Aaron Gadberry

I saw Rebecca St. James, Barlow Girl and Jadon Lavik in concert tonight at Tree of Life Church and I must say it was a decent show. Tree is a good place for a concert, everyone had pretty good seats at the show, plus the facilities were top notch. No port-a-potty’s tonight!

Rebecca St. James seemed as if she was performing for people instead of for God. I hate to give a bad review like that, but that’s how it was. It was a performance in a can. Some of her prayers were even identical to those on her live album. I expected a more faith filled, worship time with her. On the bright side, her music sounded great. Her song written for Daniel, the title track of her new album, was sung with utter sincerity. More of that would have gone a long way tonight.

The act I have to rave about tonight was Barlow Girl. First off, who are they? I have a bio I wrote for Tree when we found out they were coming.

Touring with Rebecca St. James is another fantastic band called Barlow Girl. Barlow Girl is made up of three sisters, Rebecca, Alyssa and Lauren Barlow. In 2004 they released a self-titled album, and then another, Another Journal Entry, followed in 2005. Some of you may know the song Barlow Girls by Superchick. These three sisters were the inspiration for that song. They have taken a stand for purity and faith in a difficult generation. For more information about Rebecca, Alyssa and Lauren, visit their web site at http://www.barlowgirl.com

Now that you know that, let me tell you, these girls are truly living a God inspired life. They have made the easy to understand, but so difficult to live decision of selling out for God. It started with submission of their purity, and followed with all dating and their very life’s dreams. It seems as if they have fully submitted every aspect of their lives to the Lord. And it’s easy to see the favor of God surrounding them. They have a punk, sort of Evanescence, sound, however it wasn’t their music that struck me, it was their message. They are using their music to get a revelation to people that it’s ok not to conform to society. That you are an individual, with different tastes and strengths than those around you. That God has a divine purpose for your life, and if you aren’t living it then you are missing out.

Barlow Girl delivers the hardcore truth, and in the words of Jesus, “The truth shall set you free.” Their message is empowering and full of hope. It is desperately needed in a world striving for acceptance. Out of all of the talk about purity and their personal commitments, I never once got the impression that they were bragging or prideful, but that they were instead paving a road to make it easier for others to follow God.

These three girls very obviously build off each other. They are more than family; they are sisters in Christ. Because of their humility with others, accountability to each other, and God-given vision to fulfill, they will be around and increasing in popularity through the favor of God for a very long time.

Thank you Balow Girl, for being the one to say it.

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If you are one of those select few who have multiple stylesheets for their website, then this article is for you. On the other hand, whether you know CSS or not, this might be a good way for you to learn.
I know of 4 ways to change between styles dynamically in a page. They are listed below with some code examples.

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This is taken from a survey of 258 counseling centers across America. I can find no documentation of this survey, so it may be a rumor, however the information has helped me significantly.

5 top basic needs of a man

1. Sexual Fulfillment
2. Recreational Companionship
3. Attractive Spouse
4. Domestic Support (Know how to run the house)
5. Admiration

5 top basic needs of a woman

1. Affection
2. Conversation (understand feeling, not thinking)
3. Honesty
4. Financial Support
5. Family Commitment

Of course these are not across the board. There are exceptions, lots of exceptions, however you can see some behavioral patterns across them. Girls will typically get together with other girlfriends and talk for the entire night, a representation of woman’s need for conversation. Men enjoy guy’s nights of recreational companionship, watching football, playing baseball, etc.

I heard these on a tape by Joe McGee. If you or someone you know needs help with a marriage or relationship, I would highly recommend getting some of his material. He is a traveling Christian minister, with a strong revelation in the area of men, women, marriages, families and children.

As Joe would say, “Men and women are different, it’s ok.”

UPDATE: Now for a question. Are the needs inherent, or culturally based? It doesn’t really matter, because they are still the needs, but it is an interesting question.

Wondering how to create a good vhost.conf? Well you’ve come to the right place.

Plesk automatically updates httpd.include for each domain, making changes to this file only temporary. You don’t want to use this file if you need to make changes to Apache’s config on the fly, such as php’s open_basedir values per domain.

Instead you will want to use a vhost.conf file. This file will be placed inside your domain’s conf directory, usually found at /var/www/vhosts/yourdomain.com/conf. Create a file called vhost.conf in whatever editor you prefer. I use joe.

You can now put in any Apache configuration options like you would into httpd.include. In my case I wanted to do three things, give my site access to /php/includes, add a mod_rewrite rule, and tell Apache to follow symlinks.

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If you run a server with Spamassassin and you have one annoying person you need to block (blacklist) from your entire server, this article is for you. It’s a fairly simple process, but you will probably need root access to the server to complete the configuration changes.

You will need to edit the Spamassassin configuration file, typically found in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/ directory.

If you have joe installed you can edit it like so joe /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf.
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