Over many many years of experience in encouraging Christians to read the Bible as part of their lives, there is one thing that I have learned: no matter how you try and encourage them, they simply won't start reading unless they have a love for the word of God. And isn't every Christian supposed to love the word of God? That's what really frustrates me sometimes... Back west, I used to lead frequent Bible games to help with that. But what eventually happened was that people only care about the games, not about the contents that they are based on. Also it eventually turned into something where only the people who are already familiar with the Bible get to play well, so the "target audience" is essentially lost. It also turns Bible reading into a trivial kind of thing, so now I try to do Bible games as less as possible. Back to the main topic: it really grieves me to see so many Christians view Bible reading as something non-essential, and it surprises me to see how little these Christians know about the word of God. I'm at a point where I simply give up trying to encourage Bible reading, as that doesn't help at all unless there's a change of heart. Maybe I shouldn't do that, but I'm just disappointed, that's all...

Trying to do 3 weeks worth of work in 1 week? Well, that sounds familiar, doesn't it?

All of a sudden, I'm faced with the task of programming in two languages...how the heck did that happen? Last time I programmed C++ was in April of 2002, and the last time I programmed Visual Basic was in February 2003... I'm getting very rusty about them, obviously...