tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147083222008-05-19T23:01:08.336-05:00Daniel Bergquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13657831105245014506noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14708322.post-58539615213889319512008-05-19T22:26:00.002-05:002008-05-19T22:50:13.327-05:00

I just do not get this. Do we offend Christians, or non-Christians in our ministry? That is the choice put forth in Steve Benke's theology of the tension of offense. I would suggest that the choice has been already made, that God's Law and his Gospel offends the old Adam of all people. As many are prone to say these days, What Would Jesus Do? Jesus offended those that did not believe in him,

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After a bit of a delay, my brother is finally in basic training. At my mother's suggestion, I got him a small Bible. Nothing quite the thing I was looking for, but a "mere book" works. And that is the remarkable thing about the Bible, the fact that it's a "mere book." The Word of God is not brought to us by some nebulous spiritual experience but rather by ink impressed onto bound paper- matter,

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In a little over a week my brother is shipping off to Army basic training. What would be an appropriate gift would be? Though I'm open to other ideas, if at all possible I would like to have it be an item of tradition and symbolism, as an engagement ring is to an engagement or pilot's wings are to a pilot. Also, it needs to be something that I can have in hand by the end of the week. While we

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Boy, time flies! I have been at my first "real job" for a few days over a year now. Yup, that's a year of making the "big bucks" and a year in the the "big city". Also, my place is finally starting to have some semblance of a home. Enough of "grasping at straws" for a post and of the "overused" quote marks.

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First, an apology to all of those hoping I had vanished. I am still here. I will reimburse any beer consumed at a he's-finally-gone celebration, just address all receipts to my imaginary blonde secretary. Better luck next time chaps. Now some of you may have noticed something fishy in the address bar in your browser. Yes, that's right, I now have my own domain, simdan.com. Sometime in the future

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Stairwell Originally uploaded by SimDan. I have been wanting a place to share photos. Many people I know use Facebook to share photos. However, Facebook requires viewers to have a Facebook account and doesn't support high-resolution versions of photographs.Thus, to this end, I have opened an account at Flickr recently. You can view my photographs at my Flickr page and follow updates at my

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This last Sunday was the last Sunday before the season of Lent starts. The service concluded with something that was entirely new to me. The following hymn was sung to celebrate the beginning of our liturgical fast as the Alleluia banner was removed from the sanctuary. Alleluia, song of sweetness,Voice of joy that cannot die Alleluia is the anthem Ever dear to choirs on high In the house of God

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Last weekend I got my bassoon back from the shop. I haven't had it in for repairs since I've had it (about five and a half years). As you can see, it's all nice and shiny. Aside from a few dings, it looks like new. Guess this means now I ought to actually play it.

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Here is a website that combines two things I really like: the Wii and Kitties. I'm a sucker for both.

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I've been working now for just over two months and I have yet to settle on a church. Perhaps it would help if I stuck around on the weekends more often but that's a side topic. Although I have moved several times throughout my life, the churches that my family attended were rather obvious with a father as a pastor. Thus I have no idea how to evaluate churches once a list has been narrowed down to

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present my new theme song.

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I do apologize for not posting in a long time. I been busy getting to know my workplace, the area and how it is to be pretty much on my own. I now work for a contracting company. This whole idea of a contracting company was new to me. Basically it means I'm paid by and get benefits from one but actually do work for another. I already knew someone working at the client's site (which is how I got

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Since I can't seem to fall asleep at the moment, I thought I would share a few choice exchanges that have occoured recently around here. After going out for some Chinese to celebrate the news mentioned in the previous post, I thanked my parents for dinner. My dad lost no time and said, in an "about time" sort of voice, "Thanks for getting a job." While bringing my sister home from her flight my

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....for lack of a better word. I'm not going to go into details at the moment, but I just was notified that tomorrow an offer letter will be sent in the mail. Now this seems like a good thing. Until, that is, I realize that this means instead of a tired, grouchy sister returning I will have an excited, hyper sister returning. Gee, lucky me...... More news to come as things progress.

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Two months out from graduation and still trying to find a job. On the other hand, I know of two other people in my field who's job searches lasted for over a year. One of them searched for over a year and a half, gave up, and joined the Peace Corps. Still, even after putting that into perspective, one can't help feeling like this, which really is the whole reason for writing this post anyway. I

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Yes, you read that right. I didn't know it myself, but it just might be true. Where do I get my opium? Well, acorrding to this article my body makes it. It looks like it is possible that a person's "thirst for knowlege" may be the result of the brain's craving of opium-like chemicals that are released as a reward. Interesting if true... ...it would explain a lot.....

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I never would have thought it was possible to survive a decapitation. That is until I saw this boy named Ricky on TV. How did he survive? Well, he suffered a rare, and usually fatal, form of decapitation known as "internal decapitation." From what I can gather, this means that while his head was not detached from his body, his skull and ligaments holding the skull to his neck were. All that was

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While searching for a job I have noticed that there are quite a few job openings involving the C# programming language and the .NET platform-- both from Microsoft. Thus, in the last couple of days I downloaded MS Visual C# 2005 Express and dove into Learning C# 2005. So far, it's been pretty easy to pick up and I'm already on chapter five of nineteen. It helps quite a lot that I am familiar with

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The Gallup Poll recently came out with their yearly poll that gauges the public's confidence in various institutions. The results are indeed interesting. One can be 95% sure that the results are within +/-3%. The military is on top with a 73% confidence rating, despite the efforts of some people who wish to lower such a rating. The police follow at 58%. Third and fourth goes to the Church/

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As many of you know, I very much enjoy using a Mac for my everyday computing needs. It truly is a fantastic platform to work with. Of course Macs have their drawbacks. If one is a heavy gamer, then you would want to stick to running Windows. Building a server? Try Linux or BSD instead. Use the tool that best fits the job. The reason why I probably come across as a big time Mac fan is that I think

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Yesterday I once again attended a Tripoli Southern Minnesota rocket launch. This time I dragged my dad and brother along for the fun. The wind was fairly strong but they launched anyways. We took a number of photos. If you click on the thumbnails you will get a bigger image and if you click on the bigger image you will get the full resolution image. This launch had an engine cluster rocket, two

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So recently we were driving through a town and noticed an interesting campaign sign that was in a number of lawns. The name is amusing enough, but when you add the tagline, "Vote for expirence," it gets even better.

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Some college students put on a great old-school act of Super Mario Bros. Simply amusing too all of us NES aficionados out there. If President Bush's political career tanks after he leave office, he could always try out a comedy gig. When Bush gets funny, everyone gets slammed. Yes, even himself.

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For any and all interested, graduation photos. I tried hard to not let my shiny forehead break the camera. That is why I was given that strange cap. (Update: Photos with my other grandma.)

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.....an article you wrote is listed in a bibliography. Granted it looks like a student site, but still odd to see. Will be making a few more posts over the next few days now that I'm out of school. See you then!

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