The Land of Ozz

July

A good friend recommended this schedule. It was published back in 1983 by Fullgrowth Ministries of Tulsa, OK. Here is how that publication recommends you use their schedule:

If you follow this plan devised by Fullgrowth Ministries of Tulsa, Oklahoma, you’ll read the New Testament through twice and the Old Testament once during the next 12 months.

The plan recommends that you do your reading at a specific quiet time each day. If you miss a day, continue with the current day’s reading and catch up when you have extra time. After you finish your day’s reading, mark off that day.

The Old Testament portions are presented as nearly as possible in chronological order. Passages from prophets are included in the historical narrative where they were given, they are often given in a single day’s reading.

You’ll encounter Psalms throughout the year. Frequently, a Psalm that fits a particular passage has been placed with that passage.

As you enter the New Testament, you’ll read Luke and Acts first, then the letters – with periodic passages from other Gospels – and, finally, Revelation. Thus, the story of the life of Christ is constantly related to your Christian life.

I want to add how very important it is that you follow the guidelines given to read the passages for the date given and catch up when you have time. I have tried reading catch up stuff before the current day’s reading after a family crisis took me away from reading for a couple of days and it just didn’t work.

I have provided here the reading for the month of July. The photocopy that I have says that this schedule is copyrighted by Fullgrowth Ministries, but it also says, “feel free to re-print this chart for use in your church, Sunday school, or just to give to friends.” You are my friend if you got this far into this post. I hope this blesses you as much as it has my wife and me. I do plan to post each month’s schedule from the chart before each month begins in the future.

You can listen to some of my readings from the Bible on The Living Bible page of this blog. Thanks for visiting.

My daily review of Slashdot led me to an article about MySpace being sued for failure to protect a child. While MySpace is a dangerous environment for kids, in my opinion the parents hold ultimate responsibility for protecting their children from Internet threats. There may be extenuation circumstances here, so I realize that the parent may not be at fault in this particular case.

I have heard the arguments about how kids sneak around and that is often the case. The girl in the above mentioned article may have been using an unmonitored home Internet connection as many children do on a daily basis. That is where I have been focusing my attention on this issue of child safety online. I am a computer security professional and have a pretty in depth view of how your typical non-geek users attempts to sneak around Internet security and monitoring tools. There are some good tools and web sites out there to help parents protect their children from online predators, but there are just as many of not more sites that teach kids how to circumvent these systems. There is no substitute for physically monitoring your children while they use the Internet, but that is not always practical. I hope to educate parents on some of the sneaky tactics that children and adults use to get around the technical solutions offered to parents and administrators of library and school computer systems. Parents are responsible for deciding if and how Internet, cell phones, and other communications devices will be used in their homes. I can help you detect if your child is trying to get around your Internet monitoring and security solutions.

The young girl in this article feel prey to her alleged attacker via an Internet web site. She may have been using a school computer, a library computer, or even a public use computer in a coffee shop without her parents’ knowledge. She could have just as easily met this guy in a mall, movie theater, skating rink, or even church. Regardless of where a child meets a stranger, that child needs to have the built in ability to make good decisions when making new friends. There are no public school classes that teach this to kids. There are some great resources to help parents learn how to get to the heart of their child so that the child will respect the parents advice and teachings in these areas. You will find some of these great resources in the Parenting section of my Book Recommendations page.

Stay tuned to this blog for my upcoming articles aimed at Child Safety Online. I will be educating parents on the ways that tech savvy teens may be bypassing a the best attempts to secure a computer and Internet connections.

I had a great Father’s Day. I got to bring my little boy Caden home from the hospital after having heart surgery on Thursday. I wish that everyone could feel the joy that I did yesterday.

Today my bride and I celebrate six years of marriage. Asking Sherry to marry me was the best thing I ever did short of committing my life to Jesus Christ. I want to say thank you to my wonderful wife Sherry. She is the best wife and mother in the whole wide world.

I LOVE YOU Sweetheart!!!
Hank O

My little boy Caden is in surgery this afternoon at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Please pray for God’s protection over him.

Caden’s Page