I can’t drink from a fire hose

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I deleted 52 blogs off my feed reader today. They were all good ones too. Now I have only 10 feeds remaining, one of which is my own blog. Why would I do that? I realized that I can only drink from a cup, not out of a fire hose. I was spending a lot [...] Read more »

Phew!

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Hopefully this post will be the only reason that you realise this website has moved across the Pacific Ocean! The Words of Eternal Life blog now physically resides on a server in New Zealand. This has involved transferring the domain name and WordPress database to the new host and my very grateful thanks goes to [...] Read more »

Server switch

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In order to (hopefully) improve the speed of this blog for people in NZ and to support local web host providers, I am going to attempt to move the Words of Eternal Life blog from a server located somewhere in North America to one located in Auckland. All going well you won’t notice anything, but [...] Read more »

The idolatrous discarnation of social media

I learned a new word today courtesy of Tim Challies who wrote some advice for pastors on using Facebook. He commented that there is a risk of becoming discarnate by substituting an online presence for real in-the-flesh (incarnate) interactions with people. His use of the word ‘disincarnate’ immediately caused me to think of Christ as [...] Read more »

100 iPod-free days completed

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I have now gone for 100 days without using my iPod. Was it worth it? Yes. Would I do it again? Maybe. Am I going to use my iPod tomorrow? Yes! So, what was the point of this exercise? I was finding myself easily distracted and noticed that rather than thinking deeply about anything I [...] Read more »

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