I look forward to the day when people, en masse, realise that they don’t need to (and can’t) do anything to earn God’s favour, and start to simply live with Christ (rather than for Christ).
This is from Wayne Jacobson’s book - He Loves Me - via my good friend Dallas. The emphasis is mine.
As you [...]
Archive for November, 2008
It’s become my conviction that fundamentally we are not supposed to follow the Ten Commandments. I mentioned this in my post about The Shack… the perspective that I fundamentally follow Christ, and he may lead me where he wills. I want to dig into that a bit here, because I think choosing to follow the [...]
Setting up a road warrior style VPN connection with pfsense and OpenVPN
Published November 25th, 2008 in IT Industry and Work. 0 CommentsVPN is a wonderful thing. I’m particularly fond of IPSEC and OpenVPN, as they allow some great tunneling and remote connection possibilities. Following is a basic tutorial to get your pfsense firewall to handle OpenVPN road warriors, and how to configure the clients. This is based on the tutorial by Frewald on the pfsense forums, [...]
If you’re in Lahti tonight, or the surrounding area, come on out for a night of cool community and great music. See my post a few back for details, or check my Events page.
Pudd
I’m a sucker for pastry and meat. It’s simply one of the best combinations evar. Last night we took a stab at Cornish pasties. We loosely followed this recipe:
New Zealand Pasties recipe.
In future, I’d use less potato (I used too much this time, admittedly), more mushrooms and spices, and roll the pastry thinner. All in [...]
Gig: Passionate Heart 08 in Lahti, Nov 22
Published November 14th, 2008 in DJing and News. 2 CommentsThe good people of Lahti have asked me back to DJ at Passionate Heart 08. It’s an evening of music, dance and community outreach, and this year it will be in their newly renovated facility building, which I hear is great.
Passionate Heart 08
@ Wanha Walimo (Vesijarvenkatu 25, Lahti)
Nov 22nd, 6-10ish
Free entrance
Come on out to hear [...]
English Hothouse Cucumbers, and other innapropriate forms of measurement
Published November 10th, 2008 in Humourous and Personal. 1 CommentMaija subscribed us to a number of pregnancy emails regarding the development of our baby. We get a couple of emails each week, updating us with how big the baby may be, and providing advice and various pieces of information. It’s all quite good and informative, except for the sometimes strange choice of fruits or [...]
Slashdot is reporting the intriguing news that a German doctor has cured a patient of HIV (2 years free of the virus) with a bone marrow transplant from a person naturally immune. Very exciting stuff.
I like the idea that:
Something isn’t true because it’s in the Bible; it’s in the Bible because it’s true.
There’s a great discussion going on over one of nakedpastor’s recent posts, about Jesus talking to the woman who’s daughter was tormented by a demon (Matthew 15: 21-28). Check it out, you might enjoy the conversation.
Persistent Truths | nakedpastor.
Nakedpastor:
I think this sheds light on Jesus learning obedience (Hebrews 5:8). The story begins with him possessing [...]
