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These three Gesima Sundays have, as an underlying current, tenets of the faith to which the Lutheran Reformers clung with great zeal. There are five statements which they taught, believed, and confessed, three of which are at the heart of these three Gospel readings, which you may even have heard in the sermons and texts these last two weeks. The other two consequently flow out of the first three.

This was a good week, compared the last week. Things were slowly getting back to normal as half the family recovered from whatever ugly bug was caught last week. It was a pretty routine week at work, too, for the week before Lent, that is.

So, as you can see, the site redesign is live! I've gone to using my favorite color as the main color in the new scheme. The layout is wider; in fact, it is designed with widescreen displays in mind (or at least a horizontal resolution 1200 pixels or greater). It's all HTML5 compliant, though some older entries will likely throw errors if being validated. Some things have been moved around a little. I'm making more use of jQuery, especially and including some customized scroll bars.

I've tested the site in several browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. It works in all of them, though it works best in Chrome. It does not render properly in older versions of Internet Explorer.

I may make more style changes here and there as I encounter things that look a little...off.

I think tomorrow will be the day.

It was a week I would rather not repeat. A week from hell. Sickness invaded the house, but the week ended with some recovery. I was able to get some gaming in, and I spent only one day in the office this week.

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Logic dictates that if you want the reward, then you have to do the work; if you want the prize, then you have to run and win the race; if you want the recognition, then you have to do something deserving of that recognition; if you want the grade; then you have to complete the assignment correctly; if you want the pay, then you have to do the job. That’s the way the world works. The works that we do earn what we get, and if we don’t do the work, then we don’t get anything.

It only makes sense, then, that the same kind of thinking would invade how we deal with God, or perhaps more precisely, how God deals with us. If we want something from God, then we have to do something to please God. It goes so far as to say that there are those who want God to demand works of them rather than believing that He gives them eternal life and salvation freely, by grace, without merit, without works, not even by way of works.

We were supposed to go to Golden today to celebrate a birthday. Some friends of ours that I've known since my days in Gainesville have a daughter exactly one year younger than Robert. We were supposed to go out the Saturday previous, but people were sick. We were to try again today, but different people were sick. Who knows when this will actually happen. Interesting side-note, I know these people from IRC, and there is another family from IRC with a child born on the same day, yet one more year after this girl's birth date.

So, we stayed home. We watched some TV. I played some LEGO Legends of Chima, Laval's Journey on the PSVita. But, more than that, most of us stayed home and relaxed.

I did take a trip out early to give the truck another run. It's still as bad as yesterday, perhaps a little worse. I'm beginning to wonder if the problem really is water in the distributor cap. Maybe I knocked something loose. Maybe water got into something else were there was a crack or something. One thought I have, and my fear, is a bad fuel pump.

Once I got home, Genevieve spent some time away from home to do some shopping. That pretty much rounds out the day.

The truck ran pretty good, today. It didn't hesitate at all on the way to church; only a little on the way back home, and that only briefly, compared to what happened on Wednesday.

The day started with writing Sunday's sermon. I got that completed quicker than I anticipated. As I stated on Facebook, "Sermon for Septuagesima done. If there's one thing to be said against the One-year, is that it becomes difficult more quickly not to write the same sermon as you did in years previous, not that doing so is necessarily something to be avoided."

I was home for a little bit before it was time to go to Bible Study. Out to Kiowa for study. There, discussion began on a familiar topic, but that was handled quicker than last week. Soon, we were reading through the Wisdom of Solomon. I think it went better tonight than when we last read from it; it was certainly more interesting.

Home late, it was time for bed.