Metro won't have Flash?!! How could a modern tablet even try to compete with out an industry standard like Flash?!!
☄ Windows 8's Metro Browser Will Be Plug-In Free—Which Means No Flash [Windows 8] at Lifehacker
Apple bloggers ‘flustered’ by Windows 8?
The iPad ushered in an era. It’s an era that Microsoft is trying to build on and that’s great for them, but you can’t say that another era has started based on the preview of a product.
When Windows 8 is released and millions of people choose that over the iPad, then you can safely say that Microsoft ushered in something — until then, they have nothing.
Pastor Mark Has a New Website…
Pastor Mark has a new site. Awesome.
Wrath Is Love’s Response to Sin
“Scripture says that God is love and that he has wrath. This means that love lies deeper than wrath in the character of God. Love is his essential perfection, without which he would not be who he is. Wrath is love’s response to sin. It is God’s voluntary gag reflex at anything that destroys his good creation. God is against sin because he is for us, and he will vent his fury on everything that damages us.”…
Through all of eternity, God has been love; he has existed in a state of love of Father to Son, Son to Spirit, Spirit to Father. There has never been a time that God has not been expressing love; nor will there ever be. But God’s wrath is far different. God has not always been wrathful. He has not always had to express anger. His anger is a reaction to a lack of love—a lack of love for him or a lack of love to others. Wrath is a response to sin.
Windows 8′s Fast Boot Time
Emily Wilson demo’s Windows 8′s fast boot time.
Impressive. Now, show us what it looks like with the vendors’ preinstalled crap-ware…
[Sermon Scrips] Who Was Jesus?
Who was Jesus?
Pastor Jim A Wiley – 9/11/2011
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Matthew 22:41-42 – Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, [42] saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”
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John 8:58 – Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”
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John 1:1 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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Matthew 1:23 – “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).
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1 Peter 2:22 – He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
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1 Peter 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
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1 Timothy 2:5 – For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
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John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me…”
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Philippians 4:13 – I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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Hebrews 7:25 – Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
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Matthew 28:20 – “…And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
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John 14:3 – And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
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Philippians 2:9 – Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name…
How Could They Get It?
The disciples did not catch on because they could not catch on. Even for these men, who walked and talked with Jesus, it took a supernatural awakening for them to see who Jesus was and to turn to him as Lord. In that way, their path was not a whole lot different from our own.
☄ How Could They Get It? at Challies Dot Com – Informing the Reforming
9/11 — The Day Death Became Real
The Desiring God blog posted a great excerpt by C.S. Lewis regarding death:
What does war do to death? It certainly does not make it more frequent; 100 percent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. It puts several deaths earlier, but I hardly suppose that that is what we fear. Certainly when the moment comes, it will make little difference how many years we have behind us.
Does it increase our chances of a painful death? I doubt it. As far as I can find out, what we call natural death is usually preceded by suffering, and a battlefield is one of the very few places where one has a reasonable prospect of dying with no pain at all.
Does it decrease our chances of dying at peace with God? I cannot believe it. If active service does not persuade a man to prepare for death, what conceivable concatenation of circumstances would?
Yet war does do something to death. It forces us to remember it.
jQuery More Popular Than Flash
Learning jQuery was one of the best (and easiest) things I've done to make me a better programmer. John Gruber is right: comparing jQuery and Flash is apples and oranges- Flash allows you to make magic in the confines of their plugin; jQuery lets you make magic anywhere.