A La Carte (1/21)

  • Tim Challies
  • 01/21/09
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Praying for the President
Ligon Duncan has a wise post about praying for the President (though there is much to glean from it even for non-Americans like myself).
Echoes of Babel
T-Wax offers an interesting perspective on America's new national sin. "The truly troubling aspect of the new era we have just inaugurated is the underlying assumption among so many in our country that now, finally, we have truly arrived. A new age has dawned!" And if appears like this to an American, imagine how all the rhetoric appears to non-Americans...
Promoting Schoolwork
A new series at the Shepherd Press blog deals with schoolwork. It answers this question: " I'd like to see you address the topic of motivation in schoolwork sometime on your blog. How do we use the Scriptures to instill in our kids a motivation to do their best in their studies? What form should discipline take for children who do not apply themselves the way they should?"
Facebook Terms of Use
Most of us don't read the terms of use when we sign up with a new site. This person did when signing up for Facebook and found something interesting. We should probably read these boring documents a little more diligently...
ESV Bookmark Hack
This blog shows how to hack an ESV Bible in order to add extra ribbon bookmarks to it.

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a comment from Ian Hall • 01/21 @ 8:34am
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Thanks for the link to Ligon Duncan on praying for Obama. Wouldn't it be great if God's people prayed for this man's conversion (Obama not Duncan !!) and God in His mercy saved him.I think as far as the media would be concerned it would the quickest case of hero to zero.It might seem unrealistic but if a Nebuchadnezzar can be brought low and humbled who knows what God might do.

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a comment from Julie Park • 01/21 @ 12:52pm
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Here's another option for the ESV Bibles: http://faithmarks.wordpress.com

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a comment from J.P.H. • 01/21 @ 1:09pm
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As someone who, both before and after being saved, has struggled mightily with "motivation" with regard to school work, let me say that part of the problem is that much of the work assigned in school is not very useful. It's hard to get motivated to do something that essentially amounts to jumping though hoops for someone else's benefit. With that in mind, I think a lot of kids would have an easier time motivating themselves to do school work if two things were true:

1. The school work wasn't a complete waste of time, and2. They understood that #1 was, in fact, the case.

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a comment from Rita Martinez • 01/22 @ 1:59am
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I don't know how crazy or extreme this is, but I can't sign up to site like Facebook and click the "I have read and agree with the Terms of use/whatever" if I haven't actually read the terms of agreement cause I feel like i'm lying :/ so I read those tedious terms...