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• 12:32 pure adrenaline: tinyurl.com/67tkoe #

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• 10:58 one man's trash: www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/onemanstrash.htm #

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• 10:11 Wow what an awesome message on Colossians 1. Favorite funny quote: "If Jesus is not God, he deserves an Oscar." #
• 11:22 dude, they just showed a (pretty intense) Pulp Fiction clip in this seminar on worldview apologetics. Awesome. :D #

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• 16:05 sitting at the Euro Leadership Forum, just finished listening to Stuart McAllister talk about "Europessimism and Hope". SO glad to be here. #
• 16:28 posted some thoughts on wrath and love on my blog: tinyurl.com/5o7pbg #
• 17:06 @noeljesse praying for you...so sorry. #

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"The hardest soil is always our own heart. God had a lot more problems getting Jonah to Nineveh than he did getting Nineveh to repent."

- quote from Martin Haizmann at the main session "Europe and the Gospel" at the Euro Leadership Forum

"The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference." - Elie Wiesel

On my way to the airport this morning, I saw a poster for Empereor, an organization against poverty. What caught my eye was their slogan: "Mit Zorn und Zärtlichkeit an der Seite der Armen." A rough translation of this would be something like "Standing by the poor with wrath and with gentleness."

I love that contrast. If all an organization against poverty has to offer the poor is simply a gentle pat on the back and a bowl of soup, it's not really going to have much of a long term effect. It NEEDS a sense of wrath and anger against the injustice causing the poverty in order to make real changes that end up permanently making a difference.

I was struck by how that contrast is also a great description of God. It speaks to how God's anger and fury is an outworking not only of his righteousness, but also and especially of his love! For a long time I viewed God's wrath as simply stemming from his sense of justice - when something evil is done, God gets angry because it's evil, and God in his holiness hates evil. Don't get me wrong, this certainly is a part of it, but in addition to his holiness and righteousness another vital reason why God hates evil is that he loves us and therefore hates with a passion anything that endangers us or our relationship with him.

It was this wrath as an outworking of his love which drove him to the most loving and most wrathful action ever: the cross.

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• 08:15 wow: tinyurl.com/5u9r5c #

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• 10:22 wow. groovy is pretty sweet! #

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• 08:04 very much looking forward to the ELF next week. no i'm not talking about the Quenya. tinyurl.com/5v8lj4 <tinyurl.com/5v ... #
• 08:05 very much looking forward to the ELF next week. no i'm not talking about the Quenya. is.gd/jsZ #
• 08:08 OK, take THREE on this tweet: very much looking forward to the ELF next week. no i'm not talking about the Quenya. is.gd/jt2 #
• 13:30 eating a yummy apple cinnamon thingy from a turkish bakery nearby #
• 13:43 memo to self: soooo gotta try this some day: xkcd.com/426/ #
• 14:47 checking out groovy to see how easy it is to use it to run little code snippet scripts from within our tests. #
• 17:01 feierabend! not only that: free evening! bonus!! #

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• 08:19 "California Narcissist Plans to Marry Himself" tinyurl.com/55uw5r #
• 11:52 "If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect." - Ted Turner #

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• 08:02 getting the work week going. i just noticed my computer didn'T shut down so it was on all weekend. oops. #
• 08:21 @bmn doesn't mylyn offer that? or where exactly do you mean by "comment markup" #
• 11:01 majorly ticked off at eclipse right now...trying to update a plugin and it's not responding while contacting one of the update sites. grr... #
• 12:31 funniest onion article in a while: tinyurl.com/63g9t9 #
• 14:18 i have sore muscles because of wii fit. before you laugh, YOU try doing the 6 minute rhythmic boxing game twice in a row. :P #
• 15:41 one of our ant scripts is freezing up somewhere and i have NO idea why. slightly frustrating day today. *breath in* *breath out* *refocus* #

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• 13:58 mindmapping "our life" with stephi on mind42.com - it's turning into a pretty huge mind map. :) #

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• 12:30 oh brother. in order for my dad to connect to our wireless from os x, he has to add a "$" in front of his WEP key. is.gd/hPQ #
• 12:47 @MrPink i have to because stephi's computer has issues connecting to anything other than WEP, plus i don't care if someone mooches our wlan #
• 14:05 very cool worship site for people to upload their own songs: www.worshipjournal.com #

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• 13:52 un.believable: 7 conspiracies that apparently actually happened: tinyurl.com/37ma2b #

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• 10:29 fighting giant ants, i mean ant scripts #
• 12:56 congrats @Charlie_Ford! #
• 13:08 wow i just saw "wii fit" isn't even out in the states yet. awwww, poor americans, you're missing out on all the fun! ;) #
• 17:03 yay! beach volleyball time! #

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• 08:52 stephi and i got wii fit yesterday and it is VERY cool. #
• 12:45 lunch break, munching on the mother of all candy bars... Snickers. oh yeah. #
• 19:14 gcli session three is about to start... #

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• 08:58 hard to get motivated to start up work again after a long weekend...ok. here we go. #
• 15:30 adding up the ascii codes of "Windows95" equals 666. how deliciously hilarious. #
• 15:31 oops i mean adding up the ascii values of each character of "WINDOWS95".... ;) #
• 16:01 oh and adding up the ascii values of "BILLGATES" equals 663... almost. BUT Bill Gates's full name is Bill Gates III. Muahaha #

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• 10:26 wow, hudson is just frickin incredible for continuous integration. much easier than cruise control or teamcity imho #
• 19:16 sitting at the first Rock Berlin GCLI meeting #

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• 08:23 getting the work day underway...oh, and welcome to Twitter, @Charlie_Ford ... #
• 08:24 How so, @MrPink? #
• 08:26 @ajvan that picture gives a whole new meaning to the "horn of your salvation" #
• 11:37 dreaming about how to "evangelize" test-driven development in our company #

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• 08:29 VERY much looking forward to an evening with no appointments with anyone at all. #
• 08:42 getting tax payments back ROCKS #
• 12:53 hey twitter world out there, especially my friends: join up with iminta and let me know about it. www.iminta.com #
• 14:40 very impressed with hudson, a continuous integration engine with a gazillion plugins.why haven't i heard of you b4, hudson? is.gd/d7d #
• 22:35 SO cool: Tim Keller @ Google: tinyurl.com/2j4pfe #

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• 08:37 *yawn* #
• 09:32 for some reason my eclipse has started to randomly totally crash to the desktop every 10-15 minutes today. What's up, Mr. Eclipse? Bad day? #
• 11:28 Bam. Eclipse just crashed again. #
• 11:42 ok that does it, I am installing a fresh Eclipse. Sheesh, what in the world is going on? #
• 11:55 wow. the fresh eclipse installation crashed TOO. OK, latest Java VM. It is now almost noon and I have accomplished close to 0 today. :-( #
• 16:21 well, i've ended up switching back to Ubuntu for the time being since Eclipse doesn't crash here. :P #
• 16:24 Charlie, to quote the Matrix: Noone can tell you what Twitter is, you have to see it for yourself. Enter the rabbit hole: www.twi ... #
• 16:41 totally sweet eclipse plugin: tinyurl.com/2g9mqh #
• 17:02 feierabend! #

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• 08:18 Back from a great canoe retreat. Tired (less than 6 hours of sleep) and bummed out (someone stole our suitcase which I left in our hallway). #
• 08:18 @Radman 24-7 actually met at our building for 40 days of prayer a few weeks ago,. pretty cool. #
• 09:25 trying to get myself to take an ugly boring long task head-on. .... ok. BRING IT ON.... #
• 11:20 cool! coldplay's violet hill for free: tinyurl.com/6mgdh6 #
• 16:29 liking vizant to finally start to get a grip on our mammoth age-old ant build script... #

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