The Great Commission is our Mission.
Over the recent holidays, I spent some extra time in prayer about what the Lord wants us to do. I came away with some clear direction to start off this new year with. Our plans have changed. What is amazing is the way the Lord is opening doors. It is too soon to give all …
Read More Faith, Family, and FlexibilityI watched way too much TV when I was a child. Now, I don’t watch much, but during Christmas vacation time, I watched some. While visiting my parents, I took advantage of their satellite TV subscription and watched The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel a while. One thing that struck me about National …
Read More Microevolution and MacroevolutionOne of the qualities of a good Christian leader is the kind of transparency that leads to trust. Jesus Christ is our best example of that. His life and teachings were documented very well, and many people saw and heard how He lived among us. He spent much of His time in public, openly proclaiming …
Read More Transparency vs. PrivacyLast year at this time, I was in Manila, staying at a guest house with a precious 10-month-old baby girl, waiting for the legally-required 5 days to pass before I could fly her home to meet the rest of her new family. A couple of years earlier, my wife asked me to pray about applying …
Read More Miracle Tale of a Christmas BabyI find comfort in the moral absolutes in the Holy Bible. I really do. I like to know what is right and what is wrong. The Ten Commandments are pretty clear to me. So is the Law of Love proclaimed by Jesus Christ. If you search the Scriptures (as I did) on modesty and clothing …
Read More Cultural Relativism and ModestyYour normal email is less public than this web posting, but not by as much as you probably think. I’ll not get into how easy it is to intercept unencrypted email, except to say that it is very easy to do. Sometimes it is not only easy, but cheap to intercept your email. Yes, there …
Read More Email Postcards and our Web Contact FormThanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, but also one of my favorite attitudes for any time. God enjoys our thankfulness. Today, I’m thankful because: God answers our prayers. God is good. God is wise. God loves me and my family. God heals us of both big and small things. He just healed my wife …
Read More Thanksgiving – it is all about GodWhen people ask what I do, I usually say something like “I develop software to help Bible translators.” That is probably about the shortest accurate answer to that question that I can muster, at least for my “main” job. I do many other things, too, but this is the bulk of what I spend my …
Read More Bible translation software developmentSome things are not easy to write about, but this one has been on my heart, lately. This isn’t just my war for righteousness, but it affects you, too. Today, at lunch, a friend told me of his son’s adventures in a college art class. They had a day devoted to pornography, and were showing …
Read More Preserving a Pure Heart in a Pornographic WorldWhile traveling by air, I am often amazed at the nearly world-wide response to a single terrorist act or threat. I’m not so much amazed that the response is wide-spread, but at the apparent inability of those who make and those who enforce these reactionary rules to think logically. For example, a few weeks after …
Read More Fear is the enemy of security.I am pleased that I was able to vote in the current election in Colorado. I really tried to vote absentee while living in Papua New Guinea, but the slowness of air mail into and out of PNG made that impossible each time. I value the priviledge of voting. I take seriously the responsibility to …
Read More Vote God’s way!I admit it. I’m a Microsoft Windows addict. It started a long time ago when I switched from CP/M to MS-DOS. Then Microsoft Windows 1.0 came out, and I tried it… and even ran some programs under it. When Windows NT came out, I was totally hooked. I learned to use several other operating systems, …
Read More Transitioning to Linux… sort of