Evangelical Underground is current running the 1st Annual Evangelical Blog Awards. Many excellent evangelical blogs have been nominated. It’s definitely worthwhile to visit those sites.

Of course, if you feel it’s also appropriate to nominate The Greatest Pursuits, I won’t complain. 

Nominations end today.

Welcome to the new website design for The Greatest Pursuits. I hope you find it easier on the eyes than the old design.

Please let me know what you think of it by leaving a comment or sending me an email. (My name at the top of the sidebar is now an active link which can take you to your email application and open a new, preaddressed message.)

If you’re having problems with this design, you’re probably using Internet Explorer.    Just (mostly) kidding. If you are having problems, please let me know what the problem is and what browser you’re using; including the version number. I’ll do my best to fix it.

If you are using Internet Explorer I highly recommend that you try something else. Even the current version of IE contains significant security holes, doesn’t support current web standards worth a darn, and is buggy in what it does support. This site — and many others like it — was designed using current web standards which IE doesn’t support. Those using web browsers which do support current standards will see some small improvements which are not visible in IE.

If you are using an older web browser other than IE, you may find it worth your while to upgrade to the latest version. Newer versions tend to be faster, more stable and support more features than older versions.

Once again, welcome to my new weblog design. I hope you like it!

You may have noticed that I haven’t posted anything for the last two days. The reason is quite simple. I’ve been almost done with a new site design and I’ve been putting (more than) my available time into fixing that “one last thing” for the last two days. What is it that they say about development projects? The first 80% of the project takes 80% of the estimated time, and the last 20% takes the another 80% of the estimated time. Well I’ve been in that last 20% for a while now.

There is one thing I’ve learned from all this. Internet Explorer is complete garbage. Even the latest versions don’t fully support web standards such as CSS and they’re buggy about what they do support.

If you‘re using Internet Explorer, do everyone a favor and get a different web browser. Anything other than IE is an improvement. Not only will web designers everywhere thank you, you will also substantially improve the security of your machine. Firefox is currently a favorite on most platforms. Mac users also have even more choices than Windows users, with Safari and OmniWeb (my personal choice) in addition to Firefox.

Posting will resume Real Soon Now.

Welcome to my brand spankin’ new weblog. I’ve finally finished with the first draft configuration of this site. It’s certainly not what I have in mind yet. In fact, the current state of this site reminds me of a verse:

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.”
(1Cor. 13:12, NASB)

However, it’s good enough to get on with the core purpose of this site: writing about the reliability of the Bible and the impact it should have on our daily lives. So where shall I begin…

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It’s how late? Okay then, tomorrow it will have to be.

In the mean time, feel free to hang around and marvel at the vast emptiness of this unpopulated template. While I have many ideas and half-written articles just waiting to burst forth, feel free to suggest topics you would like me to write about; especially if you already know me from elsewhere on the web.

I leave you now with two passages which relate to the title of this blog:

And one of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ “The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” And the scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher, You have truly stated that He is One; and there is no one else besides Him; and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.”
(Mark 12:28-34, NASB)

“He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My will.’”
(Acts 13:22, NASB)

Until tomorrow…