

Restoration is a simple process. Find what the apostles, by Christ's authority, taught people to do, and do it that way again. —Cecil May Jr, GA
 
Feel free to use this or other items from QBT in your church bulletin or to post on Twitter or Facebook. Or to send to your friends by email, that 20th-Century form of communication.
 
Speaking of GA, be sure to read my article, "Christ, Prophet, Priest, King," in the August special issue, "Things Most Surely Believed."
 
You don't have to have a subscription or buy anything to read my article published on Biblical Notes, "Should Evangelism Make Mention of the Church?"

Then there is the recent poem, "To Be a Christian" on the Christian Poets site. The site is not yet fully functionally, but should be once the group posting feature is in place.
 
As well, you have the prayer-poem written this past Sunday on the Believing Prayer site, "Around Your Table."
 
If you'd like to follow most of my online writings without all the chatter, I've set up a Twitter account with links, added automatically. It's low-volume to point you in real time to my posts.
 
 
If you're not on the Twitter service, you can get SMS alerts whenever a link is posted to this account.
 
(My normal personal Twitter account is @jrmatheny.)
 
Finally, we ask your prayers as we seek to replace over $600 in monthly working funds that will be lost after this month.
 
Blessings on your day.

Your sin/problem not unique

Great article by Aaron Cozort on God's forgiveness, with a solid illustration:

When we make mistakes or are dealing with problems in life, we like to think our situations are unique, when in reality: “You haven’t done anything someone else hasn’t done before.”

Be sure to read the whole piece here.


Great Sunday

Read Saturday's Corollaries segment on TFR: "Yet Another Blog Post." Don't miss yesterday's prayer poem, "Around the Table of the Lord." Also, last night was added a cool outline on 1 Thessalonians 5.12-18, that got enlarged from one in Portuguese being used in the Taubaté Bible study.

Lessee, I'm missing one or two others, but I don't remember them just now.

Great day yesterday with the saints in SJC and Taubaté. Last night, we ate pizza with Ricardo and family and a new family to Taubaté. We pray they will make a great addition to the work here, and that we may be able to encourage them.

Knowledge and prayer

Read my FMag editorial, "Who Are We, Really?" It will make some folk unhappy, but if I can shore up the faith of one or two, it'll be worth it.

Say amen to this short prayer, "To Touch a Soul." Might consider signing up, too (upper right column at link). Seems people aren't as interested in prayer as in other things. One man's impression, anyway. Would you agree?

(Comments are not yet functional on this service. Coming soon, we hope.)

Recent posts here and there

As of late, the links to posts around the virtual world haven't been updated here on randal.us. Today, a devotional on the old blog from 2Tm 2.2: "It Just Doesn't Work That Way." Yesterday, at the same spot, a thought about context and meaning in the structure of Bible books. A couple of new stories on BNc (giving you just the general link). And a short and sad post on TFR this morning, Full Circle, that has been simmering since yesterday. (Hmm, whole line got linked, can't fix that.)



Role models

On TFR yesterday, I plopped down, uncerimoniously, as usual, another Corollaries segment, that occasional hodge-podge of subjects both religious and no, to the sheerness and delight (hendiadys) of my screaming and fainting fans. Top billing was a link, but not just any link: a tribute to an old college professor. I recommend them both, as authors are wont to do.

After a hiatus of weeks, another Cloudburst poem got dropped on subscribers today, this time in blank verse, quite a departure from my run-of-the-mill rhyme. (Note: not free verse, but blank, iambic pentameter with no end rhymes.)

Yesterday, I reblogged a couple of friends' articles on Christian Hub. That's easier to do than starting a new post. I plan to do more of that.

(The prayers have been duly linked to from here.)

And there's more, but I don't remember it all just now. You'll have to be content with this.