Just love this picture! This was two or three years ago. Original is on the right. The black & white on the left with effects is via FX Photo Studio Pro. Yes, I was playing.
What I have just discovered by doing this is the very powerful and easy “Gallery” function for WordPress. Nice thumbnails in the post; click on the pic to get a very nice larger version.
College students! Anyone who is writing and researching!
This is one recommendation that you don’t want to brush off.
I just kick-started another major writing project so I am diving back into some powerful writing and research apps that are excellent – Logos Bible App (on my Mac, iPhone and iPad), Scrivener, Evernote, Circus Ponies Notebook. My “go to” apps at this stage.
Of these four apps, only one is Mac only. The other three are Mac/Windows.
The organizational capabilities are excellent. Import/export strong. And it really is easy to get started with. You will be productive almost immediately. It never breaks, freezes. No quirks and bugs. (At least not the Mac version, and I would be very surprised if you found the Windows version to be otherwise.)
Scrivener impresses me every time I use it. I can copy any text, quote, word definition from Logos and paste it into Scrivener and automatically get my bibliography for footnotes. Boom. Right there in its own section ready for referencing.
Here is the description from the web site (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php):
Google “Scrivener” and be impressed with what you find.
From the Evernote web site (http://evernote.com/)
Evernote is a powerful note-taking, web page saving, record-keeping … And very easy to get started with. Plus all your notes are saved online if you choose so you not only have automatic backup but if you have the iOS or Android or Windows apps, then you have access on all devices. Jot your notes in your iPhone app at work and they will be waiting for you at home on your computer. This is of course if you install the desktop app. There is also a web app so you have access about anywhere you go.
Clip articles or full pages from the web and send them to your account. Highlight text in a document or web page and drag it to the Evernote icon (Mac) and it automatically creates a new note.
You won’t believe this is all for free. There is a paid version, but I have used the free version for a few years now with no hindrances.
From web site (http://www.circusponies.com/notebook/stay-organized):
Organization That Suits You, Not The Computer
Logos is excellent, powerful and expensive. Doesn’t take long to have hundreds wrapped up in your package. If you make good choices then this is money well-spent.
I really hope that this helps someone. I am not selling any of this; make no money; no perks.
I thank God often for the powerful tools he has blessed me with and hope to honor him with my study in every way.
If you don’t know, The Incredibles is a Pixar animated movie about former super-heroes and their children. Dash was the youngest, a little guy who could run so fast that he could run across water. Cool! Very cool!
I want to run as fast or faster than Dash. And maybe someday I will.
I am going to comment again on my amazement as I read through God’s Holy Book, the Bible. It looks like I am going to be able to complete my scheduled reading on time this year albeit a year late. Explanation – It is taking me two years to get through the Bible this time around.
The reason I mention this is to reinforce that it is okay if you don’t make it in a year. The main point is that a continual, disciplined reading of the Bible is vital to knowing our God and the words he has had written down for us.
Have you ever read the Bible in its entirety? Not trying to be too negative, but I cannot imagine that conversation with God in heaven as I try to explain that as a follower of his for however many years on Earth, that I never took the time, never saw the importance of reading his entire book.
Sometimes the only Bible that people get is on Sunday morning. Or we have “church sign theology” where we grab cute phrases that may or may not be grounded in Scripture.
We also like our favorite swimming holes, favorite texts that warm our hearts but neither call us to service nor cause us to bow down in amazement and wonder before our Savior.
My point is not to make you feel guilty, although you should if you are not taking time to read God’s Holy Book while still on the planet.
My point is that if you are not reading the Bible then you are missing it.
Ezekiel is a hard read, wading through all the various imagery and lengthy descriptions. But even without understanding all of that, you have to be impressed with the majesty of God.
Let the words draw you into the story and the picture of heaven that unfolded before Ezekiel.
The heavens were opened …
Can you imagine this scene …
And this one …
“Causing consternation among them” – Picture these people after the Holy Spirit plunks Ezekiel down among them after his vision. Have to chuckle a little.
He was the pastor of a large church and his point was that they were concerned with ministry here and now and not pie in the sky.
Who says that we have to choose between now and forever?
God certainly doesn’t …
He calls us to live in view of now and eternity. Love your neighbor, live in view of the throne of God. We will one day give an account of our lives.
As a student at Moody Bible Institute, I came to realize that the Bible is so much more specific than I thought it was and that lesson has never stopped. This thought was, by the way, echoed by about everyone I knew. How did we come to that place? Because we were forced to examine the whole Book.
I don’t know about you, and I am not saying it will happen, but personally I am looking forward to running as fast as a lightning bolt and sitting on the clouds and playing my violin when I get to heaven.
Is that how it will play out? I don’t know, but I do know God, and whatever his plan is will cause me to worship him for the rest of eternity.
I praise you Mighty God, Ruler of Heaven and Earth!
That day belongs to the Lord, and so does this one …
I have wondered on more than one occasion why I find these events that took place centuries ago and recorded in Scripture so comforting and fascinating.
In the following text God declares his judgment on Egypt. So what speaks to me in passages like this (and there are many) that encourages and strengthens my heart? Am I simply mean-spirited and petty?
I believe that I get a hint from the two phrases from the Jeremiah text I have below.
The day I live in, even as I sit and write, this day, today, belongs to the Lord Almighty. The same King lives and rules.
It’s not the vengeance part; it’s the sovereign part.
Right now belongs to God! Always belongs to God. Then, now and forever belongs to the Lord! When I read my Bible, I am reading about my God, my Heavenly Father, Sovereign Lord and King.
That’s my “Dad.”
God is righteous and just in his vengeance. He is God. But what speaks to me is – “That’s my God!” In control then and in control now. Since before the creation of our world in control; will still be in control after this world is destroyed in judgment.
In control of my world. Sovereign then, sovereign now!
Amen and amen!
[12] The nations will hear of your shame; your cries will fill the earth. One warrior will stumble over another; both will fall down together.”
[13] This is the message the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack Egypt:
[14] “Announce this in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it also in Memphis and Tahpanhes: ‘Take your positions and get ready, for the sword devours those around you.’
[15] Why will your warriors be laid low? They cannot stand, for the Lord will push them down.
[16] They will stumble repeatedly; they will fall over each other. They will say, ‘Get up, let us go back to our own people and our native lands, away from the sword of the oppressor.’
[17] There they will exclaim, ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt is only a loud noise; he has missed his opportunity. ’
[18] “As surely as I live,” declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty, “one will come who is like Tabor among the mountains, like Carmel by the sea.
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