Theodidacti

When we were vacationing at Holden Beach earlier this month, a grackle hung out on the deck rail each day, screaming at the top of his little lungs. I caught him mid-scream:

One day while Cristin and I were shooting (possibly to escape the grackle’s hollering), I got this geometric view under the pier:

I like the [...]

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Here are a few of five dozen sports bottles lined up for decorating at Vacation Bible School this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at my church. We are expecting upwards of four dozen young’ins this year. Last year we had 18 and in previous years, we didn’t have a VBS at all. God has blessed us [...]

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I shot this photograph in Southport, NC. It is the steeple of the downtown United Methodist Church.

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I finally got a few rolls of film developed from vacation. Thought I’d share one or two…

Fields just outside of Holden Beach, NC

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I heard that if you split a photograph of your face down the middle and paste the remaining half to the same half flipped (mirrored) you’d end up with the evil “you.” I just ended up with the doofus me…either way I flip it. Maybe it’s just because I didn’t use a dead on, head [...]

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“We do not believe in Christ because we believe in the Bible; we believe in the Bible because we believe in Christ.” (Friedrich Schleiermacher) Though faith comes from hearing and hearing by the word of God…though we can come to faith in Christ by hearing or reading the Bible…we do not stay in the Faith [...]

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A pretty cool site I ran across lets you upload a photo and have it converted to ASCII code. Here I am…

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I stumbled on a truism this morning that has been made truer for me by the Internet. “I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.” (Franklin P. Adams) This is true when writing Daily Reform. It was true when [...]

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I almost looked it up before I quoted Augustine on Tuesday. But it sounded like Augustine to me and afterall, I am at the beach. But it got the better of me this morning and I looked for it. Close but no cigar. Perhaps someone used Augustine’s idea for their own apologetic. This is the [...]

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That’s a N-Y-S-U-N…

Leslie, my “twin,” warming up for a 2-hour walk with Susan at the beach

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