Passion is one of those groups that helps to drive the creative conversation in Church music. I appreciate that. A lot.
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Passion is one of those groups that helps to drive the creative conversation in Church music. I appreciate that. A lot.
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We live in an insecure time. The world is becoming increasingly digital, but our concepts of stability, safety, and security are not keeping up. While I have not had my life up-ended by a hack, I have had my debit card stolen twice. In response to that and several highly prominent security blunders, I have made some changes to my online habits, but they are a drop in the bucket when compared to this list compiled by Brian Lovin.
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I’ve been a fan of Switchfoot since I saw them play for the first time in 2001. I married a Switchfoot fan whose love of the band stretches back to 1999. You are free to like whatever bands you want, but as for us and our household, we shall play Switchfoot. In fact, for my wife’s birthday, we’re going to see Switchfoot when they come to St. Louis in March.
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Almost four years ago, I reviewed Echo, a prayer app. I thought it would be helpful to an individual’s prayer life. But recently, Echo was updated to include a new feature that might actually be a huge help to a church’s prayer life.
There is a lot to be said for writing by hand. It is slow, which is good in our rushed and reckless world. Writing by hand focusses the mind and facilitates a connection between the pen and the person, the ink and the idea.
I just wish I had better penmanship.
And that I wrote faster. And that my hand-written posts could be transcribed automatically.
Looks like I might get some help on that last one.
The preceding lines were all written using my newest notebook: Rocketbook.
The Rocketbook is an endlessly reusable notebook designed for digitization. Let me explain.
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You are reading a post in the series “Facing the Raven,” which is itself part of our larger “Science Fiction & Biblical Reality” series that can also be read in Finding Faith Inside the Big Blue Box: A Whovian’s 30 Day Devotional.
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore!
Excerpts from “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
In one of the introductions to this series, I explained how the quantum shade, the Raven, cannot be escaped. Once it has been dispatched, it will not return to its perch without having claimed the soul it was promised.