A New Kind of Apologist Sean McDowell, General Editor (C) 2016 Harvest House Publishers Completed June 2020 Summary: If you’ve been paying attention over the last several years, you realize that the culture worldwide has significantly changed. It used to be that you could be fairly confident that almost everyone in the United States had […]
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Book Review: Is God Just a Human Invention?
Is God Just a Human Invention? Sean McDowell and Jonathan Morrow (C) 2010 Kregel Publications Completed May, 2020 Summary: Anyone who has grown up in church and has asked difficult questions about faith and God has been told to “just believe it” at some time or another without being encouraged to search out answers. Sean […]
Continue readingBook Review: The Fifth Domain
The Fifth Domain Richard A Clarke and Robert K Knake (C) 2019 Penguin Press Completed March, 2020 Summary: Resilience is the key to maintaining secure systems in cyberspace. The idea here is to shift the advantage in cyberspace from the attacker to the defender. This quote sums it up, “We want to make our defenses […]
Continue readingBook Review: Foreign To Familiar
Foreign To Familiar Sarah A. Lanier (C) 2000 McDougal Publishing Completed Feb, 2020 Summary: Lanier has lived in many countries across the globe. During that time she has grown in an understanding that cultures are different. In this book she identifies some broad differences between what she calls Hot-Climate and Cold-Climate cultures. Hot-climate cultures are […]
Continue readingBook Review: Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven
Forgiving As We’ve Been Forgiven L. Gregory Jones & Celestin Musekura (C) 2010 IVP Books Completed Jan, 2020 Summary: If you’ve over a certain age, you remember the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Many of us in the USA have only a passing knowledge of that series of events. We are aware that there were two […]
Continue readingBook Review: Cold-Case Christianity
Cold-Case Christianity J.Warner Wallace (C) 2013 David C. Cook Completed Jan, 2020 Summary: Wallace is a police detective in California specializing in cold-case investigations. A self-described “angry atheist”, Wallace attended a church service with a fellow officer and heard a characterization of Jesus that was different. Wallace began reading the Gospels and noticed they appeared […]
Continue readingWMIC: Retrieving drive information
I had a need today to see what partitions were available on one of my servers. I generally try to use a command line whenever possible to solve problems like this. So, I went down the rabbit hole of Google, and found some useful techniques. Problem: Need to gather information about the physical and logical […]
Continue readingNovember 23, 2016 – Genesis 18
Read Genesis 18 Genesis is full of mysterious appearances of God and His work. This chapter includes some new things. Just to help jump-start our understanding, the three men are often considered to be the Lord and two angels. There are two major sections – vv 1-15, and vv 16-33. While looking like distinct sections, […]
Continue readingNov 22, 2016 – Proverbs 18
Read Proverbs 18 This chapter is packed full of thoughts about relationships and things that affect relationships – friends, wife, effect of speech, pride. As you read, think about these questions… What relationships do you see mentioned? How can types of speech affect these relationships? Why is wisdom important in relationships? Friends are mentioned several […]
Continue readingNov 21, 2016 – Psalm 9
Read Psalm 9 Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) is being celebrated this week. This Psalm is very appropriate. Note that in the first verse, the writer says, “I will tell of all the marvelous things you have done.” He is remembering the goodness of the Lord, and then lists several of these things. Consider what you […]
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