Nathan R. Hale

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  • I notice that when I publish a draft in Micro.blog, it retains the date in the timeline that I created the draft, so it doesn’t get posted to the timeline. Interesting aspect of this functionality.

  • Makeshift laptop stand. I realized half of my chronic neck and shoulder pain is probably due to hunching over my computer.

  • Here’s a handy site to estimate reading times of text.

  • At least my email app gives me compliments.

  • “The priest is a priest at the altar; a priest in confession, he is a priest on the street; indeed, he is a priest everywhere”

    ~St John Bosco

  • FINALLY finished N. T. Wright’s magisterial The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 3), and while it took significant effort trek through all 750 pages of dense analysis, it was well worth the time and mental energy to make a thorough historical investigation into what the earliest Christians really believed about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  • Made it to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back with my youngest brother, Mark!
    me and my bro!

  • Stewart Ruch III on Best Practices for Holy Week Preaching, and on preaching Easter Morning year after year.

    …I’ve grown in this as a preacher—that I have learned how to renounce the expectation that I will preach a great sermon on Easter Day. I’ve learned to refuse to live by that. I do want to preach a great sermon on Easter Day. But if I go out with the result of preaching a great sermon on Easter Day then I’ve already lost the battle of the Easter Day sermon. So I really try to refuse to try and meet the expectation, usually my own and some others, frankly, that I preach a phenomenal sermon on Easter Day. I refuse that. I try to compartmentalize that and put that away, and I try, instead, to work really hard at asking: What’s the word for this year, Lord, from your Holy Scriptures? That’s what I’m going to preach.

    The whole article is full of great pastoral wisdom.

  • Recently found carrd.co–essentially a one-page website builder (more on the philosophy of the platform) made by a really good designer. It is incredibly easy to use, even normal people can do it (although using a custom domain is–as always–a bit of a technical process) Pricing is very reasonable as well.

    Just switched our church website over to it from WordPress. Now, you won’t be creating some kind of spawling personal blog (like this site) or a massive online magazine with this–it’s for brochure sites, landing pages, small business sites, and so on.

    And for that it is a Godsend. For real.

  • Once you start really pealing back the layers on the Old Testament, you realize it’s grace all the way down. That’s just how God works.