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Re: Supreme Court Upholds Prayer at Town Meetings

Jon Reid — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:00:34 -0000

But "let the majority have their way" is contrary to my faith in Jesus.

Re: Supreme Court Upholds Prayer at Town Meetings

Jon Reid — Tue, 06 May 2014 12:53:02 -0000

I'm committed to the Way of Jesus and sharing it with any who are open. I don't ascribe to the common American idea that faith is a personal, private matter. …With that introduction, let me say I find the Supreme Court decision bizarre. There is nothing barring me from praying at any and all times, or even meeting with fellow disciples to pray before any important non-religious meeting.

Re: “atheist afterlife” from Toothpaste for Dinner

Jon Reid — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:53:46 -0000

Ha ha! Love it…

Re: Mark Driscoll’s Top Ten Manliest Ways to Die

Jon Reid — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:35:46 -0000

Thank you for adding the content disclaimer at the top. It's important. Otherwise I might assume that Mark Driscoll has been speaking about the value of prolonged robot battles. Which isn't that farfetched.

Re: Merry Christmas! 7 FREE Gifts from Verge Network

Jon Reid — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:25:34 -0000

That's a long time ago. My email is purged after 1 month. …FYI I came here because of the 7 Free Gifts email I received.

Re: Merry Christmas! 7 FREE Gifts from Verge Network

Jon Reid — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:55:57 -0000

How do I get the "Simple Ways to Be Missional" eBook? The link takes me to a subscription page, but rejects me because I'm already subscribed.

Re: Students of Jesus: Monday's Meditation: Experiencing His Presence

Jon Reid — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:37:52 -0000

Two weeks ago today, I had a powerful encounter. Prayer was suddenly a clear two-way conversation, remarkably clear. Among other things, I was told to start blogging again, which I did that same day: http://www.blogoneanother.c...

Re: Rachel Held Evans | Sunday Superlatives 10/9/11

Jon Reid — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:41:08 -0000

"What’s happening on YOUR blog?" After a year of near-silence, I'm back with "Salvation: Do We Have It All Wrong?" http://www.blogoneanother.c...

Re: iPhone Unit Testing Toolkit

Jon Reid — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:43:51 -0000

Thanks for highlighting Hamcrest. I just released OCHamcrest 1.0, with full support for iOS development, and much, much easier to set up.

Re: Custom Constraints for OCMock

Jon Reid — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:20:58 -0000

Christopher, note that one of the biggest features of Hamcrest is its extensibility. It should be fairly trivial to write a "conformsToProtocol" matcher. (…But I may just go ahead and add it to OCHamcrest.)

Re: http://www.gregadkinsonline.com/post/1140777011

Jon Reid — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:01:40 -0000

But how does one use it, exactly?

Re: Rachel Held Evans | Announcing the Eighth Letter Synchroblog

Jon Reid — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:36 -0000

Here's mine, an email from the Holy Spirit: http://www.blogoneanother.c...

Re: Rachel Held Evans | Blessed are the Peacemakers: Messages of Goodwill on 9-11

Jon Reid — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:39:13 -0000

Mine is an open letter to Muslims, in which I try to express my convictions using their language:
http://www.blogoneanother.c...

Re: Does God Speak To You?

Jon Reid — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:50:48 -0000

Rachel, I blogged about a recent experience I had hearing God's voice (http://www.blogoneanother.c.... The actual experience seems trivial, but I consider it a training exercise.

I must confess that since we all project our experiences onto other people, I tend to think of hearing God as a normative experience. So I really appreciate your honesty, because you're certainly not alone. Still, I think this is an area where people can be taught (my wife has led small group exercises), but churches seem reluctant to train people in anything overtly supernatural. It's like the attitude is, "If it's supernatural, how can you be trained? You either have it, or you don't." Which I think is bogus, running against the whole way discipleship works.

But I have a nagging feeling that even if people were trained the way I like, there would always be some who would feel worse, not better, because of the pressures of "not getting it." And I'm not content with that, either. Because there is great truth to your statement, "I already know what God wants me to do." And perhaps God is silent (at least in any overtly supernatural way) with you and others to remind us all of this.

Re: I'm sure this church is great and all...

Jon Reid — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:04:39 -0000

Ha ha! I was expecting you to take me to http://www.thecoolchurch.com/

Re: Fresh Starts

Jon Reid — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:29:32 -0000

Looking forward to good stuff here.

With my life in a state of anticipating change, I keep waiting for things to settle down before we hook up. And now a whole year has passed. Let's change that.

Re: http://www.gregadkinsonline.com/post/1053369404

Jon Reid — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:25:25 -0000

"Let's go here, let's go there, let's go do the other thing." LOL!

Re: New Arcade Fire Video

Jon Reid — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:31:28 -0000

Remarkable. It worked on Safari, though I imagine it's even cooler with Chrome trickery.

Re: Straight From The Horses Mouth

Jon Reid — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:52:39 -0000

Really? I'm certain my non-Christian friends would agree. But your non-Christian friends may be different. Why don't we ask them and find out?

Re: what do you think? [31dbbb project]

Jon Reid — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:23:59 -0000

Dan, I think I need to come by here and steal your ideas! Your design feels very clean and clear. And I really like what you've done setting up a Facebook page. I've pondered between doing that, or making an email newsletter of some kind. But I suppose the choice is not exclusive, so I should just jump in.

One comment about your email subscriptions: I like your "subscribe by email" page. But when I clicked on the dark-gray email icon in the sidebar, I was surprised to find myself directly at Feedburner. I think it would work better for that to also go to your page, where you explain things. Otherwise, it feels abrupt if people click around just to explore. …Also, on your "subscribe by email" page, why not add the Feedburner form and button right there, instead of adding an extra step?

Re: Heaven And Hell

Jon Reid — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:04:12 -0000

What a great -- and very personal -- tribute to Dio. Let's appreciate God-given talent wherever it is found! I wrote specifically about the two Kerry Livgren songs you mentioned: http://www.blogoneanother.c...

Re: The gospel according to…

Jon Reid — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:20:42 -0000

My turn: "All things are being made new through Jesus."

Re: Your Church Competes With…

Jon Reid — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:27:26 -0000

On the one hand, I totally agree with your statement: people-to-people is the best, hands-down.

On the other hand, my friends are simply not interested in "coming to church." I'm afraid that "invite your friends to come" has become an easy substitute for training people how to live as missionaries. It's hard, so we take the easy path and lean on the experts to do it for us, "if I can just get people to come."

(I am in no way negating the importance of believers gathering, or of good marketing/messaging/branding to make your identity known.)

Re: Weekly Hit List #18

Jon Reid — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:23:35 -0000

Is "Sunday's Coming" satire, irony, a prophetic voice, or just plain fun? The reactions vary.

Re: Growtivation – How Megachurches Roll

Jon Reid — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:43:27 -0000

Hmm. Now that you ask, Cee, I wonder.
(I also ask my own questions on "Contemporary church" video makes me laugh, and wonder