In third grade I travelled through time. Well, actually, I cheated time. My small rural elementary school in Cloudcroft, NM had no bells or buzzers… Read More »All In: According to God (Part 2–Loving to the End)
20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.… Read More »The Time Machine of Love (Gen. 29)
I Agree
If you’ve ever bought a new app for your phone or updated software on our iPad or on your computer, or if you’ve ever signed up for a new loyalty card online, you’ve seen a lengthy legal terms of service agreement. Before you could proceed with the software update or the purchase of the loyalty card, you had to indicate that you read that statement and click the button that said “agree.”
Raise your hand if you’ve ever read it before you clicked the button that said “agree.”
Jonathan Obar at York University says that it would take the average person 40 minutes a day, every day, for a year to fully read all of these legal service agreement statements which we encounter. Thus, most of us never read them. We just click, “Agree.”
To test this, Obar and a colleague conducted an experiment where they tried to get people to sign up for a new social network site called “Name Drop.” When people signed up, there was a typical service agreement that popped up on the computer screen. The user had to click “agree” in order to use the service. Buried in the agreement were two disclosures. Read More »Go:901 Love Shows (Rom. 5:8) Chris Altrock – Sept. 11, 2016
More Than We See
The Light Between the Oceans is a novel, soon to be a movie, by M. L. Stedman. It tells the story of Tom and Isabel Sherbourne. Shortly after World War 1, the young couple move to Janus Rock, 100 miles off the coast of Australia, to run the lighthouse, where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet. Tom and Isabel only receive visitors from the mainland once every three months and only visit the mainland once every few years.
Isabel endures three tragic miscarriages on Janus Rock. After the third, strangely, providentially, a small boat washes up on their tiny shore. It carries a man who has died, and an infant who is, miraculously, alive. Tom and Isabel, partially acting out of grief from their third miscarriage and partially out of what they truly believe is best for the infant, take the child as their own. They name her Lucy and raise her.Read More »Winners & Losers: Fighting Dragons (Rev. 12) Chris Altrock – Aug. 14, 2016