Jun
28

Private Confession & Absolution

Andy on June 28th, 2009

I was perusing the world of YouTube and stumbled across Concordia Publishing House’s channel.  One of their videos was on confession:

 

I can remember when St. Paul’s reinstituted “scheduled” Private Confession.  Yeah, we never really got rid of private confession, it just stayed in the Pastor’s study for when we had a crisis and needed to chit chat with our spiritual father.

Do remember that the Lutheran Church is a catholic (i.e. universal) church.  So…what does this mean?  We’ll, we are the only church that uses scripture and scripture alone as the norm of our faith.  Other Christian denominations add various aspects – work, the pope, etc. 

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Apr
11

Happy Easter

Andy on April 11th, 2009

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter. Been really busy recently, thanks to two math classes! I am enjoying them (mostly). I really like my Linear Algebra class (it’s matrices) and hope I continue liking it. I like my History of Math class (though I can’t understand the questions that well). Anyway, both profs are cool.

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Mar
7

Movies

Andy on March 7th, 2009

SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 85 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own facebook account, paste this as a note. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun!

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Total: 9

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Feb
12

Free Utility for Bible Study

Andy on February 12th, 2009

Ok, so everyone (well many people) have heard of e-sword.  Well, there is a version for Ubuntu/Linux called Xiphos.  It is really cool as it has a few Lutheran resources…in addition to the ESV Bible used in our church, users will find Luther’s Galations commentary, The Book of Concord, and The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel.  An excellent choice.

Look for it at http://www.xiphos.org/.  Oh, they support Windows, Fedora 8-10, Debian and Ubuntu, and SuSE.

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Feb
8

Linux Part II

Andy on February 8th, 2009

Ok, so I have Ubuntu on my laptop now.  I have noticed a number of problems, some bigger than others.  I have an AMD Turion 64 chip.  This means that there are a lot of utilities not available in the default channels (such as Flash and my wireless chip driver).  Both required alpha releases to get it working.  Not a big deal for me, but difficult for someone who isn’t computer savy.

One thing that I did notice is how many sites require Flash!  Unfotunately, many of them dont work with Gnash.  Oh well!  And the ones that do have wierd problems such as text over text.

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