Instand Message Your Feeds

Posted by Chris Case | June 13, 2008.

Not every post needs to be theologically related. I did find a wonderful item on the web today. At IM Feeds, you can receive an instant message to your AIM, Yahoo Chat, MSN Messenger, or Google Talk account whenever any of the blogs you subscribe to gets update. I already thought it was convenient to have feed reader software (I use Sage, a firefox plugin), but now i don’t even have to leave my chat screen. Now I can be distracted all day by blog updates!!! If you want to add my feed, its located here. [ht: Lifehacker]

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What Will You Do?

Posted by Chris Case | June 12, 2008.

We’ve been playing the blame game since the Garden of Eden. Whenever something goes wrong, there’s always someone else to blame. So much of that plays into our problem solving. Although getting to the root of a problem is obviously beneficial, spending time deciphering what the root is without any action leads to ineffective problem solving.

When dealing with questions about hunger and poverty in the world, particularly overseas, so much time is spent figuring out who is to blame, whether the American government has poor economic practices overseas, whether it is just their governments who have wronged them or their economically deficient practices as a culture. People can wax poetic about the issues of global crisis. I know I’ve personally read tons of blogs on the subject.

I recently had a conversation with my friend Jeremy as he was trying to prepare a sermon on James 4.13-5.6. We were talking about the question of who was to blame for some of the global crises. We discussed some of the roles America has played amongst other possible root causes, but then it dawned on my to bring up a point. Jesus seemed to care little about who caused the poverty and sickness around him… he only asked his followers what they were going to do about it. The Jews were blaming the Romans or their own poor leadership for the problems, the Romans were controlling the Jews because they probably saw them as a problem, and you have the Zealots and others out their blaming different establishments for all the issues of the world. Yet Jesus came and said… do something about the poor or the disenfranchised. Don’t wait in the wings and point fingers. We are to care.

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Email Your Friends When The Rapture Comes

Posted by Chris Case | June 4, 2008.

A new service just came out that allows you to email your friends after the rapture happens. For $40 a year, you can email up to 62 people your final email that you save until the time comes, letting them know that the Left Behind series actually got it right. Simply visit You’ve Been Left Behind.com and sign up today! [ht: Wired.com]

Btw, if you’re thinking of signing up, please email me and I’ll explain why I think you’re dumb.

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Royalty-Free Theology

Posted by Chris Case | June 3, 2008.

You gotta love it when you get free stuff. I recently tried to attend the Dwell church planters conference in New York City. I just missed the cut and got added to the wait list… a list that I never got off. As an urban city dweller and as one interested in church planting, I thought this would be an awesome conference to attend, yet I was saddened that I could not attend. Well, to my surprise, Acts 29 recently linked all the audio from the sessions on the conference as well the booklet. You gotta love people who are not trying to market thought, allowing it to be free for all. That’s also why I like a guy like John Piper. Wherever you stand on his theology, he openly distributes a ton of resources and content on his site free of charge. That, to me, shows humility about how the knowledge was gained. Anyway, here’s the links to the Dwell conference audio and booklet: