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I use GNU Screen for everything I do in Linux... perhaps you do too, but perhaps you are annoyed that every time you log in to a terminal session on your Linux machine, you have to go through the one extra step of reconnecting to your screen session or checking to see if one is already running and …
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Distraction free writing is all the rage these days, and I'm a huge proponent of the movement because I am very prone to distraction. Why right now, I should be doing something else, but I got distracted with this! Anyway, one of my essential tools for a distraction free environment is a totally …
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Do you think Indiana should pass a law specifically stating that people can use their religious convictions as a defense for their actions in a court of law? Here's the description of the bill that is currently before the Indiana State House …
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Exciting Times For the past few weeks at LCC, we have been in a series of messages at our church going through the book of Exodus. I called the series Time to Move for two reasons: The story of Exodus is a story of a time when God had to move his people from one place to another, and it covers all …
Last week, Ashley Smith issued the "Ice Bucket Challenge" to the LCC Staff, and this Sunday, Billy, Beth, Kevin and I are going to get doused. You will want to be there at around 10:20am to see it happen. However, I also want to take this opportunity to share a few thoughts about the Ice Bucket …
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Are there people God can't stand? This past Sunday, I got a new insight into something that has been discussed by theologians and scholars for centuries. It relates to the concept of "atonement" or the process by which God forgives sins. The teaching of the Bible is clear that God forgives sins …
This past week, I tried an experiment. I posted a couple images to my Facebook timeline that I thought had the potential to become somewhat viral. That is, I thought these images would be shared around Facebook, and I wanted to see how widely they would go. Well, my little experiment took me …
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Why do church people do . . . ? There are a lot of things that church people do that are different from the way the rest of the world lives: Church people go to a church gathering nearly every Sunday while most people in the world rarely do anything "every week" except for weekly obligations …
UPDATE: On Friday, June 17, 2014, a federal appeals court issued a stay against the enforcement of the previous court's decision. Therefore, even though the current Indiana State Law prohibiting same-sex marriage is considered unconstitutional, it remains in effect until a higher court appeal is …
Same-sex Marriage is Now the Law of the Land On June 26, 2014, wlfi.com published an article with this headline: Same-sex couples wed at Tippecanoe Co. Courthouse After great amounts of debate earlier this year over the locally infamous HJR-6, a resolution by the two houses of Indiana state …
Recently, I have been having some conversations with some people about the issue of church membership. Specifically, the questions have been revolving around what membership really is and why it's important. For a full assessment of our church's position on membership, you should check out our …
Sometimes God Doesn't Talk On Sunday, we were considering Genesis 23-24, two stories where Abraham comes up strategies to deal with specific problems in the absence of any clear guidance from God. Usually, God speaks to Abraham, but in these stories, he has to come up with strategies on his own. …
Lafayette Community Church uses a couple different Wordpress installations for its website. The first Wordpress installation is the main website, and it is located at http://lafayettecc.org/news/. The second Wordpress installation is for blogs and devotionals, and it is located at …
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After having done this same procedure a number of times, I have finally figured out the best way of transferring an entire Linux System from one drive to another and still have it be bootable. Step 0: Did you format and partition the drives the way you want? I write this down just to clarify that …
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I get distracted easily, so I wrote a little script to toggle the visibility of the desktop icons on Mac OSX. Here it is: #!/bin/bash CURRENT=$(defaults read com.apple.finder CreateDesktop 2>/dev/null || echo 1) defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop $((! $CURRENT)) killall …
For the past few weeks, the people in my Core Group have been musing together about the fact that nearly all of us are introverts. None of us know why that's happened. Perhaps, the fact that I'm the pastor of the church and the main speaker each Sunday in our worship gatherings makes it so that …
