I spent much of my week last week getting ready to launch The University of Akron Superbowl Ad on our website. I like the ad and I thought it was appropriate advertising for a university of our size. Of course it ran in our local area, so the price was right.

For the most part, I didn't like the advertising on the superbowl. I wasn't impressed this year. I did like a few of them. The Google Superbowl Ad was nice. It wasn't real splashy, but showed you the power of their search engine. Since they are in competition with Bing and Bing does a lot of advertising, I thought it was a good decision on their part.

Some of the most interesting reads as a Christian are the writings of the Early Church fathers. Those who wrote shortly after the New Testament writers. I've found the myth of the Phoenix to be an incredible story that St. Clement related to the early church in his letter to the Corinthians. In the nearly identical time frame, turn of the first century, is St. Ignatius of Antioch. St. Ignatius left us with a number of letters. St. Ignatius is believed to have been one of the early persecuted Christians who was fed to the lions in the Roman Amphitheater. I've found Clement of Alexander to be a thoughtful Christian writer, too. One who wrote during the time period when Alexandria became the cultural center of the world with it's exquisite library.

My website is out of date. After all with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and all those social networking sites, who really needs a website any more? For your information, I'm on twitter now. Follow me as brad_rice. I have a Facebook account, too, but I prefer Twitter. I like the little doses of news and information that you get in bursts. I'm currently using Twhirl as my twitter client. I like it, but I'll start checking some others out, too. I've heard good things about TweetDeck.

I turned 50 recently and one of the benefits was I received a Kindle 2
as a present. Thank you to all those who contributed toward it.

The Kindle 2 has been my favorite toy since. I love reading. I love books from all kinds of genres. However, I don't like paying for them. The Library is a favorite place of mine, because I can find all forms of literature at the price I like. My habits have changed some with the Kindle. I get a daily newspaper delivered every morning except on Sunday and Monday. It is the Investor's Business Daily
so it only comes the days after a market close. Saturday is the day the Monday paper actually comes. I also get Investor's Business Daily
on my Kindle. For it I pay $1.99 a month. I like getting content pushed to me daily. I also get the Amazon Daily
blog, which is a very good blog. Amazon Daily is free. The advantage of having a blog pushed to your Kindle is that you can navigate it very quickly and don't have to wait for the browser to refresh.

I've been reading John Gerstner's Reasons for Faith. Today I came across this wonderful passage:

The world in which we live is a great whodunit. God made the world but left it for us to find out that He was the maker. But there is something unique about this divine whodunit—the perpetrator wants to be found. He has deliberately left clues scattered everywhere. He has made His authorship so plain that only the willfully blind can fail to see. He has not left Himself without a witness, that "happily men might feel after him and find him." He obviously wants to be the known, not the unknown God. We are morally certain that the God of this world would reveal Himself. The only question is where and when He has done it.

In other words, we know of the possibility, and even the high probability, of further (ed: special) revelation.

Lent is upon us. I hope you all find the obvious. And for those who apply themselves, may you find the special