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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Stand By; We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties
Something a little amusing for your Sunday morning… So we have this generous donation from one of our readers and we can’t spend it. I’m not sure if I should blame PayPal or the vendors. However, I do know that … Continue reading
Posted in personal
Tagged Advance Auto, Auto Zone, computers, economics, internet, PayPal, technology
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Psalm 34
It can seem at times that David’s songs are awfully repetitious. Consider that virtually every one of them represents some adventure David went through or something that left a major impression on him. In this case, we are told that … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged Hebrew Mysticism, King David, old testament history, Psalms
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Vision Statement
I’ve composed what should serve as the vision statement for the anticipated meat space branch of this parish. You can read it here. It’s too long to post here on the blog and other items take priority. Steal my ideas, … Continue reading
Posted in administration
Tagged church, mysticism, religion, spirituality
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Prayer Request: Car Parts
Update: A donor has covered the cost of the part. God bless you all. We should be up and running again sometime tomorrow (i.e., Saturday). Original post: Our delightful Volvo is in trouble. The alternator died. We’ve got about half … Continue reading
Pastoral Note on Mission and Tribulation
For those of you who regard yourselves as members of this virtual parish: There will be — must be — a meat space component to this ministry sooner or later. It is the one career for which I am best … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged mission, mysticism, pastoral care, politics, religion, social context, spirituality
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StT: 1 Corinthians 9:9
(Continuing with selections from Gospel Red Herring: Spiritualizing the Text.) Is it not amusing how quickly evangelical clergymen seize on something that lines their pockets? This is one place where they don’t seem to mind spiritualizing the text. Paul quotes … Continue reading
Android Review
Android devices are not real computers. I’ve been using a Dell Venue 7 for a few weeks now, and it sucks. Granted, it does what it was designed to do. That is, Google intentionally crippled it because it caters to … Continue reading
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Tagged Android, computers, culture, google, technology, writing
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Morality and Privacy
There is no mind so strong against manipulation as the mind which does not stand in its own strength, but is a second-class faculty that serves the heart. One of the things I pray for daily is a better moral … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged business, computers, google, government, mission, mysticism, oppression, peace, privacy, psychology, targeted advertising
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StT: Acts 8:32-33
(Another sample from Gospel Red Herring: Spiritualizing the Text.) In the prophetic literature of the Old Testament, Israel was characterized in many different ways. Sometimes as the land she occupied, or some of the fruit-bearing trees there, perhaps as a … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged human suffering, Israel, mission, mortality, mysticism, prophet isaiah, scripture
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