Monthly Archives: November 2009

Blessed is the Coming King

Text: Luke 19:28-40
Date: Advent I + 11/29/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
Probably the most important and most unknown and unexpected aspect of the Gospel of salvation is the fact that people think they have to somehow look for God, try to find God, or come to Him. The surprising truth is, however, [...] Continue reading

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When the Stars Begin to Fall

Text: Mark 13:24-27
Date: Last Sunday of the Church Year + 11/22/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
My Lord, what a morning—the morning of our Lord’s promised and blessed return. Whoever thought that such an otherwise fearful sign in the heavens—“when the stars begin to fall”—would signal not terror but rather the greatest, most [...] Continue reading

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English Lesson

I can’t take this anymore. Everyone has “learned” a mispronunciation from our current POTUS. Everyone says, as he says, “re-dis-tri-BEAUT-iv.” Drives me nuts! The proper pronunciation is, “re-dis-TRIB-u-tive”!!!! Say it five times…out loud. Grrrrrrrrrr!
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Prepare for the Last Day

Text: Mark 13:1-13
Date: Pentecost XXIV (Proper 28) + 11/15/09 (11/12/00)
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
As we approach the end of the liturgical year the lectionary turns to the theme of the Last Things, the Last Day, the “parousia” or second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the question is, Are you [...] Continue reading

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When Religion Has Lost Its Soul

Text: Mark 12:38-44
Date: Pentecost XXIII + 11/8/09
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
As we approach the end of the liturgical year, we approach the telling of the end of our Lord’s earthly ministry, and of this world of sin, separation and death, and the beginning of the new heavens and the new earth [...] Continue reading

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May need to upgrade my computer…

Doing some test renders to check overall lighting and verify lights are on the right layers is taking a lot of time… even with anti-aliasing turned off. Only on a dual core AMD processor right now. Running Vista Ultimate 64bit. Think i’m gonna start looking at some cheap quad core systems with [...] Continue reading

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FWD-REV work… Getting back to 3D

So… I took some time this weekend to start getting reacquainted with my animated short project, FWD-REV. I’ve got a lot of work to do, but I did start fixing some texturing issues on the main characters. Hopefully in a day or two I can clear most of them up and move [...] Continue reading

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