Hosanna!

This is an edited version of my sermon manuscript for Palm Sunday, 2015. It’s based on Mark 11:1-11. At the beginning of Mark’s Triumphant Entry narrative Jesus got ready to enter Jerusalem I want to unpack three things about how Mark set’s this up. First, we’re not sure if Mark was intending this passage to…

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Irony

I’ve been wanting to make this for a while now.  

The day after

It was a long dayPalmyra Players? AwesomeWeary bones need sleep   

Four Crazy Nights

Four crazy nights. At least that’s what I’ll be saying tomorrow night at this time. I spent Tuesday and Wednesday nights helping out with the tech at “shoestring theatre,” also known as the Palmyra Players. I’m working the projected backdrops, but I’m also working with another volunteer who is a sound guy by trade. He’s…

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Having fun with displacement

I’ve been playing with displacement maps in photoshop, and having a lot of fun. Below are two images which spring from my experiments. In the first I wanted to see if I could make the ABCNJ 2015 Annual Session logo appear as though it were printed on a a piece of fabric flapping in the…

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Keeping up with Languages

A lot of people, pastors in-particular, are amazed that I still bother to translate the passages on which I preach. I don’t claim to be a Biblical languages scholar, I’m not. If I had been trained before the advent of Bible software I might have dropped using the languages myself 1. What I don’t like…

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