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Travel, Travel, and More Travel Sat, 10 May 2008 14:12:51 +0000 I've been a traveling fool lately. I've had two different job interviews and am leaving on a business trip today. Last Thursday, my family and I made a ten hour drive (thanks to hitting Chicago at the evening rush hour) to Neenah, Wisconsin for an interview and to look the area over. Very nice area - great amount of activity that takes place on and around Lake Winnebago. Neenah has done a very nice job of rearranging their downtown area into a quaint overlook of the bay, where there are scores if not hundreds of buoys to tie up small boats. You can walk across one or two bridges and go on a second floor balcony that overlooks the water. Very pretty. There are some great parks in the area and, perhaps best of all, the town ends and the land goes very rural in a hurry once you go west out of town. We very much want a rural house when we move. We rolled back into home about midnight on Sunday from that trip then took off again Tuesday evening, driving six hours to Champaign, Illinois, for a different interview. This visit was great, too. I didn't see any houses on this trip, but my family did, including one my wife really liked. We got back home a little after 1:00 am on Wednesday. And today I leave for a week in China. Probably my last trip there for Calphalon. I've been to China three times since the end of January, which is an unusually high amount of travel for any one person at Calphalon. But a project I'm leading is nearly in production. I'm looking forward to less travel, though with a move coming soon, that might not happen just yet. Both opportunities are very promising to the point that I have a decision to make on where to go. I think I know where God is leading me, but I have some time to spend in prayer asking about that. In any case, I think I might sleep more on the airplane than normal this trip. I'm beat! I'd say that posting will be irregular here in the next week, but that irregularity has become somewhat the norm of late. So I'll just say things will continue as normal! Be well. Item Category: General Item comments: http://www.countrykeepers.com/wp/?p=2261#comments

Online Resources at Answers in Genesis Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:42:43 +0000 I just learned of a page on the Answers in Genesis website that gathers links to all of the books they've posted online in one place, as well as links to several pamphlets I hadn't seen on the site before. Check out the Online Resources page there for all the links. Item Category: Creation Science Item comments: http://www.countrykeepers.com/wp/?p=2260#comments

Sinning Against Your Own Body Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:12:37 +0000 My eldest daughter and I spend 30 minutes or so together several nights each week discussing her personal Bible study time. We also talk about the things she is doing, with school work and her friends for example, but mostly we talk over what she's been studying in the Bible. She keeps notes and we get together to go over them. She asks questions and I answer them. Some nights, she asks questions that I cannot answer. Tonight, she asked about 1 Corinthians 6:18, which reads as follows: Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. In particular, she asked what it means to sin against your own body. I had to admit that I don't understand the principle. A quick check of the commentaries I use to help my own study didn't turn up anything helpful. I've not dug in deeper yet, but I need to. I understand the principle of sinning against God and of sinning against someone else, but I'm not sure what is meant by sinning against your own body. Any thoughts? Item Category: General Item comments: http://www.countrykeepers.com/wp/?p=2259#comments

Part Truth, Part Errors? Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:18:50 +0000 That's part of the headline of an Associated Press story today about a story presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been telling on the campaign trail. Here's the entire headline: Clinton's Tale Part Truth, Part Errors Here are a couple of key points from the story. Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stopped telling a story of a pregnant woman's medical tragedy after an Ohio hospital challenged its accuracy last weekend. and this: "Candidates are told stories by people all the time, and it's common for candidates to retell those stories," said campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee. "In this case, we tried but weren't able to fully vet the story." I have to think that the description of "errors" would not be so charitable if this were a news story about a Republican candidate. Item Category: General Item comments: http://www.countrykeepers.com/wp/?p=2258#comments

Berean Bible Software Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:00:24 +0000 Lynn Allan sent me an email the other day introducing me to his Berean Bible electronic Bible. I'm not familiar with the software, but the features he mentioned look worthy of exploration. They include: Support for several Bible translations Verse lookup Word search (called "super concordance" on the site) Fast to load and use Versions available for Windows-based PCs, Pocket PC, and Palm devices. And, the software is free to use. Again, I've not used the software and probably won't be switching, but it looks worth checking out. Thanks for writing, Lynn! Item Category: General Item comments: http://www.countrykeepers.com/wp/?p=2257#comments