Nov
01
2011
Worth a Look 11.1.11
Tim Challies reviews the new biography of Steve Jobs:
Let’s get one thing out of the way up-front—the thing that has been the subject of thousands of articles and blog posts in the week since the biography was released. Steve Jobs was not a nice person.
Ron Edmondson: 5 Things I’ve Learned in Public Speaking
My friend Scott Williams and I were comparing speaker experiences after each of us finished our talks at a conference where we were both speaking. We discovered we had some of the same observations about speaking to groups. I have continued thinking about our conversation since then and came up with a few more thoughts. Here are 5 random observations about public speaking…
Pros and Cons of the Internet (as taught to students in 1996):
Since we’re fans of tech nostalgia here, I thought I’d share the document with you. Surprisingly, many of the Internet’s perks and problems remain the same 15 years later, but some of them just seem silly in retrospect.
And here are the new rules of the internet, according to What Would Google Do?
Interesting: “It’s (Past) Time for a Charismatic Reformation”
I am no Luther, but I’ve grown increasingly aware that the so-called “Spirit-filled” church of today struggles with many of the same things the Catholic church faced in the 1500s. We don’t have “indulgences”—we have telethons. We don’t have popes—we have super-apostles. We don’t support an untouchable priesthood—we throw our money at celebrity evangelists who own fleets of private jets.
In honor of Reformation Day, I’m offering my own list of needed reforms in our movement. And since I can’t hammer these on the Wittenberg door, I’ll post them online. Feel free to nail them everywhere.