VMWare Server is out of beta and is still free as promised. Awhile back I needed to work with Windows Server 2003. I had the OS, but didn’t have a machine to install it on. VMWare Server came to the rescue and I was really pleased with how it performed.

Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 is now free as well. I’ve not used this software very much so I can’t really compare it to VMWare Server.

[tags]virtualization, VMWare, Microsoft, Virtual PC[/tags]

I learned via Digg that you can now use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out while looking at a Google Map.

Give it a try.

[tags]Google, Google Maps, Digg[/tags]

I’m continuing to read Missional Church. In chapter 5 there is an excellent description of the church as a representative of the reign (kingdom) of God.

The church is a preview of life under the rule of God in the age to come, a forerunner of the new Jerusalem, a foretaste of the heavenly banquet, a sign of the reign of God.

[tags]reading, books, missional church, missional, church[/tags]

I thought Kevin Cawley’s review of Mark Driscoll’s newest book Confessions of Reformission Rev was insightful. Read it here.

[tags]books, book reviews, Mark Driscoll[/tags]

The Spring 2006 edition of The Movement (newsletter from Redeemer Church Planting Center).

Contents:

• MINISTRY IN THE NEW GLOBAL CULTURE OF MAJOR CITY-CENTERS
• A CHURCH GROWS IN BROOKLYN: An Interview With Matt Brown
• REFLECTIONS ON CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENTS
• BOOKS: CONTEXTUALIZATION

[tags]Tim Keller, church planting, newsletters[/tags]