Blog has moved

I wasn’t really happy with the flexibility of the wordpress.com hosted solution (limited widgets, etc), so decided to move the blog to http://blog.balinsbooks.com/. Effective immediately, I will post all new blog entries, links, etc, to that new location. (All articles and comments have been transferred over.) Thanks!

BibleWorks 7: Excellent software

If you’re looking for a superb piece of Bible software, look at BibleWorks (http://www.bibleworks.com/). Pricey, sure, but you’ll never need another package. Tons of versions, aids, commentaries, etc. BAGD is available, as are Hebrew and Greek lexicons, instructional materials, maps, even sentence diagrams (in Greek!). Very cool! It’s all I use.

Where is the Biblical authority for preachers?

A few days ago, a friend asked me where the Bible authorized paid preachers. He is struggling with some history at his home church where they split because the preacher wouldn’t submit to the elders leadership (which is a separate problem). That whole event started him asking why we have preachers. Doesn’t having a preacher take (whether really or just implicitly) the responsibility we have of evangelizing? How many people say (again, whether consciously or unconsciously): “Why do I need to go here or there teaching? Isn’t that the job of the Preacher? Won’t he do that?”

New Livescribe SmartPen SDK released (0.8)

Livescribe just delivered version 0.8 of their Pulse SmartPen SDK (http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/DeveloperOverviewPage). Looks very slick…

Gotta get going

I’ll need to develop more discipline… I have a lot of ideas I’d like to get down on “paper” — utilities I’ve found and use, programming ideas I’d like to develop, learning new things and how it’s going…

Stay tuned for more…

Christianity in a One-Storey Universe « Glory to God for All Things

Christianity in a One-Storey Universe « Glory to God for All Things