I am far from a perfect person, and am by no means a Biblical scholar. This category contains just some of my thoughts on faith.
One of the old spiritual songs we sometimes sing in worship is “This World is Not My Home”, or as it is alternatively titled “I Can’t Feel At Home Anymore”. I was asked to fill in worship leading this morning, and the person I was replacing had chosen this as their opening song. I am
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Cover photo by Ralf Roletschek Over the past several day’s my social feeds have been blowing up about the sermon delivered in front of the President on Tuesday. The reactions are quite different depending on the platform – on Facebook its largely negative, on Threads is is overwhelmingly positive. The most common quote I have
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This is the third post in a series. Part 1: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun Part 2: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun : Text Compression 1 Part 3: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with Huffman Codes Part 4: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with a Prefix Tree
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This is the second post in a series. Part 1: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun Part 2: Studying an Old E-Reader for Fun : Text Compression 1 Part 3: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with Huffman Codes Part 4: Studying an Old E-Reader : Compressing a Dictionary with a Prefix Tree
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This is the first post in a series. I’ve recently picked up an old E-Reader, specifically an electronic version of the Bible, that was made around 1990. I remember my dad having one of these growing up, and over time it got misplaced. I was reminded of it this past year, when I was using
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We are in the first week of many states and municipalities in the US asking people to stay home and avoid group gatherings to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Many churches who may never have considered streaming their services or doing online video are now faced with having to switch to digital options. Part of
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Red, Blue, Yellow, Green. Does it really matter who we live under while occupying our earthly home? Aren’t we really supposed to respect them regardless?
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Where my family worships we are a bit “weird”. We currently worship at a building bearing the name “Church of Christ” in Franklin, TN. What is strange, at least according to many followers of Christ in the United States, is our form of worship. We worship exclusively and collectively with our voices – no piano, no guitars, and no iPads.
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I had an interesting reminder today that I still have a pleonast account, and that sometimes completely strangers will occasionally read what I say here (hello to new readers Tom, Doug, and Eli). So, here I am, back for a quick installment. Tonight was an interesting night at our mid-week study. The teachers for the
I want to thank once again those of you who have been an encouragement to my wife. This year did not get off to a good start, and we ended up in a situation where we felt like we could not trust people who we once thought were friends. Hopefully this is all in the
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Ecc 1:9-14: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no remembrance of former