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On the second session on the Thursday of the Influencers Conference Joyce Meyer continued her series on the things that she has found most influential in her life and preached 2 half messages: one on excellence and one on confessing God’s word out loud.

The excellence talk was great. She talked about the difference between doing things excellently and wasteful extravagance, an important distinction. She talked about how God is excellent and how we need to go the extra mile in everything we do because our excellence is the way that God trains us in everyday life. She talked about those moments when we are alone and nobody will see what we do as being the moments of intimacy with God that will define our relationship where we can reveal our character by doing things excellently. Joyce also talked about mediocrity being a result of the fall because our flesh is lazy and how our excellence in everything we do acts as a sermon to those around us.

As usual with Joyce Meyer there were lots of entertaining stories including one about 2 women strangers taking their shopping trolleys back to the collection point in a supermarket car park when one woman looks at the other and just says “Joyce Meyer?” and the other one sighs and nods “Yep”. Good story.

The second half message was on the power of speaking God’s word out loud. The idea was that speaking God’s word is the only offensive weapon we have in the armour of God and that by speaking it out loud we speak into our situation in a powerful way.

This was a good session with a lot to think and pray about.

The article Fear and Loathing in Typeland from the O’Reilly OnJava Blog expresses really well my reason for preferring Groovy to Ruby. One of the problems with starting something new as a reaction to something old is that whatever has gone before is automatically bad. In this case I think that Java does have some advantages, as Robert Cooper points out, and that the Ruby guys just need a little maturity.

The Groovy crowd on the other hand seem to me to have a healthy dose of humility in all they do so that when it makes sense to use Java for something they say so. Admittedly there is still a bit of “We are better than Ruby” which needs to be watched but when it comes to the community I think they are right.

Ruby is certainly more popular but I for one, perhaps irrationally, am not interested in spending my time learning it because of the negative vibe I get from Ruby people.