Ars Gratia – just me … lightly filtered

March 21, 2019

Forgotten Truth

It is and had been too easy for Christians to forget that what makes our lives powerful is to willingly embrace the way of Jesus. This is done in response to His overwhelming love, and the result is a giving of self to the service of others. It is not, and never can be, found in forcing our way upon...

Life/Theology

February 2, 2019

A Moment With Mr. Moose

In September 2018, we adopted a 4 month old Black Lab puppy. His back story is simple, but important. We can’t verify this, but we think he originally came from a puppy mill. A breeder came to the Mankato, MN humane society with a litter of 4 week old puppies who got into some rat poison. He didn’t want to...

Life

January 29, 2019

Must see Apollo 11 Doc

Science

January 18, 2019

A New Piece of the Home Studio

Over the past few years, I’ve been saving up and buying pieces to keep up a small home studio. It’s not high end gear, but it’s good for what it does. I have an M-Audio 2 channel interface for guitar input, but I can accept powered or unpowered xlr and MIDI. For the mic, I went with a Blue Yeti...

Music

January 15, 2019

A thought that’ll get you in trouble

Liberal/Progressive vs. ConservativeWoke vs. Red PilledNew Atheist vs. FundamentalistPackers vs. VikingsCat Person vs. Dog PersonUs vs. Them Examples of two sides of the same coin

Life/Philosophy

January 11, 2019

It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled

I don’t remember the last time I blogged anything. The slowdown started not too long after Google killed of Reader (I’m still mad at them about that). But lately I’ve been thinking about the things I put up on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and I often find myself wanting to capture a short thought or write out something a little...

Life