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Archive for August, 2006
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Friday, August 11th, 2006I’m crashing the Summit for a few hours this morning at the Brooklyn’s satellite site — Christian Cultural Center. Since CCC has WiFi, why not live blog my notes? Session 1, Dr. Ashish Nanda (Harvard MBA Professor): “The Risky Business of Hiring Stars” Willowcreek Case Study at Harvard controversial “Create disequelibrium to force people to [...]
TJ, here they come
Friday, August 11th, 2006Today, Prof. Dorothy and Dean Jonathan lead of team of 20 or so from AGM and Living Word to back to Tijuana, Mexico, for the fourth summer in a row, where they will volunteer once again with Lily of the Valley orphanage. Please pray for them.
Billy Graham: The Bible is open to interpretation
Thursday, August 10th, 2006On the mystery of our faith: While [Billy Graham] believes Scripture is the inspired, authoritative word of God, he does not read the Bible as though it were a collection of Associated Press bulletins straightforwardly reporting on events in the ancient Middle East. “I’m not a literalist in the sense that every single jot and [...]
On the road again
Thursday, August 10th, 2006Hope to see you there! Tuesday, Aug 15 – Houston, TX @ Somebody Cares America Sunday, Aug 20 – Pembroke Pines, FL @ The Vine Church Sunday, Sept 10 – Avon, NY @ Avon Wesleyan Church Fri-Sat, Sept 15-16 – San Fernando, CA @ Living Hope Strategic Planning Weekend Sun, Sept 17 – San Fernando, [...]
Overcoming Strep
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006The last few days have been debilitating. I started feeling crummy in Baltimore, which progressed from slight discomfort on Friday to excrutiating pain on Sunday. By Monday, I knew I needed to visit the doctor, but he was closed until Tuesday. So yesterday he diagnosed me with strep throat and/or a severe respitory infection and [...]
Dean Jonathan
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006More on our local Adopt-A-School experiment. Jonathan, in 2003, with a PS 34 student After offering teaching positions to both Jonathan and Dorothy, the principal at PS 34 asked Jonathan to also become the 7th and 8th grade dean. As dean, he will be responsible both for math interventions with underperforming students and disciplinary issues [...]
Study: Raunchy Lyrics Prompt Teens To Have Sex
Monday, August 7th, 2006No surprises here: Teens who said they listened to lots of music with degrading sexual messages were almost twice as likely to start having intercourse or other sexual activities within the following two years as were teens who listened to little or no sexually degrading music. Among heavy listeners, 51 percent started having sex within [...]
Random Links
Sunday, August 6th, 2006+ Fifteen years ago today (August 6, 1991), the web went world wide + No surprise here: Iran to ignore nuclear resolution + Overdue, from Condoleezza Rice: “We Want an Immediate Cease-fire Too” + More deadly flooding, this time in Ethiopia and North Korea. + The best of all-time? The 2006 Class of the NFL [...]
Cub – His Hands and Feet
Saturday, August 5th, 2006A video tribute to Caleb Stevens, a little warrior who went home too soon.
God owes us nothing
Saturday, August 5th, 2006“I’ve come to some conclusions, though, over the course of this past year. God owes us nothing. Every single day is a gift. If it’s a good day, then it is a bonus. Even the ten years we had with Caleb – it was a gift. We didn’t have to have any years at all, [...]
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