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Re: MilGraCom — High Sierra Media Key Enabler

journeyguy — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:50:15 -0000

Looked all over for a solution. Thank you!

Re: 10 Recommended books (that you haven’t heard of) #7

journeyguy — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:53:47 -0000

Josh, thanks for sharing. I haven't heard of either of those, and I'll definitely check into the podcast.

Re: Nuff Said: Son of Hamas, Elders as Disciple Makers, Hipster Quitter, Caveats to the #IceBucketChallenge, the new face of the IMB,

journeyguy — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:18:47 -0000

Callie, thanks for commenting, and thanks for your perspective from the thick of things. I appreciate you stopping by the blog. Have you seen the post called Do you understand the Middle East beef with Israel? I'd be curious what you think of the video linked there.

Re: What’s Your 5%?

journeyguy — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:52:24 -0000

You're very welcome! I've been enjoying the book. The author said that this particular point is expanded on more in his book The Divine Mentor: Growing Your Faith as You Sit at the Feet of the Savior

Re: Visiting Heaven… for real?

journeyguy — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:45:06 -0000

Thanks, Justin. I didn't do much analyzing.. Just surfacing and compiling what others have observed that I tend to agree with. I do appreciate your comment though.

Re: Review: The Selection.. and my inner middle school girl

journeyguy — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 07:11:39 -0000

Amanda! Great to hear from you. Hope you and Chad are dong well! When I went into Adelyn's room to get The Elite, she rolled her eyes and said, "Daddy, what are you doing?"

Re: Phil Robertson on Homosexuality: A Conservative Christian’s Response

journeyguy — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:58:32 -0000

Preston, thanks for your articulation of some of the responses that you had to Phil's interview at GQ. I appreciate your ministry and heart.

I wanted to respond to a few things above since I also linked your article on my blog (http://www.journeyguy.com/t....

I understand that Phil made a coarse statement. As a fan of the show, that is typical of him and why so many are drawn to the show. He's very plain spoken and colorful. It doesn't translate well in print, that's for sure. However, I don't think Phil equates homosexuality to simply sex. It was a comment in an article, remember. He was just giving redneck logic about the act of homosexuality.

Second, since the GQ article wasn't about homosexuality at all - just had a few quotes in that regard, I don't think it's fair to say that Phil doesn't empathize with people. Let's please be careful about assigning motive or implying character deficiency to a fellow believer based on a few isolated quotes from a secular magazine?

One concern I have with your comment about empathizing is when I look at the ministry of the prophets in an overwhelmingly secular society, I don't see a lot of empathy in their messages. Jesus Himself did weep over Jerusalem, but I sometimes wonder if He did so because He identified with the loss of glory for His Father from them rather than empathizing with them. On the other hand, Hebrews boldly portrays Jesus as one who can "sympathize with our weaknesses." (Heb 4.15), but there's a difference between empathy and sympathy. Only Jesus can truly understand the complexities and power of sin over humanity. As His church, we too are called to hold out the word of life in love, but modern day empathy, I'm afraid, doesn't attempt to speak truth in love and lead people out of darkness into light.

A final thought I have is your intentional distancing of yourself from Phil's viewpoints. I think I understand what you're doing. You want to be able to speak into lives of those who struggle with homosexuality, and so you don't want to be an extremist. I too want to minister and relate in love towards those who self-identify as homosexuals. However, I grieve when pastors and teachers distance themselves from men and women who take a bold stand on clearly articulated principles in God's Word (though they may be expressed or edited in a way that seem extreme). I don't know that it's truly loving to throw Phil under the bus as the result of an edited interview and its backlash in order to be perceived as diplomatic to a society that needs to hear us "proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." (1 Peter 2.9)

Rather, shouldn't we - in love - articulate that "as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of your flesh, which wage war against your soul?"

I'm not arguing that Phil may not have been wise to communicate his thoughts to Drew Magary of GQ. I, too, cringed when I read them. However, he is a brother in Christ, and I just thought he deserved more grace from you than you offered in your response.

Re: so many books, so little time! • Review: Super Center Savior

journeyguy — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:54:36 -0000

Thanks for the promo!

Re: The Importance of Interning

journeyguy — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:30:33 -0000

Great post. I'm sharing this over twitter and with our church staff. Thanks!

Re: Rosie's Books • Books shape our lives: A personal journal

journeyguy — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:29:52 -0000

Send me your info to jeff at super center savior dot com.

Re: Rosie's Books • Books shape our lives: A personal journal

journeyguy — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:06:08 -0000

Hey Rosie, would you be interested in reading "Super Center Savio"r and write a review of it if I sent you a copy? http://supercentersavior.com

Re: so many books, so little time! • newest book club book selected

journeyguy — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:37:44 -0000

Just read that recently. Good stuff.

Re: Echofon for Mac will be no more

journeyguy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:05:58 -0000

Don't know how I missed this. Echofon has been my main client for over a year. LOVE it. In the past 2 months, I've had problems with it on my iPhone with the Siri button being grayed out and not available. In frustration one day, I went looking for new clients and found Tweetbot.

It's nice, but not as clean and smooth as Echofon. It has a learning curve to it and doesn't seem quite as intuitive as Echofon.

One Twitter client that I love - it's beautiful - is Janetter, but it doesn't yet have push notifications. However, their Mac app is stellar.

One of the main things I want from Twitter apps, on iPhone, iPad and Mac is:

1. Syncing to last tweet read.

2. Push

3. Multiple account capability

One thing I HATE about Tweetbot is when you "@" someone, it pulls in a long list of people that I don't even follow, which forces me to enter more characters to get to the person in the list I want to mention.

Re: How to jailbreak Apple TV 2 5.0.2 (iOS 5.1.1) using Seas0nPass (untethered)

journeyguy — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:14:25 -0000

I tried for 2 hours the other night. I tried editing the hosts file on my Mac per instructions. I tried running Tiny Umbrella's servers while updating. Nothing would work. My AppleTV 2 is currently running 4.4.4 and I wanted to upgrade to a jailbroken 5.02 via SeasonPass.

Never could get it to work, and I suspect it's because there's a newer firmware out, and iTunes 10.7 won't allow me to downgrade using the option-restore on my Mac.

Re: Adam’s Apple: Preaching from an iPad

journeyguy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:30:20 -0000

I use Evernote. Very nice. I'm not worried about flipping va scrolling. Another nice feature is to use it as an archival process for your sermons. I generally format on the Mac then sync it on the iPad. Also, with Evernote, you can publish a link to your notes (uneditable) that we use to post as an extra on our podcast page on the church website.

Re: Bill Aden on the Future of Blacksburg

journeyguy — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:42:49 -0000

Thanks for pointing us to this great article. It's a fairly obvious tension that even newcomers (we've only been here six months) can readily discern. Here's hoping that "the powers that be" address these significant challenges to a fading paradigm.

I really wonder if "environmental sustainability" is a scapegoat for simply keeping Blacksburg "quaint?"

Re: Caption This

journeyguy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:01:13 -0000

A little to the left...

Re: Strands Brings First Lifestream App to the iPhone (Video Review)

journeyguy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:36:22 -0000

Would love to try out Strands. I'm a lifestream junkie right now...

Re: Rummage Sale

journeyguy — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:46:23 -0000

Doh! Sorry Taffy! Will correct!

Re: Rummage Sale

journeyguy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:13:44 -0000

Oooops. Thanks, Tammy!

Re: Comments on Wordpress pages deactivated?

journeyguy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:44:35 -0000

Any other thoughts? Is there a certain code I need to put on the page template?

Re: Comments on Wordpress pages deactivated?

journeyguy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:40:13 -0000

Yes, comments are enabled. Page is published.

Re: Please help us test Tumblr v4! We’re getting... | Tumblr Staff

journeyguy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:01:57 -0000

Cool!!!

Re: Thanks for waiting :)

journeyguy — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:04:29 -0000

I'm in an endless spinner while it is trying to locate firmware. (It's on my desktop - the firmware.) The spinner won't stop for me to manually locate firmware...

Re: FriendFeed Activity Widget Released

journeyguy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:37:35 -0000

Looking forward to the manual configuration! Thanks!