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🍸 Lift a glass to this beautiful olive tree. It’s about 65 years old. I wrote a little meditation on Psalm 128:3 with this tree in mind.
👋 Meet Watchman Wee. He was created by my dad, a meticulous craftsman who always keeps a bit of whimsy close by. I love that about my dad.
👁🗨 It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? from The Washington Post
Apple promises privacy, but iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
Good news: you can limit the tracking.
UPDATE: WSJ published a similar article.
🐌 Loading problems for my website are fixed now. Thanks to the Micro.blog slack community, esp. @mikehaynes for the help.
🌱 Inspired by the Johnny Appleseed of hollyhocks, I now have a bag of seeds and am on a mission.
⍟ If you’d like to better understand Jesus’s relationship to the Father, or the Trinity in general, listen to last week’s sermon. Tomorrow, I will preach again from John 5. This time, I’ll teach more about the Spirit.
⍟ How a journalist pretended to be scientist and fooled the media into reporting that chocolate helps people lose weight.
🎵 Finzi, Parry, and Bridge: today is a great day for listening to English string orchestra music.
⍟ I’ve had a my own website for almost two decades. But since I moved it to Micro.blog about a year ago, I’ve enjoyed it more and used it more than ever. The main reason for this is that @manton has designed Micro.blog to be simple and fast.
⍟ My most valuable app got a major update. Accordance Mobile 3.0 is snappier, the UI is so much better, and there are many other upgrades. @AccordanceBible knocked it out of the park.
⍟ If you know a kid learning Latin, tell them they can win $150 and a beginning Greek course from the amazing Dr. Noe.
⍟ I love these lines in Michael Perry’s “O God Beyond All Praising”:
And whether our tomorrows be filled with good or ill, We’ll triumph through our sorrows and rise to bless you still.
If you want to memorize poetry, espcially rhyming poetry, consider finding a good hymnal.
⍟ Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) on Snakes and Ladders:
I have come to believe that this is what almost all of our culture is about now: working the refs.
