Via Business Insider:
…a collection of useful free Microsoft apps for all sorts of devices — not just Windows PCs, but also Macs, iPhones, and even Android devices.
These apps will help you take photos, share them, give you access to your documents, notes, organize your travel and more.
These really do look useful.
Via Business Insider:
…in a play on a human literary contest, around a hundred people are writing computer programs that will write texts for them, the Verge says. It's a response to November's National Novel Writing Month, an annual challenge that gets people to finish a 50,000-word book on a deadline.
We used to say technology can cut out the middle man. Now the middle man strikes back – technology to eliminate the producers. In this case, traditional publishers may be interested in eliminating authors.
Via Reason.com:
…the world is getting better in spite of governments, not because of them.
Points:
What do you think? Getting better overall?
Via Business Insider:
…do everything you can to make it go smoothly — like, for instance, packing the perfect carry-on.
Even if your luggage isn't lost (fingers crossed), you'll no doubt be glad to have a fully-stocked bag on hand at all times.
At the very least, it will spare you the expense of having to buy temporary replacements while your sweater/snacks/toothbrush idle in the bowels of an airplane.
Useful advice. CPAP machines, however, make a bag like that more problematic.
…a common mindset in evangelical churches: seminary, many believe, isn’t practical.
Some evangelical churches are ambivalent about seminary; they could take it or leave it. Others are downright skeptical of seminary.
Click the link to see more: What Post-Seminary Evangelicalism is Missing: A guest post by Sharon Hodde Miller | The Exchange | A Blog by Ed StetzerPoints:
Professors approaching 70 who are still enamored with hanging out with students and colleagues, or even fretting about money, have an ethical obligation to step back and think seriously about quitting.
Click the link to see more: Retire Already! - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher EducationPoints:
Horns of a dilemma for which there should be a better resolution than to run these people off.
Just how does love become visible as servanthood? Paul gave his Philippian readers an anatomy of love as servanthood in the second chapter of his letter to them. Trying to explain why he wanted his readers to regard each other in love, he pointed them to Jesus as their example, describing how Jesus left His high station in heaven for death on a cross (Philippians 2:5–9). Paul didn’t dwell much on Jesus’ intentions or feelings but on Jesus’ actions as evidence of His intent.
The acronym SERVE helps explain how that attitude inspires action. The results of processes explained in this book develop servant characteristics. They are:
Subordinate your priorities
Empty your pride
Redirect your potential
Vacate your position
Exalt Him who purchased you
In other words, God designs everything you experience to bring you to this point. Here’s what all that means.
Subordinate your priorities. Subordinating your priorities begins your experience as a servant after you begin seeing from God’s perspective. Paul wants his readers to make the same transition, directing them to “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). From the moment you became God’s friend, everything has been a lesson in setting your priorities aside and taking up God’s priorities.
Empty your pride. Pride is your regard for your own capabilities and can be a powerful driving force. The ancient Greeks called it hubris, an attitude of overreaching we see in the serpent’s challenge to Eve that eating the fruit would make her like God. Well, Jesus wasn’t just like God, He was God. But “although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself” (Philippians 2:6-7a). So the only reaching out and grasping you do is in dependency on God Himself because He brings you to a realization nothing else you grab is secure.
Redirect your potential. When you have a regard for your capabilities, you develop a vision of where those capabilities can take you. That vision is your potential. Think of the old saw, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it.” You may also be familiar with other motivational sayings meant to inspire people to keep striving for the brass ring. But for Jesus, it meant “taking the form of a bond-servant” (Philippians 2:7b). A bond-servant was a slave. After emptying your pride, you also give up regard for your own capabilities to do things and depend on God’s capabilities.
Vacate your position. You may already be at the point you want to be, or you may still be striving for what you think you deserve. For Jesus, however, it meant giving up the sovereign kingship due Him because “Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8). Jesus’ example points you away from achieving your goals and toward letting God achieve His goals through you.
Exalt Him who purchased you. Jesus’ actions exalted God, so “For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name” (Philippians 2:9). His actions exalted God because they directed attention to God. Likewise, your actions can do the same.
Just how does love become visible as servanthood? Paul gave his Philippian readers an anatomy of love as servanthood in the second chapter of his letter to them. Trying to explain why he wanted his readers to regard each other in love, he pointed them to Jesus as their example, describing how Jesus left His high station in heaven for death on a cross (Philippians 2:5–9). Paul didn’t dwell much on Jesus’ intentions or feelings but on Jesus’ actions as evidence of His intent.
The acronym SERVE helps explain how that attitude inspires action. The results of processes explained in this book develop servant characteristics. They are:
Subordinate your priorities
Empty your pride
Redirect your potential
Vacate your position
Exalt Him who purchased you
In other words, God designs everything you experience to bring you to this point. Here’s what all that means.
Subordinate your priorities. Subordinating your priorities begins your experience as a servant after you begin seeing from God’s perspective. Paul wants his readers to make the same transition, directing them to “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). From the moment you became God’s friend, everything has been a lesson in setting your priorities aside and taking up God’s priorities.
Empty your pride. Pride is your regard for your own capabilities and can be a powerful driving force. The ancient Greeks called it hubris, an attitude of overreaching we see in the serpent’s challenge to Eve that eating the fruit would make her like God. Well, Jesus wasn’t just like God, He was God. But “although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself” (Philippians 2:6-7a). So the only reaching out and grasping you do is in dependency on God Himself because He brings you to a realization nothing else you grab is secure.
Redirect your potential. When you have a regard for your capabilities, you develop a vision of where those capabilities can take you. That vision is your potential. Think of the old saw, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it.” You may also be familiar with other motivational sayings meant to inspire people to keep striving for the brass ring. But for Jesus, it meant “taking the form of a bond-servant” (Philippians 2:7b). A bond-servant was a slave. After emptying your pride, you also give up regard for your own capabilities to do things and depend on God’s capabilities.
Vacate your position. You may already be at the point you want to be, or you may still be striving for what you think you deserve. For Jesus, however, it meant giving up the sovereign kingship due Him because “Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8). Jesus’ example points you away from achieving your goals and toward letting God achieve His goals through you.
Just how does love become visible as servanthood? Paul gave his Philippian readers an anatomy of love as servanthood in the second chapter of his letter to them. Trying to explain why he wanted his readers to regard each other in love, he pointed them to Jesus as their example, describing how Jesus left His high station in heaven for death on a cross (Philippians 2:5–9). Paul didn’t dwell much on Jesus’ intentions or feelings but on Jesus’ actions as evidence of His intent.
The acronym SERVE helps explain how that attitude inspires action. The results of processes explained in this book develop servant characteristics. They are:
Subordinate your priorities
Empty your pride
Redirect your potential
Vacate your position
Exalt Him who purchased you
In other words, God designs everything you experience to bring you to this point. Here’s what all that means.
Subordinate your priorities. Subordinating your priorities begins your experience as a servant after you begin seeing from God’s perspective. Paul wants his readers to make the same transition, directing them to “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). From the moment you became God’s friend, everything has been a lesson in setting your priorities aside and taking up God’s priorities.
Empty your pride. Pride is your regard for your own capabilities and can be a powerful driving force. The ancient Greeks called it hubris, an attitude of overreaching we see in the serpent’s challenge to Eve that eating the fruit would make her like God. Well, Jesus wasn’t just like God, He was God. But “although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself” (Philippians 2:6-7a). So the only reaching out and grasping you do is in dependency on God Himself because He brings you to a realization nothing else you grab is secure.
Redirect your potential. When you have a regard for your capabilities, you develop a vision of where those capabilities can take you. That vision is your potential. Think of the old saw, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it.” You may also be familiar with other motivational sayings meant to inspire people to keep striving for the brass ring. But for Jesus, it meant “taking the form of a bond-servant” (Philippians 2:7b). A bond-servant was a slave. After emptying your pride, you also give up regard for your own capabilities to do things and depend on God’s capabilities.
Just how does love become visible as servanthood? Paul gave his Philippian readers an anatomy of love as servanthood in the second chapter of his letter to them. Trying to explain why he wanted his readers to regard each other in love, he pointed them to Jesus as their example, describing how Jesus left His high station in heaven for death on a cross (Philippians 2:5–9). Paul didn’t dwell much on Jesus’ intentions or feelings but on Jesus’ actions as evidence of His intent.
The acronym SERVE helps explain how that attitude inspires action. The results of processes explained in this book develop servant characteristics. They are:
Subordinate your priorities
Empty your pride
Redirect your potential
Vacate your position
Exalt Him who purchased you
In other words, God designs everything you experience to bring you to this point. Here’s what all that means.
Subordinate your priorities. Subordinating your priorities begins your experience as a servant after you begin seeing from God’s perspective. Paul wants his readers to make the same transition, directing them to “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). From the moment you became God’s friend, everything has been a lesson in setting your priorities aside and taking up God’s priorities.
Empty your pride. Pride is your regard for your own capabilities and can be a powerful driving force. The ancient Greeks called it hubris, an attitude of overreaching we see in the serpent’s challenge to Eve that eating the fruit would make her like God. Well, Jesus wasn’t just like God, He was God. But “although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself” (Philippians 2:6-7a). So the only reaching out and grasping you do is in dependency on God Himself because He brings you to a realization nothing else you grab is secure.
Just how does love become visible as servanthood? Paul gave his Philippian readers an anatomy of love as servanthood in the second chapter of his letter to them. Trying to explain why he wanted his readers to regard each other in love, he pointed them to Jesus as their example, describing how Jesus left His high station in heaven for death on a cross (Philippians 2:5–9). Paul didn’t dwell much on Jesus’ intentions or feelings but on Jesus’ actions as evidence of His intent.
The acronym SERVE helps explain how that attitude inspires action. The results of processes explained in this book develop servant characteristics. They are:
Subordinate your priorities
Empty your pride
Redirect your potential
Vacate your position
Exalt Him who purchased you
In other words, God designs everything you experience to bring you to this point. Check out how to use the acronym:
Subordinate your priorities. Subordinating your priorities begins your experience as a servant after you begin seeing from God’s perspective. Paul wants his readers to make the same transition, directing them to “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). From the moment you became God’s friend, everything has been a lesson in setting your priorities aside and taking up God’s priorities.
Via Business Insider
Wirtzer-Seawood gave musically the scoop on how Beyonce feels about all social networks, and why she's ditched Twitter for other mediums.
“Currently, we don’t use Twitter at all. It is a personal choice. I think as an artist, Beyoncé really prefers to communicate in images. It’s very hard to say what you want to say in 140 characters,” said Wirtzer-Seawood.
So Instagram? Facebook? What does the star (and her team) prefer? Wirtzer-Seawood says Beyonce loves Instagram, and you can bet that most of the time, Queen Bey herself is the one posting the shots.
Notice the strategic thought (bold font above) going into the choice of social media channels. It’s a good example of how to base choices on objectives.
Via Business Insider:
…the Google in Education team has released a list of skills that they want to see in potential engineers.
"Having a solid foundation in Computer Science is important in being a successful Software Engineer," the company says. "This guide is a suggested path for University students to develop their technical skills academically and non-academically through self-paced, hands-on learning."
It only takes some stick-to-it-ness.
Many wonders of our universe, including the nature of dark matter, formation of stars, and atmospheric composition of exoplanets, have been observed either indirectly or directly by Hubble.
Click the link to see more: Hubble Images Show Universe's Secrets - Business Insider
Click the link above to see the photos.
…many big companies only want to pursue ideas that can clearly generate a billion dollars in revenue. He argues that it's foolish to try to size up a market before launching a product: "market sizing forces you to understand the world as it exists today as opposed to how it might look tomorrow."
Page doesn't have the revenue problem. But he has something similar. He's looking down at the development of smaller companies focused on consumer technology. He thinks they're not ambitious enough.
Click the link to see more: The Risk In Larry Page's Moonshots - Business Insider
The small projects count for something. I heard a proverb: The fiercest serpent can be overcome by an army of ants.
Mars Hill Church will dissolve Mark Driscoll's multisite network and let each of its remaining 13 churches go their own way.
Founded in 1996, the Seattle-based megachurch planted 15 satellite sites across five states, its passion for creating new churches further evidenced by Driscoll founding the Acts 29 network. By New Year's Day, the multisite organization and the Mars Hill name will be no more.
Click the link to see more: Goodbye, Mars Hill: Mark Driscoll's Multisite Empire Will Sell Properties and Dissolve | Gleanings | ChristianityToday.com
No doubt there will be a need to support the church members and leaders as they go through this change.
"Steve would walk in the door and say, 'Alright, what's going on?'" Rosen said. "Somebody in the room would say we're trying to figure this out, maybe go to a whiteboard, and say we couldn't figure out what to do."
Jobs had a talent for immediately finding an answer to the problem.
"And [Steve] would say, 'What about doing this?'" Rosen said. "And you could look around the room and you could just see people dumbfounded, their jaws dropping, because it was a really good idea."
Click the link to see more: Working With Steve Jobs - Business Insider
This is the ability to process information quickly, being able to connect different bits of information and process it in new ways. It’s an element of innovative thinking.