umm... tagged?

Jim tagged me. (I will have to get him back somehow...)

I haven't participated in a meme since the friday five and blogger idol, but since I have been involuntarily tagged, then I guess that I will participate.

The idea behind this one is that, when tagged, you choose 5 occupations (or more) from the list below and complete the sentence with it describing what you would do as a member of that profession. If you have more occupations to add, you add them at the bottom following the "If I could be..." format.

After your done, you get to go and tag 3 other people. Add a trackback to the one that tagged you as well as a trackback to Ogre's origional post.

If I could be a scientist...
If I could be a farmer...
If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...
If I could be a painter...
If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary...
If I could be a chef...
If I could be an architect...
If I could be a linguist...
If I could be a psychologist...
If I could be a librarian...
If I could be an athlete...
If I could be a lawyer...
If I could be an innkeeper...
If I could be a professor...
If I could be a writer...
If I could be a llama-rider...
If I could be a bonnie pirate...
If I could be a service member...
If I could be a photographer...
If I could be a philanthropist...
If I could be a rap artist...
If I could be a child actor...
If I could be a secret agent...
If I could be a comedian/comedienne...
If I could be a priest...
If I could be a radio announcer...
If I could be a phlebotomist...
If I could be a pet store owner...
If I could be a computer programmer...
If I could be a police officer...

And now for my choices...
If I could be a pirate, I could say, "argh!" and not have to feel odd about it.
If I could be a writer, I could start a blog that people would actually go to daily and read and be interested, and leave 100 comments a day!
If I could be a computer programmer, I would work for Google. Cause, they da coolest!
If I could be a police officer, I would always try to be there when you wanted me around. You know how it goes. Haven't you ever said, "where's a police officer when you need him?!?"
If I could be a llama rider, I would most defintely ride llamas.

Now it's MY turn to tag. Let's tag some of my students...
Amanda @ Amanda's Annotations.
Emily @ Audience of One.
Stephanie @ Random Jokes.

a good article

Right in line with what I posted yesterday, here is a great article called The Gospel vs. Religion.

It is worth a read, go and check it out.

that's debatable!

I normally don't get involved in internet debates, but the last couple of weeks I have been participating in a couple of debates. One of them started on a Post by Tim Samoff. It is an interesting topic, and one that I think is of great importance. I would like to encourage you to read there and see what you think.

From that post, I was inspired to get involved in a forum. On this forum, I started a new topic called, Weak Theology. You will have to read it in order to understand what it is about. There have been several good responses to the initial topic.

I haven't started debating these things to try to earn enemies. In fact, most of these blogs I read on a daily basis, and have been reading for over a year now. I enjoy hearing what these people have to say.

Here is another example of a blog that I have been reading for over a year now. The blog is called Living Room. To my understanding, Living Room is an emerging church in Australia. This post was written after a Muslim came and spoke at their gathering. I don't have any problem with that, but I was curious about the purpose of the visit. And more importantly, I was curious about whether or not they believed that the Muslim faith was just another path to God. He wraps up his response by saying,

"Now the question still remains 'is Jesus the only way this process can be
completed?' - again I'm not completely sure of the answer to that question but
I'm becoming more comfortable to allow others to be on the journey that they are
on and to trust that God is big enough to answer those questions."

Yes! God is big enough to answer these questions! But He DID answer them. We call it the Bible.

I am all for questioning things. In fact, I have lost a couple of friendships because I have been willing to listen and interact with people who believe differently than I do. I even had one guy decide that he couldn't fellowship with me anymore because I was so liberal. But I can look back, and in every case, whether it was the conservative calling me a liberal or the liberal calling me a conservative, it was always because I was standing on the side of scripture. And that is right where I want to be.

More on this later.

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The Bible

Here are some words used throughout the books of Psalms and Proverbs referring to the Bible, the Word of God. As you read through these books, consider these definitions*.

Testimonies - those things to which God witnesses

Law - that which points the way

Precepts - mandates handed down to be observed

Statutes - something that is engraved, cut; it is a definitive standard, set forth in a manner that is intended to last

Commandments - those thing God requires, enjoins with authority

Judgements - a legal term meaning, "decisions handed down"; court verdicts (case law) divinely given


An excellent example can be found in Psalm 19:7-11

The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul;
The testimony of the LORD is sure,
making wise the simple;

The statutes of the LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the LORD is pure,
enlightening the eyes;

The fear of the LORD is clean,
enduring forever;
The judgments of the LORD are true
and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them there is great reward.
(NKJV)

The word of God is an amazing thing. Something that I hope I will never cease to be amazed with.

Open my eyes that I may behold
Wonderful things out of Your Law.
Psalm 119:18 (Translation by Jay E. Adams)

*(All definitions from Jay E. Adams book, Counsel from Psalm 119)

You Are Here -->

I am at school right now. I am sitting at my desk while my students are taking a standardized test.

Here is the satellite image of my school, thanks to Google Maps.

I don't know why I am putting this on here, except that a satellite image of anything is a little cool.

YaGoohoo!gle

Well, if you can't decide where your loyalties are with search engines, then just try...



When you search for something, it gives both Yahoo!'s results and Google's results.

Blog Tools

Here are a couple of blog tools.

Character Converter - This site will help you be able to type all of those really interesting symbols and such on your blog. There are 252 different symbols available on this particular site. Here are some examples: © ® ™ ∞ Æ ¤ ¥ µ Ñ Ω ♥ ♣ ♠ € ¢ ¼ ½ é è ê ë æ and so on... and so on...

Simple Code - If you want to enter an example of code into your blog post, but everytime you try, it ends up looking like what the code would do... Then try this site. I used this tool a few post ago, look at it here.

Blogger Hacks - This is on the Blogger site. If you are using Blogger for your blog, you might find one of your questions answered here.