Do We Truly Bear Fruit From Our Labor?
Psalms 104:24-29 (NRSV) 24 O LORD, how manifold are your works!In wisdom you have made them all;the earth is full of your creatures.25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide,creeping things innumerable are there,living things both small and great.26 There go the ships,and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.27 These all look to…
We Are Free But Responsible
Mans Condition “Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment that he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.” – Jean-Paul Sartre This is a good description of man, who he is and his chief problem.…
What God Arranges
Galatians 3:11 (MSG) “The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you.” The life of faith is one of rest, not striving for our own ends, but letting God do His…
Faith Expressed in Love
Text Galatians 5:4 (MSG) For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love. Background In the book of Galatians, Paul works to combat the notion of strict adherence to the law in order to earn salvation. It would…
Validating the Argument for a Creator
The problem with todays argument for a creator As believers, at least for me, the idea of making the case for the existence of a creator has been one fraught with trepidation. This is mainly due to the fact that there is seemingly no evidence that can truly refute the notion of there being one,…
PowerShell on MacOS
The Problem I was recently auditing EXOL mailboxes and needed Powershell to do it in bulk. I do the majority of my sysadmin work on my mac, but on the rare occasion that I find I absolutely need windows, I run a Windows 11 VM on Parallels. In this case I thought I needed Windows…