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Entries from December 2005

Quote of the POSK #2

December 20th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Here’s quote number 2…. I just realized that these quotes only appear before each SECTION of the book… not each chapter… so… there will just be FIVE of these.
Click HERE (or scroll below) to see about the contest part of these posts.
HINT: Missions book
PRAISE TO THE LORD, THE ALMIGHTY - Joachim Neander) Translated by: Catherine [...]

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Tags: Books · Quotes · Series

History Project with the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

December 19th, 2005 · 1 Comment

We haven’t seen the movie yet, but we are currently reading through “The Chronicles” for the… what?… fourth time??? At least.
The popularity of the movie is an obvious opportunity for learning… so… here’s a link to a post about learning some WWII history from TLWW.
History Project with Lion, Witch & Wardrobe

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Tags: Education · Our Family/Ministry · Tech

Last.fm Charts

December 19th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Last.fm is a FREE service which tracks music you play on your computer and produces charts of what you played… as well as comparing what you listen to with other people and making suggestions of new artists. There is also the opportunity to interact with other Last.fm users on the website although I don’t get [...]

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Tags: Music · Tech

Don Furnaloni

December 17th, 2005 · No Comments

I’m going to make an effort to enlarge the community here at SQJ Taipei. I’ve added a new link to another blog on the sidebar. It is to a blog called “don furnaloni” but it may as well be called “dancin’ infurnal”… maybe that one was taken. If you want to read a lot of [...]

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Tags: Missions · Tech

Church Planting Resources - #1

December 17th, 2005 · 2 Comments

This is the first resource I’ll share with you out of the four I mention in the original post HERE.
CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENTS - David Garrison
This booklet answers such questions as: “What is a Church Planting Movement?” and “What are the 10 universal elements and common factors in a Church Planting Movement?” With several examples of [...]

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Tags: Books · Church Planting/The Church · Series

My Top 4 Most Influential Church Planting Resources

December 17th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Besides the Bible of course!
I’m a big proponent of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) method of almost everything. Planting churches is no different. I’ve read a lot of the “new” resources, but find that most only restate old concepts. I also believe that many of the recently published materials fail us in 2 areas: [...]

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Tags: Church Planting/The Church · Series

Howard Asks Good Questions

December 15th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Howard is one of the students in my English class at Nanya Technology. I mentioned this class before.
Howard is smart (as are ALL of my students at this hi-tech company!). He is also funny. I asked Howard how he was keeping warm since the weather has gotten cold lately. He said… “I only need 2 [...]

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Tags: Church Planting/The Church · Missions · Our Family/Ministry · Prayer · Taiwan

Google Earth

December 15th, 2005 · No Comments

Have you tried this yet? If yes… cool. If no….
If no, and you have a reasonably new computer… and probably you’ll want broadband internet… then get to the Google Earth Website and download it and install it now. The link opens in a new page and I’ll wait for you right here.
Back? It is really [...]

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Tags: Our Family/Ministry · Taiwan · Tech

The Pancake King

December 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Here I am… surrounded by my subjects.

On most Saturdays… daddy makes pancakes. On this day, I made more than usual so that we could freeze them and then just pop ‘em in the toaster when we want them.

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Tags: Our Family/Ministry

Quote of the Day Period Only SQJ Knows

December 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment

OK… here’s a new recurring feature of the blog. Quote of the Day POSK.
I wish I post a quote every day… but I don’t want to be forced to put up some lame quote just because it is called “Quote of the Day”. So… it is now officially called: Quote of the POSK.
These first few [...]

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Tags: Books · Quotes · Series