Life

Moving Along Gently

January 31, 2019 by • Issues, Life, Productive •

Thirty-one days ago we were all excited and thankful that the new year has come and it brought with it some new opportunities. I know there are people who had a different experience and expectation but I want to assume that for the optimistic group around us, it was something to look forward to as we saw it as another opportunity to review the goals and aspirations and apply those things that the previous year taught us to the new events of this year.

I did not make an elaborate new year resolution this year as there was an existing resolution from the previous year. In the last thirty-one days, the plan is definitely in motion at my end. The goals are long term goals with individual projects and tasks with the scope in view long term rather than short term. As the days have gone by in the new year, the tasks have been pursed and they have been completed for as many as has come up.

Tomorrow is February 1 and it shows that 2019 is in motion. If you feel like you have not got your year in motion yet, see it as a journey rather than a quick stop and as with most journeys, there are many aspects that lead to the final destination and the planning phase is a very important one, which if done well can give a very good and smooth journey.

Wishing you great and wonderful planning in the months ahead and a great 2019 with proud achievements.

The new Apple devices

October 30, 2018 by • Apple, iPad Pro, Life, Logos Bible Software, Mac Mini, MacBook Air, Preacher •

Apple announced the new devices in the Mac mini, MacBook Air and iPad Pro product groups and to a large extent, they appear to me as items that will set the marker for the next push in the advancement of these productivity equipment.
The new Mac mini solves a nagging performance issue for owners of the older Mac minis that are already struggling with the performance especially in the environment where equipment like the iMac Pro, Mac Pro and the MacBook Pros and fully spec-ed out iMacs play. The power loaded into this new equipment will definitely improve the time used on tasks performed on these machines.
The MacBook Airs are in a similar place with the Mac minis. They are slightly lighter, way faster but more expensive. For the ultra-light weight category, this is a new opportunity for the macOS in that environment.
The one that really excited me was the iPad Pro upgrade. It is an improvement of the older iPad Pros. The changes to the charging system shows that Apple maybe standardizing its ports and one would expect that in the future, the iPhones and other iPads will acquire the USB-C ports. The Pencil charging is an interesting one. At this point it looks like it will be difficult to use the old pencil with it in the area of direct charging. It may work with the pairing mechanism but time will prove that. The power displayed during Adobe presentation shows that the group of processors in the iOS devices released this year are very potent and definitely exceed the capacity of some desktop class processors, especially with Apple comparing the performance of this new iPad Pro with game consoles!
I believe heavy users and creative professionals will get some tangible value out of these new equipment.
For the apps that are rarely featured during this type of event, like Logos Bible Software, I believe they will gain tangible performance improvements as well and will even work to get more from the new hardware.
The opportunity to do more in less time is possible with these new devices and with the extra seconds and minutes gained from processes running faster and activities completing faster, the expository study, hermeneutics and the production of the study and documents, the man of God can have some extra time to interact with family, Church and students, of course someone has to foot the bill first as a gift of love.

June for Grace

June 30, 2018 by • Christian Living, Life, Photography • Tags: , , , •

Blessed be the name of the Lord.
This June has been a great month. So many life-defining events and every day a present from the Lord.
His grace is majestic and his love without end.
This month started with the planning for the celebration of my wife’s landmark birthday. I knew I would not be around so I had to plan some surprises before my departure to so that on the day, the plan will come to life.
The plan came to life; my wife was excited, happy and very grateful for the thought and actions. A week later with family and friends, we celebrated her birthday some more, and it was a beautiful and simple event. We took a lot of pictures, and it was just fun especially for me as I had to the opportunity to host friends and family and that my wife was the center of attraction. It was wonderful. I will share the details of the photography adventure in another post.
I had some training, interacted with long lost friends, made new friends and discovered two new podcasts Daily Briefing and Just Thinking.
Of course, Apple introduced macOS Mojave and iOS12 to the world, and they are great OSs. I have set up a “memoji” for myself, and I am enjoying it.
I learned about the book the Blue Parakeet, and so far it has been interesting reading.
It is also the end of the 1st part of the year 2018. Looking forward to the 2nd part of the year and hopeful and praying for God’s grace and mercy.

Rolling in Romans

February 28, 2018 by • Apostle, Epistle, Gentiles, Issues, Life, Romans • Tags: , •

So this year I decided to do something different with my daily reading plan. I decided to choose books of the bible that I have always wanted to understand better and spend a month or a few months reading through them.
I developed a reading plan using the built in function in Logos Bible software, but I had to chose what I wanted done each day and log it into the system for the month.
The first book that entered the list was the book of Romans. I set up the plan to allow me to read Romans 1 – 7 every day in January and Romans 8 – 16 in February.
This has been such a pleasant experience. I easily came out with some wonderful insight.

1. Romans is indeed a systematic theology letter from the Apostle to the Gentiles to the Church of the Gentiles at the heart of the empire.
2. Chapter 7 is a bad way to stop reading each section that day. It would have been better if I had incorporated Chapter 8 as a minimum or in line with the flow of theology and application, read up to chapter 11.
3. The letter was written to encourage the Gentile believers to live in the justification and the love and the confidence they have received in Christ towards one another.
4. The reason for the initial 11 chapters was to talk about the next four chapters. The doctrine and the instruction led to loving and living correctly.
5. It is a book every Christian needs to read from chapter 1 to chapter 16 every year.
6. There were a lot of folks in the Church at Rome whom by virtue of their work from afar were greatly appreciated by the Apostle.

I loved the blessing of the word in the last couple of months and from tomorrow I will start reading the letter to the Ephesians daily for the next 31 days.

One more thing I appreciated during this period is the ability of the Logos Bible software to read out the text to me verse by verse, chapter by chapter when I wanted to hear the passage out loud.

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