Rick on November 29th, 2008

Every now and then something will remind me of paradoxes I’ve wrestled with in a new way, and the thing that can trigger the memory can be trivial. For instance, take the graphic to the right, which I stumbled across while clearing out the deadwood on my system earlier this evening. Mac users can be [...]

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Rick on November 27th, 2008

Romans 5:8

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Rick on November 26th, 2008

Some posts are easy to write. The news story that’s been on your mind all day, or the conversation with a friend or family member, sparks the mind and the fingers find their natural rhythm on the keys. This is not going to be one of those kinds of posts.
Our work crew is a small, [...]

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Rick on November 25th, 2008

Ah, the ‹sarcasm› creative marketing minds of the world ‹/sarcasm›. In yet another attempt to keep the Christmas season as commercial as possible, while removing as many references to Christ as possible, we get this:
A new commercial for the videogame retailer GameStop shows the unfortunate unintended consequences that could occur if a parent goes rooting [...]

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Rick on November 24th, 2008

The Sunday Night fellowship group Joy and I have been a part of since mid-spring had a pot-luck dinner last night, marking possibly our last get-together for the year (we might do another session before the Christmas holidays). The norm for our group, pot-luck or no, is to get together in the living room, pray [...]

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