Married life can be comparable to an extended road trip…spending long hours together deciding where to go, how to get there, what to eat and who’s driving. There’s bad weather, dull conversations, and traffic to make the trip difficult sometimes (not to mention occasionally getting lost), however, find the right traveling companion and follow a few key rules of road etiquette, and your bound to have a great time…and collect a lot of great road trip memories.

This post continues a multipart series of tips for marital bliss. I hope you appreciate my suggestions, and that they contribute to a smoother ride for you and your beloved companion. Read the rest of this entry »

This week I have been rediscovering the wonder of RSS feeds. I live my life in Firefox, and love it’s many features…but have been struggling to find an easy way to use it to keep up with the many blogs I have been following lately. Fortunately, I stumbled upon an extension for Firefox named “Brief”, and it has opened my eyes to the world of blogging in a whole new way.

No more surfing blogs, loading advertisements and themes to look for new posts. Now I simply glance at the browser toolbar as I am surfing the web to see how many blog updates I have to catch up on.

I hope you find it as helpful a tool as I have. Look and install it here, at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4578

Also, here’s a short list of extensions I currently utilized in Firefox, in case you need another good tool:
1. Foxmarks – syncronized your bookmarks between computers
2. IE tab – no more needing to open Internet Explorer because some silly page is not compatible with IE. Now you can change to IE inside of Firefox. Genius!!!
3. Screengrab – take a picture of a webpage.
4. FireFTP – an FTP client that runs within Firefox as another tab…another way to eliminate having to install and run a separate program.
5. Download Statusbar – One more way to eliminate another popup window. Watch your downloads progress in the Statusbar of Firefox.

Married life can be comparable to an extended road trip…spending long hours together deciding where to go, how to get there, what to eat and who’s driving. There’s bad weather, dull conversations, and traffic to make the trip difficult sometimes (not to mention occasionally getting lost), however, find the right traveling companion and follow a few key rules of road etiquette, and your bound to have a great time…and collect a lot of great road trip memories.

This post begins a multipart series of tips for marital bliss. I hope you appreciate my suggestions, and that they contribute to a smoother ride for you and your beloved companion.

Trip Tip #1: Make Decisions Together – Read the rest of this entry »

I post a link to this map today because it has changed my life. I am a completely different person because of the presence of a bunch of dots on a piece of paper, representing the souls of hundreds, thousands, and millions of individuals in need of the gospel.

A few months ago I began asking the question, why don’t I heard much about peoples of the world who have not heard the gospel of Jesus Christ? I’ve been under the conviction that worshippers from every tribe, tongue and nation are mentioned throughout the Old and New Testaments, and yet the bulk of our “missions” efforts are spent attempting to reach people locally and internationally who have already heard the gospel in the past, and who have the gospel readily available in their native language.

Why are many of us unaware of the 1.9 billion (1,900,000,000) people who have yet to have any opportunity to hear the gospel??? Why aren’t more of us going to change that?

You can receive up to four copies of this map for free, without obligating yourself to receive emails, phone calls, or mailings of any kind (trust me, I’ve been waiting for them for two months). My challenge to you is to place the map somewhere where you will see it on a daily basis…let the peoples of the world be on your mind, more and more.

http://imbresources.org/index.cfm/fa/store.prod/ProdID/1428.cfm

There’s an excellent article from the Wall Street Journal today about giving and political affiliations. I’ve included the summary statement for you here, and hope you find it helpful.

Conservatives don’t just give more; they also decrease their giving less than liberals do in response to lousy economic conditions.

Read the full article:  Arthur C. Brooks: Conservatives Have Answered Barack Obama’s Call – WSJ.com.