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So it's quiet in this forum. Has not been too much activity lately. Anyone still come around? What is going on in your life folks?
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It is pretty quiet around here... we don't seem to use our subforum nearly as much as the WELS/LCMS folks do.
I've been pretty busy with work and school.
How about you?
I've been pretty busy with work and school.
How about you?
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lux et lex
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I've been busy with work. Bleh. That's the crappy thing about having two jobs...the times when business is slow seems to align themselves, and unfortunately the times where they are busy do to. I'm in a busy slot right now. Bleh. I hope all of you are well.
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Been at work a lot. And my wife is still unemployed so we are spending more time together. Reading more than I'm used to. Trying to find good theology books, not always easy.
Yeah, this ELCA forum was used a lot more for a while and then just silence...
Yeah, this ELCA forum was used a lot more for a while and then just silence...
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Been at work a lot. And my wife is still unemployed so we are spending more time together. Reading more than I'm used to. Trying to find good theology books, not always easy.
Yeah, this ELCA forum was used a lot more for a while and then just silence...
Yeah, this ELCA forum was used a lot more for a while and then just silence...
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What have you been reading, Doulos?
I used to try to read theology in my spare time... now it's just text books. This is fine because I enjoy learning, but I wish I had a more balanced reading life right now.
I used to try to read theology in my spare time... now it's just text books. This is fine because I enjoy learning, but I wish I had a more balanced reading life right now.
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lux et lex
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Nothing glamorous. I'm a legal researcher for my state's domestic violence judicial bench book committee and I'm a bartender/dj/doorman/off sale clerk.
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May not be glamorous, but it sounds interesting. I'm not exactly involved in a business anyone would consider glamorous either... but if everything was glamorous, it would be so anymore!
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I've been spending a lot of time in the BoC.
I also just recently got "Power, Politics and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict that Changed American Christianity" (there is a thread on it in the TLC). That one is more history than theology.
I also recently got "Honoring our Neighbor's Faith" from AF. It's a denominational comparison book. Not as good as I thought, but ok.
For Christmas I had gotten "Proof texts of the Catechism with Practical Commentary" from CPH. Pretty good, although it is an old text so he uses KVJ translations and sometimes his practical commentary is on old issues, but I still enjoy it and I find the author's commentary at times a little humorous.
I'm still making my way through "Letters from the Land of Cancer" by Walter Wangerin Jr.
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I just picked up a course to teach, so "Score 1, employment!!!!" 
It's the first time I'm teaching this particular photography-related course, so I'm in a flurry with developing materials on a daily basis!
It's the first time I'm teaching this particular photography-related course, so I'm in a flurry with developing materials on a daily basis!
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I just picked up a course to teach, so "Score 1, employment!!!!"
It's the first time I'm teaching this particular photography-related course, so I'm in a flurry with developing materials on a daily basis!
Congrats on the new course you're teaching.
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in the category of what theology did I read today the answer would be an article by Steven Paulson from a 2006 issue of Word & World entitled "What is Essential in Lutheran Worship?"
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Lost Squirrel
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Thanks guys! It felt great to be back in the classroom. I've been out of work for the past year and a half due to really low enrollment in our college, even though the university enrollment is on par. I usually teach computer hardware or commercial networking. This is the first I've taught my passion - photography.
What a great class! It's in a different setting at a vocational school where I get to teach mature adults (not teenie bopper college kids), but I have a wonderful group and most are already enrolled in my subsequent Photoshop course (another series that I'm going to end up developing course content on a daily basis - yeow!).
It's part time, but it is a regular gig. That makes me really happy because my hubby works such a weird schedule, so we can actually spend time together.
What a great class! It's in a different setting at a vocational school where I get to teach mature adults (not teenie bopper college kids), but I have a wonderful group and most are already enrolled in my subsequent Photoshop course (another series that I'm going to end up developing course content on a daily basis - yeow!).
It's part time, but it is a regular gig. That makes me really happy because my hubby works such a weird schedule, so we can actually spend time together.
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I've been busy changing jobs... twice! First time was cause I got fired from my former place of employment, a bank that shall remain nameless. Then I did telemarketing for a month, because I was desperate for a paycheck (having a kid on the way made me so, hehe).
But now I am starting back at another bank, and even though it's part time starting out, I did find out that when something opens up full time, I'm on the inside track, being already there. Also, to do the same work at this bank compared to the last (at least, my final position at that last bank, which was opening accounts and loans, usually called either Personal or Universal Banker), I'd start out almost double what the former bank was paying me with 3 years experience.
While I don't know what the future holds, seeing that possibility of making more than 20K a year, possibly even fairly soon, has me excited and looking for and seeing God's providence in my (imo) unjust firing (I never would've thought to look at this particular bank before I became desperate for a non-telemarketing job).
But now I am starting back at another bank, and even though it's part time starting out, I did find out that when something opens up full time, I'm on the inside track, being already there. Also, to do the same work at this bank compared to the last (at least, my final position at that last bank, which was opening accounts and loans, usually called either Personal or Universal Banker), I'd start out almost double what the former bank was paying me with 3 years experience.
While I don't know what the future holds, seeing that possibility of making more than 20K a year, possibly even fairly soon, has me excited and looking for and seeing God's providence in my (imo) unjust firing (I never would've thought to look at this particular bank before I became desperate for a non-telemarketing job).
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Changing jobs can be stressful and exciting and it sounds like you're on your way to good things, Angelus.
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I myself am happy to have an entire weekend off this weekend to spend at home with my wife. I work part time and go to school full time so a whole weekend off is such a blessing.
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