Here’s a recap of the top five posts from BeDeviant.com this past week. These got the most traffic on the site, were shared the most, and had the most comments.

1. Hatin’ on MJ: If you haven’t been living under a rock, you know Michael Jackson’ dead. This was a look at how the people in my Facebook responded to one of my status updates. The comments section is a must on this one.

2. The God Problem: Is God good? All-powerful? All-knowing? Take a look at how some people answered this question.

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4. It’s “Human Nature” to Give Honor Where Honor is Due: John Mayer destroyed in his tribute to Michael Jackson. Check out the performance here.

5. 1, 2, 3, 4… You witnessed history this past week, but you probably didn’t even know it. Read up on this once-a-millennium event!

So there they are, your top 5 posts of the week! Recap, refresh, re-read, re-tweet!

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I know it’s not a new service, but Evernote is kickin’ it up a notch lately. If you’re unfamiliar with Evernote, it is billed as a cloud app that allows you to “remember everything.” It may not get everything, but it gets pretty darn close.

I just started using the “email to Evernote” feature (which is under “Settings” in case you don’t want to spend 20 minutes looking for it like I did!) which gives me a unique email address to send notes to. For instance, I just emailed a PayPal receipt to Evernote from my iPhone (they have a sweet iPhone app). It converts it to a PDF and zaps it to my Evernote account, nice and neat like.

I use Evernote for:

• Receipts. Evernote has OCR built into it, so I can snap a quick photo of a receipt with my iPhone, send it to Evernote, and search for it later. I also rely heavily on the tag feature to find receipts for end-of-the-month statements at work.
• Blog Fodder. Find something you read or watched online that you really like? Use Evernote’s web clipper to save it for later to include in a blog post.
• Note taking. I found myself needing to take notes while in front of a computer that was not mine. Enter Evernote. I logged onto my web account, pounded out my notes, synced up with the cloud server, and there they were when I needed them. Mobile computing, baby.

Evernote has a lot more uses than that. Sign up for an account and start playing around with it. The future is mobility and Evernote is way ahead of the game. Don’t say I never gave you anything! If you don’t know, now you know…

If you’re an Evernote user, how do you utilize it?

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Congratulations. You just witnessed history.

Right now (if you live in CST), it is 12:34 and 56 seconds. Today is also 7/08/09, which means this post fired at exactly 12:34:56 on 7/08/09.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…

Hooray history!

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My man crush deepened after listening to this. Simply a phenomenal tribute to Michael Jackson:

It had all the elements of the original, plus creative artistic expression, plus John Mayer managed to stay out of the way while showcasing his own talent. Well done!

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I watched the coverage of the Michael Jackson tribute today.

Then I wrote, “Surprised by all the MJ haters” on Facebook. Below is a portion of the responses…

…Care to add yours?

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I posted a question yesterday on Posterous because, quite frankly, I needed help. For the life of me, I could not figure out what one of my professors was asking. I was confounded by the choice of language.

This got me thinking, “What is intelligence?” Is intelligence being able to construct sentences with multiple syllables that need an unabridged dictionary to decode? Or is intelligence something more? Is intelligence more … tangible?

If you say something or present an idea or concept and no one understands what you’ve just tried to communicate, who’s the intelligent one then? You may have established that you are knowledgeable in a particular area, but is that true intelligence?

Intelligence, to me, is communicating complicated truths at a level that everyday people can understand. Anything else is useless.

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I learn so much from this man and his music. Here’s his interview with Juice Magazine’s Joe Lawler for Des Moines MetroMix:

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The more I read, study, think, and talk to others, I am convinced that the biggest theological hang-up most people have can be broken down like this:

God is all-good.
God is all-knowing.
God is all-powerful.
Pick two out of the three.

Most people’s struggle with God is that they believe he cannot be all three at the same time.

Thoughts?

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Thanks to UStream.tv, I’ll be on the air LIVE starting at 3pm CST on Des Moines Local Live. I’ll be on Jackie Joens‘ show and we’ll be talking about how to live a Christ-filled life.

You’ll want to watch. I’m sure of it. Join in the chat below if you got some time. Below is the archived show from the other day–Enjoy!

See you on the intertubes!

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Call it dumb luck, but I’ll be joining the team of incredible communicators that will be facilitating at Cultivate 09.

I’ll be facilitating a talk called, “What Would Luther Do?” Here’s how I described it earlier:

The printing press was invented in 1440 and a young pastor/theologian asked the question, “What would happen if all of God’s people could read his Word?” So, Luther set out to translate the Bible into a language the everyday man or woman could understand. What was previously an unreadable piece of dogmatic literature to so many became alive and active and changed the way an entire people group saw God. In the 21st century, we must ask ourselves the same questions Luther did: Where is church polity becoming a stumbling block to people encountering God? How can we leverage cutting-edge technology in order to further God’s Kingdom? What does that look like and what are the implications?

I am seriously so amped to be a part of this. I really hope you can make it (and add your voice to my session as well!) If that’s not a good enough reason, head on over to the Cultivate site and check out the raw talent that will be a part of the event.

As I tweeted yesterday, this conference is probably not like most of the ones you’ve gone to in the past:

• Proceeds from the conference are going to help people. Big time.
• Everyone involved is coming for the main reason to be involved; i.e. no “big budget” speakers, no prima donnas allowed!
• You get to participate. This conference breaks down the fourth wall between presenter and attender!

So hop on the train–and for the love of all things good and holy, come to my session!

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