We ought to glory in nothing, because nothing is ours. Cyprian
@christopherchelpka definitely! It’s a bit of a winding story but it’s a fun one
@christopherchelpka that’s amazing. I was born in Tucson so it’s always fun to see stuff from there.
Tracy and I had the magic combination of a day off while the kids spent time with their grandparents so we went up to the Trossachs!
Finished reading: A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler 📚
This was a beautiful, little book I got on a whim from the library.
@DaveyCraney I should mention I would also need to convince my wife (and my daughters, because my sons would totally be on board)!
I’m working from the library right now, as I often do. The windows are open and there’s a cool breeze coming in in this bright, sunny day. And that breeze is wafting in the smell of KFC. 🍗
@DaveyCraney I wish I could convince myself to do this. All I want is a board to cruise around on
Over the next three or four weeks, we’re in various stages of travel, working while travelling, working, front-loading a bunch of work, half-working… testing the limits of my systems at the moment and it’s not particularly fun.
Had a good time giving away church invitations and Luke’s Gospel at the local mall!
@ChrisJWilson @philbowell It will be recorded, I’ll try to remember to share a link to it once it’s up.
@maique it boggles the mind indeed!
@maique our youngest, now 7, used to do this every. single. time. If it wasn’t just before leaving for holiday it was on the way home from holiday.
Preaching on the Christian life and mental health this coming Lord’s Day. While these sermons have been topical/doctrinal, I’ve continued to use an anchor text and this week’s is Psalms 42-43.
@ChrisJWilson in fairness to the app, it’s actually really good. Being in ministry, I do wish that there was an option (in app) to mute notifications from everything for a set amount of time. But we’re using the Communities feature at the church and that seems to be quite good.
I have to say, I am really enjoying using MindNode during my sermon prep. Being able to switch between mindmap mode and outline mode as well as being able to easily move things around is helpful for figuring out how to rightly order my thoughts.
@mwerickson one of my favourites!
@ChrisJWilson “The competition lawsuit over iMessage seems really odd.” 😂
One of the things I didn’t expect when I got into full time ministry was just how much of the work with people would actually take place in WhatsApp.
So, invited by the great sweetness of his beneficence and goodness, let us study to love and serve him with all our heart. John Calvin
I did not expect Calvin to spend as much time as he did writing about angels in the Institutes but I’m really glad that he did.
This musical reworking of 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 is absolutely gorgeous. 🎶
I had fully intended to write my sermon by hand but found it particularly tough going. I ended up caving and typing it up in Ulysses.
I suppose this view will do for a break before handwriting my sermon script. The research/study phase for this series has been laborious because it’s systematic and doctrinal rather than expository but spending weeks on it has been really helpful.
@maique 😂😂😂
Resting place of Highland Mary.
@maique we get the same issue where I’m at here in Scotland. Our town has a seaport where big cruise ships stop so during the summer we’re inundated with Americans (which makes me feel awkward as an American working to settle here permanently).
We’ve got some mall outreach events happening this summer and a big part of that is simply making the church’s presence a bit more known to people in the town. Really pleased with how these turned out. Thank you, Pomegranate7!
What was my main day off activity today? Having my kids get me set up on Pokémon Violet. I may have fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole. 🎮
@hjertnes I’ve been giving the Plotter the side-eye for a bit and I don’t even like binders! The cost and difficulty of getting the binder itself or any refills helps put me off of it
memento mori
@philbowell my carafe has a lid and the V60 fits on it perfectly and one time I didn’t realise the lid was them so I was confused about why the V60 was just filling up and not draining
@ChrisJWilson that’s much more difficult to fix!
@KyleEssary thankfully, it seems like it was just a result of still waking up
A clue to how the morning is going is that I almost started my pour over without any coffee in the v60…
There is a filter but it isn’t responsible for the curl in the clouds.
@ChrisJWilson indeed! The worst part is the false confidence that the patches of blue sky have been giving.
Working from home, for me, is less than ideal (especially when everyone is at home). But when Scottish weather decides to be very Scottish, I’m faced with either getting blown away and/or soaked if I try to work elsewhere.
@maique those are beautiful
Summer hols for the kids.
@drewbelf thanks for the reminder that this exists! I just grabbed it for £.99 on Kindle
@petebrown That’s a very good point
@ChrisJWilson the arrival of kids definitely makes finding time to write for the sake of writing a tricky proposition. I stopped watching Ali Abdaal (and Matt Ragland, to a degree) because he stopped being a semi-normal creator with a job and went all business guru. I check in sometimes because he’s still interesting but he’s largely unrelatable now
@Mtt I’ve been using Reeder for years now, primarily because they introduced iCloud sync so that I didn’t have to rely on another subscription service just to read bloggers conveniently
@DaveyCraney I had the same thing happen at the start of the week, just in time for a 3-day conference! My family was spared most of the complaining but it was pretty rough.
@jonah it’s great over there, when I was commuting in for my training course a couple of years ago, my friend would park in the West End and we’d get the subway to Buchanan Street. We were mainly in Merchant City yesterday.
@ChrisJWilson I used to have a Diana Mini and an Olympus Pen EE and both were half-frame cameras and a lot of fun, especially being able to take so long between changing rolls of film.