tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33389822026-08-09T04:06:55.826-04:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/loofs-fotos/308425254/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/108/308425254_d2a2465c96_b.jpg" width="675" height="275" alt="DSCN0937"></a>loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.comBlogger576125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-17064551552093578272015-11-23T03:22:00.000-05:002015-11-23T03:22:04.453-05:00

it has been too long since i have written in this blog. does anyone even really blog any more? it seems that its all about&nbsp;youtubing&nbsp;now. i guess i'm old fashioned. ive missed bogging, i really have. every time i try to blog, i have to fight with Google to unlock this blog. i just don't seem to care that much sometimes, i guess. for some reason i had a need to fight with Google to open

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I thought I'd dust this blog off. Okay, granted, I had to work hard to get this blog unlocked. It took me awhile but I got it unlocked. I've missed blogging. there is so much for me to blog about. My current passion is craft beer. I need to write about craft beer more. Indiana craft beer in particular. So, right now, I'm just dusting off the place. Been a while.

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Recently, I had sometime on my hands, so I decided to read Rob Bell'sLove Wins. I will start of by saying this: I will never get that time back. I have heard a lot about this book. It made quite a splash when it came out a few months back and I, being a curious fellow, decided to give it a whirl. As a literary work, it is, to say the least lacking. Its written in a staccato,

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It has been a while since I visited this little section of the cyberworld. &nbsp;Unfortunately, my attention has been captured by&nbsp;facebook&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;twitter&nbsp;(you can follow me on twitter here:&nbsp;@loofrin) the 140 characters have stymied my writing. &nbsp;That's sad to say, but its the truth. &nbsp;I'm not saying that facebook and twitter are necessarily bad, matter of fact, I

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A lot has happened to me over the last months. &nbsp;It is tough to quantify everything has happened in the last&nbsp;eight or nine months. &nbsp;Nine months ago this week, my passed away after a short, but gallant fight against&nbsp;vicious form of &nbsp;lymphoma. &nbsp;It was a shock to lose my mom as quickly as I did. &nbsp;She had been a the picture of health, at least as healthy as a 70 year

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Rev Jeff Geske is a man of profound faith. I don't know the man, never met him. I have never even heard of his name until the other day when my Facebook Timeline exploded with horrible news that he and his family had been involved in a horrific auto accident that took the lives of his wife and two of his three children. How can I make such a bold statement about someone I've never met and do

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-71366316503777842192011-11-09T15:38:00.001-05:002011-11-09T15:38:40.932-05:00

Carolyn Lindner…Hebrews 13:14 What a blessing was this Christian lady! When the Lord our God begins to gather for Himself a covenant people, the Lord calls a man named Abraham. To this man the Lord God promises, I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great and you will be a blessing. I will bless you in order that you may be a blessing. The Lord our God

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-41675994985327385682011-06-03T20:43:00.000-04:002011-06-03T20:43:23.265-04:00

I'm a little scared at the moment. That's not right, I'm not scared, scared, but more like, I don't know, freaked out...? Maybe. Not even that. Here's what it is. I did the following today. I went to the bank and got money. I rented a DVD. And I got stamps. Here's how I did it. I went to the ATM and got the money, used my check card to get the money. I used Redboxfor the first time

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-24448976786791518582011-05-06T16:20:00.002-04:002011-05-06T16:26:21.679-04:00

I read this article with great interest earlier today. It was written by one of the Library Science students here at IUPUI. She basically asks the question what do I want to do next? Read the post and you'll see there is more to it than that, but that's the gist. I agree, when I was going through library school, I too asked myself "what kind of librarian do I want to be?" I bounced back

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-53263238578823594222011-04-24T13:02:00.003-04:002011-04-24T15:01:47.324-04:00

Pastor: What did the women see when they looked into the tomb?Child: There was no one there!--from the children's sermon on Easter SundayA member of our church died yesterday. He had been fighting cancer for the last four years, or so. I didn't know him, but I knew he who he was. I'd seen him a few Sundays back. He was a regular church goer. He, by his regular attendance and worship was a

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Sometimes we Lutherans are accused of being a little bit Cross-obsessed. I remember the words of St. Paul in 1 Corinthians: "I was determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified" and Galatians 3: "before your eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified" and think about the joy of the Easter morning message the angel gave to women was: "You seek Jesus who

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As many were astonished at you--his appearance was so marred, beyondhuman semblance,and his form beyond that of the children ofmankind --Isaiah 52:14 (ESV)From the little research I have done crucifiction was a horrible way to die. Until just recenlty when I would read the lines "and they crucified him" I didn't honestly know what that I meant. I mean I knew it meant Jesus was nailed to a cross

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-50910612732857463382011-04-20T21:30:00.006-04:002011-04-22T16:20:31.577-04:00

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail..." -- Luke 23:31-32(a) ESVIts funny. I've read and re-read the description of the Jesus' betrayal and trial as well as his death and resurrection many, many times. I can't count how many times I've read about it. And I don't think I've really read that

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-49177774051946403262010-12-25T01:15:00.003-05:002010-12-25T01:38:00.810-05:00

The Gospel According to WalterWe passed the the open Bible around & waited.Round robin, & it was my brother Walter's turn.He knucklebrowed the passage, grunted, then began"Yeah, here. Right here it says. Shepherds in the fieldskeeping watch..." he what it was he wanted.The angel of the Lord shone around themThey were terrified, but the angel said, Do not be afraidWho the fuck's he kidding? Don't

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I've been watching these videos, the New Birth Portraits. There are actually very well done "coming to faith stories" put together by Redeemer Presbyterian Church, located in New York City. The pastor of the church is a fairly well-known author, Tim Keller. I first heard about Pr Keller when my church did a four of five week "faith renewal" in-depth sermon series, bible study, etc based on his

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This guy shamed me. Made me feel small and not all that Lutheran, err I mean Loofrin. I mean "Loofrin" has been my screen name and internet identity since, I don't know when... 1996? Its an amazing video. The video discusses the The Book of Concord and why not only is it important to Lutherans, but why it should be important to all protestants (and maybe Catholics, as well). The Book of

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I am an unrepentant Bible marker. I had an argument one time in college with a righteous pre-sem guy (aren't they all) who actually took exception to my Bible marking. He thought it unbecoming and he didn't think it was respectful. I disagreed, naturally, and then quoted to him the section of the Lutheran liturgy as found in the "old, red hymnal" aka The Lutheran Hymnal that we should "read

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My friend and recent MLS graduate Erin (who seems to give me writing "prompts" via her posts) wrote a blog post dealing with her job search and some of the frustrations she is encountering. I've been fighting the same dispirited feelings. I lucked into the position I have now. I got it through a friend, its not a full time position and its barely a "professional position," but it is ina

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For some reason, 2010 has been a difficult year for me in one big way: reading. It was almost the end of March before I finally read a book all the way through. That's unusual for me. I usually read a lot. I don't read hundreds of books a year, but I do better than the average. I usually read somewhere between 45-60 books a year. I figure a book a week is pretty good. For some reason,

loofrinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09536726261625483977noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338982.post-87432280059202462452010-03-10T16:28:00.004-05:002010-03-10T17:05:00.588-05:00

I don't think I'll ever quite get used to the ease in which the internet works. I stopped by this here little blog and clicked on the counter. It seems that yesterday I had six people stop and poke around. That's kind of a big deal to me, I'm not a huge blogger, I don't post very often, something I keep meaning to fix, but never seem to really get around to. My counter usually tells me that

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I would have posted some pictures I took at the pep rally, but for two reasons. The first is they were kind of boring and second was more important, I can't get my camera to download, there seems to be a problem with the connecting wire, or the port that said wire goes into. Either way the boring pictures are still on the camera and will probably end up in a pixulated-picture graveyard,

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I'm going to the Colts' Pep rally today after work. The pep rally is in anticipation of the Colts playoff game against the New York Jets I've never been to Lucas Oil Stadium aka "The Luke", I drive by it everyday on my way home from work, but I've been inside it. I'm kind of curious to see what my raised food/drink taxes have gone. And since the Colts are the "hometown" team, as it were so

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I just "rediscovered" a blog written by a friend of mine. Well, its not so much a resdiscovery as a going back and rereading it. But now that I think about it and reread the preceeding sentence I guess it is, in fact, a rediscovery. Never mind. Really, I'm just prattering on. This blank box does that to me. I feel like I need fill the box up with words; words that in reality are don't mean

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I haven't abandonded this blog, really, I haven't. I will admit to neglecting it. The weeds seem to have sprouted and the hinges to the doors are a bit rusty, and the floorboard creek a bit when I walk around. I haven't forgotten, really, i've just been a neglectful owner. An absent landlord if you will. Has it really been 2 1/2 months, maybe more, since I last updated this blog? Yes, I

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A few weeks back I heard this phrase: "want God to laugh at you? Tell him your plans for the next six months." That's a paraphrase, but I'm sure you get the gist of it. Something has happened in my life that I am still scratching my head over, its a good thing, a blessing, but something I totally was not thinking about. I have met and started dating someone. I have a girlfriend. We have

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