Archive for January 18th, 2005

Finally, Acrobat doesn’t suck like BBEdit doesn’t suck

I hated Acrobat 6 for it’s slowness and it’s horrendous bookmark organization system. I just received and installed Acrobat 7 today. It’s fast and actually does bookmarks like Acrobat 5. The Browser plug-in is “nice” but I’ll always have it turned off. It’s just too bad the Life Cycle Designer is only for Windows

A life spent wrestling with gray

I have incredible respect for people dedicated to Christ and willing to rail against the consumeristic, market-driven society that we live in. Tony Campolo is one of those people. He spoke once while I was at Wheaton and his passion and fervor blew me away, as well as his total and complete dedication to the life that Christ had called him to live.
However, I get a little skittish when I read articles like this one. The phrase “sometimes you have to transcend tradition” is applied to the Biblical discussions of homosexuality and it gives me some pause. In my reading of the Bible, it seems pretty clear that God’s intended plan for creation is single monogamy or sex within the context of male/female marriage. Anything we do outside of that subverts, degrades, and denies God’s work in and through us. However, this is a tough issue and one that is causing significant problems in many mainline churches. The media likes to portray “progressive” churches as being on the correct side of this issue. Well, call me regressive but I don’t believe we change the church to fit us, we change ourselves to fit our worship and service together as the church, the bride of Christ.