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Comment on Day Two – An Apple Rant by Rev. Tucher

Rev. Tucher — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:16:28 +0000

I picked up a BlackBerry Storm on Verizon while I was home. I like the BlackBerry, it’s probably the closest to an iPhone on Verizon, prior to the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus. Just make sure you get a BlackBerry that has at least 256 mb of flash memory for your apps or you could experience some lagging.

Comment on Day Two – An Apple Rant by SayrevilleRunner

SayrevilleRunner — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:55:14 +0000

I agree that Apple stuff just works, but who wants to pay that much money for a computer, a laptop, or a phone? ATT costs way too much. I changed from an iphone to a Nexus One last month and paid $130 to get out of the contract. TMobile has good service and Nexus is great phone.

Comment on Day Two – An Apple Rant by The Pastor's Blog » My Lenten Challenge Update

The Pastor's Blog » My Lenten Challenge Update — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:43:58 +0000

[...] Day 2, after checking my phone for overnight messages, I penned a lengthy post on my changed feelings regarding my iPhone, Apple, and [...]

Comment on Day One – Morning Edition by The Pastor's Blog » My Lenten Challenge Update

The Pastor's Blog » My Lenten Challenge Update — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:42:17 +0000

[...] Day 1, over at my personal blog, I wrote about my changed morning routine that included National Public [...]

Comment on Day One – Morning Edition by Italian Too

Italian Too — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:31:56 +0000

At least you didn’t give up pasta. An Italian without pasta is a Sicilian. Good luck

Comment on “Why Are You Lutheran?” by Italian Too

Italian Too — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:30:43 +0000

Growing up, I was also the black Lutheran sheep in my family. Both my parents sides were catholic. My dad took me to the Lutheran church because we could walk to church. He didn’t care. He wanted me to learn about God. I’ve raised my kids Lutheran too. I am glad there are two of us weird Italians in the world.

Comment on No TV for Lent by Not Kidding

Not Kidding — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:17:43 +0000

[...] I wasn’t making a bad joke this morning when I wrote that I will be giving up TV for the season of [...]

Comment on Purgatory by Anastasia Theodoridis

Anastasia Theodoridis — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:47:36 +0000

The Roman teaching, just to be clear, is that Jesus’ sacrifice fully paid our *eternal* punishment, but then they make a distinction between that and “temporal” punishment. Christ’s sacrifice apparently didn’t cover that, for some reason. So you have to work it out yourself, in purgatory.

And I do agree it’s all nonsense. But I have a question for you. You say Lutherans laugh at it “primarily because it is found nowhere in Holy Scripture.” But I have just been rebuked by a Lutheran for supposing a thing had to be in Holy Scripture for Lutherans to accept it. What she told me is, unless it is *contradicted *by Holy Scripture, it might be acceptable. even if it isn’t IN Scripture. Is she right?

Comment on iPad by Rev. Iovine

Rev. Iovine — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:11:18 +0000

Even I can’t come up with a good reason to plunk down 500 bucks on it.

Comment on iPad by Rev. Tucher

Rev. Tucher — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:18:53 +0000

As soon as it’s available, you know you’ll go out and buy one. Consider it an invaluable tool for the furthering of your ministry.