LET US REASON
Come now and let us reason together (Isa. 1:18)
January 2, 2010 (updated January 13, 2010)
Our next classes at OABS will start this next Thursday night at 7:00 pm Central Time with a special extracurricular class on Messianic Prophecies. This class will be conducted by Jesse Stephens. Our regular classes start next Saturday at 9:00 am. A schedule for all of the classes can be seen here:
Slides and audio/video media for the Holy Spirit 1 class are available on the page linked here:
December 20, 2009
My class on the Holy Spirit has concluded now with the end of the semester, and we have a few weeks before the next session begin. Next January we start over with the Holy Spirit 1 class with a fresh group of students.
So far I have about sixteen students who have registered for the class. This is normal for Holy Spirit 1. The second semester usually starts off with less than half of that, so there is a good bit of attrition in the class, partly due to disillusionment with the class. So many bring misconceptions into the classroom as well as expectations that their superstitions will be validated, the truth about the work of the Holy Spirit is strange to their ears.
Nevertheless we press on to present what the Bible presents to our students. Those who really want to learn finish the series strengthened and better equipped to teach about this vital subject.
November 30, 2009
I have been doing a little work recently to optimize some of the pages at OABS. Regular users at the site should notice a significant performance increase on the home page. It now loads on a broadband link in about 1/2 of a second.
Among other things I replaced the menu logic with new logic using CSS and sprites as suggested by Steve Sounders in his book, High Performance Web Sites. I used a free Open Source graphics editor call Gimp to create the graphics I needed for the menu. In the next few days I will write a brief "how to" to describe the process of creating the sprite image, and to use the image on a web site using CSS. Watch above this section for a link to the page when it becomes available.
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