The end of the year brings out the list-maker in all of us. Not to disappoint you, here are the 10 trends that I’m going to be watching in 2010: Mobile everything. As the mobile phone morphs into the mobile communications device, 2010 will be a break-through year. Google will introduce the first “unchained” phone [...]
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Archive | December, 2009
Are Angels The New Vampires?
December 27, 2009
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Are angels the new vampires? Anne Rice, the author who made vampires trendy in her Vampire Chronicles series, came back to the Christian faith in 1998. Upon returning to the Roman Catholic Church, Rice published two books about the life of Christ. She has now turned her attention to the subject of angels. Her new [...]
Read moreSermon: Favor with God and Man
December 26, 2009
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Favor With God and Man Luke 2:41-52 41Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. 42When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. 43After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but [...]
Read moreDoing God’s Work Pays Well If You’re Verizon or Goldman-Sachs
December 20, 2009
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I thought we had heard it all when the chairman of Goldman-Sachs testified that they were “doing God’s work.” Apparently, that altruistic assertion went so well that Verizon has picked up the refrain. In a response to the FTC’s request for justification for their high fees, Verizon claims their higher early termination fees “help the [...]
Read moreThe E-book revolution
December 15, 2009
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E-books are popping up everywhere suddenly. As I write this, mediabistro.com’s e-book summit is livestreaming on my office PC. The hot nearly-new gift for Christmas this year is an e-reader — a Kindle, a Nook, a Sony Reader, or one of the others coming soon. The entire publishing industry is all abuzz about e-books. [...]
Read moreGrief as the surprising companion of cancer
December 14, 2009
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As cancers go, it was the best kind to have, the doctor said. Basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, that lives at the base layer of the skin, but rarely metastasizes to other parts of the body. The bad news, he said, was that it was in the worst place it could be [...]
Read moreStudy Links Luxury Goods and Selfishness
December 7, 2009
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A new study reveals a specific link between luxury goods and selfishness. Two experiments showed that “exposure to luxury led people to think more about themselves than others,” according to a Harvard Business School paper. Professor Roy Y. J. Chua and Xi Zou conducted two experiments in which one group of participants was exposed to [...]
Read moreSermon 2nd Advent: God Prepares The Way
December 5, 2009
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God Prepares The Way Malachi 2:17-3:5 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. “How have we wearied him?” you ask. By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?” Malachi 3 1 “See, I will [...]
Read moreIn New Survey, Moms Say Dads Can Do Better
December 3, 2009
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What do the mothers of America think of the fathers of their children? The National Fatherhood Initiative released a survey this week that asked 1,533 mothers with at least one child under 18, “How are fathers doing?” Their responses might surprise you. Here are 10 of the top 14 responses from the survey: 93% of [...]
Read moreFor Tiger Woods
December 2, 2009
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“We have become so accustomed to thinking of repentance as an unpleasant, though necessary and obligatory rejection of the sin we ‘enjoy,’ that we have tended to lose sight of repentance as a fundamentally joyous, restorative return to life in its fullness.” – from Soul Mending: The Art of Spiritual Direction by John Chryssavgis, page [...]
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