I was in the prayer room and saw some faithful intercessors in the side room who I knew to be Taiwanese.  And heard the phrase "supernatural finances in Taiwan" repeated over and over.  I believe the church in Taiwan has a call to fund the back to Jerusalem movement in the mainland, and even when the Taiwanese an mainland Chinese relations will be icy they will love the mainlanders they will stand as a testimony to the love of Christ. 

Lately with the e-Sword 9 change in format (which requires a bunch of work to re-download all the modules), I decided to look at some other electronic bible study tools. Being poor, cost was important. I know that Logos is amazing, but I'm just don't have money like that to spend.  I found a review of another free bible study tool called “The Word” (www.theword.gr) which rated it very highly.  I gave it a spin and found the interface dramatically more intuitive, flexible, and responsive. Searching, navigating books, even just reading the bible is far better.  Read on for a full review.

One of the most essential tasks that the Lord expects from each generation is that they are faithful to raise up another generation. Based on Malachi 4:5-6.

The gospel is far more than just the salvation of our souls. Jesus' death on the cross, the crown of thorns which lay on his head had cosmological implications.

One of the key revelations that God is revealing right now is that he is a bridegroom.  This sermon is a overview from genesis to revelation of the biblical support for this relational metaphor as well as the most important aspects of the bride bridegroom relationship.

What does it mean that we were predestined to adoption?  What is biblical sonship, and why is it important?  Based on Ephesians 1:5-6.

An exegesis of Psalm 45

Well, i've been konverted. I don't think I've used kde for more than 10 minutes sense I've switched to Ubuntu. The kde4 release was notoriously bad, but even the later updates didn't really fix most of the issues with it.

Anyway, I've been trying it out on Jaunty and it seems pretty stable. There are definitely a few rough spots, but this much is clear to me. That the massive refactoring they did with kde4 is starting to pay off. Gtk+ seems pretty much stuck in the mud, and although gnome had really begun to be very well refined, it is clear that it will not be capable rapid innovation the way that kde is moving.

The kde window manager has a very smooth feel to it, compiz had all kinds of issues with screen artifacts on my nvidia card. Kate is a fantastic text editor (much better than gedit). The music player Amorok is very polished and works with my mp3 player.  The PIM tools are fairly good.

Having sung it's praises, kde 4 still has a way to go. The network manager interface is junk. The bluetooth tray icon crashes. I'm still using synaptic to do my package management, the kde version is missing several important features. One thing I'm pretty confident of though, the next year or two should see dramatic improvements on the kde front where gnome will remain gnome.