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Feeding Sheep: The Final Benediction, pt.4
Previous Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 To the Leader “Do you love me? Feed my sheep,” asks Jesus of the one who would be his leader. The story closes with this familiar litany. Peter is still God’s man of the hour, still the chosen leader of the band. For Peter, for all the disciples, for all of…
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The Great Piano Project, pt. 4
What I learned taking an antique upright piano apart to clean and restore the inside… Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Step 3: Cleaning Lower Case This post is not nearly as interesting as the others, but it is the next step in my project, so for the sake of chronology and archiving, here it…
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Return of the King: The Final Benediction, pt. 3
Previous Parts: 1 | 2 “In the breaking of bread, fellowship is restored and the one that has denied, rejected, and fled is invited once again into the participation of the divine life.” The Meal There they are, Peter and these weary, defeated disciples. Maybe in their minds, former disciples. “Come and have breakfast,” Jesus says. In these…
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Simple Model for Content Areas of Good Learning (infographic)
A new idea I am working on. This is a tool for sharing with students in online courses to help better integrate scholarly thought, personal experience, and biblical truth & Christian wisdom into discussion forums and academic writing. I am wanting to help students come at this kind of classroom work in three ways: the academic/theoretical side (what…
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The Great Piano Project, pt. 3
What I learned taking an antique upright piano apart to clean and restore the inside… Part 1 | Part 2 Step 2: Removing Keyboard for Cleaning With the action out of the way, I need to take off all 88 keys. The keys themselves need to be cleaned as well as the space in the piano…
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The Great Piano Project, pt. 2
What I learned taking an antique upright piano apart to clean and restore the inside… Part 1 STEP 1: Remove & clean action Getting this old Gulbransen cleaned out was chore number one. Turns out that old pianos are terrific repositories of dust, dirt, and the plethora of things that get dropped between keys or inside the…
