WebSmart TV

January 27, 2010

Are you a regular person who is trying to make sense of all the new terms you hear being tossed around in conversations and in written messages such as: tweets, RSS, web 2.0, friend (used as a noun), blog, and many others? Does it make your brain hurt to think of figuring it all out? [...]

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House Churches are Isolationist and Cult-Like?

January 15, 2010

Question: Are house churches more likely than conventional churches to become isolationist and cult-like?
Apparently at least one blogger thinks so, and had the guts to quote George Barna’s research to support his assertion! Author and researcher George Barna responds to this assertion in a recent blog post of his own.
First, I found the alleged bloggers [...]

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Manhattan Declaration

January 14, 2010

If you are a Christian of any kind, flavor, brand, creed, persuasion, location, affiliation, category, group, school, society or denomination – then I encourage you to join me and thousands of others in signing the Manhattan Declaration:

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Republican Revolution

January 14, 2010

I am thinking that if:

You are a economic and social conservative
You are concerned about the sad shape of politics and the economy in Illinois
You have lost confidence in the Illinois Republican Party to actually be “the party of Lincoln” (which would be very different than being just like the Illinois Democratic Party)
You are fed up [...]

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Cisco is back on WLS

January 13, 2010

Fellow Oak Parker and Calvary Memorial Church attender Cisco Cotto was recently employed at WIND 560 AM Talk Radio, where I would listen to him on the John and Cisco show in the mornings. Now he is back at WLS 890 with Roe Conn in the afternoons from 2-6 PM. He was at WLS in [...]

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Work to End Slavery

January 10, 2010

A group of friends have formed a Local Abolitionists group in Oak Park, Illinois, to fight slavery, human trafficking and the sex trade. More information can be found at LocalAbolitionists.org.
Their next event is the showing of a film called At the End of Slavery – the battle for justice in our time. It is scheduled [...]

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Can Christians be Capitalists?

January 9, 2010

I just listened to Jay W. Richards, author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne, 2009) give a talk at the American Enterprise Institute to a predominantly young evangelical Christian audience, addressing this question (Listen Here).
I would have to agree with Jay that the answers is “Yes” [...]

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American Enterprise Institute

January 8, 2010

I wanted to make a few more resources available if you are interested in conservatism, and conservative economics and politics, especially from an American Evangelical perspective. These resources come to me from my son Marshall, who is currently employed in Washington DC, and is definitely in the “minority” when it comes to public policy in [...]

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Kindle DX

January 7, 2010

Amazon’s new Kindle DX starts shipping January 19, 2010. The price is $489.

Kindle for the Mac is also coming soon!

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Government is not a corrective device

January 7, 2010

Last night riding home on the EL, I read this in Common Sense Economics, on page 83.
Government is not a corrective device.
People have a tendency to think of government, particularly a democratically elected government, as a corrective device. They act as if government is something like a pinch hitter  who can always be counted on [...]

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