2008 • Notes from the Trail

Campfire Talk

Tumblr or Swurl

OK, I’ve been using Swurl for about two weeks now and LOVE it. Of course, it’s competing in my microblogging heart for affection with Tumblr. I’d be curious which of the two websites you like the most. journeyguy.tumblr.com journeyguy.swurl.com Both…

Jeff Noble
August 2, 2008

Spiritual Markers

Glorieta Bound, 2008

You may recall my incredible experience at National Collegiate Week in beautifulGlorieta, New Mexico at this time last year. This morning, Jeremy and I are heading out for this year’s event – a week of worship, learning, fellowship and God-exalting…

Jeff Noble
August 1, 2008
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Goin' to Town

The importance of referring blog entries

Many of you have noticed the icon to the right at the bottom of all my posts.It’s a referral tool, and there are dozens of them out there. When you click on the button, it gives you an option to…

Jeff Noble
July 31, 2008
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Goin' to Town, Homestead Happenings

Stolen scooters and loss of security

The unthinkable and ridiculous happened this past Saturday night – Sunday morning. Another scooter was stolen from our carport. Yup. This time, it was Sam’s electric scooter that he had received for Christmas. Adelyn’s identical pink scooter was parked right…

Jeff Noble
July 30, 2008
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Church Chew

Audio: How Important is Church Membership?

This is the audio of John Piper’s sermon from July 13, 2008. Piper examines the importance and biblical foundation of church membership. His points are powerful refutes of the “I don’t need to belong to a local church” attitude that…

Jeff Noble
July 28, 2008
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Spiritual Markers

Global warming not man-made

Poor Al Gore. What cause will he have to resort to for publicity and limelight if hanging chads and global warming are no longer in vogue? I have always had a niggling doubt in the back of my mind about…

Jeff Noble
July 25, 2008
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Goin' to Town

Getting serious about blogging, 2

As I was saying in the last post,Hugh Hewitt’s bookBlog: Understanding the Information Reformationwas a challenge and provocation for me. The more I reflected on it after reading it, the more I realized that in many ways my blog was,…

Jeff Noble
July 24, 2008
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Parchment Reviews

Review: The Great Divorce (rated 4 stars)

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis I was reading this short book by C.S. Lewis at a swim meet a week ago. Imagine my surprise when I was approached by three different people who had read it and asked…

Jeff Noble
July 21, 2008
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Goin' to Town

iPhone 2.0 officially jailbroken

With a nice little message of “Thanks for waiting,” the iPhone Dev Team posted the new tool that will unlock, jailbreak and activate iPhone firmware 2.0 this afternoon! The website iphoneunlockstatus.com provided this handy-dandy overview to know what you’re getting…

Jeff Noble
July 19, 2008
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