Installed our new anti-virus software and seems that everything has slowed down. This is happening on all the computers with the new AV, so now the problem is looking for the reason. Probably just some setting that needs to be tweaked, but which one? We'll keep you posted, but this AV cleaned up one of our computers a few years back. What with all the bad guys out there, need the best protection. You're probably wondering why install new? Well, our previous subscription was up for renewal, and there wasn't any group purchase this year to lower the price –…
Be Different – Again!
Almost like Peter was collaborating with James and John. They all talk about how believers in Jesus were supposed to be different. Different enough that people could see it in the way they lived everyday! From the words, it's almost as if they wanted those early Christians to stand out in the crowd. It wasn't the way they dressed, or the neighborhoods where they lived. IT was how they lived and treated one another. Peter is a little blunt in 1 Peter chapter 1 when he says "don't keep doing what you did when you were ignorant." (my translation of…
Rethinking Asia!
Right there in my Bible (First Peter) was a map. Clearly Peter was talking about Christians in the first century who were being persecuted – chased out and just plain "treated mean." The map was showing the places where Christians had been "chased" to by the repressive Roman government. And right there was the word "Asia". It did not fit with where my brain had "Asia" located. After all, didn't the "Wise Men" come from the "east", like Asia? My brain cried out "look again at that map!" In those days, "East" of Jerusalem were places like modern day India,…