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 Pr. Borghardt's mission is to teach Pr. Weedon how to say "Dude" at the Sola Conferences. Maybe this comic that my brother found can help in some way. 

 Awesome!

Recently, I have been attempting to catch up on the second best show on Pirate Christian Radio: The God Whisperers. Second best because we all know that Higher Things Radio is the best! (Okay, so I may be a little biased :-P).

I was listening to Episode 31, their second episode on Baptism. Pastors Cwirla and Donofrio were talking about the end of Matthew 28 mainly verses 19 and 20:

19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

Pr. Cwirla brought up something awesome thats found in greek. What is translated “I am with you” is:

ἐγὼ μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι

For those of you who don't know Greek translated in order that is “I with you am”

For those of you who DO know Greek, you can correct me if I'm wrong. :)

ἐγὼ (ego) εἰμι (eimi) is the name of God (Yahweh) in Greek. Like when Jesus says I AM the Bread of Life or I AM he when he is being arrested and his captors fall down.

Matthew splits it up in the above verse probably because in Jewish culture you didn't say the Name of God. But as Pr. Cwirla pointed out in the God Whisperers episode that literally puts you “In the Name”

Now thats awesome. Especially, in the context of Baptism!

I recommend you subscribe to the God Whisperers podcast. And while you're subscribing to The God Whisperers make sure you subscribe to HT-Radio if you haven't already!

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Late in 2008 (haha.. that rhymes) Disney announced that it was dropping its plans to produce the next Narnia Movie, "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" So, Walden Media set out to find a new partner. Which they found in 20th Century Fox. 

This makes me very happy because I'm a Narniaholic and "Dawn Treader" is my favorite book of the series. And even if "Prince Caspian" wasn't as close to the book as Lewis fans would like to see, I still enjoyed it as a movie.

So, now I eagerly await Christmas 2010.  

Thanks to Dr. Francisco - author of Martin Luther and Islam (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations) - for sharing this on Facebook.  

From Compass Direct News:

EGYPT: CHRISTIANS SENT TO PRISON AFTER BRUTAL POLICE RAID

Judge ignores video evidence of officers’ unwarranted, violent attack on café.

ISTANBUL January 29 (Compass Direct News) – Following a brutal raid on six Christian brothers and their café because they had opened for business during Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, a judge on Jan. 22 sentenced them to three years in prison with hard labor for resisting arrest and assaulting authorities. Last September, 13 police officers raided the café in Port Sa’id, a city in Egypt’s Nile delta, overturning tables, breaking chairs and smashing glasses and hookah pipes, according to the Coptic Christians’ lawyer. They beat the brothers with sticks, leaving two with broken arms and a third needing 11 stitches for a head wound. “The police attacked these people and assaulted them unjustifiably,” said Ramses el-Nagar, the Christians’ lawyer. “Police did not want to see people eating during Ramadan. This is unfair, because whatever people’s beliefs are, the law is something else and they should not be mixed.” There is no law in Egypt under which the brothers could be prosecuted for opening their café during Ramadan. When they tried to defend their café, the brothers, all in their 30s, were arrested on Sept. 8 and charged with resisting arrest and assaulting authorities. The names of the imprisoned Christian brothers are Ashraf Morris Ghatas; Magdy Morris Ghatas; Osama Morris Ghatas; Nabil Morris Ghatas; Walid Morris Ghatas; and Hany Morris Ghatas. 

I found this in my email this morning. I thought that since I'm such a terrible speller this would be a good place to post it. :-)

Eye halve a spelling chequer;
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it two say;
Weather eye and wring oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no.
Its letter perfect awl the weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.

[-sauce unknown]

While searching for the spell check image I found this comic as well: 

I guess I would end up being "Jon Coal My Err?"  Or I could go with the way Pr. Borghardt pronounces my name and be Cool My Air. 

Do any of you have a fun, spell check friendly name?