Monthly Archives: March 2010

Swept Into the Story

Text: Luke 22:1—23:56
Date: Passion/Palm Sunday + 3/28/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
On this Sunday, the beginning of the Great and Holy Week of the Christian calendar, Holy Church proclaims the entire account of our Lord’s Passion and death from the Last Supper, the temptations of Jesus and the disciples, the four trials [...] Continue reading

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The Wicked Tenants

Text: Luke 20:9-19
Date: Lent V + 3/21/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
The scribes and the chief priests perceived that Jesus had told this parable against them. They were right. But remember that St. Luke told us, “he began to tell the people this parable.” So if the “church officials” could figure out [...] Continue reading

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Celebrate

Text: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
Date: Lent IV + 3/14/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
The Fourth Sunday in Lent has been known traditionally as Laetare or “Rejoice” Sunday from the historic Introit that begins with Isaiah 66:10, “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her.” It may seem strange [...] Continue reading

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No Gospel

I could have titled this note “No Gospel?” (question mark), or “No Gospel!” (exclamation point), or, to be more post-modern, “No Gospel ?!) (question mark / exclamation point – otherwise known in times past as an “interropang”).
No Gospel? Where? When? Why?
Is not that what we are to be all about? Yes. But the fact is [...] Continue reading

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Our Praises Grow from Living Roots

Text: Luke 13:1-9
Date: Lent III + 3/7/10
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, Rochester Hills, MI
In many ways the theme of the scripture readings for this Sunday takes us all the way back to the beginning—the beginning of the Gospel and of the church year with the call of John the Baptist, “repent and be baptized;” [...] Continue reading

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Forget the iPad. This looks amazing!

This looks quite amazing. I’m becoming more and more impressed with what Microsoft is putting out there. Windows 7… Their new phone OS looks pretty interesting… and now this. I could totally use this every day. Continue reading

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Forget the iPad. This looks amazing!

This looks quite amazing. I’m becoming more and more impressed with what Microsoft is putting out there. Windows 7… Their new phone OS looks pretty interesting… and now this. I could totally use this every day.
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Great article on managing/using hierarchical data in an database

In working on building my own content management system, I’ve been learning about various ways to implement storage of the content in a database. This is a great article I found. Check it out. Continue reading

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Database Row Sort Order Question

To sort content in a hierarchy i have rows that have a sort_order column, like the following list. id, title, sort_order 1, page a, 0 2, page b, 1 3, page c, 2 4, page d, 3 5, page e, 4 My question is when changing the order or deleting content, is it … Continue reading

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