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Entries from February 2006

The Choir

February 16th, 2006 · No Comments

In my opinion… if you have a lot of stuff to get done… and it is stuff that doesn’t require quietness… or stillness… then listening to The Choir is very helpful as background music…
It sure is working well for me today.
thechoir.net

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Tags: General · Music

Mentoring and Adoption

February 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Sorting through some piles here in my office… guess I haven’t gotten my piles under control yet….
Found the January 2006 newsletter from Focus on the Family. MRS SQJ gave it to me a couple days ago and I finally read it. I feel led to link it… but couldn’t find it at www.family.org but…… I [...]

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Tags: General

How to Pray for A Missionary - INTRO

February 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’m not sure how many of these I’ll post… as many as it takes I guess. I’ll probably post them once a week… although each one is short… we all need time to LEARN and IMPLEMENT these prayer items… they aren’t a list… they are weapons in a war. During our time in Taiwan… and [...]

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Tags: Missions · Prayer · Series

I am what I post

February 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Procrastination: Ten Things To Know
This might explain why weekly planners never seem to work out so well for me…….
Seems like I told you about some “How to Pray for a Missionary” posts a while back………
Oh and there’s this newsletter thing…..
Um… sorry… gotta go

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Tags: General

PROOF!

February 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I’m not sure we needed a special study to show us that it is difficult to correctly ascertain the tone of an email message. But it is interesting and the results are even more skewed than I would have thought.
Wired News:The Secret Cause of Flame Wars
I’m actually pretty certain that I’ve never gotten in an [...]

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Tags: Tech

Quincy: NOT the Medical Examiner

February 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Here’s a great post by Jon from over at the East Asian Missions Blog.
East Asian Missions Blog: Coffee, Butterflys, Mac Computers, and Diving
Jon shares about a new Taiwanese friend of his, Quincy, and posts some great insights into a couple areas of our work here in Taiwan…

Accurate and readable translations of the Bible
The importance of [...]

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Tags: Missions · Taiwan

Online and/or Portable Storage

February 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Can somebody help me with this?
We are headed back to the USA at the beginning of April and we have LOTS of computer files that we’d like to have access to from a variety of places. When I say LOTS… I’m talking about maybe 30+ GIGABYTES.
Do you have any suggestions for us? So far I’m [...]

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Tags: Tech

Getting Better….

February 13th, 2006 · No Comments

We are both feeling much better… thanks for your intervention.
My brother’s cell group prayed fervently for us… and the prayers of those righteous men have proven to be both powerful AND effective.
It is really amazing how many things I have to blog about….. but not much time now…. priorities!
Actually the blog is a big priority [...]

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Tags: Our Family/Ministry · Prayer

Sicker than ever of being sick…..

February 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Friends…. Family…. Readers…. Visitors….
I’m trying to take a time-out from holding my head and groaning in agony to type this.
We need your prayers for our health…
I posted this last week about being sick… and I’ve had a couple better days… (I went to watch the Super Bowl and we’ve been out to dinner at a [...]

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Tags: Our Family/Ministry · Prayer

Quote of the POSK #7

February 7th, 2006 · No Comments

After speaking of the possible explanations for the meaning of the “worthless branches” pruned away in John 15… Erwin Lutzer writes:
FROM: How to Have a Whole Heart In a Broken World by Erwin Lutzer
Regardless of how we understand the worthless branches, we cannot lose sight of Christ’s central point: as far as God is concerned, [...]

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Tags: Quotes · Series