Worship Wars

NT Wright on contemporary worship music.

Final Cut Pro X

Final Cut Pro X is the most awful software I've every used in my life! I've been a Final Cut Pro user since version 1 and before that I was a Premiere user on the Mac. I've never seen such a goof up piece of garbage! Sure you can edit with it and make sense out of your movie scenes/clips, but it's a far cry from being a professional app. Along with Final Cut Pro X Apple has discontinued Apple Color, which with all it's faults was a great program(along with Shake). So, which leaves me no option but returning to Adobe or Avid, because Final Cut Pro 7 is almost outdated as an editing app!


The bottom line is that most professionals have left Apple to the kids and iPhone junk! Apple in my mind has turned to less creative stuff and its materialistic junk. Creative professionals need a company that will stand behind them and Apple has turn out to be not that type of company. So bye, bye Apple!!

Back from Hong Kong

Hong Kong was lovely, but the people there are down right stinking rude. They will cut in front of you in a coffee line, make fun of your chinese, etc. Lovely city, but crappy people(character). Lovely country though of old and new.

Master of Puppets Mario Version

Super Mario version of Metallica's Master of Puppets.

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Liturgical Theology-Simon Chan

"This kind of worship that gives worshipers an immediate "high" may not even be good for their spiritual development in the long term; what truly forms worshipers is regular church attendance in a church that practices normative liturgy." Simon Chan-Liturgical Theology  


I think this is an important quote, because many in the free church today seek an immediate high. They go to the extreme ends of the earth, to far cities, or drive for hours just to find that new high. We can never do that as Christians to have real sustained growth in holiness(sanctification). Hence, we need Word and Sacrament.

Working my way through Summa Theologica byThomas Aquinas

Working my way through Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas has been a joy. But I will say that it's not for the faint in heart, because the work is so stinken long. I'm saying that, because it might just take me a full year to read through it and on top of that you really need some knowledge of philosophical history and terms to really digest some of the stuff he is saying at times.

Predestination: John Calvin vs. Thomas Aquinas

More on the doctrine of Predestination and Thomas Aquinas from a interesting Catholic blog. I say interesting, because it looks like they were all once Reformed and now in the Catholic church.


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