Finished 1989 Flash Map

I had to dig this out of the depths of my computer today, and a quick search showed that I never posted the final version. So here it is in all it’s glory. 1989 Events

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Seminary Lessons. John 14-17

Another Seminary lesson.

John chaptes 14-17.

Two Comforters

Jesus speaks of two comforters. Who are they? John 14: 15-27 shows that they are the Holy Ghost and Jesus Christ himself. Jesus gives the following promises in these verses.

  1. v. 16 – Christ prays for us that he will be with us
  2. v. 17 – Christ shall dwell with and in us
  3. v. 18 – Christ will not leave us comfortless (This from the man who was left completely and entirely alone for a time as he completed the Atonement.)
  4. v. 19 – Christ sees us and we live because of His Atonement.
  5. v. 20 – We shall know Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ
  6. v. 21 – We shall be loved of the Father and Jesus will show himself to us
  7. v. 26 – The Holy Ghost will teach all things and bring all things to remembrance
  8. v. 27 – We can have peace through Jesus Christ.

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Seminary Lessons: John chapters 12-14

I recently was a substitute for our Ward’s early morning Seminary. I’m amazed at these kids who get to the Church building at 6am for some scripture study. I had it easy with release time. I took seminary as if it were a regular class in high school. Anyhow, the next few posts will be a few of the lessons we had. I was able to finish the last half of the Gospel of John.

John chapters 12-14

  • importance of love
  • putting Christ before our own selfish desires

(write on the board) “If you loved me, you would ____________ .” How might these people fill in the blank… a mother, a sister, Edward Collins, a father, a bad boyfriend, a good girlfriend

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Major Update to Multiple SVN WordPress Installs

It’s been a while, but I thought it important to post an update to the wpupdate program I wrote to upgrade a whole mess of WordPress installs at one time. I took a cue from the program officially sponsored by WP, but think mine is much, much better. 🙂

Here are some of the features:

  1. Specify a file with a list of svn WP installs, or update the current directory, or specify the directory to update on the command line
  2. Use command flags or options. You can specify the program to update or switch, use tags or branches.
  3. Automatically saves a copy of the svn update to a file so your terminal is not overflowing with text, but does output any conflicts that arise.
  4. Automatically saves a backup copy of the wp-contents directory (just in case the update or switch screws something up).
  5. Automatically saves a copy of the database, backing up only the tables used by the WP install (based off of the wp-config supplied table prefix).
  6. Restores permissions to the original owner and group.

Anyhow, check out the new page devoted soley to this application: SVN WordPress Updater

License: Anyone is free to use this program however they want, as long as they give me due attribution. Also if you update or modify the program in any way, I need to know about it. That’s what free and open software is all about. Any updates should benefit us all.

The end of the beard.

Well, I kept the beard until the end of the year like I wanted to. I had to trim it back for family pictures. It looked decent. Then I shaved it off in January, doing lots of fun different styles along the way.

So here are the pics of the progression, from face coat to smooth.

Seminary Lessons: John chapter 11

This was the first lesson I taught while substitute teaching the early morning seminary class for my Ward. It was an amazing experience. I had to wake up at 5 AM to be at the Church building by 6 AM.  I rode my bike the first two days, but with it being dark and the temperature below 10 degrees Farenheit, I quickly changed to driving there, and then riding my bike the same path later for work.

John chapter 11

Lesson: Understanding Jesus as the Savior through His signs and miracles.

Much of John is written around seven miracles and signs. Why? Read John 20: 30-31 for the answer.

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The competition!

We had the mustache competition last night at the work holiday party.  After a rousing game of White Elephant was the grand competition. The best moustache! Only five of us competed, and there was clearly only one winner. Ken, with the costume to boot, garnered the most rousing support and went home victorious, King Moustache!