This week's Bible study in Isaiah, chapter 28, is ready for viewing on my YouTube channel.
Monday, August 19, 2019
Monday, August 12, 2019
Isaiah Chapter 27
This week's Bible study is ready and has been posted to my YouTube channel. We are in Isaiah chapter 27 this week.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Monday, July 22, 2019
Isaiah, Chapter 24
This week's Bible study is ready and has been posted to my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/d6thX4gom14
https://youtu.be/d6thX4gom14
Monday, July 8, 2019
Weekly Bible Study
This week's study is up on my YouTube channel. There was an outside event for the Chapel this past weekend, and so we did not hold our regular services. As a result, this week's study is not from Isaiah, but a brief look at An Issue of Sin. We will be back in Isaiah chapter 23 next week.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Isaiah Chapters 21:1 through 22:14
This week's Bible study is ready. We are looking at Isaiah 21:1 through 22:14. Please share with your family and friends.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Isaiah Chapters 19&20
Arrrgh.
This has been a frustrating journey, the getting of this week's study finished. But, it's finally ready and uploaded to my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/JIoD4zQqPEA
This has been a frustrating journey, the getting of this week's study finished. But, it's finally ready and uploaded to my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/JIoD4zQqPEA
Monday, June 10, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Isaiah Chapters 15 and 16
The next study in Isaiah is available on my YouTube channel:
https://youtu.be/Am-rCt9AeXM
Monday, May 27, 2019
Isaiah Chapter 14
Isaiah Chapter 14 is up and available on my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/yB7kkm2gVlk
Monday, May 20, 2019
Isaiah Chapter 13 is available
I just put the finishing touches on this weeks video.
https://youtu.be/8dj87jhbH1U
John
https://youtu.be/8dj87jhbH1U
John
If it's Monday, it must be YouTube render time.
One of the frustrating parts of this new project I have started on YouTube is how little notice it seems to be getting. Now I understand that everybody who first puts up a YouTube Channel experiences similar frustrations, but somehow, knowing that, just does not help.
What I find keeps me going is that I truly believe this is part of the work God has called me to do. And of course that, along with my writing.
Did I mention my recently self-published novella over on Amazon.com? Areopagus. It's short, which is not too surprising -- after all it's a novella. But it's a start.
And that brings me back to this blog. If it does nothing more than to give me a place to rant, it will have served its purpose.
So, if anyone actually reads this, do me a big favor. Go to YouTube, subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnatwtr/featured?view_as=subscriber. Tell thirty or forty of your friends -- threaten them if you have to -- to subscribe. Finally, insist that they all tell thirty or forty of their friends to also subscribe.
Then, go to my author page at Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/J-W-Grimes/e/B07QW2KFTW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1558388155&sr=8-1, and buy copious copies of my novella. I am working on a novel set in the same milieu.
That's it for now, unless you wanted to follow me on Twitter as well as here: https://twitter.com/Altogetherjohn2. It looks like I have three more tweets than I currently have followers, and I only have three tweets, at the moment. There will be a fourth today, once DaVinci Resolve finishes rendering my YouTube video.
Which I what it's doing right now, and I had nothing better to do than to write all this nonsense.
Rant done,
John
What I find keeps me going is that I truly believe this is part of the work God has called me to do. And of course that, along with my writing.
Did I mention my recently self-published novella over on Amazon.com? Areopagus. It's short, which is not too surprising -- after all it's a novella. But it's a start.
And that brings me back to this blog. If it does nothing more than to give me a place to rant, it will have served its purpose.
So, if anyone actually reads this, do me a big favor. Go to YouTube, subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/johnatwtr/featured?view_as=subscriber. Tell thirty or forty of your friends -- threaten them if you have to -- to subscribe. Finally, insist that they all tell thirty or forty of their friends to also subscribe.
Then, go to my author page at Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/J-W-Grimes/e/B07QW2KFTW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1558388155&sr=8-1, and buy copious copies of my novella. I am working on a novel set in the same milieu.
That's it for now, unless you wanted to follow me on Twitter as well as here: https://twitter.com/Altogetherjohn2. It looks like I have three more tweets than I currently have followers, and I only have three tweets, at the moment. There will be a fourth today, once DaVinci Resolve finishes rendering my YouTube video.
Which I what it's doing right now, and I had nothing better to do than to write all this nonsense.
Rant done,
John
Monday, May 13, 2019
Isaiah 11 & 12
My next study in Isaiah has been uploaded to my YouTube channel.
Feel free to comment or ask any questions, either here or on the channel.
Thank you,
John
Friday, May 10, 2019
This has been, if you look at the frequency with which I have posted stuff to this blog, a very, very on again off again proposition. (Mostly off again.)
I have started a couple of projects that would seem to fit with actually keeping this blog more current.
One, as some of you know, I have started to develop a YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/johnatwtr/featured?view_as=subscriber
This will be a collection of Bible studies and other videos relating to God, the Bible, Christianity in general, and my world view in particular.
The other main project I have undertaken is to start publishing, well self-publishing, some of my writings. To this end, I have thus far published one novella, Areopagus over at Amazon.com. It is available in both e-book (Kindle) and paperback formats.
https://smile.amazon.com/J-W-Grimes/e/B07QW2KFTW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1557515632&sr=8-1
That is the link to my author page where all books I end up publishing there will be found.
I will keep this blog up with news or information regarding both the YouTube Channel and the books being published on Amazon.com.
Anything else of interest will probably find its way into either a video or a book. Snippets will be found here -- from time to time.
John
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Altogetherjohn2
I have started a couple of projects that would seem to fit with actually keeping this blog more current.
One, as some of you know, I have started to develop a YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/johnatwtr/featured?view_as=subscriber
This will be a collection of Bible studies and other videos relating to God, the Bible, Christianity in general, and my world view in particular.
The other main project I have undertaken is to start publishing, well self-publishing, some of my writings. To this end, I have thus far published one novella, Areopagus over at Amazon.com. It is available in both e-book (Kindle) and paperback formats.
https://smile.amazon.com/J-W-Grimes/e/B07QW2KFTW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1557515632&sr=8-1
That is the link to my author page where all books I end up publishing there will be found.
I will keep this blog up with news or information regarding both the YouTube Channel and the books being published on Amazon.com.
Anything else of interest will probably find its way into either a video or a book. Snippets will be found here -- from time to time.
John
Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Altogetherjohn2
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
For What It's Worth
A writer writes. Period.
It's not that I haven't been writing, I have -- primarily I've been working on my weekely Bible studies for White Tail Chapel. But....
I really have not been writing as much as I should, nor as regularly. So, I am going to attempt to begin anew by trying to put some pearls (hopefully more of wisdom than nonsense) here on a daily basis.
I don't know how many of the few followers that I had who are still looking at this blog, buy hopefully a couple are, and if they find anything of spiritual, social, or personal use, then perhaps they will spread the word that this work is active. (I can't really say again active because that would imply that it ever was active.)
If nothing else, I will derive a word of the day from somewhere (hopefully a standard English dictionary so that we can all benefit with a vocabulary lesson that may prove useful in the English speaking world).
I would also encourage any comments, or questions. I like technology, but I do not like technology that tends to takeover one's life. That's why I don't use any of the social networking sites. I don't see the sense in letting the world know that "I am now sitting at my computer spouting patent nonsense," just so I have something to tweet. It is also why I don't regularly look at my email, or for that matter, this blog.
That's it for now. I may come back later it my muse hits me hard enough.
JWG
It's not that I haven't been writing, I have -- primarily I've been working on my weekely Bible studies for White Tail Chapel. But....
I really have not been writing as much as I should, nor as regularly. So, I am going to attempt to begin anew by trying to put some pearls (hopefully more of wisdom than nonsense) here on a daily basis.
I don't know how many of the few followers that I had who are still looking at this blog, buy hopefully a couple are, and if they find anything of spiritual, social, or personal use, then perhaps they will spread the word that this work is active. (I can't really say again active because that would imply that it ever was active.)
If nothing else, I will derive a word of the day from somewhere (hopefully a standard English dictionary so that we can all benefit with a vocabulary lesson that may prove useful in the English speaking world).
I would also encourage any comments, or questions. I like technology, but I do not like technology that tends to takeover one's life. That's why I don't use any of the social networking sites. I don't see the sense in letting the world know that "I am now sitting at my computer spouting patent nonsense," just so I have something to tweet. It is also why I don't regularly look at my email, or for that matter, this blog.
That's it for now. I may come back later it my muse hits me hard enough.
JWG
Friday, February 26, 2010
Has it really been (one, two, three, four) five months?
The spirit is willing, but the flesh (in this case the fingers) is (are) weak.
Let's see, e-mail on old compter blew up.
Old computer, that's right, got a new one.
That about covers all the excuses for not getting back here.
I know I don't have many followers, yet. But I do have a responsibility to those who wish to read the drivel that sometimes pours forth.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh (in this case the fingers) is (are) weak.
Let's see, e-mail on old compter blew up.
Old computer, that's right, got a new one.
That about covers all the excuses for not getting back here.
I know I don't have many followers, yet. But I do have a responsibility to those who wish to read the drivel that sometimes pours forth.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Look, Up In The Sky ...
There have been, probably, a dozen or so entries I have started for this blog that never made it to publication. I find I am one of those people who really does not want to say something if I have nothing to say. Wanderings Of A Random Mind is a good title for this blog as it gives me a place to explore random thoughts. I could probably post something here on a daily basis, but then a more apt title would be Ramblings Of A Confused Mind. This is why I am not a daily columnist.
But enough of that.
I read this morning that President Obama has decided to scrap plans for the deployment of a defensive missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic. This concerns me. Clearly Russia was not happy about a missile defense system they did not control sitting on their border. But if memory serves me correctly, Poland and the Czech Republic were not unhappy about these deployments. The primary reason for the deployment of the defensive missile system was as a shield against rogue terrorists states launching a missile attack against the west. The reason, as I understand it, the plans are now being scrapped is because these rogue terrorists states apparently do not have missiles with a long enough range capability to reach the west. I guess the idea is that we do not need to defend ourselves against a threat the does not exist.
I am also guessing that, based on this level of reasoning, the nonexistent threat will continue to be nonexistent until such time as one of the rogue terrorists states actually launches a missile into the west. At that time we can then close the barn door behind the fleeing horses and finally deploy our defensive missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic -- objections by the Russians notwithstanding.
It would be one thing if Poland and the Czech Republic did not want the missile system deployed in their countries. (The radar system was to be set up in the Czech Republic and the actual missiles were to be deployed in Poland.) But they did agree to the deployments. I can understand Russia's objections to having a missile defense system on their borders they do not control. I imagine Russia would have thought twice about invading Georgia last year had Georgia been in possession of a U.S. made missile defense system. After all, it's a lot easier invading a neighboring country when they lack the ability to defend themselves.
Last year, then Candidate Obama seemed more than willing to kowtow to the Russians and their feeble defense about why they invaded Georgia. I cannot help but think that the decision to scrap the deployment of a defensive missile system to Poland and the Czech Republic is more of the same. I could be wrong, but it seems that our President and his supporters are more concerned about not offending those countries who oppose the United States of America than those who support us. Or put another way, this administration seems more than willing to sacrifice our friends in order to appease our detractors.
It is a dangerous path, and one that will lead to disaster.
But that's just my opinion.
But enough of that.
I read this morning that President Obama has decided to scrap plans for the deployment of a defensive missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic. This concerns me. Clearly Russia was not happy about a missile defense system they did not control sitting on their border. But if memory serves me correctly, Poland and the Czech Republic were not unhappy about these deployments. The primary reason for the deployment of the defensive missile system was as a shield against rogue terrorists states launching a missile attack against the west. The reason, as I understand it, the plans are now being scrapped is because these rogue terrorists states apparently do not have missiles with a long enough range capability to reach the west. I guess the idea is that we do not need to defend ourselves against a threat the does not exist.
I am also guessing that, based on this level of reasoning, the nonexistent threat will continue to be nonexistent until such time as one of the rogue terrorists states actually launches a missile into the west. At that time we can then close the barn door behind the fleeing horses and finally deploy our defensive missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic -- objections by the Russians notwithstanding.
It would be one thing if Poland and the Czech Republic did not want the missile system deployed in their countries. (The radar system was to be set up in the Czech Republic and the actual missiles were to be deployed in Poland.) But they did agree to the deployments. I can understand Russia's objections to having a missile defense system on their borders they do not control. I imagine Russia would have thought twice about invading Georgia last year had Georgia been in possession of a U.S. made missile defense system. After all, it's a lot easier invading a neighboring country when they lack the ability to defend themselves.
Last year, then Candidate Obama seemed more than willing to kowtow to the Russians and their feeble defense about why they invaded Georgia. I cannot help but think that the decision to scrap the deployment of a defensive missile system to Poland and the Czech Republic is more of the same. I could be wrong, but it seems that our President and his supporters are more concerned about not offending those countries who oppose the United States of America than those who support us. Or put another way, this administration seems more than willing to sacrifice our friends in order to appease our detractors.
It is a dangerous path, and one that will lead to disaster.
But that's just my opinion.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Ask, Seek, Knock.
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8, NIV)
One of the questions that often confronts us as Christians is, "What about (fill in the blank) who never even heard of Jesus Christ? Will that person simply be condemned to Hell?" The short answer is no, God will not unjustly condemn anyone to Hell. The long answer is, well, longer.
Salvation comes through the person of Jesus Christ, period. There is no other path through which one can enter into the presence of God. Jesus clearly stated this fact in John 14:6 when he said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV) So what about someone who has never heard about Jesus of Nazareth?
In the first chapter of Romans, verse 20, the Apostle Paul makes the statement, "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (NIV) The idea Paul is expressing here is that God is so evident within His creation, His existence is irrefutable. Therefore anyone who has experienced God's creation understands God's existence. Since everyone knows and understands God's existence, there is no excuse for not seeking God.
A sparrow does not fall to the ground that God does not know it. The scriptures declare that God has even numbered the hairs on our heads. (And for some of us it is getting easier every year for God to count that number, but that's the subject of another posting.) If God is that aware of His creation, then God knows the heart that is truly seeking him.
I think in part what Jesus was telling us in the seventh chapter of Matthew is that God will find a way to fully reveal Himself to anyone who is truly seeking Him. How God reaches that person with the message of the gospel, I do not know, but I do know He will.
Even in our fallen condition, we are still created in the image and likeness of God. Even in our fallen condition we still have a special place in God's heart. We know this because while we were yet sinners, Jesus died for us.
For that person who has never heard about Jesus of Nazareth? God will find a way to reach that person. After all, He found a way to reach me.
John
One of the questions that often confronts us as Christians is, "What about (fill in the blank) who never even heard of Jesus Christ? Will that person simply be condemned to Hell?" The short answer is no, God will not unjustly condemn anyone to Hell. The long answer is, well, longer.
Salvation comes through the person of Jesus Christ, period. There is no other path through which one can enter into the presence of God. Jesus clearly stated this fact in John 14:6 when he said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV) So what about someone who has never heard about Jesus of Nazareth?
In the first chapter of Romans, verse 20, the Apostle Paul makes the statement, "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (NIV) The idea Paul is expressing here is that God is so evident within His creation, His existence is irrefutable. Therefore anyone who has experienced God's creation understands God's existence. Since everyone knows and understands God's existence, there is no excuse for not seeking God.
A sparrow does not fall to the ground that God does not know it. The scriptures declare that God has even numbered the hairs on our heads. (And for some of us it is getting easier every year for God to count that number, but that's the subject of another posting.) If God is that aware of His creation, then God knows the heart that is truly seeking him.
I think in part what Jesus was telling us in the seventh chapter of Matthew is that God will find a way to fully reveal Himself to anyone who is truly seeking Him. How God reaches that person with the message of the gospel, I do not know, but I do know He will.
Even in our fallen condition, we are still created in the image and likeness of God. Even in our fallen condition we still have a special place in God's heart. We know this because while we were yet sinners, Jesus died for us.
For that person who has never heard about Jesus of Nazareth? God will find a way to reach that person. After all, He found a way to reach me.
John
Thursday, August 20, 2009
It's not my fault
Well actually it is, but isn't that what everyone usually says?
Here's the situation. Microsoft Outlook blew up today. Without going into a lot of boring details, most of which I really don't understand, the "outlook.pst" folder managed to get it self corrupted. It's there. I know it's there because all the emails I keep stored there are, well, there. But Outlook can't seem to find it so there is no place to post new (read incoming) emails.
I know what the problem is. It is too full. I have become very good at ignoring my emails over the past few months, and I decided today would be a good day to start cleaning them up. I managed to load almost 8,000 of those pesky little notes into the "Deleted Items" folder. I don't know this for certain, but I am guessing that the limit of emails that folder can safely hold is just under 7,500. I am also guessing that Microsoft estimated that no one in their right mind (a group that clearly includes me) would ever let their "Deleted Items" folder get that full. When it does, the "outlook.pst" folder blows up, and Outlook blows up, and I not longer have the ability to handle my email, which if I had been doing all along, I wouldn't be in this position.
That's the part that's my fault.
What upsets me is that I just got off the phone with one of those pay-as-you-go techincal support places, since my current computer is older than dirt. (In computer jargon that means it was purchased sometime prior to yesterday.) The fee for 30 minutes of world class technical support was $50.00, and guess what -- 30 minutes is the minimum you can purchase.
The technician spend most of the time reading from the same Microsoft webpages I had already read. He very competently told me to take all the steps I had already taken. And with a remarkable degree of self confidence he told me after none of those steps worked, I needed to remove Outlook and reload it, which I had already concluded. The reason I called an expert was to see if there was something I missed or some proceedure I didn't know about. Evidently there was not.
To his credit, he managed to run my 30 minutes in such a way that after about 45 minutes on the phone, I still had 15 minutes of support time left. He offered to let me call him back to use that 15 minutes so he could tell me to remove Outlook, insert the CD into my CD-ROM drive, and reinstall Outlook. But there is a problem. My CD-ROM drive is broken. So I guess I need to call him back to tell him that, so he can take some of my remaining minutes to tell me I need to replace my CD-ROM drive.
So the part that is not my fault is the fact that I never realized you could actually get people to pay to tell them something they already knew and to give you the money for that information before they get it.
Did I mention I was learning how to use Outlook Express?
John
Here's the situation. Microsoft Outlook blew up today. Without going into a lot of boring details, most of which I really don't understand, the "outlook.pst" folder managed to get it self corrupted. It's there. I know it's there because all the emails I keep stored there are, well, there. But Outlook can't seem to find it so there is no place to post new (read incoming) emails.
I know what the problem is. It is too full. I have become very good at ignoring my emails over the past few months, and I decided today would be a good day to start cleaning them up. I managed to load almost 8,000 of those pesky little notes into the "Deleted Items" folder. I don't know this for certain, but I am guessing that the limit of emails that folder can safely hold is just under 7,500. I am also guessing that Microsoft estimated that no one in their right mind (a group that clearly includes me) would ever let their "Deleted Items" folder get that full. When it does, the "outlook.pst" folder blows up, and Outlook blows up, and I not longer have the ability to handle my email, which if I had been doing all along, I wouldn't be in this position.
That's the part that's my fault.
What upsets me is that I just got off the phone with one of those pay-as-you-go techincal support places, since my current computer is older than dirt. (In computer jargon that means it was purchased sometime prior to yesterday.) The fee for 30 minutes of world class technical support was $50.00, and guess what -- 30 minutes is the minimum you can purchase.
The technician spend most of the time reading from the same Microsoft webpages I had already read. He very competently told me to take all the steps I had already taken. And with a remarkable degree of self confidence he told me after none of those steps worked, I needed to remove Outlook and reload it, which I had already concluded. The reason I called an expert was to see if there was something I missed or some proceedure I didn't know about. Evidently there was not.
To his credit, he managed to run my 30 minutes in such a way that after about 45 minutes on the phone, I still had 15 minutes of support time left. He offered to let me call him back to use that 15 minutes so he could tell me to remove Outlook, insert the CD into my CD-ROM drive, and reinstall Outlook. But there is a problem. My CD-ROM drive is broken. So I guess I need to call him back to tell him that, so he can take some of my remaining minutes to tell me I need to replace my CD-ROM drive.
So the part that is not my fault is the fact that I never realized you could actually get people to pay to tell them something they already knew and to give you the money for that information before they get it.
Did I mention I was learning how to use Outlook Express?
John
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