Vincent van Gogh - The Letters

Vincent van Gogh - The Letters is an amazing archive of documents. Searchable, with facsimiles, translations, and including even the original sketches. Van Gogh seems like a fascinating person and the letters contain some gems.

Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.

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The Bible Project: Justice

Justice has been a recurring theme that stands out to me as I read the Bible. This video from The Bible Project is really helpful to understand the biblical themes righteousness and justice.

Humans are set apart from all other creatures as the image of God… This identity is the bedrock of the Bible’s view of justice. All humans are equal before God and have the right to be treated with dignity and fairness, no matter who you are.

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PowerShell Script Boilerplate

This post is as much for me as it is for you. I write a lot of PowerShell scripts and they tend to follow a certain pattern. This is my personal boilerplate for PowerShell scripts.

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Bible Quiz: Deu 7:9, 10:12-13

Hundreds of verses forgotten. Yep, that’s what happen to me. I joined up with our church’s Bible Quiz team as a teen and memorized hundreds of verses for competition. Looking back, it is one of my favorite things I did growing up. Unfortunately, that was many years ago and with little practice comes much forgetfulness.

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Serve the LORD, Fear Not

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:1

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; …2

If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:3

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Delighting in the Trinity

“It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.” So wrote the great hymn writer Isaac Watts. And of course, he was quite right, for we always love what seems most attractive to us.

But what kind of God could outstrip the attractions of all other things? Could any unitary, single-person god do so? Hardly, or at least not for long. Single-person gods must, by definition, have spent eternity in absolute solitude. Before creation, having no other persons with whom they could commune, they must have been entirely alone.

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A Simple Way to Pray: A Letter from Dr. Martin Luther

Introduction

Early in the year 1535, Peter Beskendorf, a barber and an old friend of Luther’s, asked Dr. Luther for suggestions concerning prayer. Luther responded with an open letter titled, How One Should Pray, for Master Peter the Barber. This letter is as follows.

Paraphrased introduction from Paster Wolfmueller of Hope Lutheran Church, Aurora, CO. 2006.

Luther and Friends Pray at the Bedside of Melancthon

Luther and Friends Pray at the Bedside of Melancthon

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Resources for PowerShell users

This is a list of resources that should help anyone interested in PowerShell.

Editors and IDEs

Articles

I few articles I’ve written to help you get started.

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Reading Day One journals in Go

Here’s a little gift for my fellow Day One aficionados who also happen to use Go.

A Go package for reading Day One journal files!

β­‘ Source Β  β­‘ Documentation

It’s as easy as:

import "github.com/jpoehls/go-dayone"

j := dayone.NewJournal("/Users/{me}/Dropbox/Apps/Day One/Journal.dayone")

err := j.Read(func(e *Entry, err error) error {
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Do something with the entry,
	// or return dayone.ErrStopRead to break.
})

if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}

I’d like to add support for creating and editing entries in the future. Contributions welcome, just hit me up!

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