After choosing to submit to God’s authority in my life and the wave of love that followed, one of the best changes for me came in a new found freedom to share the good news of the gospel with people. I accepted Jesus as my Savior 30 years ago, and have consistently struggled with seizing up and not having a clue what to say when it came to telling others about new life in Him. That was the big motivator to take the Navigator’s Bible study when it was offered at our church. I wanted to speak about the good news of God’s grace and salvation found in Jesus, but I didn’t know where to begin.
Well, Navigator’s is really clear. After memorizing about 25 Bible verses related to salvation and God reaching out to people, it all gets put together in a single illustration called “The Bridge to Life.”
All through my formative years my father and other authority figures railed quite mercilessly against what they called being lazy. According to them, laziness was about as close to the unpardonable sin as a human could possibly get without being burned by hell’s blaze. The lesson for me was, "With all thy getting, get as far away from laziness as possible."
These authority figures backed up their opinions about laziness with a fervor of work bordering on the frenzy. Just suggest that perhaps they were leaning towards, just a little bit lazy, and boy, would they explode in a ferocity of work leaving everybody in their smoke. They will even work on their day off.
You always hear the usual stories of pennies on the sidewalk being good luck, gifts from angels, etc. This is the first time I've ever heard this twist on the story. Gives you something to think about.
Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the home of her husband's employer.
My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.
+ I've been asked a number of times how it is that the Cybersalt Twitter updates are automatically appearing as status updates on my Facebook Account. It is very easy to do. Log in to your Facebook account and add the Twitter App to your Facebook. After that, all you need to do is set up the app with your Twitter account info and follow directions. The next time you update your Twitter status your Facebook Status will update too!
Anybody who has spent any significant time on a computer knows what it is like to lose valuable data due to a failed hard drive or scratched/lost cd.The moment of acceptance that valuable data has been lost forever brings with it a determination to never again operate without a reliable backup.That moment also comes with an introduction to a whole new frustration with computers - how to actually backup one's data.
Backing up one's data can be a nightmare.The "Ntbackup" utility that comes with Windows XP (I've avoided Windows Vista like the swine flu) is certainly more versatile than Win98's laughable "briefcase" program, but it runs from a command line whose syntax bears this form:
To be fair, the help area of XP does elaborate on the above, but let's keep perspective here.The need is to back data up - not get a degree in running Ntbackup.Even once you've come up with a complete and accurate command to run, I doubt you want to type it in every time you want to back your files up - not to mention any other commands you create for backing up other areas of your computer with info not in your main data area.I guess you could always put all your command lines in a batch file and run them all that way.What are batch files you ask?Yeah, let me tell you about something far more simple instead.
When I lost my Palm Treo 600 (just a few days before my contract expired) I was quite disappointed. Of all the electronic things I wanted to spend money - that I did not have on - my cell phone was dead last. I was going to dial that Treo right into the ground. But after not finding it for 2 weeks I needed to replace it and the cell phone covenience I was missing.
To make a long story short, I replaced my Treo with an 8 gig iPhone. Plain and simple: I love my iPhone and it's been awesome. However, soon after setting it up I did experience a significant disappointment. iTunes (the syncing software for the iPhone) would not run on Windows XP64 which was installed on my main PC. My work around at the time was simply to use my other PC (running XP) for iPhone syncing.
I am happy to report, however, that iTunes can run on XP64. I found a wonderful and simple set of instructions and links to make this happen. I am now able to sync and back up my iPhone using my computer with XP64 on it. I hope this link and referral will help anyone who was in the same boat as me.
After choosing to submit to God’s authority in my life and the wave of love that followed, one of the best changes for me came in a new found freedom to share the good news of the gospel with people. I accepted Jesus as my Savior 30 years ago, and have consistently struggled with seizing up and not having a clue what to say when it came to telling others about new life in Him. That was the big motivator to take the Navigator’s Bible study when it was offered at our church. I wanted to speak about the good news of God’s grace and salvation found in Jesus, but I didn’t know where to begin.
All through my formative years my father and other authority figures railed quite mercilessly against what they called being lazy. According to them, laziness was about as close to the unpardonable sin as a human could possibly get without being burned by hell’s blaze. The lesson for me was, "With all thy getting, get as far away from laziness as possible."
In yesterday's newsletter mailings I gave the following riddle:
You always hear the usual stories of pennies on the sidewalk being good luck, gifts from angels, etc. This is the first time I've ever heard this twist on the story. Gives you something to think about.
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Backing up one's data can be a nightmare.
When I lost my Palm Treo 600 (just a few days before my contract expired) I was quite disappointed. Of all the electronic things I wanted to spend money - that I did not have on - my cell phone was dead last. I was going to dial that Treo right into the ground. But after not finding it for 2 weeks I needed to replace it and the cell phone covenience I was missing.