Painfully Hopeful

Fiction Tuesday – Inner Sanctum

Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link Jasim led the party through the paths of The Ravine’s bureaucracy for nearly twenty minutes. By the time he halted them in front of their destination Jeremy was hopelessly lost,…

What a weekend!

This past weekend was exhausting, but for all the right reasons. Saturday night IBC, the Brazilian congregation which is part of the Central Baptist family, had their inaugural kickoff. It was an amazing event, which blew the roof off of the sanctuary. In attendance were the folks from IBC, representatives from ABCNJ, many Brazilian Baptists…

History in Pictures

This past week my wife asked me to create a slide show detailing the events of Lexington and Concord. I’m busy learning Apple Motion so I decided to give that application a try while I designed a short narrative. I’m pleased with the results, though I do need to tweak the formula. This animation only…

Tradition

Jaroslav Pelikan, an excellent Christian scholar and author of the five-volume series The Christian Tradition once wrote the following, Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Many people who are acquainted with me will often mistake me for a radical believer. They’ll hear my critiques of…

Mysteries

Today I tackle one of the great mysteries of my life. No matter what I am carrying, my keys will always end up in the pocket which requires me to put everything down before I can reach them. It’s maddening.

Nifty Scrivener Trick

For the past several years my writing tool of choice has been Scrivener. It has features I have not yet even had time to explore, but even with all it’s power it has a mercifully short learning curve 1. One of the biggest reasons I continue to come back to Scrivener, is its excellent Composition…