Category: Explaining Myself
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Theme Change Trials and Tribulations
I changed my blog theme. And then I changed my blog theme again. I think I’m finally “OK” with the results. Have I learned anything as a result? Maybe. But I must admit, I felt fairly ridiculous by the end of this whole process. At least, I hope it’s the end. For a long time. […]
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Delayed but Grateful
Notes on Ezra will post soonish, I hope, now that I am through being examined by the Presbytery of Ohio Valley and approved for ordination, to a new validated ministry that will involve pulpit supply, sacraments, and governance (i.e., moderating session meetings). This takes place on what I have learned is the feast day of […]
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Prayer for Enduring Grading
May I never read another sentence with the adjective “heavy” or the adverb “heavily” in it, describing something that DOES NOT HAVE WEIGHT, EVEN METAPHORICALLY. Sighing. Heavily. Image: Stained glass windows at All Saints Church, Ripley, Yorkshire, by Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Anniversary
I quit smoking November 4, 2002. Thank you, Jesus. Image: Witten Flügelherzen by Almut Rybarsch, photographed by Reclus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Behind Time
Here is something really great to read, on time and how we think we control it, but do not. I particularly appreciated the author’s holding up a mirror to me and my own inability to consistently pass up self-help time management books. There will be notes on Romans 1:8-17, the text we are studying for […]
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First Things First
We are studying James 2:1-13 for Sunday, November 29 – the part of James 2 we DIDN’T study this past August and two years before that, as providence and the Committee on the Uniform Series would have it. I will post notes. But probably not until Friday, what with grading, and cooking, and the commonsensically-risk-managed-but-not-100%-cancelled […]
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“Expect Delays”
Because before I can post notes on the Bible I need to grade assignments and pay bills and cook dinner. And sleep. Just sayin’. (Four more weeks in this session … )
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What I’ve been doing
This is what I’ve been doing for the past three weeks. Just sayin’. The learning curve is steep. Notes on Hosea 11 & 12 are coming. Probably tomorrow. I can’t believe she expects us to do all this reading …
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Studying Jeremiah Part 2 Prequel
We are studying parts of Jeremiah 22 for Sunday, May 24 – some of which we already looked at last week, to explain the justice and righteousness being called for in Jeremiah 21. I’m still behind schedule – it looks like this will be a perpetual thing for the next several weeks, because the pace […]
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Self-Discovery
Here’s what I’ve learned in less than three days of teaching a class online: It is abundantly far more difficult to video a deck of slides than I had asked for or imagined. Corollary: twice my usual last minute, so what I thought would be the last couple of minutes, which is twice what I […]
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For Such a Time as This
If I hadn’t wasted all that time blogging over the years, I wouldn’t have been able to spend the last few days of pandemic purdah making this nifty web page for our tiny congregation. So you just never know. In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle; […]
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This is why I’m so behind in my work
Just sayin’. Great are the works of YHWH studied by all who delight in Him. – Psalm 111:2
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Pentecost
Yesterday was a lovely day. The sanctuary was decorated in red, the liturgical color for Pentecost. We received new members – a somewhat rare, and happy, event at our church. All the music was great. [Here’s the call to worship, basically, though it’s someone else’s church and someone else’s video:] The sermon was on how […]
Matters of Interpretation 