New creation

Our Daily Bread
This Old House is maybe the first home rehab shows on TV.  There are tons of them now as most channels have some kind of show like it, looking at rehabbing homes from many different angles.  It can be fun to see the changes in a house after being rehabbed by a knowledgeable builder!

Like the devotional mentions, some folks think that our lives are "rehabs" when we give them over to Christ.  I love the way the devotional makes this clear -- we are re-creations in Christ!  As we turn our lives over to Christ, he tears down all the crap we built in our lives and re-creates it in his image.  We need to give over all the rooms in our house so Christ can re-create them, even those little dark rooms that we never let anyone see!

The re-creation process has been a theme for me this week after reading Mark and the CS Lewis book Mere Christianity.  May it be so!

Lord, thank  you for recreating us in your image if we just let you do your work in us!

Technology Thursday
There were a couple of new product announcements this week.

Apple
Apple announced the new iPads and new MacBook laptops this week.  They also announced new accessories for the new iPads as well.  The MacBook laptops were updated with the latest Intel processors and the latest version of MacOS code named Maverick.  Maverick incorporates more of the iOS features into the laptop OS as the OS features merge even more.  Very interesting stuff.  Very nice laptops even though you pay a hefty premium for htem.

The new full-size iPad is called the iPad Air (similar to the thinner and lighter MacBook Air).  It is 25% lighter and thinner than the previous generation iPad.  It is over twice as fast with the new A7 processor and has the M7 processor for motion processing, too.  The missing element is no finger print sensor in the home button like the iPhone 5S.

The new iPad Mini has the retina display screen, as expected.  It also has the A7 processor and M7 motion processor in its smaller screen size than the original iPad.

Frankly, I think the prices are too high.  The iPad Mini 16 gig increased from $329 to $399.  That is not a good thing as far as the competition is concerned.  Other devices have similar specs AND expandable memory for at least $100 less.  We will see how that flies in the market.

Microsoft
Microsoft introduced the Surface 2 tablet in the last week.  It is supposed to be a huge improvement from the original Surface offering.  From the reviews I read, it is still not enough to compete with the Apple and Samsung tablets.  We will see what the market says!

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“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen” (Eph. 3:20-21 niv)