A modern English translation of Andreas Althamer’s 1527 Dialloge hoc est, conciliatio locorum scripturae, qui prima facie inter se pugnare videntur extended and translated into early Modern German in 1528 in Nürnberg (Nuremberg) and published as Diallage, das ist vereynigung der streytigen sprüch der schrifft, welche im esten anplick, scheynen wider einander zesein.
Nichts streyten auch dise zwen sprüch / denn das herz Pharaonis ist ein mal verhert aus dem gericht Gottes / nacher nit mehr erweyckt. / Got hat im kein new hertz geben und das staynen herz von im genumen / sonder in seiner blindheyt gelassen / das er an im erzeygte sein glori. Darumb leydt nicht daran du sagest. / Pharao hab sein herz verhert oder sey im aus dem rath Gottes verhert worden. / Denn was Gott in uns thüt / das thun wir auch. / Was die axt thüt / das thut der zymmerman auch. / (Was der werckmeister thüt dz instrument auch) / feyrt er / sie auch wirckt er sei mit. / Der hamer schmidt mit dem schmid und ist baydes war / das fewz macht das eysen weych der schmid macht das eysen weych. / Pharao war ein vaß des zorns / und wiewol er etwo von seiner boßheit durch die mirakel und zaychen erschreckt / abstund / so ist erdoch bald wider in sin art geraten. / Er mochte nit warlich von herzen layd tragen uber sein boßheit / denn das staynen herz ward nicht von im genumen / sonder ye mehr und mehr wurde er verhert / nicts bewegt von wunder und zaychen. / Dann die natur Gottes ist / das sei die gotlosest mehr und mehr verstockt, / verblendt, und böser macht. / wie die sunne den schelmen stinckent macht / und die böse augen haben gar plendt / ist doch die ursach nicht in der sunnen / sonder an den augen und schelmen. / Also erregt Gottes wort die art der gotlosen / wo es auff sie scheynt / und ist doch den gotlosen wesen feynd / Psal. 5 wie die sunne dem gestanck / was für einer natur eyn yeder ist / also wirckt das wort in im. / Ist er aus Got geporen und ein Christ / so wirckt es in im leben und selickeit. / Ist er Adam und nicht widergepron / so wirckts nichts denn todt und verdammus in im. / Wie die sunne das wax waych macht, / den laym hört / das gras grün das hew dürr/ und ist doch ein sunne / die in einem yeden wirckt was es ist / und ist ein ursach aller ding on schuld.
Read more...Though I’m not a huge fan of JavaScript, I include a small bit of it in this site to track page views and to generate the tag cloud on my search page. Since my project had already been polluted with JavaScript, I decided a while back to go all in and use WebPack and Gulp to bundle my JavaScript code, build my Hugo site, minify everything, and then upload the whole thing to S3.
Read more...On October 8, I was invited to preach at McKendree Village where I did my field education last year. It was a blessing to be back with so many friends and to see the healing God had brought to many of the people I had visited in the rehabilitation center.
Since I’m taking A.J. Levine’s course on Mark this semester, I decided to preach on the miracles of the feeding of the 5000 and Jesus walking on water in Mark 6:30-52. My focus was on how God has revealed himself to us and how we often miss the Mark. Though we miss the mark, however, there is still hope. As Jesus was patient with the disciples, he will be patient with us. If we, like the crowd, go to the places Jesus will be — among the poor, the sick, the prisoner, the widow, etc. — he will meet us there. If we open our hearts to him, Jesus will be our shepherd.
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Luckily, using Slack’s legacy tokens and following the guidance of Made by Munsters I was able to use IFTTT to quickly automate the updating of my Slack status.
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Moving my Hugo site to Amazon was a fairly simple affair. First I setup a simple S3 bucket to drop my Hugo generated files to. Nothing special there at all. Next, I setup a CloudFront distribution to handle TLS and serve the files on S3. With a simple change in my domain’s DNS record everything worked perfectly. Perfectly except that all my URLs had to end in index.html to work…

This quality, solid wood chest of drawers has been lightly used since 2009. It was bought new at Sprintz Furniture in Nashville, TN and has been used by a single owner.
The chest is 48" high, 60" wide, and has a depth of 20".
There are a few marks of paint/scuffs from the most recent move — see images below —, but otherwise the chest of drawers is in perfect condition.
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