There are many reasons for journaling. If you do not already have this habit, I hope this list will encourage you to seriously consider it. I have already benefited more from it than from almost any other personal discipline, but I still hope to grow in it in this next year.
21 Reasons for Journaling:
From Smooth Stones (Spurgeon’s collected sayings of Thomas Brooks):
Many preachers in our days are like Heraclitus, who was called the dark doctor. They affect sublime notions, obscure expressions, and uncouth phrases, making plain truths difficult, and easy truths hard. “They darken counsel with words without knowledge.” Studied expressions and high notions in [...]
From Smooth Stones (Spurgeon’s collected sayings of Thomas Brooks):
Some of the learned think that Christ intercedes only by virtue of his merits; others, that it is done only by his speech. I think it may be done both ways, because Christ hath a tongue and body glorified in heaven; and is it likely that [...]
From Smooth Stones (Spurgeon’s collected sayings of Thomas Brooks):
“We, then, that are strong,” says the apostle, “ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.” Mark, he does not say the enormities, but the infirmities; he does not say the wickedness, but the weakness. The Lord bears with the weakness of his children. [...]
I have been working as the IT manager of Literacy & Evangelism International for almost 7 years. The opportunity to work with the organization has provided valuable learning experiences, and those experiences have included web development projects for the last several years.
The first database-driven version of literacyevangelism.org was a custom PHP/MySQL application. It was quite [...]
Proverbs 22:1
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
and favor is better than silver or gold.
It is honor that is of lasting significance; monetary means can irrevocably vanish. Wealth is temporary at best. Reputation endures. The legacy of a godly man is a wonderful thing. This blessing must be diligently sought and [...]
The year is almost over, but ten days remain (December 22-31).
More than 240 hours are available (at the time of this writing). How will you use them?
Here are some ideas for improving the value of those days:
Set a rising time that you can reasonably maintain every day and enforce it rigorously.
Read a good non-fiction book [...]
Web application development requires the consideration of various security issues.
SQL Injection and session hijacking are among the more popular attack methods and must be carefully battled by web developers.
I used a custom PHP/MySQL web application for a recent web development project and decided to use Apache’s mod_rewrite and some custom PHP code to reduce potential vulnerabilities.
I [...]