Government Regulated Blogging

You've got to be kidding me. However this seems to be mainly pointed at product advertisements on Blogs---but this could lead to other violations of free speech. While it is true that Bloggers can deceive people about products---it is a necessary risk for free speech. Anyways read the full article: Government Will Regulate Bloggers---as there is nothing much else to say about this other than it's a bad idea.

Summer Long Hiatus/Tragedy In The Church

Sorry for the Summer long silence, but I spent most of my Summer at our pool or playing video games as well as spending time with family and friends. We had a lot of company this Summer, too---especially since my 30th birthday was August the 3rd. Anyways, I hope to get back into full blogging mode soon now that Fall is rolling around---but I figured I'd break my silence today as we had a tragic death in our church this week. A little boy was playing with some friends and climbed a tree and fell off it and died later in the hospital earlier this week. It is always sad to lose someone so young, but his parents even in the face of tragic circumstances did a graceful thing by donating his organs to help save and give life to others and that is what following Jesus is about---acts of self-less grace. Even-though, these parents lost a life by living out their faith, they gave hope and life to others who might have lost a life as well.

Technical Difficulties---June 12, 2009

I seemed to have had some problems Blogging today so I had to switch from Safari to Firefox to get any Blogging done. It's pretty crazy having to switch web browsers midstream. I'm not sure if these difficulties are due to Safari's recent update, all my gadgets, network problems or what---but anyways, luckily I have more than one web browser to fulfill my Internet needs. I haven't had any problems with Blogging with Safari before as Blogging is all I use Safari for---since I switched from Blogging Internet Explorer to solely Blogging with Safari awhile back. Internet Explorer I use for everything else. Anyways with that said---Safari seems to run more efficiently when I post a bunch of text-only posts after posting a bunch of high media content posts, so that is what I'm trying to do.

Sorry For The Lack Of Updates For Awhile...

... but it's been hard to get back into the groove of things with all this holiday craziness. Anyways, it's hard to believe how fast this year has flown by and that Christmas is 2 weeks away. If you are as excited as I am---here's a site to help you pass the time: Fupa Games!

They even have a Christmas section. Here is one of the Christmas themed games for you to try:

http://fupa.com/play/Puzzles-free-games/christmas-guru_v2.html

It's Time: Weeks 5 And 6

I've gotten behind on Blogging on our Sunday School lessons, so I combined these 2 past lessons as they explore similar themes. Week 5 was about churches discovering their God-given mission and week 6 was on fulfilling the Great Commission. These 2 themes are pretty straight forward, so without rehashing the familiar---we discussed what we feel God called us to do talent-wise. For those who haven't seen yet here is a paper I wrote on my calling: TheoPoetic Musings: Christian Ministries.

For me theology and literature are my calling as well as being a whistleblower on Militant Fundamentalist Evangelical Christendom or Right-Wing Traditional Orthodoxy or SBC Baptists or Ultra-Conservative Hyper-Christianity or whatever label one wants to slap on Fungelical orgs., while at the same time being weary of Hyper-Left Christianity as either extreme are dangerous and impede our following Christ---and that is one of the reasons I Blog, now. I started out Blogging in order to share my John Study that I did this Summer with my church friends, who aren't on Facebook---but quickly discovered why Bruce Reyes-Chow calls: Blogging a Spiritual Discipline.