Guns and Living Alone
Sam | January 31, 2007
“It’s not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.”
- Chuck Palahniuk
Have you backed up your computer recently?
Sam | January 29, 2007
If you haven’t… you should. My fieldwork church recently lost a lot of date because they assumed things were being backed up automatically. Needless to say, they were not.
I recomend at least two layers of protection. First find a free (or cheap) online service. I use .Mac since I got it cheap with my computer. [...]
Lutheran Carnival XLII
Sam | January 29, 2007
Gregory House, M.Div is the host of Lutheran Carnival XLII. He has hijacked one of my posts for inclusion in this issue of the carnival. He did an excellent job. His choice of the Rev. Dr. David Adams as the featured Lutheran for this carnival is appropriate. The sermon he references is amazing. I only [...]
Reasons to Ban Guns (Humor)
Sam | January 28, 2007
If you know me very well… you know that I am NOT in favor of gun control. My view is that we should enforce the the laws that are on the books and punish violent criminals to the fullest extent of the law. The “Chaplain to the World” has given us some good humor that [...]
Conduct of the Service
Sam | January 24, 2007
From: Cyberstones
The new edition of The Conduct of the Service is now available. The book contains Piepkorn’s pamphlet from 1965, McClean’s expansion from 1972, and the actual rubrics themselves from The Lutheran Liturgy. This is an essential volume for the Lutheran pastor and all students of the Liturgy. Go to the link above and [...]
False Understandings of Luther and Lutheranism
Sam | January 23, 2007
If you have been Lutheran for any length of time I’m sure you have been asked questions or heard statements such as:
My pastor said you guys are cannibals. (This has happened at least twice for me)
Don’t you all hate the Jews?
You worship Luther.
You believe that only Lutherans go to heaven.
If it weren’t for the pope [...]
Goodbye Blogger! Hello Wordpress!
Sam | January 22, 2007
This will be my last post on blogger (probably). I’m moving over to Wordpress. The options are better and I’m tired of having formatting problems.
My new site is still titled Nerd Heaven. Here is the feed.
Thanks for reading! Hope you will join me at my new blog!
St. Louis 80 – Ft. Wayne 50
Sam | January 20, 2007
I’m proud (but not too proud) that the Concordia Seminary Preachers defeated the Concordia Theological Seminary King’s Men 80-50. It was a great game to watch. The Seminary Chorus sang the National Anthem before the game, the brass choir served as the pep band, and the stands were full. The half-time “show” was a two-on-two [...]
Projects Underway
Sam | January 14, 2007
I’m currently working on migrating over to wordpress. Hopefully this will be completed in the next few weeks.
In addition, I am working on a project where I am inputting the calendars from Lutheran Service Book into iCal. I will make this available to Mac users as soon as it is completed. Hopefully I will find [...]
Concordia Seminary and iTunes
Sam | January 13, 2007
If you haven’t heard already Concordia Seminary has partnered with Apple to get set up on iTunes U. You can either download directly to iTunes or you can subscribe to items as podcasts. In addition, there are video files to be downloaded in addition to some documents. Most files you can download in a high [...]