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Archive for February 1st, 2010

Protecting myself from data loss

Monday, February 1st, 2010

When I started putting everything on my flash drive last summer, I thought I was protecting myself from my PC hard drive crashing again.

Unfortunately, flash drives can crash, too; now I have both my PC’s hard drive and my flash drive, plus my latest acquisition, a portable external computer hard drive that looks like a big iPod with no screen. It’s way faster than my flash drive and stores an impressive 250GB!

Hopefully that means, if I sync everything up once a week, that I’ll never have a catastrophic loss of data again, without having some way to get it back! That’s important for an aspiring Messianic rabbi or minister!

Prayer and intercession

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Some people think security comes from life insurance or a tidy nest-egg in the bank; but those who believe in ADONAI realize that real security comes from a close relationship with the L-RD.

That’s why I’m going to attend Rabbi Stan’s series on Prayer and Intercession which starts next Shabbat. I want to improve my prayer life so that I can hear God’s calling on my life clearly, distinguishing it from my own hopes and ambitions, so that I can know what God would have me do next in my life.

It is the L-RD who calls and ordains Messianic rabbis and ministers. I’m ready and willing to serve, but I have to know … really KNOW … that the L-RD is going ahead of me before I can pursue that goal. If I do it on my own, it will fail. If I wait on the L-RD, there’s no way it can.

The choice, really, is a no-brainer. But my prayer life needs to be deeper than its ever been, if I’m to hear Him clearly.

Why my last two sermons aren’t up yet

Monday, February 1st, 2010

OK, here’s the reason why my last two sermons at Beth Yeshua aren’t up yet: when my flash drive crashed a couple weeks ago, I lost my only copy of my sermon on the Parable of the Widow and the Unjust Ruler. And it was a lengthy sermon, coming in at over 4,000 words.

I had a print-out, so I was able to deliver it just fine; I even have the audio file uploaded and ready to rock. But I have to re-type it out, which is long, boring work and I just haven’t had the time, since the only reason I’d be doing it is for the blog.

Fortunately, in addition to a new flash drive, I also have a new back-up hard drive, so I should soon be better-protected against data loss than ever. That wouldn’t have helped in this case, though, since I had only just finished the sermon and printed it out before the flash drive crashed.