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Sunday, August 27th, 2006 I have recently been getting a lot of spam prayer requests from
the same web site so I added IP blocking to both it and my guestbook.
I also made my guestbook quite a bit better in error reporting. I also made the e-mail and web
site verification system much more accurate as well as requiring web sites to fit proper syntax.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, June 10th, 2006I was working on my Sunday School lession in James and I came upon a verse that made\
me think about what the Supreme Court is doing.
But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. James 4:11b While in context it does not really apply, the supreme court really have become judges of the law. If they don't like something, they just have to say it is unconstitutional based upon their own personal interpretation of the consitution, not based upon what it really says. The beginning of the verse says, "Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law." So if a Christian speaks badly about a fellow Christian, he is speaking evil about God's law and judges God's law. [/Thought/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Thursday, May 18th, 2006This Wednesday night at church we talked about prayer and I thought it was very interesting.
Many people assume that God has two (or three) answers to prayer
Answer the petition but not the desireGod may very well answer your prayer, just not like you wanted. The Israelites got sick and tired of eating manna when they were wandering in the desert. They asked God for some meat, so God gave them meat! Only, it was way more meat then they wanted.Therefore the Lord will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall eat, not one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days, but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, “Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” (Numbers 11:18b-20) So be careful what you ask for, God just might do it—just not the way you want it. Answers the desire but not the petitionThis is shown when Abram asked God to spare Sodom as his nephew Lot was there. God did not spare Sodom, but did spare Lot's family (at least those willing to leave, minus his wife who was turned to salt for disobeying God's command).God answers both the petition and the requestThis is what we want, God to do what we want, they way we want. It is nice when God does this, but it doesn't always happen this way.God answers neither the petition nor the requestGod is never obligated to answer our prayers. There are many reasons we could be denied our request by God. A few of them include:Carnality / Being Fleshly: If we have the wrong motive in asking God (it is to only honor us, or more honoring to us and our needs) God will likely not answer it. If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear. (Psalms 66:18) Lack of faith: Many people do not have faith when they ask. If you ask God for something, and when it is not answers you reply, "I knew God wouldn't do it!" You obviously didn't have faith. Faith the size of a mustard seeds (very small seed) can throw mountains into the ocean. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. (Matthew 21:22) Lack of compassion: It is important to have compassion for others. If you are unwilling to help the poor and needy, why should God help you? The Bible is clear that you reap what you sow (you get back what you do). Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard. (Proverbs 21:13) Pride: God cannot be with sin. That is why 1 John 1:9 asks us to ask God for forgiveness. I would extend this as broad as any sin but for the sake of the study I will leave it at Pride. While the verse they used to support this was Elihu telling them that God cannot hear the proud, his counsel is not completely sound. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate. (Proverbs 8:13) lack of harmony in the home: This shows how important it is to make sure you have a proper relationship with your family, specifically your spouse. You cannot be perfectly in God's will and be at odds with your spouse. Make sure you reconcile your differences to have the right relationship with God. Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. (1 Peter 3:7) Not compatible of his will: While we may not understand it, many things we want are not what God wants. Cancer may seem horrible, and we may want a miraculous cure—surely God would too!—but that may not be the case. God may desire a person to have cancer whether it be to strengthen his faith, turn him to God, to strengthen another's faith, or for some other reason we cannot see. We can pray that God cure a person all we want but if it is ultimately God's will, he will do as is best. We cannot see how everything fits together like God and he knows what is best. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. (1 John 5:14) [/Devotional/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Wednesday, May 17th, 2006I think it is funny that many people who read the Da Vinci Code believe what it
says about Jesus and Christians as a whole. While it may be a fiction book, it
calls itself "fact" as that is the first word in the book. I claims that the
information in the book are historically accurate, but is it?
[/Christianity/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Tuesday, March 21st, 2006Munchkin and variants - Very fun group game Munchkin is a similar game to Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, and yugioh. The main difference is
there is no deck building (all decks are exactly the same). Even if you are worried because many
people consider these games "evil" I do not think Munchkin is wrong in the way it is designed,
it pretty much makes fun of everything and does not tie into the evil aspects of those game.
the only caution I give it some of the cards can be slightly inappropriate espeically to young
childen as it has enemies like "the Flasher" and abilities like "Cleavage Stun" (of coarse you
cannot have with the "flatness" ability).
[/Review/Games/Non-Video/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Settlets of the Catan - Fun group game The idea of this game is to be the first person to reach 10 points. The way this is obtained
is through building settlements which can be upgrated to outposts (1 and 2 points ea). You
start off with two settlements and receive resourses based upon the hexagons your places
are located. You also receive extra points from other things like longest road, and largest
army.
[/Review/Games/Non-Video/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Monday, February 6th, 2006I have finally added some doctrine to my Advanced Christianity section which has
been overdue to several years. I hope to add a little more at a time until I get
it completed. So far it has some basic information about the Trinity and the
Bible in addition to my Age of Accountability paper added about a week ago.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Wednesday, January 25th, 2006I added a new section to my website, several skits designed for youth groups. I enjoyed these skits and thought they would be a fun and useful addition to my site. I also decided to add my favorite research paper from college to my site. It is on the age of accountability which I used to not believe in. I was surprised about how it was supported indirectly. Ironically, my research paper is formatted best for Internet Explorer even though the rest of my site is formatted best for Mozilla Firefox. I used CSS to make it look like a real research paper but poor Firefox won't support it. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, August 27th, 2005I just added a fourth section to my website, my Christian Resources section. I have for quite some time wanted to add some useful resources and now I am finally getting around to it. The first page I added is my Christian games page. This includes games useful to a bus ministry, youth group, or groups of kids. I have included both indoor and outdoor activities to the kids and teen games. I hope others will be able to find these games useful. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Monday, August 8th, 2005I finally updated my guestbook to require me to approve all entries added. I got tried of removing entries of pornagraphic and commercial nature. The only problem with my new system is that it will still add the entry to the count and it will contribute to the 1-10 entries but it will just not appear. I will be able to fix it better as soon as I am done traveling with BYM. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, May 27th, 2005Added Robots Security & Updated Information I was tired of robots constantly sending me e-mails (and people on my guestbook too).
I used the same technique that many sites use (make you type in text of a picture).
I made mine fairly simple because my site isn't important enough to make it worthwhile
to crack my security technique. I also added it to my guestbook because I had a few
entries that kept re-appearing. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, August 27th, 2004This is a quote from A. W. Tozer's book The Root of the Righteous in
"Praise God for the Furnace" (pp. 137) The devil, things, and people being what they are, it is necessary for God to use the hammer, the file and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. [/Quotes/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Tuesday, August 24th, 2004Here is an illustration I have heard more than once from Dr. Kendall. Life is like jello: the more you squeeze, the more that slips through your fingers [/Quotes/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, August 6th, 2004I added my own KJV Bible to my site I wanted to put a Bible on my site that I can use a perl script to generate any passage I want.
This way, I can replace my verses page which was dorky and not really useful. It took me a long
time to format the datafile because I had to be picky (had to include italics and the Psalm
titles listed which I listed as verse 0). I also added the actual Hebrew characters to Psalm 119.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Sunday, August 1st, 2004A Walk to Remember - Definate See This is definately now one of my favorite movies. I had heard it was a good movie but never got
around to watching it until a month ago or so. It is a chick-flic but I still like it.
[/Review/Movie/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry The Village - highly recommended I saw the movie The Village today and I was very surprised. I actually liked it a lot. It isn't
what I expected at all. I knew it was a type of suspense movie so I didn't think I'd like it. Also, it
was produced by the same author of Signs which I didn't really like either.
[/Review/Movie/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, July 31st, 2004I found a funny quote from Charles Shafer (English professor) on a forum about Trinity Baptist College.
Dr. Shafer's resonse to a student's question if the word "French" was a verb [/Quotes/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Tuesday, July 27th, 2004I just added this blog to my site (a.k.a. weblog). I saw my brothers and I thought it might be a neat
addition. I like blosxom because it lets me use my newly learned
perl CGI skills and I can customize it however I want to.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Thursday, July 22nd, 2004I figured out how to add custom errors and found out that it does work with php-cgi too! I added a 404 page and a 403 page. I also added many .htaccess files in different areas for different purposes. Most importantly, I added my very own search engine! It took a while to figure it out and to customize it for my site but I did it! The only bad thing is it is not compatible with my php (since it is perl scipt) so I had to fake my page design on it. It is designed by Fluid Dynamics Software Corporation. It is actually really cool. It comes with its own spider to index my site. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, July 16th, 2004I started playing around with my site trying out new features. I added a password protected part of my site but that is only for me. I also found out the Website statistics built into dreamhost are pretty awesome. I was able to fix 8 link errors on my site because robots were getting 404 errors in these areas. I also found out that my old chemistry page was receiving more hits than my new one. As a result I have modified my old one and included a link to the new one. I also switched both over to a php file so I can add a counter on those pages as well. I failed to add custom 404 errors for some reason. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, July 10th, 2004I did a massive update to my guestbook, prayer requests, email, and counter. I also added a robots.txt file to prevent Google from caching some of my pages. (it is annoying to see it has 100 entries for my guestbook and e-mail page.) I have also made slight modifications to my copyright and privacy policy. I added a site map. I converted my pSQL databases from my old server into mySQL and updated the code to correspond. I added movies from my family reunion at Smackover, Arkansas. I added pictures to my college pictures collection. I fixed errors on my side bar code. And just about every other page I changed something. I even changed my styles a bit. I also made massive changes to things the public will never see *sigh*. I added QuickTime streaming which is accessible through my movies page. But other than that everything is pretty much the same. I also forgot to mention that I changed my random verses from the King James Version to the New King James Version. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Thursday, June 24th, 2004Hanenkamp.com changed servers. I had to copy everything over but I can no longer use pSQL. As a result I must redo all my databases. I also added my pictures from my missions trip to Japan as well as many funny videos from my Japan trip. This is my first update in almost a year. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, October 4th, 2003Back from Neighborhood Bible Time I just got back from the summer at Neighborhood Bible Time and I started updating my site. I did
some basic corrections first before I added the concept of works to my Faith Page. I later reorganized my Links
page, removed my link to my Bible Facts Page (It was not very accurate and I have
no intentions of adding/updating it). I also added a Who am
I? section to my site and renamed my About page to More
About Me. I wanted a quick description of me for people to see if my site is
credible.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Sunday, April 27th, 2003Removed information on my various friends It has been a while since I last worked on it so I did a few minor
things. I modified my Christian Basics page a little,
mostly in the Eternal Security area (keeping salvation). I also worked on my
Advanced Christianity page adding an outline to what I
would like to work on. It still is virtually contentless (is that a word?).
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, February 1st, 2003I did a major update to my Christian Basics
page. In fact, I renamed it from my About Christianity page, and also added an
Advanced Christianity page.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, December 7th, 2002Guestbook now hides e-mail addresses I Updated my Guestbook so that the e-mail address is no longer shown but allows the viewer to e-mail them without ever seeing the e-mail address. This look a major update to all the guestbook and e-mail pages. I also added an alphabetical index a few days ago to my guestbook. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Sunday, October 13th, 2002Many updates including Random verses! I got back from my summer break and now that SSH2 has been fixed, I
did many needed updates. First of all, I updated a little bit of the content of
my pages and updated the information. Second, I fixed my counter which has not
worked correctly for a long time, I also reset it since the numbers were totally
off as well. Also, I added the ability to count the hits to any page on my site
by just assigning it a number (not that it matters to the viewer).
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, April 6th, 2002I have fixed my customize color settings on my customize page so it now works properly. I have also changed the setup of many of my pages so I now have greater control over tables, but it now requires more work to make some of my pages. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, February 15th, 2002I have spent a long time transferring my guestbook over to its new format. My new guestbook will enable you to choose from a variety of different options for your guestbook entry. Right now I only have 5 options but I'll add others when I think of them or as people give me ideas. The reason it took a lot of work is because I had to make a new database and manually copy each of the entries over, which is time consuming. I hope you enjoy my new guestbook. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, February 2nd, 2002I decided to make a major change to the format of my webpage, and I finally got most the bugs worked out today. My webpage no longer contains frames, but instead it uses a table on every page to give it the same appearance, except the sidebar scrolls with the page. The reason I did this was so I did not have to worry about the details and problems caused by frames (having to the "_top" to prevent framing other people's web pages, people linking to the frame instead of the page with the frames, and too much information on the side bar and not being able to access all the links) and it is really more convenient in many ways. The way I did this was to make every webpage on my site a PHP page and to use the require() feature to add that section of code. I have also redone my customize page so it works with tables, fixed many links, and spend much time uploading these pages (Since I have to do with SSH since I cannot get FTP to work though proxy anymore). I also lost my main.php page since it is now index.php (my old frames page). [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, February 1st, 2002I worked on three different things for my webpage. The first thing I did was to add my Bible Facts webpage. Currently it is just has two bizarre Bible facts, but I will probably find more stuff to add later. Second, I added a privacy statement to my webpage on this page. I added this so that people would not fear how I use the information that people give me from the few pages that you can. The final thing I added was a copyright and the date I last updated every webpage I have. This is to show I care about the information contained within and so you can tell how old a page is. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, January 26th, 2002Today I mainly went thought and did touch up work to many pages. I fixed old content on my main (now index) and about page, I put CoolGame and War programs as downloadable from my programs page, I modified my side.html page (the list of web pages on the side of the screen), took some off my web pager feature off my messenger page (I no longer receive those), added my verses page (now replaced by verse.pl), added a lot to my Christian Faith page, and some other small things. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Wednesday, December 5th, 2001I decided that my faith page was useless since I had all that
information in my About Me page so I changed it into my
Christianity page. It has basic information about
Christianity and how to be saved. Also, later on I will add a lot more
information to it. This also, starts my "Christian Content" idea into progress.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Thursday, November 29th, 2001Worked on customizing web pages I have not updated my web page since October 5th so I made a lot
of content changes, I added much information about Trinity and updated my About Me category.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Friday, October 5th, 2001I finally got the pictures that I asked for my parents (since I am at college it is hard for me to get them) and added them to my pictures page. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Monday, August 27th, 2001Since I just moved in to my dorm room, I figured it would be a good idea to update all my entries from going to go to Trinity to actually attending it. I also added more information about my christian walk. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Thursday, August 16th, 2001I don't have any major updates but I did do a lot of little stuff like I added to my About Page, Programs Page, and I fixed a bug that made all names illegal on my Prayer Request Page and Guestbook. I also added some additional features to my Guestbook and Prayer Request Page like I gave the ability to only allow me to see entries and I made if so if you add information in my Customize Page, it will shop up as the default text. [/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Wednesday, August 8th, 2001I finally got around to fixing most of the HTML for my chemistry page and changed it a little bit to make it look
better. It had a lot of poorly done tags and a lot of useless ones too. I make it
like 5k smaller by just redoing the code. I have the original page available if you care to see the difference.
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Saturday, July 28th, 2001I decided it was not the best idea to include my e-mail address on
about every page of my web site so I added the E-Mail page
of my web page so that you could still e-mail me suggestions and ideas, but none
of those nasty e-mail crawlers or other people looking for people's address can
get mine. If you would like to know my e-mail address, you can use my e-mail page
to ask me for it. Also, I would like to note my James.T.H@usa.net e-mail address
will officially become no longer free August 1st. (So it is lucky I switched when
I did so I will not loose any e-mail)
[/Updates/] permanent link to add reply There are 0 replies to this entry Monday, July 23rd, 2001This page has been greatly modified before this but today I would
say it is finally starting to look good. I added PHP to the main page (now index) and added a little bit of useful information on it. Also, I added
3 different counters to the page: visitor, day, and person. The person counter
doesn't reset itself yet but other than that it works correct (as long as they
use cookies).
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