{"id":2691,"date":"2010-05-15T23:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2010-05-15T23:59:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:59:31","slug":"recap-may-9-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100515-2691.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recap (May 9-15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\nupdatepage();\n\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n<h3>On bekahcubed<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Book Reviews:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"books\/makin_n-703.htm\"><i>703: How I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life<\/i><\/a> by Nancy Makin<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The title, or actually the subtitle, was more than enough inducement for me to grab <i>703: How I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life<\/i> off the new books shelf at the library.  As a reader and a Registered Dietitian, I am curious about people&#8217;s weight-loss stories.  This story of a morbidly obese, 703 pound woman and her weight loss sounded fascinating.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"books\/storms_s-convergence.htm\"><i>Convergence: Spiritual Journeys of a Charismatic Calvinist<\/i><\/a> by Sam Storms<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I knew Sam Storms from a book of his that I bought at a library book sale.  <i>One Thing: Developing a Passion for the Beauty of God<\/i> is a defense of Christian Hedonism recommended by no less than John Piper himself, who proclaims on the front cover that &#8220;Sam Storms is right.&#8221;  The book (<i>One Thing<\/i>) is well-written and theologically insightful&#8211;and Storms is referenced by the Reformed &#8220;thinking&#8221; bloggers I enjoy so much&#8211;so I was inclined to think well of Storms.  Then I heard that he was a charismatic&#8211;and had written a book about it.  I knew I had to read it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"center\">\n<h3>On the web<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>News to take note of:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=shes-hooked\" target=\"_blank\">Addiction tied to women&#8217;s menstrual cycles:<\/a><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A woman\u2019s perception of other kinds of rewards\u2014such as money, food and sex\u2014may also vary during her menstrual cycle. In a 2007 study researchers at the NIH scanned women\u2019s brains using functional MRI as the women played slot-machine games. They found that women\u2019s reward circuitry was more active when they won jackpots during the estrogen-governed phase of their cycles than during the progesterone-infused phase that follows. The ebb and flow of female hormones could thus have broad effects on the perception of pleasures and incentives, influencing women\u2019s motivation to engage in a wide variety of behaviors.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thought-provoking posts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to a Wyoming sailor, saying Obama is spending money like a drunken sailor is unfair:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I object and take exception to everyone saying that Obama and Congress are spending money like a drunken sailor.  As a former drunken sailor, I quit when I ran out of money.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2010\/05\/12\/its-not-fair-to-say-obama-is-spending-money-like-a-drunken-sailor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twenty-Two Words<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Videos worth seeing:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even squirrels (evil beasts) can be used to bring God glory.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MdGsLKrkWtI&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xd6d6d6&#038;color2=0xf0f0f0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MdGsLKrkWtI&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xd6d6d6&#038;color2=0xf0f0f0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2010\/05\/10\/a-song-that-demonstrates-how-even-satanic-beings-can-be-used-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">22 Words<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Go, Wayne Grudem!  (I&#8217;m a real fan.)<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GAmzaAtvhvw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GAmzaAtvhvw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nHT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/Blog\/2408_go_wayne_grudem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Desiring God<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On bekahcubed Book Reviews: 703: How I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life by Nancy Makin &#8220;The title, or actually the subtitle, was more than enough inducement for me to grab 703: How I lost more than a quarter ton and gained a life off the new books shelf at the &#8230; <a title=\"Recap (May 9-15)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100515-2691.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recap (May 9-15)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}