Sunday September 7

This is communion Sunday. I always like communion Sunday. In many ways, I would favor having communion every Sunday. And communion is available every Sunday at Catalina. It is served in the chapel following all of the Sunday morning services.
Our study for this week is Psalm 100. The New Interpreter's Bible says this about Psalm 100: "Psalms 100 is perhaps the most familiar of the songs of praise. Mays observes: 'Were the statistics known, Psalms 100 would probably prove to be the song most often chanted from within the history that runs from the Israelite temple on Mount Zion to the synagogues and churches spread across the earth.'"
Psalm 100 tells us about worship (much like Psalm 95). But Psalm 100 emphasizes the transformative nature of worship. We come to God in worship because of God's goodness to us and because of our connection to God. But when we come to God in worship, we can come to "KNOW that the Lord is God." Worship is not just something we do, it is something that happens to us. And when something happens to us, we know that we have worshiped.

Trying Ubiquity

Ubiquity is sort of an add-on app for Firefox. The point is to enable "mashups": performing more computer/online/internet functions without having to open up multiple windows, etc. I have found it sort of helpful. It helps if you can remember which commands you have subscribed to, and that is my problem most of the time. I use the email command (I had to create a new gmail account for this), the calendar command, the weather forecast command, the google search command, the map command, and the search Amazon command.