Mrs. Warren calls to help the AIDS fight

Kay Warren, wife of pastor and author Rick Warren told a Dallas audience that she initially considered AIDS a “gay, white man’s disease.”

But her mind and heart changed about five years ago when she read an article about the AIDS crisis in Africa.
Kay Warren, whose husband, Rick, wrote The Purpose Driven Life, said church congregants have the opportunity to be ‘the hands and feet of Jesus’ in the battle against AIDS.
“I was reading a news magazine about AIDS and read that 12 million children in Africa were orphaned from AIDS,” Ms. Warren said. “I didn’t know a single orphan’s name. I didn’t even know a single person with AIDS.”

Warren told a group of minister’s wives that the story of the leper who came to Jesus for healing changed her outlook on AIDS and compassion.
Read the full story in the DMN

Broccoli Chicken Dijon

Here’s a recipe I think we’re going to try out on Monday night. Looks good – and it’s South Beach Phase 1,2 & 3 acceptable.

Broccoli Chicken Dijon

1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
1 Tbsp. lite soy sauce
1 Tbsp. olive oil
4 cups broccoli florets
1 clove garlic, minced
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips
2 Tbsp. Dijon Mustard

MIX chicken broth and soy sauce; set aside.
HEAT oil in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add broccoli and garlic; cook and stir until crisp-tender. Remove from skillet; cover to keep warm.
ADD chicken to skillet; cook and stir 3 to 4 min. or until cooked through. Add broth mixture; mix well. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in mustard until well blended. Return broccoli mixture to skillet; mix lightly. Cook until heated through, stirring

Star Wars Mashup

Brian Bailey’s son has put together several Star Wars Mashups with the site, mashup.starwars.com.
Pretty funny stuff. Good job Ben. Keep it up.
I’d still love to see a mashup with Josh Wink’s “Higher State of Consciousness” playing for the soundtrack.
Get a little R2D2 rapping going on. You know what I’m saying in full effect?

Faith like a mustard seed


Well if you live in North Texas you’ve likely seen the yellow flowers of the Mustard seed across the country side on back roads around the region.
Most of them are getting mowed over now or being overgrown by weeds, but my buddy “>Michael has some interesting observations he’s learned from his own mustard seeds. (Mike sent me some of my own mustard seeds a few months back but I believe they were lost somewhere along the move to my new place)

  1. The Mustard Seed I received were small but not minuscule.
  2. These seeds sprouted in two days: faster than any other seeds I have seen!
    (Perhaps faith can sprout as fast when nurtured?)
  3. This plant thrives in full sun.
    (Faith thrives in the light of the Son!)
  4. After several weeks of steady growth, the plant has sprounted little yellow flowers and is spreading out into other areas of my herb garden, with branches growing over some of my other plants.
    (Perhaps the Kingdom of God is steadily gaining ground and branching out: “God’s Aggressive Love Finds a Way.” Voice of the Martyrs

New Firefox under development

Firefox v.3 is available for testing now.
Code named Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 the new browser is expected to bring a number of improvements to my favorite browser:

  • Cairo is now being used as the default graphics library, affecting all graphic and text rendering
  • Cocoa Widgets are now used in OS X builds
  • An updated threading model
  • Changes to how DOM events are dispatched (see bug 234455)
  • Changes to how object elements are loaded (see bug 1156)
  • Changes to how web pages are painted
  • New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance

I don’t recommend downloading the trial version unless you plan on doing a lot of programming with it – but it’s out there if you’re interested.