Here are some pics of the update to the Cityreach Care Society, that I did.
I found a great site, Boston.com. It serves up news through images. Â Here are a few images from the feed.
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Hurricanes, as seen from orbit
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Recent scenes from North Korea
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[via: The BBC]
After Robert Powell hit the Florida Lottery jackpot last month and took home more than $6 million, he thought of his church. And he offered to drop his tithe, around $600,000, in the collection plate of First Baptist Orange Park. But the church and Pastor politely declined and told Powell they will not accept the lottery winnings.The pastor would not say exactly why the church refused the money, saying only he ‘didn’t want to talk about members’ gifts’. Question?
Does the church check to see where other tithes and offerings are coming from… you know… just to be safe?
Would your church accept the money?
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Following the link below you can take a little short quiz to check how well you see the full spectrum of colors.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
I scored 12. How’d you do?
As you may or may not know, I dabble in web design.  And as I have come to learn, you can have a site finished and working fine, only to find out that it doesn’t work in Microsoft IE6.  Why is this.  From what I understand it’s because IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6) does not support the latest web standards and so as a web developer, once a site is created you often have to go back and adjust things so that it’ll work. Obviously the easiest way around this is to design with modern standards and forget about IE6, but there are some people that just won’t get rid of that little app.
If you are using IE6 I suggest you change browsers there are a number of them. Â I have listed and posted links to a few of them below. (Heck you could even just upgrade to IE7).
1. Firefox-Â Firefox has security, speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web. Don’t settle for anything less.
2. Safari- Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web faster than any browser.
3. Opera-Â Get a faster and more powerful Web browser and make the most of your time online.
4. Chrome-Â Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
5. Flock-Â Flock is a free, easy-to-use web browser built on fast and secure Mozilla technologies. Share photos, get your news, blog freely, and search your world with Flock. Flock makes it easier than ever for you to connect with your friends.
When children ask questions, they are not afraid to interrupt, or irritate, or interrogate until someone responds. Children are born with a built-in curiosity and built-in daring. It doesn’t take long before our culture explains to them the “inappropriateness” of curiostiy in the real world, and their naive courage is intimidated out of them. By the time most of our children reach junior high school, their natural curiosity has been neutralized by an insidious set of unwritten assumptions.
Assumption 1: Questions Can Be Embarrassing.
According to this assumption, it’s embarrassing to admit you don’t know something. What is important is never to reveal your ignorance. Don’t admit you don’t know something because others may think less of you. In today’s world, truth doesn’t matter. Image does. Silence your doubts, ignore your questions, don’t do anything that might cause someone to think ill of you.  As Flannery O’Connor reminded us, “mystery is the great embarrassment to the modern mind.”
Assumption 2: Questions can make people uncomfortable.
Questions can cause others to question. Our doubts may resonate with others’ doubts. Because of our questions, others might have to face questions they have learned to ignore. Questions force us to think, to struggle, to interact with truth. In other words, the act of questioning is discomforting. Many have silenced their questions; they’ve ignored the gaps in their thinking and don’t want those questions reawakened.
Assumption 3. Questions can be dangerous.
Many in our culture have opted to stay safe by limiting our knowledge to what we already know – a self-induced retirement of the mind. If we ask to many questions, the resulting answers might cause us to change. We might become accountable for truth and have to act on it. The Pharisee’s wanted to shut up Jesus for good. His constant questions were threatening to the status quo. Jesus’ questions were dangerous beccause the very asking of the was eroding the power structure. Jesus had to be killed because he had to be silenced. Asking “who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) and “whose image is on this coin?” (Mark 12:) can cause a riot. It’s better not to ask, according to this rule.
Assumption 4. Questions can be “right” or “wrong.”
All of us have had the experience of asking a question, only to be told the question was inapropriate, irrelevant or “wrong.” According to this rule, “wrong” questions reveal a lack of faith, a refusal to believe, a carnal heart. “Wrong” questions threaten the majority viewpoint.
These unwritten rule have saturated the church and have resulted in pews full of weak, anemic Christians who have stifled their curiosity and who suffer from a withering faith.
This is an excerpt from “Dangerous Wonder” by Mike YaconelliÂ
