Showing posts with label blog information. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog information. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2016
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Haika Ruwa!
We are in Tanzania! While we are there this blog will not be updated regularly, but please ckeck out our other blog Haika Ruwa.
Monday, June 02, 2014
Our journey begins
Today we are traveling back to Tanzania for the first time in over nine years. For the rest of this summer updates to this blog will be spotty at best. You can read more about our time in Tanzania at our other website here. Please pray for our safe travel.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Blogging note
Just a quick note to apologize for the extreme slowness of this blog lately. I am not sure why it is running so slowly, but once the semester ends perhaps I can track down what is happening.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
A note about recent blogging
Blogger has been pretty cranky the past few days, which has prevented me from writing here on a daily basis. Hopefully things will improve soon.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Back on-line
Blogger seems to have been down for quite a while. Which was just as well - this was finals week, and grades were due yesterday, so I had little chance to post anything anyway.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Mathematical symbols available in HTML
This website has a list of mathematical symbols that should work in HTML.
Thus a simple integration problem (such as f(x) = x2) becomes:
∫ x2 dx = x3/3 + constant
One of the things I hope to do more of with this blog is writing about mathematics, and this will help.
Thus a simple integration problem (such as f(x) = x2) becomes:
One of the things I hope to do more of with this blog is writing about mathematics, and this will help.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Off-line
This is a message to my readers (both of them).
I will not be blogging for the next several days, and perhaps longer. I have been ill since last Friday, and this week has been a rough one at work.
Anyone with small children (our son is four years old) knows my dilemma. My wife is a student working for her BA degree in Mathematics, so it is bad for her to miss school. As a college teacher I am in the same boat. My sick days are not my own - I must save them for when our son is ill and cannot go to school.
I will be back as soon as I can.
I will not be blogging for the next several days, and perhaps longer. I have been ill since last Friday, and this week has been a rough one at work.
Anyone with small children (our son is four years old) knows my dilemma. My wife is a student working for her BA degree in Mathematics, so it is bad for her to miss school. As a college teacher I am in the same boat. My sick days are not my own - I must save them for when our son is ill and cannot go to school.
I will be back as soon as I can.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
An experiment
I have decided to enable comments for this blog. For now all comments will be moderated, which means that it may be a while before you see it posted.
Note: I have created a "dummy" follower called Withhold Name. I will use this account from time to time to check my blog settings.
Note: I have created a "dummy" follower called Withhold Name. I will use this account from time to time to check my blog settings.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Some changes
I have added labels for each post. This will help me when I need to refer to something I have written previously.
(UPDATE: 4:00PM) I have changed the title of this blog. The new title Musings of a Recovering Lutheran is a more accurate description of what this blog is all about.
(UPDATE: 4:00PM) I have changed the title of this blog. The new title Musings of a Recovering Lutheran is a more accurate description of what this blog is all about.
Monday, August 02, 2010
"How long, O' Lord....
...will this blog go on?"
This blog was meant to be an on-line diary in which I could express my grief and frustration with the apostasy of the ELCA. It was also a chance to write about spiritual issues that I found important and/or interesting.
But it will not go on forever. Like any diary, it will never be finished, only abandoned.
It is my prayer that other Lutherans who are distressed over the ELCA's destructive course and who have stumbled upon this blog will find comfort in the knowledge that they are not alone.
So how long will this blog go on?
It is clear that (barring complete black disaster) the ELCA prefers to glory in its error rather than be ashamed and repent. I and many others could write and plead and nag and beg forever, but until the leadership of the ELCA starts to feel shame and remorse they will not listen. So using this blog as a kind of conscience to prod the ELCA is not an option.
The answer is this: I will blog until I am tired of it, or until I see that it is causing more harm than good.
Two notes:
Pray for the whole Body of Christ. Pray for the leadership of the ELCA, that they repent. Pray for faithful Christians who have chosen to remain in the ELCA. Pray for faithful Christians who have chosen to leave the ELCA. Pray for the efforts to form a new confessional Lutheran denomination that will serve as a refuge for Christians fleeing the apostasy of the ELCA and its obsession with secular politics.
This blog was meant to be an on-line diary in which I could express my grief and frustration with the apostasy of the ELCA. It was also a chance to write about spiritual issues that I found important and/or interesting.
But it will not go on forever. Like any diary, it will never be finished, only abandoned.
It is my prayer that other Lutherans who are distressed over the ELCA's destructive course and who have stumbled upon this blog will find comfort in the knowledge that they are not alone.
So how long will this blog go on?
It is clear that (barring complete black disaster) the ELCA prefers to glory in its error rather than be ashamed and repent. I and many others could write and plead and nag and beg forever, but until the leadership of the ELCA starts to feel shame and remorse they will not listen. So using this blog as a kind of conscience to prod the ELCA is not an option.
The answer is this: I will blog until I am tired of it, or until I see that it is causing more harm than good.
Two notes:
- I do not have comments on this blog, and probably never will. Part of this is because I do not have time to properly moderate comments, but also because I have seen other blogs overrun with comments like "Why do you hate gays and lesbians so much?" or "Hate is not a family value" or other passive-aggressive nonsense. Gays and lesbians are like adulterers, alcoholics (I am one), drug addicts, prostitutes, tax collectors, the rich, the poor, the old, the young, Republicans and Democrats, men and women - sinners in need of a Savior, not magistrates empowered by secular politics or popular culture to judge God and run His Church for Him.
- I am experimenting with the design of this blog, and have not found one that I like yet. So if things change suddenly and without warning, do not be surprised.
Pray for the whole Body of Christ. Pray for the leadership of the ELCA, that they repent. Pray for faithful Christians who have chosen to remain in the ELCA. Pray for faithful Christians who have chosen to leave the ELCA. Pray for the efforts to form a new confessional Lutheran denomination that will serve as a refuge for Christians fleeing the apostasy of the ELCA and its obsession with secular politics.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The purpose of this blog
In its 2009 Churchwide Assembly in August the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to allow the blessing of gay and lesbian unions. It also agreed to agreed to the ordination of non-celibate gays and lesbians. The ELCA's leadership has measured the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Moses, the God who led His people out of bondage in Egypt and into the Promised Land, the God who sent His Son to die for our sins - and have found Him wanting.
My wife and I are former ELCA missionaries. In creating its own private god according to political criteria, the ELCA has left no room for Bible-believing Christians such as ourselves. We cannot and will not bow the knee to this new god fashioned and worshiped by the ELCA. Against our will, but bound by the Scriptures, we have become Recovering Lutherans.
The purpose of this blog is not to rehash the issues debated during the Churchwide Assembly. For one thing, the argument in favor of Bible-based Lutheranism has been made elsewhere (see here and here). For another, the ELCA's leadership and the majority who voted for the changes in August have made it perfectly clear that they no longer accept the authority of the Scriptures. Although they profess Jesus as Lord with their lips, they have hardened their hearts against Him.
And where the ELCA would lead us we can no longer follow.
Therefore, the purpose of this blog is to recount our spiritual journey away from the ELCA - where I have been life-long member and my wife joined after we were married - and towards the future. Just what will happen and where we will end up we do not know, but we have chosen to follow where God is leading us.
One thing needs to be made clear. We have chosen to leave the ELCA rather than continue to fight from within. We believe that by its vote in August the ELCA has badly damaged the body of believers who are called Lutherans, and that by continuing to "duke it out" in congregational meetings and synod assemblies we will be providing the ELCA's leadership with what it needs so badly - credibility. We feel that to "agree to disagree" and remain in the ELCA would send a subtle yet strong signal to both Christians and non-Christians that it is o.k. to put the Word of God up for a vote, and that in the end log-rolling and vote-buying are acceptable.
To Lutherans who are reading this blog and who support the ELCA's actions, we urge you to reconsider and repent. Throughout history the Word of God has been laughed at, ridiculed, banned, burned, interpreted, re-interpreted, and re-re-interpreted. Yet it still remains. The Churchwide Assembly's actions will not lead to a new Gospel. On the contrary - it will hasten the decline of the ELCA. Ask the Episcopal Church if their decision to reject the Gospel has brought peace in their denomination.
To Lutherans who are reading this blog and who are horrified by the ELCA's lurch away from the Bible we want you to know that you are not alone. You may agree with us and chose to leave the ELCA, or you may disagree and believe that now is not the time to give up. Just remember that you will have our prayers.
To Christians from other denominations who are watching the growing problems of the ELCA brought on by this vote, we urge you to consider the strange fruits that "inclusiveness" have brought. "Diversity" has turned into divisiveness, which is what will always happen when the words of humans are substituted for the Word of God. Be careful of using the Church to pursue purely political goals (which is what the ELCA has done).
My wife and I are former ELCA missionaries. In creating its own private god according to political criteria, the ELCA has left no room for Bible-believing Christians such as ourselves. We cannot and will not bow the knee to this new god fashioned and worshiped by the ELCA. Against our will, but bound by the Scriptures, we have become Recovering Lutherans.
The purpose of this blog is not to rehash the issues debated during the Churchwide Assembly. For one thing, the argument in favor of Bible-based Lutheranism has been made elsewhere (see here and here). For another, the ELCA's leadership and the majority who voted for the changes in August have made it perfectly clear that they no longer accept the authority of the Scriptures. Although they profess Jesus as Lord with their lips, they have hardened their hearts against Him.
And where the ELCA would lead us we can no longer follow.
Therefore, the purpose of this blog is to recount our spiritual journey away from the ELCA - where I have been life-long member and my wife joined after we were married - and towards the future. Just what will happen and where we will end up we do not know, but we have chosen to follow where God is leading us.
One thing needs to be made clear. We have chosen to leave the ELCA rather than continue to fight from within. We believe that by its vote in August the ELCA has badly damaged the body of believers who are called Lutherans, and that by continuing to "duke it out" in congregational meetings and synod assemblies we will be providing the ELCA's leadership with what it needs so badly - credibility. We feel that to "agree to disagree" and remain in the ELCA would send a subtle yet strong signal to both Christians and non-Christians that it is o.k. to put the Word of God up for a vote, and that in the end log-rolling and vote-buying are acceptable.
To Lutherans who are reading this blog and who support the ELCA's actions, we urge you to reconsider and repent. Throughout history the Word of God has been laughed at, ridiculed, banned, burned, interpreted, re-interpreted, and re-re-interpreted. Yet it still remains. The Churchwide Assembly's actions will not lead to a new Gospel. On the contrary - it will hasten the decline of the ELCA. Ask the Episcopal Church if their decision to reject the Gospel has brought peace in their denomination.
To Lutherans who are reading this blog and who are horrified by the ELCA's lurch away from the Bible we want you to know that you are not alone. You may agree with us and chose to leave the ELCA, or you may disagree and believe that now is not the time to give up. Just remember that you will have our prayers.
To Christians from other denominations who are watching the growing problems of the ELCA brought on by this vote, we urge you to consider the strange fruits that "inclusiveness" have brought. "Diversity" has turned into divisiveness, which is what will always happen when the words of humans are substituted for the Word of God. Be careful of using the Church to pursue purely political goals (which is what the ELCA has done).
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