Over at Lottie Lives, Lottie Moon blogs about her experiences as a missionary in China.
From a “recent” post:
…the potential harvest of souls in China is abundant. I’ve been told that as of this year there are about 360 million people living in China. There are a total of six Southern Baptist missionaries working to reach these millions of people. The task is more than huge, and I know our Lord wants each and every Chinese to know Him as their personal Savior.
An excellent idea by the IMB to retype her diary enteries as a webblog. This should get you fired up about missions.
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Posted by blestou on April 27th, 2007 — Church Life, Links, Ministry, Culture, Doctrine, Online
New Baby is officially a new baby boy! Here is an ultrasound photo of his little human head and face in profile.
I think he resembles Niam. They don’t look exactly alike, but you can tell they are brothers.
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Posted by blestou on April 25th, 2007 — Daily Life, Culture, Doctrine, Family
As I have gotten a little older (and, one hopes, a little wiser), I have come to better appreciate Country music. Outside of an oldies station that plays the music you listened to as a kid, country is about the only thing worth listening to on musical radio.
Jeff Foxworthy tells you why.
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Posted by blestou on April 23rd, 2007 — Links, Daily Life, Culture, Funny Pages, Family
Ben Edgington provides a wonderfully useful service with his online Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s daily Bible reading calendar.
He provides links to the daily passages in a number of Bible versions according to M’Cheyne’s original schedule or the modified schedule by Carson.
Best of all, you can also configure an RSS feed for use on your homepage or news reader.
A biographical summary of M’Cheyne is here. Links to written sources are here.
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Posted by blestou on April 22nd, 2007 — Church Life, Links, Review, Ministry, Daily Life, Family, Doctrine, Online
From the NAMB’s Center for Missiological Research (CMR) comes this little “easter” factoid:
In fact, the survey question read: “The Bible and the Christian faith claim that on the first Easter Sunday, the physical body of Jesus came back to life after being dead since his crucifixion on the previous Friday. Do you believe Jesus literally rose from the dead?”
One would presume that born-again Christians believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, and our study supported that assumption; however, our research also revealed that over 75 percent of those claiming to not be born-again also believe in Jesus’ resurrection. When comparing the frequency of church attendance in our sample with their belief in the resurrection, those who rarely or never attend church believe in the resurrection of Christ 59 and 39 percent respectively. Apparently, our contemporaries are less skeptical of scriptural events like the resurrection than we may often realize.
Preach the Truth, in season and out of season, that all might come to know the power and the peace of salvation through Jesus who is the Christ, the Lord.
Have a Great Resurrection Day and Holy Pascha everybody!
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Posted by blestou on April 7th, 2007 — Church Life, Ministry, Culture, Politics, Doctrine
Etruscans (pre-Roman Italians) are an old interest of mine. From the International Herald Tribune: Origins of the Etruscans: Was Herodotus right?
Geneticists have added an edge to a 2,500-year-old debate over the origin of the Etruscans, a people whose brilliant and mysterious civilization dominated northwestern Italy for centuries until the rise of the Roman republic in 510 B.C. Several new findings support a view held by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus - but unpopular among archaeologists - that the Etruscans originally migrated to Italy from the Near East.
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Posted by blestou on April 4th, 2007 — Culture, Uncategorized
This is just too, too, too absolutely cool.
1) Download Google Earth. Install the program.
2) Visit Bible Geocoding. Start clicking on stuff.
Dude mapped out every place in the Bible during his spare time. Fly from Bethpage to Jerusalem. Magna cool.
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Posted by blestou on April 2nd, 2007 — Review, Church Life, Tech, Doctrine, Online
