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Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle is preaching an excellent series through the book of Ruth. He’s about half way into it, but you can catch up quick with the audio, video, and transcripts. I highly recommend doing that as a matter of fact.

Here’s an excerpt from part two:

“…although Ruth was a Moabite who had worshipped a false god (Deuteronomy 7:1-4; 1 Kings 11:1-2) called Chemosh (Numbers 21:29; 1 Kings 11:7) God both saved her and blessed her. God did this through His invisible hand of providence that was made visible through the hand of Boaz. a masculine man of honour who walked hand-in-hand with God. Likewise, to God we are each Moabites - outcasts, idolaters, and unworthy of grace or favour. But just as Boaz came to his field to speak with and care for Ruth, so Jesus, our great Boaz, came to His earth to give us gracious favour and take us under His proverbial wing.”

There at the end he’s making reference to Spurgeon, who called Christ ‘our glorious Boaz’. I’m really looking forward to the rest of this series.

Global Voices asked to use my perekhod photo in their article, (In)Accessibility in Moscow. Read the article.

Kратчайший путь между �танци�ми Мо�ков�кого метрополитена. Также под�читывает врем�, затрачиваемое на поездку между �танци�ми, но �омневаю�ь, что резултаты очень точние.

An Online Collection of Gibran Khalil Gibran’s Works, including The Prophet.

Where magazine printed this photo of mine in their June 2006 issue as part of a photo contest:

That means I’m eligible for some cool prizes at the end of the year.

??? ??????????? ? ?????? - David Allen’s Getting Things Done has been translated into Russian and is available for free on the net. For now, at least…

While I’m on the topic of Russian architecture, let me mention something that I ran across in the news today. It was announced at the MIPIM International Realty Fair in Cannes on Wednesday that Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has struck a deal with British architect Sir Norman Foster to build a 600-meter-tall building to be part of the new Moscow-City Complex. The Times reports:

It will be naturally ventilated and use the latest heat exchange technologies to minimise energy use. The building will also collect snow and rainwater to reduce by 30 per cent the volume of fresh water used by lavatories.
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The Moscow City Tower will be a “mixed-use, super-dense, vertical city” capable of accommodating 25,000 people, according to Lord Foster. It will have nine underground floors of parking and shopping space, a public ice rink on the first floor, an hotel, twenty-four floors of apartments and offices and a public observation deck with cafés and bars at the top.

The 118-story building could quite well be the tallest building in all of Europe when it’s completed in 2010.

The project is being coordinated by Shalva Chigirinsky, a Russian property tycoon whose ST Group is also working on the reconstruction of the Rossiya Hotel and the New Holland Island in St. Petersburg.

Congratulations to my cousin Jimmy for making the 2006 US Ski Jumping Team! I’ll be watching you in Torino, buddy! By means of television, of course…