OK, this is just fun. Wordle is a web site where you can plug in a piece of text, or another web site, and it will make a word-art poster out of it. You can tinker with the fonts and colors and such. It uses the frequency of the words to decide which ones are more important. Here is one I made by pasting in the entire text of Calvin’s Institutes.
From George Herbert, Man’s Medley. He is talking about a man (or woman):
… Not that he may not here
Taste of the cheer,
But as birds drink, and straight lift up their head,
So he must sip and think
Of better drink
He may attain to, after he is dead.
I suppose I should not be surprised by reports of ruthless editing in Wikipedia to exclude certain points of view, but I guess I really was surprised. Sometimes I get taken in by all the geeky goodness of freely shared information, and I somehow think that neutrality and free debate will be the result. Alas, the reality of fallen human nature always intrudes. Wikipedia still has a lot of good information, but let’s not fool ourselves about the neutrality of it.
HT: Challies.com
Everybody should know that David Jackman is going to be in town on May 17-18 at the Trinity Hillcrest Church. Rev. Jackman is one of those great English evangelicals whose forthright faithfulness has been a bedrock under many of our lives (think John Stott, J I Packer, Martyn Lloyd-Jones). Currently he heads the Proclamation Trust, an organization dedicated to the revival of the preaching of the Bible. He is also associated with Oak Hill College, which has been at the forefront of the defense of the doctrine of penal substitution in the late controversies in the UK.
A friend of mine is getting married Saturday night, but I hope to make it to Saturday morning and Sunday night at least. Check it out!
I hope I can write some real thoughts on Together For The Gospel 2008, but in the meantime here are the photo albums!
http://picasaweb.google.com/ritchie321/Louisville41508
http://picasaweb.google.com/ritchie321/Louisville41608
http://picasaweb.google.com/ritchie321/Louisville41708
I’m really excited to be heading for Louisville, KY tomorrow for what promises to be a wonderful conference - Together For The Gospel. I’ll be staying with my wife’s cousin and super-blogger Blake. Thanks my brother.
Best of all, I’m traveling with my oldest son, and he is the guy who talked me into going! Thanks Eric!
Food for thought on how children’s “Bible Stories” often do more harm than good.
Eaten Alive in the April issue of Touchstone Magazine
Some wonderful men and women in the Northwest have posted an entire album of original worship music which you can download. The words are God-honoring and meaty. Not only are MP3’s available, there are PowerPoints and chords and other aids. One of the artists is Michael Card.
See The By/For Project.
I got 75% right.
Perhaps you should consider an audition on “Jeopardy!” You have a fantastic knowledge of Texas Trivia and it’s likely you would make a great game show contestant.