This is good, but I'm waiting for PastMe.org

It would be so much better to send a message to me in the past, like, "Buy these lotto numbers" or "Don't eat the chili before you go to bed," or, "Don't buy that dog." For now, I'll have to settle for sending messages to my future. Via Lifehacker

eHub

Emily Chang - eHub:

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.

Some cool stuff here. (Via Seth Godin.)

Geek tools

I'm checking out Trumba, an online calendar. I'll let you know what I think. If you want to check it out, you get 60 free days. Enter TrumbaFriend as the promo code if you decide to buy, and you'll get an additional account for free. My friend Sandy is raving about Pandora:

I can't remember when I've been so excited by a Web tool, or so willing to pay to keep it. I paid the $36 required for a year's subscription, and spent the afternoon listening to my personal radio channels.

I'll have to give that a try too.

Gospel Witness on the Emerging Church

The Gospel Witness, publication of historic Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, has published an article on the Emerging Church by the senior pastor, Glendon Thompson. The article is not as negative as I would have predicted.

News of the emerging church may not be welcomed among evangelicals, tired of the endless stream of suspicious theological and ecclesiastical movements. But there are at least two reasons that advocates of the emerging church deserve a hearing: (1) they are anxious for a reformation of the church, a strong desire shared by many well-meaning Christians; (2) they have managed to return an all-important question to the forefront of the church's agenda: how should the church respond to our postmodern culture?

Thompson critiques the emerging church along three lines: it is driven by cultural relevancy; it overemphasizes conversation and de-emphasizes objective truth; and emphasizes experience and emotionalism. The article concludes with a call to relevancy ("Let's make every effort to translate biblical truth into the language of the day") and authentic Christian living. Not a bad little piece in all. It's another example of the appreciative but somewhat wary stance toward the emerging church taken by some in Reformed circles.

Happy birthday but grow up already

You're 50 now so it's probably time to settle down and pop the question.