Every Good Band Deserves Fudge: Productivity Enhancers

When Necessary, Use Money

The typical church atmosphere today is such that attendees are conditioned to put money into an offering plate and consider this to be a pretty decent way to spread the Gospel. hether intended or not, this method of helping, if it is the primary focus, keeps the average church-attender from actually meeting and connecting to needy people and it tells him that money is his best gift or good deed.

De-Powering the Name of Jesus

In the old days, Superman could move planets. As if that weren't enough, he could move multiple planets at once. Heck, he could even do this as a teenager! Somewhere along the line, the writers decided that this just wasn't believable enough, I guess, so they brought his powers down to a more realistic ensemble. You know, flying, heat vision, super-cold breath... the more normal things.

The Noise and Impact of Worship

How many fellowships are apathetic and complacent, perched in the middle of hurting communities and not lifting a finger to help, but instead singing songs one day a week about how good it is not to be a part of the riff-raff on the outside? Isn't it time we redeemed ourselves by our actions?

Good Deeds and Contradictions

When we're challenged or confronted with an argument about contradiction in Scripture, sometimes we can be taken completely off-guard. One of the worst responses in this kind of situation is simply to say, "I just take the Bible on faith," and dismiss the challenge as being made by an ignorant Christian-hater. The fact is, most of the time it's not the Bible we're taking on faith. Often it's the teaching of someone who pieced together some verses to bolster a themed speech.

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12 November 2007

Boomshine

3:22 PM

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Many of you may have never played a "casual game." On cell phones, these things are known as "easy play" games. They're games that take essentially no time to learn and are accessible to the widest possible audience.

Have a look at Boomshine, an addictive little productivity enhancer by Danny Miller at K2xL.com.

The first really unusual thing I noticed about this game was the soundtrack (not to mention the "explosion" sound effects). Written by a guy named Tim Halbert, the music is very soothing, in stark contrast to the lurching, frenzied music one typically hears in a video game, and enabled me to play with minimal frustration.

I'm thankful for that, because I read a little nugget of info that said this: "Only 3.97% of all level 12 games have won." Translated, this means, "Nyaaah, nyaaah! If you don't finish level 12, you stink!" So I had to finish level 12. I give Tim Halbert full credit.

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